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Well…I was pleasantly unsurprised. Yes at last I have finally seen the movie that many Anne Rice fans have been arguing over for the past two years. My opinion? Well it depends on the opinion side of me: the Anne Rice fan or *ahem* the Anne rice fan. Haha… to be quite frank with you, I hated this movie. I HATED IT. But of course, to be fair, the list of what I didn’t like and what I did like so the fans (God forbid) of this movie, will see what many of us dislike immensely.
Reasons to See this Movie:
Stuart Townsend looks really good in leather pants.
I adore their makeup…now I want to have gold eye shadow at the corners of my eyes. Me adoreth gold eye shadow.
I adore Maharet’s nails. *runs off to buy fake nails*
Did mention about Stuart Townsend in leather pants?
Okay…okay…I’ll stop with the sarcasm…
The fire effects, (though nothing that special) were very cool.
The wobbly-air-thing whenever the vampires moved quickly got really annoying after a while. However, they were good effects and at least they moved fast *cough*something they got right *cough cough*
I actually liked the concert scene. Hey…can you blame a girl for drooling over Stuart Townsend in low-slung leather pants, practically French kissing the mike and writhing about on the stage??! And I actually did not mind the music that much as I thought I would have…
The part with Lestat climbing up the wall. Hell yeah…Stuie in leather pants. :)
And which I thought was the best part of this movie: Vincent Perez who plays Marius. Damn…that man makes me laugh my ass off. He is so funny…I love when he’s at the concert and poor David sees him and he goes “Hello David…” And whatever else he said. And of course at the ending, “Hello David.” And with him, the cliché Transylvanian accent actually works. I think he has to be the best actor in this whole film. I like when he and Lestat meet up again in Lestat’s mansion. Marius becomes very sarcastic and funny actually. However there were some aspects of him I didn’t like very much which will be in the ‘Reasons NOT to See This Movie.’
The soundtrack was beyond excellent. It was just so cool!! Favorite song: Slept So Long
The only thing this movie had in common with the book was the name and the NAMES of a FEW characters.
Why the heck was Lestat a brunette? Yes, I know people have hissy-fitted about it before but AHH! It’s not superficial, it’s a cold, hard fact. A COLD HARD IMPORTANT FACT.
Lestat had this freaky accent that was not French at all. Marius did too. Actually all these vampires had some freaky accents that sounded nothing like the way they were supposed to have spoken, depending on their country of origin or inhabitance. They all sounded like typical Transylvanian vampires.
Yes as I was saying before: there was NO BLOODY PLOTLINE IN HELL IN THIS MOVIE. It was just: Me sexy rock vampire. You evil queen. You plan take over world. Me sexy rock vampire and you evil queen eff the living daylights out of each other. You evil queen die. Me sexy rock vampire make new, young sexy redhead. Live happily ever after.
Half the freaking vampires were missing (Please remember, I saw this on tape. NORMAL NORMAL VIDEO.) I did not see so many of the bloody vampires, it was not funny. I believe that the one youngish looking blond was Armand. When I last checked Armand was a redhead. Alas, he wouldn’t be bad as a brunette…maybe he and Stuart could’ve traded wigs (Haha :P)
Which brings me to my next point, which is sort of a continuation to the previous. The characters were so out of character that it was not funny. I mean Akasha was this evil, meaningless bitch (Rebecca: I love you Aaliyah and you will be missed but your character was EVIL. RIP, baby girl) who just wanted to wipe out the whole world for no apparent reason (at least in the book, why she wanted to do it was explained.); what the hell happened to the Story of The Twins, hell, there weren’t even twins just a Maharet NO Mekare. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THERE WAS NO LOUIS. What the fuzzy? No cute kissy scene between the reunited lovers? Plus…there was what? A couple seconds of Armand. Nothing to do with Daniel either, I saw no Khayman or Mael but I’m guessing they were those two hovering beings on the side with Marius, Maharet, Pandora and Armand. Honestly, did Akasha have to kill Pandora? Also, there was no Gabby or Santino or several other vampires. A major plot hole is when Marius was talking with Lestat in front of the huge billboard, and he was saying that Lestat had awoken the most ancient of them all, THAT WAS JUST SO WRONG, just because of the fact that Marius WAS THERE. Marius is supposed to be trapped underneath ice somewhere…I mean Marius was the keeper of Those Who Must Be Kept, so what? When Akasha kills Enkil and off she goes, just leaving Marius to go off and warn everyone that she is coming? *rolls eyes* and Jesse…what was up with the eighteen year old jumpy Goth sorority girl? I had a hard time believing that that was the intelligent, MATURE THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR OLD WOMAN AND TALAMASCAN SCHOLAR, I’d so adored. I was just so insulted.
