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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaldaen" data-source="post: 1154590" data-attributes="member: 214">[spoiler]So the Abomination we've been hearing so much about in the movie gets slapped around by Viktor? And the whole head-cut-in-half thing was quite disappointing after seeing them get ready for a swordfight. "Yes! Yes! Swords! Booyah! Ye--no! No! NoNoNO!! Damnit!"[/spoiler]Spoiler reply to above spoiler... ;-)[spoiler]Actually I think that if Lucien (sp?) had made himself an Abomination you would have seen him wipe the floor with Viktor... which is why he needed to be betrayed (by a few silver bullets from Kraven) b/c as a writer you never want your main character (aka Selene) out shown by secondary characters... Thus Lucien was dealt with in such a manor to take him out of the equation and allow him to give Selene the idea to make her bo the Abomination... Of course this too has its problems in the fact that the Abomination is clearly meant to be a superior race... however without the experience (which Lucien would have had) to back him up the Abomination holds his own for only a short time... whereas Selene who does have the experience (and the newfound motive) to finish Viktor while he is distracted (seeing as I think its safe to assume Viktor would have been to much to handle mono-y-mana ;-) is in the end the one who deals death to her former master. The focus of the film was IMHO not the search for the Abomination, but the awakening of Selene from the underworld of her own soul... which I was convinced of by the end.[/spoiler]I think they did the best they could with the premises they had and I would have felt robbed if it had turned out otherwise... of course don't get me wrong there were plenty of things they could have done better, but knowing they only had a 22 million dollar budget helps explain why the special effects weren't flying as I thought they would at the end... I only hope they get a bigger budget next time... if there is one ;-)My 2 cents,Jaldaen</blockquote>

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