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Underworld Trailer

Posted by michael on from the early-morning-fun dept.

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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  1. Kate Beckinsale.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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?

  2. Lame dialogue by DoctorFrog · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The trailer's dialogue is lame beyond belief. "I am a death dealer... for centuries my kind have waged a hidden war against the Lycans (tm)..."

    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.

    1. Re:Lame dialogue by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah, my first thought was, "Oh, vampires and werewolves... yeah, that's #&^%#*ing original."

      Looks like another example of 94 minutes of padding used to extract a 2 minute trailer and snatch enough ticket sales to break even before word-of-mouth gets out.

      Yawn is right.

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    2. Re:Lame dialogue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Probably because the whole "wolf" connection is tenuous at best. The term for a person that becomes an animal-- wolf or otherwise-- is "lycanthrope." So "lycan" is a perfectly reasonable colloquial abbreviation.

  3. White Wolf should be pissed by Glyndwr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    In other news, it appears even /. itself is now slashdotted. Marvellous.

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  4. Nothing new under the sun by mvdwege · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Hollywood Business Plan:

    1. Rip off the plot from Romeo and Juliet again.
    2. Rip off the setting from White Wolf's World of Darkness.
    3. Profit?

    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
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