Willow ,'First Date'
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(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.
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.
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.
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.
The “amateurs” line ruined it for me.
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.
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.
Why did none of the werewolf-fighting vampires have stuff to take advantage of werewolves' canine nature, like ultrasonic whistles, pepper spray, or squeaky chew toys?
Right. Why did they never flee into a bathroom, open the toilet lid and then duck out the window? Or throw a stick in the opposite direction? Or use a box of milkbones as a distraction or bait? Lots of missed oppurtunities there.
Keep a bitch in heat on staff at all times.