Also the way Lestat acted. They changed up his character completely. Especially the part where Lestat kept having these girls delivered to him and feeding from them. Most vampires don’t drink the blood of the innocent, even if they weren’t innocent, what kind of lazy ass vampire sits around waiting for his food to be brought to him. In the books, the vampires always enjoy the hunt. Other than that, I suppose Lestat was arrogant and cocky enough. Also, the whole Marius-David storyline, I didn’t get. Don’t get me wrong, I had a good laugh at it but it’s supposed to be between Lestat and David. (A good point given to me by the dear LegendaireLestat. *hug*)
Which also makes me wonder about Marius’ behavior. Yeesh…that’s not the way I’ve ever known Marius to behave. The whole kidnapping of Lestat and forcing him to become a vampire thing was definitely not in Marius’ style. Also, the fact that they stated that Marius was Lestat’s maker was just wrong. It was Magnus, not Marius. And then Marius only harassing David that was WEIRD. Do you think Marius has nothing to do in life?
Also, since they’re making everything for teenagers, they go and lower down the age on David. The TALAMASCAN SUPERIOR GENERAL now becomes a middle-aged man. Well at least they didn’t make him a teenager with black eyeliner :D
And that brings me to yet another: The whole bleedin’ *cough* storyline between Lestat & Jesse? What was up with that? But of course we all know why that happened: can’t have the teen horror flick The Queen of the Damned having homo-erotic vibes LIKE THE HIT Interview With The Vampire movie. Of course not.
So we are subjected to icky Lestat-Jesse dialogues such as “Boo. Boo back.” And cheesy scenes such as Lestat flying Jesse to the top of some building and then him throwing her up in the air giving us poor viewers a gratuitous shot of underneath her dress. And God Forbid, worst of all, was the ending. I screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed. The only thing I could was yell “NO!” but alas it was, yes. Jesse becomes Lestat’s fledgling and off they go into the night: HAND IN HAND.
That was the last straw. I nearly flung the blasted tape across the room.
And lastly what I really hated was the fact that they assumed because you like vampires is that you have to either be a Goth guy or chick and are obsessed with everything dark and the whole black clothing and overdoing the black eyeliner. That’s not true at all. Yes you could like Anne Rice and adore vampires but that doesn’t mean you have to be dressed in all black, apply ten tons of powder and walk around with a hundred piercings. I know several people who would, I suppose, “classify” under Goth and when you say Anne Rice they say “Whom?” (Sad but true.) So therefore all the fans are not teenagers who are piercing-happy and frequent every leather store in town. And to clear up some facts, not all of us like black nail polish OKAY?!
What was going on with them vampire fangs, kids? Both Marius and Akasha have some STRANGE looking fangs there. Marius has some issues talking because of them (it's very obvious) and as for Akasha, well, it seemed like Akasha had a speakerbox complete with amps positioned on her tongue. And as for the fangs, they had two sets of front teeth at the very sides. You know the ones that are supposed to be elongated to fangs? Well there's the normal set and then there are the elongated fangs. THAT MAKES NO SENSE. *sigh*
If you are a die-hard Anne Rice fan, I advise you against viewing this movie. If you’re looking for a ridiculously stupid cliché typical vampire movie with no plotline, go watch it.
But I won’t be seeing this movie again, ANY TIME SOON. Unless of course, the sudden desire to see Stuie flaunting those leather pants hits ;) But I’ll take Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in lace and ruffles any day.
