Yes, Maysa. I agree with your whitefont. When the movie was in the "present" time (60s), I was intrigued and thought it was pretty fabulous-looking, especially Ziyi Zhang (yowr!). I pretty much had no use for the novel/future time. It was worth seeing, but I was expecting greatness after all of the glowy reviews I've read.
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
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Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 1:11:36 pm PDT #6577 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Maysa - Aug 18, 2005 2:08:09 pm PDT #6578 of 10002
It was worth seeing, but I was expecting greatness after all of the glowy reviews I've read.
What's weird is I really wasn't expecting all that much, because the reviews I had read on the internet from real people over the past year said pretty much the same thing, "not as good as ItMFL." Then suddenly it opens over here and the critics start swooning. I think they must not have been as attached to ItMFL.
Sean K - Aug 18, 2005 2:15:34 pm PDT #6579 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I will NEVER click on that link.
Yes, I will stand strong, and refuse to join in Vonnie and PC's sickness.
Eddie - Aug 18, 2005 9:34:52 pm PDT #6580 of 10002
Your tag here.
(I did like the cartoon, complete lack of understanding aside)
Oh good, it wasn't just me.
It was Underworld to me.
Likewise. With a dash of The Island, or perhaps Gattaca. Which for me isn't a bad thing... I LIKED Underworld. You suppose I'm repressing S&M tendencies? I should ask Tim about this.
Volans - Aug 18, 2005 10:56:45 pm PDT #6581 of 10002
move out and draw fire
At least most of Underworld made a sort of sense once you accepted vampires and werewolves with superhuman powers. (Though I still wonder what kind of magic allows you to support multiple 500 lb.-plus monsters from ceiling plaster in rat-trap tenements...)
No it did not. Sometimes the vampires had super-strength, and sometimes they didn't? Whenever things looked really bleak for Kate (running from the werewolf in the sewer, having to get her and Romeo out of the sinking car), they just cut away rather than show us how she survived. Considering she couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with her guns, I wasn't going to buy that she could've survived.
And shooting through the floor? Puh-leaze. The magic stretching hallway where the werewolves kept getting farther and farther away to give her time to use 5000 rounds of ammo chewing through 30 cm of concrete, when, even with her crappy shooting, sending those 5000 rounds down the hall would've hit SOMEthing.
Good looking movie, though.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 19, 2005 3:13:52 am PDT #6582 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'll admit the nonsensicalness of wasting that much ammo on floor remodelling when one has live targets packed solid at the other end of a hallway, but having that image in the trailer probably got them an extra million butts in theater seats.
Volans - Aug 19, 2005 3:30:35 am PDT #6583 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Well, yeah, that's very true.
And I was wondering after I posted if you meant the stunts and things they could do made sense, because they were vampires and werewolves, whereas it's not explained how Charlize can do the Aeon Flux stunts.
Tom Scola - Aug 19, 2005 3:50:54 am PDT #6584 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The “amateurs” line ruined it for me.
Calli - Aug 19, 2005 5:03:47 am PDT #6585 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Mostly what I took away from Underworld was a desire to own the heroine's long leather coat and a sense of enjoyable mockage. I still think it would make a fun double feature with Van Helsing. On some grey, February day have a bunch of friends over, mix up some strong magaritas, and MST3K the hell out of 'em.
Kalshane - Aug 19, 2005 5:09:26 am PDT #6586 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The movie is visually well-done. But beyond that, the only enjoyment I got out of it (and I know I've mentioned this before, sorry for the repeat) was the lame two-whip-wielding vampire getting his face chomped on for doing something so stupid.