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Originally Posted by Thrillerboy

The writing of the movie as a whole was definitely the weak point. It was very clear that they were going for an homage to the mythos of AAWIL, with their own slight spin on things. One of the biggest issues plaguing the movie is that they focused far too much on the procedural cop drama aspect of the plot, which relegated the protagonist almost to a side story. The family drama also was not explored enough, which muted the impact of the climax of the movie. More focus should have been placed on the girl, and her changes. Not just for our tastes, but from a storytelling standpoint.







You're overthinking/analyzing things. She didn't change by looking at the full moon; she looks up and notices the moon as the changes start affecting her. The first night of the full moon she partially changes and attacks her friend/love interest, and by the next morning, we are shown that her facial structure has already started to change to a more animalistic form. The same things happens on the train: She's trying to keep her head down, and ignore what's happening, but she notices the full moon just as the changes start again. They're not "activated" by looking at the moon, it's the filmmakers holding our hands to let us know the change is about to start. You know, like hundreds of other pieces of werewolf media do?

I will readily concede that the filmmakers screwed up by releasing the video showing the transformation elements. That definitely spoiled the intrigue when the movie finally came out. Also, yes the scene was definitely rushed. This, again, highlights the mistake they made in having it take place on a bus. You've already resigned yourself to film in such a constrained fashion. The lighting, though, is just fine. They did a good job of establishing the scene of being on a bus at night, while still making sure you can see every element of the transformation. Go back and re-watch scenes like Ginger Snaps or The Dark and compare how they use the lighting in those to this. We didn't get the "conveniently moving light source that obscures things we don't want you to see" that so many filmmakers fall back on with this.

The last part is just your own personal tastes being used to critique the scene, and it's an unfair take to use. I will die on the hill that nudity doesn't make or break a tf scene. It's awesome, and hot to see, but the whole point of transformation is watching the body contort, stretch, and change into something different. Tits and ass are a bonus, not a requirement. Otherwise, we'd all just watch normal porn and move on with our lives. It's awesome seeing someone as beautiful as Rose fully nude and transforming, but I feel the weakest parts of her videos are when she just stops cold and starts masturbating. Yes, I get it: Hot girl diddling herself. I'm attracted to it myself, but it does take away from the transformation itself. The part of her last video where she says, "Are you fucking kidding me?" to the idea of masturbating was such a hilarious throw in.

The skin ripping stuff is just something I've come to terms with that people are always going to be overly squeamish to. It's whatever to me; I can understand the change being presented as being so intense that you're ready to claw through your skin to find relief (which, of course you find none). It's an aesthetic choice, at the end of the day, but it isn't the right or wrong way to do things, despite what people here insist on.

At the end of the day, there's a vocal contingent that does little more than form an echo chamber of negativity, and it's exhausting. Yes, we are starved for consistent and consistently good content. Yes, some of the stuff that does get put out is a disappointment. However, it's exasperating when people tear down the stuff that does have some level of quality, even if it's flawed. I don't even want to know what this community would do if we didn't have Rose making her stuff, and thank God that she is as gracious as she is, because some of the same negativity and nit-picking pops up on her videos in the comments sections. I think people in the community as a whole need to take a massive step back and gain some perspective.

I might have to look again, but my recollection is she's sitting there with the boy, then looks up at the moon and groans in pain, loses control and attacks him, and he apparently died from losing a finger. Then the next morning she spits out the finger and her face is changed a little. But her mind returned to normal somehow. Then the following night she looks at the moon again and it triggers the final transformation.

Edit: Just rewatched that part to double check, yeah, I was right the first time. The partial and final TFs were both triggered by her actually looking at the full moon.
There were more issues on re-watch as well, her eye color changes first on the bus, then moments later they made a big deal out of her opening her eyes to have them still be that same color they already changed to. They also had her grow fangs, again, after already having fangs earlier that morning which she grew the night before. It also seemed like her denim jeans became blue sweat pants after she boarded the bus, because in the close up low angel shot of the stomach transformation her pants lack denim texture.

If I'm overthinking it, it just means I put more thought into trying to understand it than they put into it when making it.

But you know what, I'm going to try and turn this into a positive. We really don't get enough female werewolf content anymore, and too many of us have to settle for scraps. I can write a better, more coherent and cohesive story than this movie told, so I'm just going to have to come out of retirement and start writing my own again to make up for when this sort of thing happens.