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Underworld Trailer
Scoop writes "Just wanted to let everyone know that UGO is exclusively hosting the trailer for Underworld, an action movie set in a world where werewolves and vampires exist, and are at war. Pretty cool stuff, check it out."
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before it gets /.ed you might want to bittorrent it
u nderwo rld/underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf
direct url:
mms://agency2wm.fplive.net/agency/2/2/film/
(about 3.5 megabytes)
it's only 3.5 megabytes but I bet it will get overloaded anyway...
u nderwo rld/underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf
direct download url:
mms://agency2wm.fplive.net/agency/2/2/film/
1 minute 46 seconds long... looks like a decent movie...
Okay, that trailer was.... not so good, and a total Matrix rip off, with a helping dose of Blade, and just reminded me why Buffy does the whole Vampire thing sooooo much better than anyone else ever has.... but damn. How the hell can you not love Kate Beckinsale in all black leather with guns blazing?
It is so amazingly exclusive that you can also watch it in quicktime at Apple.com
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Needless to say, the two groups don't make the best playground buddies. Things can be interpreted different ways, but generally the werewolves are portrayed as the "good guys" in the ages-old conflict. (Of course, neither group is human, and shouldn't be judged by individual action, just intent. But that's neither here nor there.
Even before watching the trailer, I could hear the sounds of legal papers shuffling. Hopefully it gets to screens...it doesn't look very character-driven, but it does look a lot better than anything White Wolf has put out. Anyone remember the (thankfully) short-lived show "The Kindred" on Fox?
and butts!
It is so amazingly exclusive that you can also watch it in quicktime at Apple.com
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they aren't hosting the trailer, they're just "presenting access" just like they say. except that isn't not really that exclusive
Mirrored at: http://67.37.26.110
looks crap. overly loud, pointless hollywood drivel...
Slashdot: Movie trailers for nerds, because nothing actually relevant matters.
Looks like another "it's an excuse for special effects and damn the physics. Damn the acting too" movie. Yawn.
The day when special effects can carry a movie past lame dialogue, stupid plots and wooden acting are mercifully passing, as FX become cheaper and thereby less remarkable. That day is not yet, though... I hope this movie is better than the trailer makes it appear, but I doubt it.
Mplayer stalls like thus:
Why oh why couldn't they just host it on Apple's Trailers site like the other studios do
the crow + dark city + the matrix + batman + blade + mtv + upn, from first time director.
can't wait. havn't seen enough of that before.
sign me up. twice. i'll bet it's great.
Someone's been reading too many White Wolf RPGs... They ought to make Rifts into a move, instead.
and butts! kekee
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Mirrored at http://67.37.26.110
Bloody americanisms
Seriously, I come here for NEWS, not to hear about every movie that is even remotely fantasy or sci-fi.
Here I thought it was something about Underworld, the band. :-(
Instead, it looks like a Matrix meets the Crow clone. Interesting how these movies always tend to be the same. Lots of black, pasty faces, a Lara Croft type character (who looks anorexic yet can wipe everyone out), industrial wastelands and of course, bad weather - no sunny days here folks.
Blah.
Mirrored at http://67.37.26.110
BitTorrent would be good, and preferably not in a propietary format...
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I have downloaded the Quicktime version of it... it's a larger one and it's
better quality. I don't know about you but I hate asf[P]
This movie looks good, she looks really hot too
makes her look like that 1800-Call-ATT woman[P]
Well anyway here's the link, hopefully my can server can handle it for a
while[P]
[LI]http://www.phelonyhosting.com/un
Does anyone else get the feeling that wesley snipes is going to appear any second with large swords??
Too bad they don't have a quicktime version up (Im a Mac user), but then again the Mac version of media player seems to work better for me than the windows one did.
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Here I thought it was something about Underworld, the band. :-(
Instead, it looks like a Matrix meets the Crow clone. Interesting how these movies always tend to be the same. Lots of black, pasty faces, a Lara Croft type character (who looks anorexic yet can wipe everyone out), industrial wastelands and of course, bad weather - no sunny days here folks.
Blah.
hummm, vampires and werewolves... Vampire: The Masquerade anyone?
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If ya'll wanna see a good vampire movie go rent Blade 2! That movie had a healty dose of action, comedy, and death!
