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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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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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looks crap. overly loud, pointless hollywood drivel...
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.
BitTorrent would be good, and preferably not in a propietary format...
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
You can grab mms:// urls with MMS Client or feed it straight to mplayer, which will stream it.
Cheers!
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hummm, vampires and werewolves... Vampire: The Masquerade anyone?
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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...
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 =)
Thought I was in for a little Underdog meets Waterworld! One can only hope...
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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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.
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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.
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i was thinking about the same stuff when i first read the post, but the name used for werewolfs are diffrent then whats in white wolfs books, and i dont think white wolf can claim copyright to the idea of vampires vs werewolfs:) (alltho they can try, usa is the land of lawsuits afterall)
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thanks for the pointer.
The mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy hack wasn't working too well.
Umm... if you whink White Wolf invented werewolves and vampires, you really need to take a little trip to your local library...
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I'd recommend ASFRecorder when it works. That file includes a Win32 binary and the .c source which can be compiled thusly:
e o/trailer/trailer_high.asx
o rld/underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf
1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8178af967e03faf187bef64d63 baedd52c02489fb72e153bf23/underworld_m480.mov/a?
gcc asfrecorder.c -o asfrecorder
And then just:
asfrecorder http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworld/vid
With mplayer it isn't quite as easy to capture streamed data:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf mms://agency2wm.fplive.net/agency/2/2/film/underw
Of course, if you're using mplayer/xine, you might find the Quicktime version a bit better:
wget http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/1373e4e8b18d05/
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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.
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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.
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Actually, the disconnect between vampires and werewolves has been explored before...I remember an episode of Ghostbusters (the cartoon based on the movie characters) that explored a similar theme.
White Wolf does not have a monopoly on the supernatural.
Besides, the enimies in the two games were different...Vampires were mostly against themselves, and Werewolves were warriors of gaia fighting against its corruption.
I guess we'll have to see how the plot shakes out...
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Thank you for that, the world is a much better place for that....
Somebody get my 12 gauge net so we can scoop this turd out of the gene pool.
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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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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.
My thoughts exactly. True, as others have posted, White Wolf does not have complete IP rights to the concept of Vampire VS Werewolves. That said, my first exposure to this movie was a couple weeks ago when a friend of mine who works on the Sony movie websites showed me the design concepts (I did not see any real movie content, this was all web marketing shit), my first thought, just based on the visuals, was "Is this a White Wolf movie?", and my second was "This looks like a real piece of shit, my god they'll make anything into a movie these days". Just my two cents.
"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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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.
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There's a Vampire crossover supplement to Paranoia. They refer to the original as Game: the Subtitle.
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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.Yeah. I mean, unless you've got the Sabbat acting as PENTEX enforcers in exchange for a fresh cup of blood every week, you're not exactly going to see much of a war between vampires and werewolves.
You might see a vamp get his fanged butt kicked if he tries to feed on a homid, but other than that...
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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.
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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.
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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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If they can get away with pretending that this guy isn't Vampire Hunter D, I think they'll be ok.
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They had a great artificial torrential downpour, too!
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I think there is a whole generation of folks who missed the vampire versus werewolf books and movies of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
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