Today I went to see Under­world. That movie with Kate Bec­kin­sale and Scott Speedman;

“Selene (Bec­kin­sale), a beau­ti­ful vam­pire warrior, is entrenched in a war bet­ween the vam­pire and were­wolf races. Although she is alig­ned with the vam­pi­res, she falls in love with Michael (Speed­man), a were­wolf”
“An immor­tal battle for supremacy”

Story­line: On the scale of block­bus­ter movies, the tale was intri­guing with good foun­da­tions. Des­pite this I feel the movie didn’t build itself up enough, much was skim­med over and merely men­tio­ned for a bet­ter vie­wer unders­tan­ding. There were no real dyna­mics to the story and as I have said before, when desc­ri­bing Equi­li­brium, this movie has merely skim­med the sur­face of something bri­lliant. That bri­lliance may in fact be a novel, sto­len from White Wolf or whoe­ver, but I don’t really care about this or any other illus­trious vam­pire novels. The romance was hardly touched upon, and there was cer­tainly little sho­wing of “love felt” which may have in fact been the pre­mise for this, them being evil and all. The film had no fun moments, chuc­kle tid­bits or cheap jokes thrown in for light enter­tain­ment — this was a dark flick through and through, which is a good thing. A one liner joke would not have fit­ted, and I am plea­sed to see the lack of one. (note: Link in M:R is an exam­ple of cheap relief humor that I des­pi­sed). The Wes Cra­ven refe­rence made me smile. Pos­si­ble spoi­ler: The ending was excep­tio­nally lame, movies should not set them­sel­ves up for sequels and they should at least round off what has just hap­pe­ned. This said, I still enjo­yed the movie and would watch it again — the way in which you had to ask your­self “who is the bad guy at the moment?” per­tai­ning to each other and humans, was inte­res­ting. Vik­tor, Lucian, Kra­ven and finally Michael, all figh­ting for the top spot throughout.

Acting: Not ama­zing and not sucky. The dia­lo­gue was poor in some pla­ces but the actors did a good job in cove­ring that up for the most part. In film it always seems hard to make an English accent sound “not bad”, but Kate pulled it off. Props to that. Only a brit can pro­perly do a brit accent. Robby Gee kic­ked butt too.

Effects: From com­plete trash to exce­llency. The were­wolf morphing sce­nes were done well and ove­rall they loo­ked good. The sce­nes where the cha­rac­ters lan­ded on their feet after a big jump or a fall were done flaw­lessly (lucian & car, selene & win­dow, michael & win­dow), although the pose in the last one was see­mingly off and non fit­ting. Whip­ping scene was one of my favou­rite moments, with a cul­mi­na­tion enti­rely fit­ting and well por­tra­yed. The worst action sequence was the implau­si­ble car crash scene that was nearly as poor as the “lets drive off a cliff” in Neigh­bours (aus­sie soap). The most disap­poin­ting moment was when Vik­tor fell apart (stan­dard pause and slide effect I have come to hate), I was hoping for a sword fight that would result in leather being sli­ced open to reveal hot white goth flesh — but alas, no. As for the X-men, Blade and Matrix rip offs; I don’t really care. The movie used an idea and it came out loo­king good, if it comes out good, why should I care about peo­ple cashing in on a good thing? Techno Metal Leather Figh­ting with guns and swords is cool in my books. If the movie was utter shit I would be com­plai­ning about now. This is a hypoc­rite moment.

Sound­track: Thumbs up. Well used. Good show. Skinny Puppy? Yes.

I wasn’t bored, I wasn’t thri­lled nor my heart poun­ding, but I wasn’t dis­plea­sed and I did think to myself, “this is much bet­ter than I was expec­ting”. I got what I wan­ted. I got lots of Kate Bec­kin­sale loo­king extre­mely hot in leather cou­pled with a great voice. I left a happy chappy. Still much to improve on, and if the sequel does this, rather than suc­cum­bing to the death that is holly­wood wri­ting, it will be worthy of my cash once again. Plus next time we need romance, sex and naked vampires.

Dear Selene

Whe­ne­ver a crea­ture dealt damage by Sen­gir Vam­pire this turn is put into a gra­ve­yard, a +1/+1 coun­ter is put on Sen­gir Vam­pire. Now I have con­fir­med my alle­giance to the under­world, can we make hot vam­pire sex?

Sin­ce­rely,
The Dark One.

Deci­ded that the old layout, although nice, was not prac­ti­cal (e.g. too many small ima­ges to loads, errors occu­rring when vie­wed with dif­fe­rent brow­sers — espe­cially safari). Thus a new and sim­pler yet still ele­gant design has been forged.

http://​eva​.tri​vial​being​.net VERSION 2.0

I feel I must air my views and opi­nions on the depression-fest called Eas­ten­ders (a soap). Yes, Eas­ten­ders, the ANGRY soap with ANGRY actions which mana­ges to refrain from using the F word. Life like in every sense. Why can’t the sun come out and ever­yone be jolly for once? Then the square should get nuked in a mini attack by the pilots from japan who thought the dog shouldn’t have died in that one episode.

Gagh I feel like shit. Hea­dache and unhappy. On the upside though, today I was bought a new pair of suede shoes that are quite actually won­der­ful; had my hair cut by a man named Paul who was inte­res­ted in my future pros­pects at uni­ver­sity and watched a uni­que new show that was airing on Sky One called “Dead Like Me”. I’m hoping I will enjoy the rest of the series as I need a TV series to enjoy.

Lis­te­ning to Sonic Youth while being frus­tra­ted I haven’t seen Pira­tes of the Carib­bean yet.