Post by xystophoros on Sept 15, 2017 20:33:31 GMT
just watched it last night for free on starz, mostly because I enjoyed the first film despite its many big flaws, and there was nothing else on last night.
It was fucking terrible. Horrendous.
You have this great cast with Charles Dance, Lara Pulver, James Faulkner, Tobias Menzies, and other pros and veterans of British stage productions, and they're on screen looking like they can barely stop themselves from laughing at the ridiculous dialogue.
Half of the plot was just a retread of the first film, with Marius (Menzies) basically just a copy of Michael Sheen's Lucian from the first film, and Pulver's Semira as the Kraven character. Beckinsale was her usual barely adequate self, phoning it in. There was nothing surprising or even worth mentioning, except for a handful of well-choreographed fight scenes.
Even the Selene story arc was exactly the same as the other Underworld movies -- she can't beat the big bad, so she "upgrades" herself with some new, previously-unknown power and comes back to save the day.
Then I google the cast and I see there's an interview with the scriptwriter, who's talking as if he's producing art, and making it seem like it was this big creative struggle to piece together a shit festival about vampires and werewolves.
How does a script like this get the green light? How does such a shitty story get the tens of millions in funding to go ahead with a project like this? And how can anyone be proud that they wrote it?
It was fucking terrible. Horrendous.
You have this great cast with Charles Dance, Lara Pulver, James Faulkner, Tobias Menzies, and other pros and veterans of British stage productions, and they're on screen looking like they can barely stop themselves from laughing at the ridiculous dialogue.
Half of the plot was just a retread of the first film, with Marius (Menzies) basically just a copy of Michael Sheen's Lucian from the first film, and Pulver's Semira as the Kraven character. Beckinsale was her usual barely adequate self, phoning it in. There was nothing surprising or even worth mentioning, except for a handful of well-choreographed fight scenes.
Even the Selene story arc was exactly the same as the other Underworld movies -- she can't beat the big bad, so she "upgrades" herself with some new, previously-unknown power and comes back to save the day.
Then I google the cast and I see there's an interview with the scriptwriter, who's talking as if he's producing art, and making it seem like it was this big creative struggle to piece together a shit festival about vampires and werewolves.
How does a script like this get the green light? How does such a shitty story get the tens of millions in funding to go ahead with a project like this? And how can anyone be proud that they wrote it?
