Underworld
Sep. 17th, 2003 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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jet_li_wannabe and I went to the screening of Underworld, where an LJ gathering had broken out. We saw karlita, photognome, irana, possibly justanotherg33k (or someone who looked like him), and probably others, since I suck at recognizing folks.
As for the movie, it was exactly what I expected. Fun, action-packed, and a decent plotline. I won't do spoilers, but I loved the use of vamp/werewolf mythology, and I loved the action sequences -- this was the anti-LXG, containing multiple fights in dark places that were easy to follow, because the director realized that if the fights didn't work, the movie would fall apart. Great gun-fu.
And watching Kate Beckinsale walking around in leather for two hours is about as close to Nirvana as I'll ever get. If someone releases a DVD of Kate dressed as she was in this movie doing nothing but watching paint dry, I will buy it.
The WW lawsuit, btw, is pretty much horseshit, at least on the stuff not from Nancy's short story (which I haven't read). The only thing they have going is the use of the term "abomination" for a hybrid. Otherwise, nothing that was done here wasn't thought up long before WW.
I'll post a spoiler-laden review tomorrow, when I'm less tired.
jet_li_wannabe and I went to the screening of Underworld, where an LJ gathering had broken out. We saw karlita, photognome, irana, possibly justanotherg33k (or someone who looked like him), and probably others, since I suck at recognizing folks.As for the movie, it was exactly what I expected. Fun, action-packed, and a decent plotline. I won't do spoilers, but I loved the use of vamp/werewolf mythology, and I loved the action sequences -- this was the anti-LXG, containing multiple fights in dark places that were easy to follow, because the director realized that if the fights didn't work, the movie would fall apart. Great gun-fu.
And watching Kate Beckinsale walking around in leather for two hours is about as close to Nirvana as I'll ever get. If someone releases a DVD of Kate dressed as she was in this movie doing nothing but watching paint dry, I will buy it.
The WW lawsuit, btw, is pretty much horseshit, at least on the stuff not from Nancy's short story (which I haven't read). The only thing they have going is the use of the term "abomination" for a hybrid. Otherwise, nothing that was done here wasn't thought up long before WW.
I'll post a spoiler-laden review tomorrow, when I'm less tired.