Underworld
TommyVercetti
Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
in Off-Topic
Comments
<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Go rent Bram Stoker's Dracula & Interview With A Vampire. Right. Now. (They pwn)
But no I haven't seen them and can't really comment on them, but I have seen Underworld and I loved it to bits. If you loved the Matrix you'll like this one too (plus Kate Beckinsale is far hotter than Trinity and looks a crapload better in skintight leather... especially her eyes, she's got this injured/worried/concerned facial expression she keeps pulling through the movie that really seems to fit extremely well). Oh yeah and the guns are cooler in Underworld too.
My only complaint would be in 1 scene at the start when a vampire just stands there hissing like an enraged cat while he waits for the werewolf to finish transforming, and promptly gets killed half a second after the transformation is done... There was nothing to stop him going in for a couple of quick hits while he still had a chance...
You get a couple of other "staring each other down while hissing/growling" battle of of the wills type scenes going on but those ones do feel right and are understandable.
Oh and that blonde vampire is hot. And the she has the coolest of the "hissing like an enraged cat at the big mean doggy" scenes imho...
They set things up perfectly for a sequel, and I honestly hope there will be one... It's one of those movies where even if you do manage guess the ending half an hour ahead of time you still have no bloody idea how they're going to get there. The plot twists certainly did surprise me quite a few times along the way, and really serve well to bring in the "oh dear the situation is getting worse and worse... It's a pity because she's so damn hot too..." feeling into the movie
I'm sorry to hear that Liku, but we really should talk about the movie
*runs away before he gets hurt*
I haven't seen the movie but people tell me it was good.
*buys movie*
Entertaining. Not oscar-worthy, but entertaining.
The movie itself was average, as were the special effects. If more effort had been put into charecter development, suspense and just that little bit of SFX mastery, then it would have been a good movie, but not a great movie ala Interview with a Vampire.
And for those that think Doom is the worst critic ever (it's true), he's amazingly got it right on this one. Interview with a vampire is a damn good movie.
Acting was cheesy, the effects were overdone where they should have been a quick nod (the throwing stars? I mean... come ON. Waste of $10K right there, no plot development at all), and other effects could have been worked far more effectively in CG, even if they wanted to throw back to the older style of films. The werewolves were disappointingly rubbery, for example, and their wirework was atrocious in most of the fight scenes.
I'd have it on as background if there were someone I was curling up with in bed, but beyond that... well, I won't say it isn't worth watching once, but don't bother buying a copy. Rent, or borrow from a suckered friend. It'll spend most of its life on your shelf.
She has nice birthing hips.
daaaaaaaaaaaaamn ok ok ok she is too fine.
Go rent Bram Stoker's Dracula & Interview With A Vampire. Right. Now. (They pwn) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bah. Enough with the cliché vampires. The best one I've seen this far (most vampire movies are awful) is The Addiction, by Abel Ferrara. Ferrara is a bit of an odd character, whose movies are rarely top notch, for example the rather stupid but entertaining Driller Killer, but The Addiction really hits the spot. I really recommend it to anyone who has even a fleeting interest in the subject matter.
As for Underworld, it's just an action flick featuring people with unusually big teeth.
Go rent Bram Stoker's Dracula & Interview With A Vampire. Right. Now. (They pwn) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seconded. Excellent film.
Best vampire film of all time, however, has to be From Dusk Till Dawn.
<b>C'MON SEX MACHINE!</b>
the idea was good, the execution was poor
I wanted the werewolves to win. <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I liked the idea of how they used the liquid silver nitrate and the military tracer rounds to kill each other.
But they also kept it old school with Victor and his swords <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
I thought that one guy with the whipps was gonna own some major Lycon **** but I guess he should have been packing some dual .45s instead.
It's the crawling-on-all-fours that never works. Exhibit A: Underworld... Exhibit B: alien warriors in the hive chamber in <i>Aliens</i>. The closest I've seen so far was Peter Parker in <i>Spiderman</i>, but that was ruined because if you looked you could tell that "down" was into the wall (that is, he was "climbing" horizontally and the camera was turned 90 degrees) because of the way gravity affected his shirt.