Here I thought it was something about Underworld, the band. :-(
Instead, it looks like a Matrix meets the Crow clone. Interesting how these movies always tend to be the same. Lots of black, pasty faces, a Lara Croft type character (who looks anorexic yet can wipe everyone out), industrial wastelands and of course, bad weather - no sunny days here folks.
Blah.
Surely this couldn't just be an excuse to produce another film laden with pseudo-martial art and special effects to cash in on the audience of The Matrix? Doesn't even look slightly similar...
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It is so amazingly exclusive that you can also watch it in quicktime at Apple.com
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Streaming Windoze media player format...
:P)
or...
RealPlayer format
Great, neither of which will play on my linux box without having to recompile something or other...
You know, sometimes I just want things to work...especially now at midnight.
(And all I wanted to know was what the SFX are like: Are we talking decent werewolves here or a bunch of freaking hoary muppets
*Exclusively* hosting a large movie trailer? With a link on Slashdot you say? Uh uh.
The plot summary reads as follows:
-this comment would be modded up if I posted it earlier =)
Why not use an open source media format instead of real media and microsoft windows media? I'm not going to install any of those proprietary codecs. I don't like them, I don't trust them and I highly doubt that their picture quality is higher.
Thought I was in for a little Underdog meets Waterworld! One can only hope...
Seriously guys, do you think if anybody at the studios or anywhere else thought this movie was even the least bit good, that they would be giving exclusive trailer rights to some online website that most of us have never even heard of?
Take it from me, the fact it's like this, is pretty good warning to keep away from the movie.
Or you can waste the minute of my life like I did watching it, and see for yourself what good fun there is.
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If you wanna watch it under Linux, you can use mplayer, which will play straight in mozilla if you have the mozilla-mplayer plugin.
:-)
Or if you wanna save it onto your HD you can view the HTML source and pick out the URL. Get the asx file with wget. Then take the mms:// link that is in there and feed it to MMS client.
These (mozilla plugin, mplayer, mmsclient) are all available as Debian packages.
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Vampires and werewolves fighting a secret war against a modern backdrop? Zeitgeist and angst? If I were the produces of the World of Darkness pen&paper roleplaying games series, I think I'd be rather annoyed. This film seems to have stolen most of its premise lock, stock and barrel.
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You can watch it full screen and not in the matchbox in the web page
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Looks like a shameless attempt to cash in on the success of both Blade and The Matrix at the same time. Pearl Harbor doesn't seem to have done much for Kate Beckinsale's acting career. . . gee, there's a shock. Might not be as bad if she looked a bit better wearing a tight leather suit - from the trailer, I don't think she'll be replacing Trinity in any geek fantasies.
This one has "no advance screenings" written all over it.
who does the trailer music?
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DUDE! Rock ON! Werewolves? Vampires? Hot tits and ass? YES!
Seriously guys, lighten up a little... it's a bunch of eyecandy. Explosions, jumping 80 feet in the air, car chases, sex... Christ, whaddya want, a plot? You watch this movie on the level you watch a porno. Don't cheapen it by looking for more.
VAMPIRES! WEREWOLVES! YES YES YES! RAWR KILLING YESSSS!!! BLOOD BLOODY BLOOD BLOOD TITS!
See guys... doesn't it feel good to bring yourself down an intellectual notch for 2 hours of your life? It won't kill you, and it may get you laid.
By the way... watch Ronin. Another terrible movie, but it has the best car chase scene ever. Ever. Oh, and The Musketeer. Awesome swordfights, awful movie. As a matter of fact, just fast-forward through both of them to get to the good parts.
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Seriously, the more new movies come out, the less I care. They're all boring and derivative anyway. Stolen plots, cardboard characters, and they only rely on some special effects to draw in the crowds.
And ironies of ironies, the MPAA is one of the organisations fighting against people making derivatives. Perhaps after a hundred years of strong copyright they might finally start making original movies again. Too bad I'll be dead...
Sigh. It seems the old philosopher was right: there is nothing new under the sun.
Mart"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
thanks for the pointer.
The mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy hack wasn't working too well.
Look kids, it's retreaded NOUN: THE GERUND! Now with 50% more Matrix-style anime action!
Get off your high-horse, artsy-fartsey soapboxes and enjoy a movie for a change!
