Blood & Chocolate
by Katja von Garnier
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Actor: Agnes Bruckner, Bryan Dick, Hugh Dancy, Katja Riemann, Olivier MartinezDirector: Katja von Garnier
Brand: BRUCKNER,AGNES
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Blood & Chocolate
DVD Review: This movie makes me want to puke on your shoes
Summary: 1 Stars
Another one of the worst 5 movies of all time in any genre. I haven't read the book, so I'm reviewing the movie on it's own merit, and all I can say, it, it doesn't have any. Have you read the 5-star reviews? They're obviously written by 13 year old girls who had to hug their Strawberry Shortcake dolls during the movie so they wouldn't be scared of the big hairy woman-eating sexy college boys. I would rather drive rusty nails into my left foot while being beaten with a two-by-four against my barbed-wire wrapped head than watch this "film" again. DVD Review: Murder!
Summary: 1 Stars
If you loved the book, or even had respect for it, don't watch this movie. It brings twisting books to a whole new level of perversity and `why did they even buy the copyrights'- ness.
I will say why I despise this movie very plainly, so even if you haven't read the book, you'll know what I mean. "SPOILER WARNING!"
In the book, our heroine, Vivian, loves being a werewolf and gets along with most of the other werewolves. The wolves only want to be left in peace, and are extremely careful not to hunt humans, while in the movie they're a sadistic lot who likes terrorizing and killing humans in a sick game where the whole pack hunts one person.
In the book, Vivian's werewolf love interest, Gabriel, is a firm but very fair pack leader who wants a mate (and wife) for life. Gabriel does not force attention on Vivian, he very patiently waits to see if she'll become interested. He is in his early twenties, she in her late teens. In the movie, the pack leader picks a new mate every seven years (??) Gabriel is supposed to be forty-ish (to Vivian`s late teens/early twenties) , and is the father of Vivian's cousin. Her aunt is still in love with him. And he stalks Vivian and insists she can't do anything about her `destiny'. Uh, gross!!! Oh, and in the movie she SHOOTS and kills him - that DOESN'T happen in the book!!
In the book, Vivian's human love interest doesn't except her for what she is - in the movie, he's totally cool about it.
And...in the book, a certain character tries to murder Vivian - in the movie that persons her aunt, whom she lives with!!
The movie is actually less scary than the book - I know, all those plot changes, and not more of a thriller? The movie is just occasional gore and violence - the book is really creepy and well-written.
I think the worst thing about this movie was it's total lack of respect for the author's work, and the total inability of the movie-makers to realize that an original plot about being a teenager - longing for acceptance and true love, and being unsure - with an awesome supernatural plot that is just as strong as the characters, would be a way better, more popular movie than a not-so-thriller with clich? after clich?. That is book murder!
DVD Review: Great quality
Summary: 5 Stars
Sent as a gift, i have heard nothing negative about the quality, so i am assuming it is wonderful!DVD Review: If you can accept that this movie is nothing like the book...
Summary: 3 Stars
...than you just might like it.
When I first watched this film in theatres, I was totally shocked. The plot of the book, Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus, had been changed until it was almost unrecognizable. In the book, readers were introduced to Vivanne, the beautiful werewolf who wasn't sure whether she wanted to fit in with her normal classmates, most especially with Aidan her love interest, or join her fellow weres and become mate to alpha wolf Gabriel. The movie carries the same conflict but the circumstances, the character's personalities, the outcome and even the setting and plot were different from the book. The producers made A LOT of changes for the big screen.
But the main question for me was this; were the changes that the producers of this movie made unsatisfying?
Now that it's been a while and I've watched the movie again, I think I can say that not all of them were exactly. The book Blood and Chocolate carried a rather disturbing message that staying with your own kind, even when your own kind weren't so great, was the best way to go but the movie is more of a blending of accepting others and recognizing the good in your fellows. A better message, I think.
That said, I can only give this film three stars because the story, the soundtrack and the graphics were not well done. Strictly B, maybe even C, level stuff. Still, if you haven't read the book, Blood and Chocolate or you did and you didn't like it much, you might want to check out this movie. If, however, you really like the book, stay away!
DVD Review: Doesn't hold up to the book
Summary: 1 Stars
I read the book when it came out years ago, but read it again for the sake of the movie. I had a feeling the movie wasn't going to live up to it just from the trailers, so I waited this long, til it was on TV, to watch it.
This story was soo childish it was sad. The was the "rules" worked pretty much screwed them from the beginning. One man shouldn't be allowed to have all the power over soo many people. He especially shouldn't be allowed to "have" someone that doesn't even want him. What I kept waiting for was for Vivian to actually defy Gabriel, tell him she wouldn't lay with him even if he forced her to be his mate. But she stayed soo nervous, for no good reason. And why did all those werewolves follow him anyway? I mean if Gabriel wasn't soo intent on having things his way, none of the fighting would have happened.
All in all, it felt like a waste of time.
Description of Blood & Chocolate
As a young girl living in the remote mountains of Colorado, Vivian (Bruckner) watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. Vivian survived the attack by running into the woods and changing into a wolf. Ten years later, Vivian is living a relatively safe and normal life in Bucharest, Romania. Vivian spends her days working in a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city's underground clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe, and his gang of delinquents he refers to as "The Five."
Vivian's life begins to unravel when she has a chance encounter with Aiden (Dancy), an artist researching Bucharest' ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel. Aiden pursues Vivian until she relents and begins to see him, but she can't bring herself to tell him the truth - and lives in fear of showing him who she really is. Even though Vivian has sworn never to kill, she is as much an animal as she is human, and her love for Aiden threatens to cast him to the very wolves who saved her life and who are waiting for their chance to hunt him as prey.
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When graphic novelist Aiden (Hugh Dancy) travels to Bucharest to research the loup garou legend, he nearly gets devoured in the latest female werewolf film, Blood and Chocolate. In the tradition of Werewolf Woman and Ginger Snaps, Blood and Chocolate stars Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner), a girl who's forced to face her lupine tendencies in order to discover how capable of loving Aiden she really is. Based on a book by Annette Curtis Clause, the film chronicles the lives of the remaining loup garou who are an extended Romanian family waiting for their pack leader, Gabriel, to select his new mate. His desire for Vivian means trouble when her wish to be with Aiden results in her revealing too much about the clan's secretive lifestyle. In this film, werewolves look fully human until their eyes glow with colored contact lenses while they fly through the air to then land as full-fledged wolves. Gone are the days, apparently, of films showing the transformation in all its hairy, explosive detail. A lack of scenes describing the werewolf metamorphosis make this film more a love story than a monster tale, though two forest gatherings in which the loup garou hunt human sacrifices offer some grizzly satisfaction. Unlike the aforementioned femme werewolf films, Blood and Chocolate features a girl fighting her urge to kill in a bid to unite humans with her brethren, making this movie the most peaceful in its genre. With a tame wolf as protagonist, the potential nightmare is really just a pleasant dream to unite the two disparate worlds. The question is: Do we want that to happen? --Trinie Dalton
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