The Wishing Forest (2018) Reviews

• pretty visuals, weak acting

  fandomfatale2018-07-01

  There were some good ideas here and some very pretty visuals. The acting is the main area that was lacking. I do appreciate the effort to not be anachronistic with the dialogue and think that was the right choice but most of it was not delivered well. This is not a children's movie. There was a topless woman, a mention of rape, and lots of violence and mentions of cannibalism. If you're looking for romance, this is not the movie for you. The widow/main character has two interesting relationships with men she rescues in the forest but they both die before things get interesting. The movie also seems to go down in almost real time, so not very much time goes by. She mentions a necromancer early on so it's not surprising that her wish/goal in the narrative is that the unicorn will restore her dead husband and child to her. I really liked the thief/tracker character. I actually laughed out loud when he said they couldn't both yawn as a pretense to be able to look back at the man who was following them.

• Oh my, the post production..

  o_this2018-06-30

  These days I find it hard to understand why the basic cutting, lighting, colors and audio are still a huge problem, when you can do post prosessing literally on your home PC. The needed equiment is not expensive anymore. I'm not talking about fancy cgi, just the core basics for making a decent looking modern film instead of a this home video. A random person who just understands how to use a browser could find & learn the needed software and make this look better, within the same day, while still learning how to even do it. I can't recommend this, it's a home video for the people who made it.

• Relaxing theatrical movie

  shadowbender-703302018-09-23

  At first when I watched the trailer I was like - Naah this is gonna suck. But then I watched the movie and I was satisfied because it differs from the movies released nowadays. It's more realistic. It's like I am watching a movie and a theatrical play at the same time. I find it relaxing to watch. Not the typical cliche movie full of CGI stuff. *SPOILERS* The ending though, was very bad and the film was quite short with major gaps in the script, should of put more effort and time in it. Also the protagonist didn't sound convincing at all. So in short, the thief died for nothing, shot by some redneck playboy chick, the grunt died and redeemed himself and Bridgid somehow got reunited with her family, but we have no idea if she died or were they resurrected. We have no idea what village she came from, neither where this forest is, not to mention what time period this is. Also we are left to guess what that naked chick with a bow is and what's her role in the story, neither are we told where the unicorn came from and how it allowed it's land to be filled with these mindless cannibals. In other words, the script is an absolute mess. And what surprised me the most was, there was no single critter out there besides the ravens on the shot with the full moon, no sounds of animals no nothing.

• Role playing in the woods

  kosmasp2019-05-10

  Yes this looks like video and yes it could have used a bit (or two) of post production. The question is, would anyone receive or see more in this than there is if it had put on a mask, if it had tried to deceive with better color and lighting? Probably not, because the acting is still off and you can't help but wonder why or what they are trying to tell the viewer. Especially the ending is I guess meant to be a message or some sort of statement. I have to admit at that moment and even though I did not expect it to end this way (even though it had all the indications), I did not bother to check or really think about it ... you shouldn't either. There is decent amount of gore/blood/effects and some minor nudity involved, if you care