Comments on: Underworld 3 Trailer

By: Gord

Gord — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:57:47 +0000

The trailer instills hope…….but I’ve learned not to get ahead of myself. looks good…….we’ll see

By: Gord

Gord — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:53:24 +0000

First one was great. low budget, but great. Political intrigue, a half way interesting love story, themes of slavery and racism, an interesting mix of old world style vampires and modern technology and actual intelligent bad guys with an agenda that wasn’t too ridiculous considering the movie’s reality, setting, and subject matter. Second one was complete garbage. Dumbed down, very little story, no coherent narrative, uninteresting characters. Basically just a vampire action movie. It sucked (I know, I know)

I only hope they go back to their roots with the 3rd one.

By: murph

murph — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:28:34 +0000

“Underworld is one of the most geniously written movie out there”

what is so genius about it, may i ask? i mean, really. it is okay to like it, but GENIUS??

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:29:16 +0000

Don’t know what to say to that Jonatan_soto. It’s not too many movies that I get genuinely angry at for wasting my time. Underworld was one of them, and I was at a big splashy premiere attended by Les Wiseman, Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman. Generally, with a crowd of 1000 in a buzzy premiere, it is easy to be more forgiving of a middle or less-than-middling picture, but not in the case of underworld, I fail to see a single redeeming feature of the film outside of Bill Nighy who manages to be good in everything.

By: jonatan soto

jonatan soto — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:12:04 +0000

You need not to look at how things are played, but how they are written. Underworld is one of the most geniously written movie out there, and you should be happy when you compare this to other recent movies whos writter should really be cleaning mnkey crap.

By: kurt

kurt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:04 +0000

UNDERWORLD is simply boring and uninspired on every level. Stilted acting, poor plotting, uninspired all around.

By: Marina Antunes

Marina Antunes — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:01 +0000

Agreed Murph, they’re not good movies but I still love to watch them. Surprisingly, the second one has lost all sorts of appeal over the years. I saw that again a few weeks back and didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as the first few times.

Which reminds me, we need to resurrect our Vampire column. I’m feeling a need to curl up with Coppola’s Dracula.

By: murph

murph — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:50:44 +0000

except its not a good movie.

visually, very pretty, but the story was nothing new or exciting or engaging.

By: jonatan soto

jonatan soto — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:58 +0000

jesus, do you guys not know how to appriciate a film? I mean, look! underworld one weaved a dark and dramatic fairy taale of blood and guts, vampires and werewolfs, villians and good guys. and then theres Evolution. all it was doing was finishing the Elders story arc. with the head vampire, viktor, defeated, they needed to just kill off one more persom – his name was markus. ALL THEY DID WAS CLOSE OFF A STORY ARC! what did they want you to do, imagine a guy trapped underground for eternity, while every oter of his kind was out getting sloughtered? I know you would have hated it more, so lets just give this a freeking rest, okay. its a good movie!

By: AD

AD — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:12:55 +0000

I’m curious to see it for a few reasons. I do admit to liking the First two (the first more than the second).

Im not a fan of special effects people directing (take Starship troopers 2 for example). But Patrick Tatopolous directed Underworld 3. I guess he did some second unit on Die Hard 4 too. (And since I’m into Outlander) Patrick designed the creature in outlander, and did all the concept/creature stuff in the first two Underworld films. Just before the writers strike, Patrick got Outlander’s writers (McCain and Blackman) to do a re-write. They’re pretty good at historical epic style stuff and just got hired to write the upcomming Conan movie from Lionsgate. So I’m curious.

The main things that are negatives though are – the effects guy as director, it being a prequel, and it not having Beckinsale’s Character. The trailer didn’t look horrible but then the quality of the video was so awful it was kind of hard to really see anything about the looks of the movie.

By: swarez

swarez — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:23:54 +0000

For some reason I like these flicks. Good solid entertainment that leaves nothing.

By: Shannon the Movie Moxie

Shannon the Movie Moxie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:25:19 +0000

It looks like Lord of the Rings, lol.

Loved the first one, hated the second. Not paying to see any more!

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:08:12 +0000

Gah. You got that right Mike.

As much as I love Vampres and Ms Mitra, I’ve never been too impressed with this series. Here’s hoping, but I doubt it.

It’s blue again.

By: Marina Antunes

Marina Antunes — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:43:17 +0000

“Have i ever mentioned how I loathe this franchise?”

Not in like…a few weeks.

They continue to get made because they continue to make money. Pretty simple and straightforward equation there. And who knows, maybe it will be better. I doubt it but one could hope.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:33:38 +0000

Have i ever mentioned how I loathe this franchise? What a wasted genre opportunity. Take a shakespearian riff of Romeo & Juliet with a Vampire vs. Werewolf bent and make it as lifeless and boring as possible, despite the casting of quite solid actors.

I can’t believe these things still get theatrical releases.

By: Marina Antunes

Marina Antunes — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:31:19 +0000

When you cut up that version, make sure to let us know. I have a feeling Andrew would pay good money for that.

And thanks for stopping by Mike!

By: Mike Browne

Mike Browne — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:21:59 +0000

Two words: Rhona Mitra

The only reason I’d even entertain this dog. Perhaps I’ll cut together my own version of her screen time only. The rest is going to be a yawn-fest. No doubt about that at all in my mind.