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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 is so amazingly exclusive that you can also watch it in quicktime at Apple.com
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It is so amazingly exclusive that you can also watch it in quicktime at Apple.com
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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.
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
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.
Cheers!
Costyn.
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~Berj
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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In other news, it appears even
You win again, gravity!
You can watch it full screen and not in the matchbox in the web page
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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'?
Umm... if you whink White Wolf invented werewolves and vampires, you really need to take a little trip to your local library...
"Eagles may soar, but weasels dont get sucked into jet engines."
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!"
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
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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There's a Vampire crossover supplement to Paranoia. They refer to the original as Game: the Subtitle.
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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.
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!
- Christian
Budapest, Hungary
"What's that watermelon doing there?" - Jersey