I have just seen Underworld

[barsoomcore]

Just to throw out for Blade II -- a much better film than the first.

Though the first ten minutes of the first film feature one of the best swordfights ever shot by a white guy. There's no reason whatsoever to see the rest of the film (unless you're a Traci Lords completist), however.

But Guillermo del Toro does some very fun stuff in the sequel.

 

[Wycen]

I'd like there to be a sequel, where the final old dude wakes up and eats all the other vampires. Then rubs his belly and burps.

 

[Bass Puppet]

Just to throw out for Blade II -- a much better film than the first.

Though the first ten minutes of the first film feature one of the best swordfights ever shot by a white guy. There's no reason whatsoever to see the rest of the film (unless you're a Traci Lords completist), however.

But Guillermo del Toro does some very fun stuff in the sequel.

I really like Blade II. Yeah, it was much different than the first one which had more of the comic book feeling and the second having more of a action/horror element to it. I guess I'm fond of the darkness that revolves around dark characters (as a result, is more believable) as apposed to the "Coolness" of a flick through camera angles, and neat explosions.

Maybe it was all that behind the scenes footage that I watched on Blade II.

 

[Babette]

mwa ha haaa



i enjoyed the movie and took it for what was done...
i liked the werewolf/vamp angle (minus humans)...
i thought the characters in themselves were fine...
and yay to the elder who could open a can of whoopass when he needed too...unlike the elders in blade (speaking from a vamp the masq point of view)...
i think it would be a good tv series...for the potential for characters to grow and the histories to be fleshed out...

ohhhh must go unbreakable is on...

 

[Capellan]

Personally, the whole "a half lycan half vampire would be more powerful than either" thing gave me the giggles. Mainly because I had visions of Michael saying something like: "Give up, old man. I have more templates than you."

 

[Capellan]

Just to throw out for Blade II -- a much better film than the first.

Really? I'd watch the first Blade five times over before I'd watch the second again.

But I'd re-watch Blade II before I'd re-watch Underworld, even with KB-in-tight-vinyl.

*shrug* to each their own

 

[Bass Puppet]

I don't know, I just watched this film last night and thought to myself, man, White Wolf got jacked (like many people have said in earlier threads).

That's all I'm gonna say about this.

 

[Endur]

I don't see the connection between White Wolf and Underworld.

Although, thinking back, Underworld had sort of a Goth feel to it and White Wolf has a Goth feel to it, so there are some similarities.

But Vampires vs. Were-wolves isn't something that White Wolf made up. Abbot and Costello had Dracula fighting the Wolfman long before White Wolf existed.

I liked Underworld. I liked Blade 1. Blade 2 was ok, but boring.

Of the three, I probably liked Underworld the best.

The best vampire show is still Buffy in my opinion.

 

[Atridis]

I don't see the connection between White Wolf and Underworld.

Really? Gosh. Well, I think you're the first (at least, you're the first who's said so).


I also liked Blade and thought Blade II was just okay. I liked the villain (Nomak?) and the knock-down-drag-out between Blade and Nomak was a great super-heroes-on-film fight. And Leonor Varela looked good. Most of the 60 minutes in the middle of the film were pretty boring, though.

Blade II, however, did me the enormous favor of highlighting the sorry state of affairs of the contemporary vampire. I remember an interview with Guillermo del Toro, before Blade II came out, in which he said that he wanted to "make vampires scary again." As it turns out, he didn't make vampires scary, so much as he invented a new species of vampire-vampires to fill the void. I thought the "Blood Pack" were kind of pointless, for the story, but they perfectly illustrated just how lifeless vampires have become these days (pun intended). Reapers are the new vampires, vampires are the new humans, and humans don't much matter anymore.

As far as vampire television goes, some of you might remember Forever Knight.

 

[mmu1]

I don't know, I just watched this film last night and thought to myself, man, White Wolf got jacked (like many people have said in earlier threads).

That's all I'm gonna say about this.

Aw, poor babies. My take on the subject largely coincides with this: