Underworld - The Evolution

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HighVelocity said:
In 2007 maybe they'll make a part III and ad some ZOMBIES to the mix. :eek: :D
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I heard that the director wants this to be a 3 part trilogy. The third movie will be based on the events that happened before the first movie. I welcome more Kate in leather, and I can't wait until the 20th.
 
Negative.

Devonai said:
Blade had vampire zombies!
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True zombies can only be killed with a bullet to the head. UV, silver, wooden stakes, swords, etc. having any effect on the targets discount the possibility that these were vampire-zombies. A true vampire-zombie would no doubt need to be killed with both a bullet to the head AND a stake to the heart. :D I doubt even Beckinsale and Blade working together could manage THAT.
 
Johnny_Yuma said:
True zombies can only be killed with a bullet to the head. UV, silver, wooden stakes, swords, etc. having any effect on the targets discount the possibility that these were vampire-zombies. A true vampire-zombie would no doubt need to be killed with both a bullet to the head AND a stake to the heart. :D I doubt even Beckinsale and Blade working together could manage THAT.
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In my experience, both vampires and zombies can be effectively taken out using by fire, or by decapitation.

PS:
Code:
starfuryzeta said:
Nice.....stockpile! Is that a kydex built onto the leather pants?
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Or "arsenal"?
 
The_Shootist said:
Okay, now that we are all "talked out" about Miami Vice, lets focus on the sequel to Underworld, due out Jan 20.

Ya, the gun handling (and the overall story) is fanciful. But Kate Beckensdale in leather and gratuitous gun violence with no redeeeming social value will at least keep the movie from being boring. :evil:
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I thought the first movie was rather silly. There were apparently only guy werewolves, no females. No wonder they were all pissed off! :D
 
I liked the first

and was going to the second tonight but the sheild is on so I cant...but I cant read this thread as I don't wanna spoil the movie fer me self...I'll get back to it after...
 
cz75bdneos22 said:
saw it and enjoyed it so much...i'm buying the dvd when it comes out..it was better than the original in my O.
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Completely agree. Better story, better acting, better action, awesome guns/gunplay/action, cool dynamics and imagery, and better um, hot chicks/thongs/latex. :evil:
 
Seen this opening weekend and I thought it rocked. $10 bucks says that in the 3rd one there will be a a kid born by Katie that is a new junior breed of vampire/liken or however you spell it. The new breed should freaking rock as he will be a mix of genealogy from the eldest of all vampires, a bred vampire (Katie), and then the vampire/liken breed that Michael is. He should be an interesting and powerful fellow. I hope they hurry up and produce the 3rd one as I cannot wait to see what comes about. Even if there isn't some super vamp/liken in the 3rd one there will def. be a new offspring or child between Katie and Michael.
 
NO ONE pulls off tight black leather like Kate Beckinsale. The guns and violence are an added bonus. :D
 
NineseveN said:
Saw this movie opening weekend, I like it a lot....for various reasons, some I cannot utter on The High Road. :evil:
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Giggidy!

I knew the sequel wouldn't be as good as the first (it wasn't), but I had to see Kate Beckinsale. Definitely 'teh hawt'.

Unfortunately she's married. :( Not like I had a chance, but still. You can dream.

The gun play in the sequel doesn't come close to the first.
 
The only film I saw in the theater this year was "Serenity," which was a lot of fun. THe bulk of Hollywood's production seems to be dropping in IQ points along with the average age of the theater audience. I HATE going to the theater. It's expensive, noisy and you're herded in and out like cattle.

I predict the theater chains will be seeing the worst slump since the '50's, and unless something radical is done more and more of the audience will just catch it on DVD.
 
Jason M. said:
I liked the first one. Gave it a B-. I walked out of this one. It lost any of the gritty feel that made the original what it was.
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I wasn't going to comment when I saw this film over a week ago,
but I have to echo your assessment, and in detail.

SPOILER warning

The movie was a disaster.

The first one was a gem because of the parallel between the Selene/Michael
romance of the present and Sonia/Lucian in the past. But I am getting ahead
of myself.

This sequel literally picks up right where the first one left off, with a backstory
insert to prep the Markus angle.

