Two of my favorite quotes from this movie are right in the beginning and at the end as well. Both spoken by Selene:
1st - The war had all but ground to a halt in the blink of an eye. Lucian, the most feared and ruthless leader ever to rule the lycan clan, had finally been killed. The lycan hoard scattered to the wind in a single evening of flame and retribution. Victory, it seemed, was in our grasp. The very birthright of the vampyres. Nearly 6 centuries had passed since that night, yet the ancient bloodfeud proved unwilling to follow Lucian to the grave. Though lycans were fewer in number, the war itself had become more perilous, for the moon no longer held her sway. Older, more powerful lycans, were now able to change at will. Weapons had evolved, but our orders remained the same, hunt them down and kill them off, one by one. A most successful campaign ... perhaps ... too successful. For those like me, a Death Dealer, this signaled the end of an era. Like the weapons of the previous century, we too would become obsolete. Pity, because I lived for it.
2nd - Though I can not predict the future, the consequences of this night will reverberate through the halls of both great covens for many years to come. Two vampire elders have been slain. One by my own hand. Soon, Marcus will take the throne and a tirade of anger and retribution will spill out into the night. Differences will be set aside, allegiances will be made and soon I will become the hunted.
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If you could make a choice as to which side you would be on...which would you choose: Vampires or lycan ( Werewolves ) ?
Originally posted by BackFire
One of the worst, gimmicky and shallow movie's I've ever seen. Just all around boring and predictable. In the end, just another bad vampire movie, with some crappy werewolves.
What movies today doesn't have a gimmick? This one in particular has really never been doen before, by that I mean fleshing out the Vampire/Werewolve feud.
As for it's predictability, I don't see how anyone can come to that conclusion until maybe 3/4 of the way through the movie. I didn't see any of the backstabbing, defections, or the fact that Michael would have indeed survived, although incurring bites from both races that was supposed to kill him, instead making him an indestructable hybrid.
The CG was top notch, and that doesn't include the werewolves that were amazingly enough, actual anamatronic costumes with humans operating them from the inside.
I understand it may not be for everyone, but it certainly deserves more recognition for the sleeper hit it was.
Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
What movies today doesn't have a gimmick? This one in particular has really never been doen before, by that I mean fleshing out the Vampire/Werewolve feud.As for it's predictability, I don't see how anyone can come to that conclusion until maybe 3/4 of the way through the movie. I didn't see any of the backstabbing, defections, or the fact that Michael would have indeed survived, although incurring bites from both races that was supposed to kill him, instead making him an indestructable hybrid.
The CG was top notch, and that doesn't include the werewolves that were amazingly enough, actual anamatronic costumes with humans operating them from the inside.
I understand it may not be for everyone, but it certainly deserves more recognition for the sleeper hit it was.
Not all movies have gimmicks, at least not good ones. All vs movies are huge gimmicks that require not imagination or creativity this goes for Jason vs Freddy too, but the difference is that I can forgive freddy vs jason because it entertained me somewhat, Underworld failed in every aspect for me.
The battles were bad ripoffs of the matrix fights, the story was simply uninteresting and very predictable, too me at least. I was not surprised or shocked by anything that happened in the movie, I saw most of it coming a mile away. As for the CGI, it was nothing special, the scene in which the guys head got split in half was absolutely horrid, I groaned out loud when I saw how horrid it looked.
In the end, this and Queen of the Damned are the two movies that made me despise vampires as much as I do now. They were both atrocious, and offered nothing new in any way shape or form, everything had already been done before in underworld, aside from the falsly "creative" gimmick of vampires vs werewovles, which is just as I said, a simple gimmick, and nothing more. But all of this I could have forgiven, had the movie at least entertained me in some way, which it never did, everything about it was bad. No one I know liked this movie, all of my friends agreed that it was horrible, and several of them hate it even more then me, and that's saying alot since this is one of the worst films I have ever seen.
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I agree with you in every way backfire.But of course im just sucking up to you.j/k.I really thought it had bad CGI it was not good.The only reason I gave this movie OK is because it entertained me in a way.The story was dumb.I really didnt like the story most of all.It just didnt seem right.And it was indeed predictable.I just cant seem to sum up my correct feelings for this movie,but its along the lines of what backfire said.