Underworld

[slumber]

Just saw Underworld a few days ago as it combines two of my favorite dark creatures: vampires (Lestat!) and werewolves (Lupin!), and am currently blaming Anne Rice for setting such standards of vampiric life that my friend and I had trouble going with the flow. Sample comments:

Friend: How come she didn't smell the blood?
Me: Where's the blood drinking? WHERE'S the blood drinking?
Friend: I can't believe she didn't smell the blood.
Me: How about heightened preternatural senses? Do they have that?
Friend: She should have smelled the blood.
Me: Can't they fly? Why can't they fly?
Friend: Lestat would have smelled the blood.
Me: Hey! How could he have a daughter? He's a vampire! Vampires don't have sex--do they?
Friend: What vampire wouldn't smell blood?

::rolleyes:: Oh well. At least the slash took a very palpable context. Lots of face to face teeth baring, biting, and all that.

Character: A grown man bit you?
Us: Well yeah, don't they do that a lot? ::sniggering::

::Face to face teeth baring scene::
Me: ::swoon:: Friend: Be quiet!
Me: They won't hear me, the music in this scene's too loud! ::resums swooning::

Friend: He bled for you? He BLED for you?
Me: They're saying a lot of "Leave us", but why isn't anything happening when they DO leave?

Kraven looked like Snape for a bit, then he started throwing Draco-ish tantrums. ("Oh, so he's *Michael* now?") What *is* the Snape/Draco ship called? Snaco? Sounds like some junk food. Drape? Uh... no.

As for Michael Corvin, the leading man? Poor soul. His only role was to be thrown haphazardly this way and that, and I doubt his body would have taken the abuse well. He was either pulled back with force, slammed against the wall, bitten in the elevator, bitten in the sewers, chained in some room, chained in another room, held at gunpoint, not to mention the fact that it's that time of the month. He spent a good portion of the movie being physically abused and writhing in pain. I suspect it's to make a show of his taut muscles flexing this way and that.

The love story was incredible. Now I see why some people believe some ships are going to happen in HP canon. [/sarcasm] If Michael and Celine manage to sneak in a couple of snogs after a foreplay of running away from Lycans, avoiding being shot, saving or being saved, and not talking to each other save for that bit of backstory for Celine, then I daresay *anything* can happen in HP canon shipping.

Speaking of Celine, I thought she desperately needed to shampoo her hair. I thought at first it was just the rain, but when the movie progressed and it still LOOKED like it was wet and kinky, well... She isn't giving vampires a good name by being such a slob. (Nice catsuit though.)

I liked the bit about "daylight in a bullet". Lack of continuity, though, because Celine came in saying the vampires had a problem before she showed the bullets, which from then on did nothing to the vampires. In fact, the vamps twisted the concept, came up with "silver nitrate in a bullet", then killed off the Lycan leader with it. I wanted to see the daylight in a bullet in action! They just glowed a pretty blue all throughout. What a shame.

Er, yeah. It was the most fun I had in a while, because I haven't been watching movies lately. (I missed Pirates of the Carribean! :( )

Comments

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Was supposed to watch that with a friend but he ended up having to do something else... Was it? Hmm... I chalked it up to one of those action flicks. Should've believed him when he said it was supposed to be good.

Honestly though, after watching Frida, I don't think I can ever see Salma Hayek minus the unibrow and the hairstyles... LOL.

[darth-stitch.livejournal.com]

Saw Underworld myself this Saturday.

It's another one of those flicks that has a good concept but flawed in the execution. Nice eye candy though.

I almost want to hunt down my RPG-playing friends and borrow their Vampire: the Masquerade books - if you didn't know, that's the game that they based Kindred the Embraced on. Niiiiice Vampire TV series, too bad the lead character playing the Vampire Prince (Mark Frankel) died in real-life (motorcycle accident). Underworld has something of that feel, 'cept that their mythology and rules (vampire/werewolf abilities, weaknesses, personalities) could use some work.

Hated Kraven - thought he could pass for a Malfoy relative, myself. Could imagine poor damsel-in-distress Michael Corvin (a.k.a. Scott Speedman, Felicity's boyfriend) as a younger cousin to Lupin, though. Heh.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Nice concept, flawed execution. I read somewhere that they wanted to avoid making it cheesy. Well, if they just said that earlier, I could have told them to crossover Vampire Chronicles with Lupin instead! LOL.

Hmm... never heard of Vampire: The Masquerade, though... VC was my only real vampire thing, though Buffy could pass off as well, since I am in thrall of Spike on days I feel like being in thrall of him.