Underworld
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanWell, despite ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashenkat's concerns, I enjoyed Underworld. Although I accept that there is too little of the swirly leather coat and the cat suit. I don't think I agree about Kate Beckinsale's lack of charisma - or rather I think that given she was playing an immortal killer her cold delivery was quite apt.
Certainly Bill Nighy as Viktor rather made up for it in the charisma department, but then that's Bill Nighy, isn't it? What else would you expect from him? (Touted as a possible contender for the new Doctor, by the way).
What is it about vampires as a concept that makes them interesting? I don't know. I mean, they always seem to have a sense of style - outside the Buffyverse of course. It must be the strength/immortality thing, since the blood part is positively icky and anyone who says otherwise is either telling porkies or needs serious counselling. I mean, Highlander covered the same ground without the need for extreme sunblock and a mightily restricted diet, and that worked nicely. Well, the TV show did. The jury is still out and won't be returning soon on the movie sequence. I mean, Highlander 2, really guys...
Of course, I now need to watch Underworld on a bigger, and widescreen telly. This is where Johnny Cheapshot (akaromney) redeems himself.
ashenkat's concerns, I enjoyed Underworld. Although I accept that there is too little of the swirly leather coat and the cat suit. I don't think I agree about Kate Beckinsale's lack of charisma - or rather I think that given she was playing an immortal killer her cold delivery was quite apt. Certainly Bill Nighy as Viktor rather made up for it in the charisma department, but then that's Bill Nighy, isn't it? What else would you expect from him? (Touted as a possible contender for the new Doctor, by the way).
What is it about vampires as a concept that makes them interesting? I don't know. I mean, they always seem to have a sense of style - outside the Buffyverse of course. It must be the strength/immortality thing, since the blood part is positively icky and anyone who says otherwise is either telling porkies or needs serious counselling. I mean, Highlander covered the same ground without the need for extreme sunblock and a mightily restricted diet, and that worked nicely. Well, the TV show did. The jury is still out and won't be returning soon on the movie sequence. I mean, Highlander 2, really guys...
Of course, I now need to watch Underworld on a bigger, and widescreen telly. This is where Johnny Cheapshot (aka
romney) redeems himself.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-02-16 10:11 pm (UTC)(Personally I think he would be a brilliant Doctor)
Kate Beckinsale ; eh. I adored her dad and I have read some interviews with her about loosing him that I relate to very much and have found very helpful. She can look porcelain beautiful but I cannot really find a film in which I haven't found her accent irritating and felt she was acting and not one where I have believed her as a character. I'm willing to persevere for her dad's sake I think; but the fact that she is in it has always put me off watching Underworld. Plus vampires; I looved the idea of them when I was 16, Interview With A Vampire was quite a seductive film ( cannot read the books no matter how hard I try) and what lovely fabrics!
And I think they know their wine; I bet a vampire's wine cellars are to.die.for.
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Date: 2004-02-17 01:38 am (UTC)BTW: gem...? ;-D
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:24 am (UTC)Johnny Cheapshot
Date: 2004-02-17 01:37 am (UTC)Re: Johnny Cheapshot
Date: 2004-02-17 01:39 am (UTC)Your private life is your own affair, my friend.
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:26 am (UTC)Either works - I'll look annally up later in my Big Book Of Words.
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:30 am (UTC)Vampire fiction is also accepted within our society, to the extent I won't get a second glance reading a book that's obviously vampire fiction on the train, whereas I will if it's obviously erotica.
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*Not that she was particularly looking, but ... well ... some things once found can't be unfound.
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:13 am (UTC)There is only a tiny quantity of furry erotica (no, not my interest I hasten to add) and one reason why it would be easily found on a remainder or second hand bookstall is almost everyone who sees it immediately wants rid of it. There is a niche audience, but it's very very small.
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:18 am (UTC)I'm not cklear on what furry erotica is, and I'm less sure I want to know...
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