The movie is, of course, all about Lucian, or at least it would be in my perfect world. Wasn't overly impressed with Kraven, or as I liked to think of him, Mincing *****-Prince of the Vampires. The werewolf with the strange electronic voice (that nobody else had) kept giving me Stargate flashbacks. It would have been nice if Scott Speedman had tried facial expressions once in a while - even Beckinsale had two or three. And the soundtrack was, of course, hopelessly sad.
I keep hearing the same thing over and over from yout wo. Punker, you hated LXG and Underworld, but loved American Wedding. Since when is a meaningful story important to you? Honestly?
I thought it was a solid story, and it had never been tackled before. The cinematography, the hues, the colors, the characters, all appealed to me.
..but of course, not to you guys, and these differences in opinion are what make this country great.
Backfire, read some of the Anne Rice books, they are awesome, queen of the dammed was a bad film unless your’ve read the book because it leaves out a lot of vita information and tried to cover the story line of two books, Lestat is a brilliant character and I advise anybody who likes vampires to read “interview with a vampire” and “the vampire Lestat” by Anne rice, and if you don’t like them they will make you fall in love the genera.
Back to Underworld this film was OK not a bad film but not one I will be buying either the problem was that the film did not involve you when watching, you did’t care about either the vampires or the werewolf’s so your did’t care who won, making the film a bit pointless, saying that I did enjoy watching it, it just did’t blow me away.
Originally posted by BackFire
The cinematography was ripped right out of the matrix..The colors...what colors? the whole movie was dark, like batman and the crow, nothing special in that department.
The characters...typical homoerotic vampires that I simply didnt' care about during the film.
It's an action movie, and to break it down furthur, Matrix's cinematography was a rip off of "Ghost in the Shell"(s) cinematography, and not once was there any of those bullettime effects, there were instances of "slo mo" which were actually really effectively executed, i.e. the backflips, the weapon tosses, the leaps.
The colors, hues to be exact are what made the film easier to watch, and they worked. The grays, pale blue's, black, etc. In the mansion, all the blood red upholstry on the gothic style furniture, it all either helped the picture jump out, or portray the dark mood of the scenes. It wasn't all black and grey like The Crow, and the 1st Batman was CERTAINLY not colorful, nor were the subsequent movies, since they all had colorful characters, i.e. Robin, Joker, Mr. Freeze, Joker.
The characters, IMO, were anything but typical. Typical vampires all have British accents, wear capes and shit, yadda yadda yadda. There were a handful of unique and interesting character in that movie. Lucan, Viktor, etc.
Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
It's an action movie, and to break it down furthur, Matrix's cinematography was a rip off of "Ghost in the Shell"(s) cinematography, and not once was there any of those bullettime effects, there were instances of "slo mo" which were actually really effectively executed, i.e. the backflips, the weapon tosses, the leaps.The colors, hues to be exact are what made the film easier to watch, and they worked. The grays, pale blue's, black, etc. In the mansion, all the blood red upholstry on the gothic style furniture, it all either helped the picture jump out, or portray the dark mood of the scenes. It wasn't all black and grey like The Crow, and the 1st Batman was CERTAINLY not colorful, nor were the subsequent movies, since they all had colorful characters, i.e. Robin, Joker, Mr. Freeze, Joker.
The characters, IMO, were anything but typical. Typical vampires all have British accents, wear capes and shit, yadda yadda yadda. There were a handful of unique and interesting character in that movie. Lucan, Viktor, etc.
Just because it's in the same genre as the matrix isn't an excuse too rip it off, which it did.
The colors of the film don't make it any less boring or shallow or predictable. It was a dark film, nothing more.
The vampires were the typical new age vampires, looking frail and weak and hanging out in a big castle. Viktor was just an old vampire, and when his face got cut in half it was one of the worst scenes I had ever seen in a film.
Bottom line, had this film entertained me in some way, I could have forgiven all of it's glaring flaws, plot holes, generic action scenes and such, but it didn't entertain me in anyway. It was just a bad movie.
Also, to the person trying to defend queen of the damned, I could care less how good the book is, hte movie itself was garbage. It was less a movie then it was a long, relentless music video made to appeal to the mindless gothics of today who will eat up anything to do with vampires...Underworld also falls in this catagory. neither of them did anything new or different in any way, and this is factual.