Underworld: Evolution

[winter]

Also known as: Excuse me? What's the Doom rip-off doing in my vampire movie?

Meh. It's still visually über-pretty (the eyes!) and has some extremely cool moments, many of them courtesy of Derek Jacobi. I'm also glad to see that they kept true to the form and didn't put in gratuituous dialogue and exposition. Cool, but not the OMGCheesyLove that Underworld was for me.

The interesting thing is that from previews and interviews I expected something much different. People kept mentioning the semi-prequel character of the movie, the abundance of flashbacks that was somehow reduced to one ten-minute opening sequence and several disjointed scenes, and finally there were people on the cast list that I didn't see in the movie at all - especially Sophia Myles (Erika, the blonde who was after Kraven). Post-production cuts? Bah humbug.

I wanted more. I wanted Lucian and Sonya, Amelia explained, Viktor offering immortality to Selene, Kraven meeting Selene and falling in love with her. Instead I got a slasher movie, and not in the boy-love sense of the word.

I guess that's what fanfic is for, right? Too bad that I never seem to find good Underworld fic.

Selene, Kraven, Lucian: OUT of my head. I MEAN it. No, not even if you pout.

Comments

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

I was undecided about seeing this in the cinema, but I think I might well wait until DVD. I mean, there's a certain amount of pretty that will lure me in, but most people I know who have seen it have felt the same.

[winter]

Probably a good decision. I won't talk about Kraven, because of spoilers, but TALK about wasting a perfectly viable character >>>>_<<<<<

Plus, there are retcons and plotholes galore. Ugh. In any hypothetical fics either I'm going with "Selene, for mysterious über-vamp reasons, decided that she wants vampires and lycans to survive without her supervision, and did some mojo to resurrect everyone killed during the last week or so", or just plain and simple "Underworld Evolution never happened".

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

One day, someone is going to manage to make a sequel which is as good as the first film, although I won't be holding my breath on that front. The only film were the follow-up was as good as and better was Episode 5 of Star Wars.

[winter]

It's not that Evolution is that bad, it's just that they followed up a different angle of the first movie - the horror one with all the chasing through tunnels and werewolves from the dark - than the one I liked, with the intrigues and power plays and emotional ties.

Batman Returns was pretty decent though :)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Best part of Batman Returns definitely has to be Catwoman, without question :D

[winter]

Icon! :D

Michelle was a vision. The fact my inner!Selina is blonde is completely her fault.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

She was so naughty and kittenish. I adored her entirely. Especially with her whip. The way she swung that thing around her so it came to rest just so was fabulous. Although, admittedly, I had such envy of her figure.

[winter]

The thing that got me was how cat-like her acting was - she completely modelled her behaviour on cats. And I was envious of her figure too - I think I still have the Catwoman mask that I wore to a costume party in 4th grade...

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

i went with my beta and we just laughed all the way through it. We were at the midnight screening and no one was there, just us and some bored ushers, and when we saw what Marcus had become (wings?) he shouted out it's Kain from Bloodomen. but this is the boy who sings evita whilst watching star ship troopers and just heckles. But he does look like Kain from the Blood Omen game.
and the werewolf was tres amusing, hi I'm a man in a white fluffy gorilla suit, hear me roar.
where Michael was more, see I still look like Mystique from the X-men movie, hear me roar. I just couldn't take it at all seriously, I liked the politics of the first one, though it was flawed, and all the backbiting that Kraven was doing, but this was a shoddy chase movie.

[winter]

I was very amused by how all the werewolves suddenly had fur. Maybe it's a question of whether they transform in the city or outside of it? ;)

Seeing Michael vamp out was fun, since he was all like "human, human, think human... oh bugger that, head-ripping time!". But it would be so easy to maintain the dual mood - power down Markus a bit, make him even less rational, have Selene be forced to cooperate with the rest of the coven and make nice-nice with Kraven and maybe the leaderless and lost werewolves. Talk about barking up the wrong tree :/

It felt like I was ready for a nice fun session of Vampire: The Masquerade and instead ended up in something led by a Storyteller who had hastily adapted a Call of Cthulhu campaign script.