10-24-2008, 10:01 AM
Middle Finger Wrote:COOL, more stuff with vamps! I liked the other Underworld movies so I am glad to see this sequel out:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictu...thelycans/
Okay, I was going to make a smart ass remark like ::aww::but seriously Frank, I love me some horror/monster moviesbut I think thatthe Underworld series quicklywent down the drain. The first one was a lot of flash and hot Kate Beckinsale, the second one was complete gibberish and I can't imagine what they can possibly do with the third. Sort of like the Blade series... it started out really sort of interestingly and I like Wesley Snipes, but he ended up a bland automaton by the third movieand the plot was complete nonsense.
I'd like to see one of these movies that actually has a little thought involved. I've gotten past the special effects magic razzle dazzle and I want a little MEAT to my monsters. The worst squander of talent and money was that shitty Van Helsing atrocity. Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale and the only memorable thing was the flying harpies/vampire bitches. Ms Beckinsale's a pretty good actress but you wouldn't know it by the awful movie choices she's made lately.
Not quite in the same vein (yuck yuck) but those two 'magician' movies were thought provoking and had interesting plots. More Hugh Jackman, this time with Christian Bale and Michael Caine, in The Prestige and The Illusionist with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. Neither one was perfect, but at least the films weren't filled with a lot of special effects flash and bang with no substance.
Anyway, I didn't mean to go on a rant, but this genre has SOmany possibilitiesand I feel that Hollywood, etc aren't exploring it to it's full potential. Nothing is preventing them from making an intelligent horror movie... not everyone in the audience is a brain dead idiot that sits and wallows in their owndrool during a viewing, for god's sake. I want special effects AND good acting AND a plot that isn't derivative of 20 other movies before it.