This looks like it might be a fun movie. I don't want to pay to see what the real world looks like, I want action and fantasy.
Yes, like just about any movies produced in the next few years, it borrows from a few recent movies:
The Crow.
Blade.
Matrix.
Queen of the Damned.
And any other Goth/Vampire/Techno/Action flick.
But they were all a fun ride. If done well, this may be good too.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
I can't believe the lame stunts that we've seen 20 times before: the ol' punch through the roof of the car and the ol' shoot a circle through the floor (The Fifth Element and even, I think, Bugs Bunny).
Wasn't that big leap off the building done in The Crow, too?
Gee, and that ol' mortals caught in between a super-war is trés Highlander and even Terminator.
It's one thing to watch a movie and condemn it as derivative; it's another to watch the trailer and be able to voice the same complaint.
The website for the movie basically sends us to the trailer and not much else... I do recall in my table top RP days that White Wolf's world generally had vampires and wear wolves against each other. I'm curious if this movie is based on that world or not. Not like it will make my decision or any thing. Give me a movie with hot vampire chicks in skin tight leather like material with lots of voilence and I'm there. I'm just curious about the movie's origins.
OK, the Mary Poppins crack is maybe a bit out of line, but look at the jump she does early in the trailer. It looks like she's skipping through the puddles. That straight legged landing looks like it was produced by the Mary Poppins Flight Simulator(tm).
I like Kate Beckinsale as much as the next guy (probably more actually), but I don't see her as an action star. Maybe they should've gotten the Jurassic park graphics team to model her for the action sequences.
And to all those that say in response to critical posts, "Lighten Up. It's just a movie. Noone made you watch the trailer.", I say, "Lighten up. It's just a critical post. Noone made you read someone else's critical post."
Thank you to all the critical posters out there. I'll probably end up seeing this film despite my misgivings, but having it ripped beforehand keeps my expectations low, which increases the chances that I'll actually enjoy it when I see it.
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The guy writes one of the best books of the past 50 years (called "Underworld") and they take the title (which they're allowed to do, of course) and make a friggin werewolf movie out of it. Oh well. I just hope too many literature snobs don't go see the movie expecting something it's not :)
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
So, how many ways can you retell Romeo and Juliet?
See http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/underworld/ for what I'm talking about.
Michael C. Hollinger
this will be popular with the Angel and Buffy crowd I am sure. Maybe it will also be full of pointless kung-fu fights. I love hollywood fighting, as it tries to make the viewer not say, "hmmm, if they are fighting to the death in a tactical battle situation then why all the fancy footwork and bullshit moves?" Hollywood fighting is very realistic if a) your opponent will fight just like you and b) you have no real point in fighting but the fighting itself. Hmmm, wouldn't hollywood just be better served wrapping a story around kickboxing and pitfighting? Oh no! But these are VAMPIRES... ooooooooooooooooh
Is it a really expensive epic involving Kevin Kostner?? That'd rule.
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Cool...i think....hmmmm.....
Be worth buying off the 6.49 rack at Wal Mart.....
When there were several pulp magazines dealing with Vampires vs Werewolves and underground societies etc .. This isn't anything UNIQUE that they came up with...
It looks like the dialogue goes something like this:
Wolfeus: "Take the red pill and you turn into a warewolf. Take the blue pill and you turn into a vampire...and I show you just how deep this vampire hole goes."
Gothic-Neo: "Woah!"
The pitch to get this shit made probably went something like, "Ok, it's The Matrix meets Buffy meets Romeo and Juliet meets Ishtar!"
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http://EnterTheUnderworld.com
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All these comments about this film being "yet another matrix rip off"... ever considered the fact that the matrix effects are a direct take on some of the eastern greats? Films *like* Iron Monkey and Crouching Tiger were around long before the matrix.
This film is just another western interpretation of eastern film styles. And like 90% of hollywood productions now it's going to be anther fun popcorn flick.
"Ok, it's The Matrix meets Buffy meets Romeo and Juliet meets Ishtar!"
:-) Though, to be fair, "Romeo and Juliet" was hardly an original plot even in Wm. Shakspere's time...
Well, I guess time will tell on that. I assume you mean "It'll have super action and FX, star-crossed lovers, and IT'LL SUCK." Funny
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I had the great fortune of taking a class in college on Vampire mythology (very cool class) and one of the really interesting revelations is that the mythology of the vampire and the mythology of the werewolf have the same roots. Many hundreds of years ago, and in many culture across the globe, the two were the same beast.