My problem is that too little of what was good in the first movie survives
into the sequel. Lucian's dead, Viktor's dead, and as hobbling as it is losing
Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy, the director further proceeds to kill off the
remainder of the coven (offscreen!), and ignore the Lycans as any kind of
factor on their own. The 'Vampires vs. Lycans' premise is thus casually
discarded virtually before the movie starts.

Sure the black latex catsuit is still there, and thank God for that.
Kate's Selene is uber-hot and displays more emotional range. This unfortunately
kills much of the Death-Dealer 'kool' she had before, but perhaps was
intended to help amp up her tepid chemistry with Scott Speedman.

Scott Speedman is again merely-passable as Michael. In the first movie he at
least was the focus of the story, and it was through his disbelieving
eyes that we assimilated the Underworld mythos of Vampires vs. Lycans. In
this sequel he is just an ornament for Beckinsale to play off of.

Derek Jacobi is embarrasing as Alexander Corvinus. Throw a toga on him and
he's faxing in Senator Gracchus from Roidley Scott's 'Gladiator'.

Tony Curran as Markus has quite some presence, but you can't really connect
to his fraternal obsessions, especially when the object thereof is an
uncommunicative 7-foot coyote on crack. Markus doesn't arouse our pity
the way Michael Sheen's brilliant portrayal of Lucian did in the first film-- and
again, back in the first movie, all the fascination with Lucian neatly reinforced
the leads' own romance --which sorely needed reinforcing.

The rousing gun-centered action of the original has been displaced in
too large a share by wirework acrobatics, and Hollywood staples
(the downed helo, et cetera)

The opening flashback to Markus/Viktor/Amelia could have been shot with a
sepia tint for relief --just like all such flashbacks in the first movie were
distinguished from the underlit blue haze of the present. What we get instead
is the nighttime palette (and virtually the same props) from Peter Jackson's
'The Two Towers'.

The final insult is the epilogue narrative. After neutering the covens, and castrating the
Lycans, killing off Markus, William and their father; leaving Selene and Michael
as supreme immortals: we are supposed to buy into Selene's ominous 'darknesss ahead'
for her and Michael. From what and whom, girl? You've killed off everyone who could
possibly threaten you and your lover! Sheesh.


I'd give this movie a 3 out of 10, but the criminal waste of all the
golden potential from the first movie tempts me to give it a 1/2.



h.
 
The up-side to being very bored one weekend and having a Borders gift card is that I read the novelization of the movie. Apparantly any future opponents of Selene/Michael will come from what the book refers to as the New World Coven. Apparantly Amelia's coven is somewhere in America, and they are likely to be upset at the loss of their leader (I would be too, she was pretty smokin' hot).

The movie definately wasn't Oscar material, unless they have a "Hottie in skin-tight leather" catagory. But it was amusing and entertaining.

Jubei
 
The first one had two things going for it. Violence, and Kate Beckinsale in that outfit, the fact that it was a halfway decent flick was a plus. From the trailer, I'd imagine the second just has the same two things going for it.

My girlfriend wants to see it. I'm in no hurry.

Manedwolf said:
I thought the first movie was rather silly. There were apparently only guy werewolves, no females. No wonder they were all pissed off! :D
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That never occured to me...
 
I was trying to count bullets (between reloads on screen), I think they did a decent job excepting any of the full autos which all had those cool 1000 round normal looking mags.

I really liked this film I guess I am just a die - hard vampire movie fan.

-DR
 
I gotta agree with Horge on this one and say that this film wasn't as good as the first one. I liked how they placed the first one in the city, how there seemed to be a rivalry between the vampires and the lycans. How the vampire had a completely different lifestyles (living in mansions, nice cars) vs. the Lycans who live underground in darkness.

I felt there was MUCH more of a plot in the first one, the 2nd one just seemed rushed. Selene and Michael run away from Marcus, has sex, kill marcus and his super Lycan brother William. Pleeeaaassseee.... :rolleyes:

The rivalry between lycan and vampires disappear, instead of killing off the other bread they're just running away from one person. Plus how Michael comes back to life was absolutely B rated horror flick style. So cheesy.

Kate in leather bumped the movie up to a C though :evil:
 
QUOTE: you put combinations ... together it seems to loose something

you mean. like Van Helsing? Vampires, Werewolves, Frankemstein's
monster, Absinthe ads, .... etc.
 
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