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Originally Posted by AdiabaticCombustion
I'm going to throw some fire at American Werewolf in Paris. It's really not that terrible, but the fact that it's supposed to be a sequel to a film with one of the best TF's makes it loose a lot of points in my eyes. The crappy CGI of the 90's film has aged pretty poorly compared to latex and makeup of the 80's original.
Also it has a really bad understanding of anatomy. I don't think that anybody designing the monsters knew that wolves stand on the balls of their feet with their ankles up higher like this.
Instead they have the person's knee get all inverted and then they kind of grow another regular knee. So we get this weird looking monster with three joints in the front limbs and four for the hind limbs (As you can see from my highly detailed diagram below). I don't know why that's so irritating for me, but it just is. I can't unsee it. |
I vote for this one as well. That knee thing was a disgrace.
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Originally Posted by something-wild
Wrong. "The weird inverted knee" is the ankle.
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Seriously, her knees snaps backwards and then she grows another set of knees higher up her legs. She already had ankles before that, and knees, so this was an anatomical abomination and no matter which way one tries to explain it she ends up having extra joints. She either has two sets of knees or two sets of ankles. But what we
see is her knees snapping to bend in the inverse direction and then her femurs snapping to form a proper knee. What we don't see is her feet stretching and raising her actual ankle higher off the ground. So if her knee becomes that ankle what happened to her actual ankle, did it become a joint in her toes and her toes become her toenails? Nothing in that makes sense like the original movie's TF did.