I only probably hoping beyond hope, but it would be fantastic if this movie would reference that somehow. It would be almost like H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, where humans evolved in two branches, the Elois and the Morlocks.
(well, maybe mythological creatures don't take as long to evolve -- or maybe they simple evolve at the same rate as the myths that are based on them)
well, it would be cool anyway...
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The great Don Delillo book this movie is based on.
Does anyone know the name of the song & band that does the song in the trailer?
It's also used in the "Time & Tide" trailer - a pretty good Hong Kong action movie by Tsui Hark. Check it out.
~kyoorius
So I just watched the trailer and it looks like this is yet another gigantic steaming turd squeezed out of Hollywood's goatse.cx-sized anus, but I realized that there's a huge opportunity here that geeks should be jumping up and down for.
The lines for this movie at theaters across the country will consist of little but scrawny, pasty-faced goth kids who think they're actually vampires. Compared the Auschwitz-chic of these little twigs, geeks look like Charles fucking Atlas.
So hang out in front of your local cinema on September 19th, geeks -- you'll finally have the chance to be on the giving end of an asswhipping!
This lacks Everything Everything.
There's a Vampire crossover supplement to Paranoia. They refer to the original as Game: the Subtitle.
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Sad thing when people in hollywood see a good idea. The rip it off over and over untill it becomes a punch line in a comedy. See bullet time.
Looks like the new matrix will blow away cheap movies like this by moving to the next level of effects.
Underworld!: The MUST RENT movie of the year!!
A high quality 15 megabyte Quicktime version is avalible here.
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It is a movie of Vampire: The masquerade.
Either its with their blessing or not, its still looking like it will be shit.
- Sword/thunder sound effects during opening cuts : Lord of the Rings
- Girl in shiny skin tight leather : Matrix
- And black trench coat : Matrix
- Shooting straight armed in subway with tiled walls : Matrix
- Bad guys running into hallway with guns and aiming at empty wall : Matrix
- Girl on top of building surveying the city : Ghost in the Shell
- Surveying the GOTH city : Vampire Hunter D
- Same girl jumping off of tall building : Ghost in the Shell (except she has clothes on)
- And landing hard and walking away : Just about any Anime.
- Wolf things crawling on walls : Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Straight arm face hit which flips the opponent 270 degrees : Matrix
- Character running way faster than humanly possible : Matrix
- And jumping on a car and stabbing through the roof : Many movies. Didn't they do that in Blade?
The only thing missing is the slow motion dive away from the expanding fireball. Looks like a typical Hollywood movie.Are the directors/producers THAT stupid to think that most people will see the similarities IN JUST THE COMMERCIAL!!!
Oh yeah...and Kate Beckinsale looks H-O-T in patent leather....hubba hubba....
The writers of The Real Ghostbusters (yeah, remember that cartoon?) should be pissed. A war of vampires vs werewolves?
I seem to remember an episode called No one comes to Lupusville that features that same story.
White Wolf seems to have stolen most of its premise lock, stock and barrel.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
hi-res quicktime version direct download
Yeah, seen parts of this trailor three times before before. 50% from The Matrix trailor and 30% from the X-Men trailor and another 20% from the X-2 trailor.
::yawn::
Seems too little too late to me!
Damn, can I add another 10% somewhere for The Crow?
You could not pack the depth into a movie.
I would perfer the did WW and had the werewolves kick ass.
FTR: best vampire movie: "Love at first bite."
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...but I'm 90% positive it was on the soundtrack for The Jackal.
Damned good CD, too, as I remember.
Either that or The Matrix, which would make much more sense. :D
I personally will go see both of these, but I wonder why in hell the makers of UnderWorld would be putting out a movie in the same timeframe of the third Matrix film. Do they not know they can't compete?
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This movie was filmed in Budapest, and much of that took place within a few blocks of my house. One night I got to lean out my living room window and watch them slide a new Maserati around on the wet cobblestones for about 3 hours until they finally pitched the car into the wall of a building and had to wrap for the evening.
They had a great artificial torrential downpour, too!
I am willing to bet 2000 Forints that watching the movie being made was much more fun that watching the final product in the theater!
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