Underworld: Evolution
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beccaelizabethVampires and werewolves and clothes, oh my...
You know, there's a bit of a contradiction in the middle of this one. The whole 'evolution' concept is used in a 'young ones is better than old ones' way. Yet the vampire myth is pretty clear that old ones is more powerful (which lines up with many forms of power in everyday life, specially political like they play with here). So how to resolve that?
Eat the ancestors! Gain all their power in your younger shinier form!
... *sigh* ...
see I can't even muster up a *facepalm* there.
It's another one where the old looking vampires are teh evol.
the young, hot, wearing latex and/or being naked a lot ones are otoh obviously in the right.
It's not that I'm complaining about the eye candy - pretty women in corsets kicking arse, I'm not going to get tired of that - but if I fail to turn off 100% of my analytical brain it do get a bit weird.
The clothes were spectacular, again. Also the set design. And incidental bits of shiny.
Pity they couldn't pour the same attention to detail into a script. I swear there isn't a single line in the whole thing that I can quote. Quoteables severely absent. And as for plot? *fight fight fight fuck fight fight fight* about covers it.
Okay, so there was some twisty Chosen One type politics in the middle, but really, there's a sort of absence of story there.
Also, absence of color.
My TV does colors. Put it on a nature show and it does *spectacular* colors. I've been known to end up all *ooooh, shiny!* distracted by pictures of a waterfall or a tree, because they're just that gorgeous.
This film? If it has colors? Is hiding them very well.
I need to start a campaign. Dark subject matter does not mean you can save money on lighting.
And being goth does not in fact mean being unable to see anything interesting.
in conclusion:
wants their wardrobe
pretty lead couple
...
...
why did I buy this film?
You know, there's a bit of a contradiction in the middle of this one. The whole 'evolution' concept is used in a 'young ones is better than old ones' way. Yet the vampire myth is pretty clear that old ones is more powerful (which lines up with many forms of power in everyday life, specially political like they play with here). So how to resolve that?
Eat the ancestors! Gain all their power in your younger shinier form!
... *sigh* ...
see I can't even muster up a *facepalm* there.
It's another one where the old looking vampires are teh evol.
the young, hot, wearing latex and/or being naked a lot ones are otoh obviously in the right.
It's not that I'm complaining about the eye candy - pretty women in corsets kicking arse, I'm not going to get tired of that - but if I fail to turn off 100% of my analytical brain it do get a bit weird.
The clothes were spectacular, again. Also the set design. And incidental bits of shiny.
Pity they couldn't pour the same attention to detail into a script. I swear there isn't a single line in the whole thing that I can quote. Quoteables severely absent. And as for plot? *fight fight fight fuck fight fight fight* about covers it.
Okay, so there was some twisty Chosen One type politics in the middle, but really, there's a sort of absence of story there.
Also, absence of color.
My TV does colors. Put it on a nature show and it does *spectacular* colors. I've been known to end up all *ooooh, shiny!* distracted by pictures of a waterfall or a tree, because they're just that gorgeous.
This film? If it has colors? Is hiding them very well.
I need to start a campaign. Dark subject matter does not mean you can save money on lighting.
And being goth does not in fact mean being unable to see anything interesting.
in conclusion:
wants their wardrobe
pretty lead couple
...
...
why did I buy this film?
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Date: 2007-03-09 06:02 pm (UTC)Or maybe I just like him. :)
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Date: 2007-03-09 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-09 06:11 pm (UTC)Alexander Corvinus now? Jacobi makes it believable that he's centuries old, powerful and yet still a compassionate being. Indeed it comes across that Marcus Corvinus knows he will never match up to his father...