Underworld Rise of the Lycans

**nubious81** · 10/23/2008 21:34:26

quicktime.com/trailers realsed the Teaser trailer for the new prequel wich starts the war with the warewolfs and Vampires this comes out in January and i have to say as a fan of the first two this looks pretty intresting

heres the link http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_...ycans/high.html

**Outlaw**

a prequel eh? nice

**Tesma**

Yay! I cant wait for this to come out I loved the other Underworld Movies.

**cookie1017**

oh good, I like this movie franchise!

**GoDGiVeR**

The trailer is cool, but why the max payne soundtrack >_<

**exsuscito**

Looks pathetic. Evolution was only the second movie I've walked out on, it was that good.

**byond**

Kate Beckensale is my dream goddess. *Drool*

privaronT

You know I really liked 1 when it came out but honestly the whole Michael as a hybrid hero never had me hooked. I saw the movies for the vampires warewolfs and fight scenes. Im really hoping a prequel goes back to basics and makes a full out brawl film instead of focusing on a corny love story.

**Brommerz77**

No Kate Beckinsale takes away the pretty much only watchable aspect of this. Making a third movie is overkill.

Ingus · 10/24/2008 11:48:38

Brommerz77 wrote:

No Kate Beckinsale takes away the pretty much only watchable aspect of this. Making a third movie is overkill.

Rhona Mitra makes a nice fit

Anyways... I've never been a fan of Vampires and Werewolves fighting each other with guns.... so showing the war in a prequel may draw me in SMILEY

**imax**

I have no idea why people like these movies so much. The 1st one was not bad, but nothing great, and just /meh to the rest...

guess its a emo goth thing.

**MatrixRefugee**

The first one had a lot of nice eyecandy, the second one was eh to say the least; when they got away from the gritty urban gothic setting when they filmed it in Budapest (for the first one), it didn't look as nice. Only thing good about UW 2 was the opening section set in the medieval era. Sure, it looked like Lord of the Rings with vampires and werewolves, but it was cool; I hope they do more of this with number 3.

**Asna**

I *loved* the first movie. I was always a fan of vampires and have played Vampire: The Masquerade for years, and yes Underworld was a fairly transparent "adaptation" of the White Wolf vampire mythos. (There was even a lawsuit about it at the time.) But Underworld brought plenty of its own original creativity to the scene, as well as a very beautifully crafted symbiology, if you cared to look for it.

Something that was quickly apparent to me was the dichotomy of vampire/feline/female to lupine/canine/male tension that these two species will always share; they are both weaker species without the other, but they cannot coexist without conflict. I loved all the ways they portrayed vampires as catlike, whereas the lupine/canine overlaps were naturally more conspicuous. And they REALLY nailed the complexities of Kindr--oops, I mean vampire politics and intrigue. I loved the subplot of Erika's infatuation with Craven and her two-faced duplicity while pretending to be Selene's friend. She was dangerously ambitious, very politically aware .. the kind of character I loved playing in V:tM. That's the kind of stuff that hooked me on Masquerade.

I also loved the art direction in the film, and both Bill Nighy and Kate B were perfect for their roles. (Bill Nighy was SO Ventrue. I loved him. Looking forward to the third movie to see more of him.) Something I particularly found amusing was that Kate had a great deal of weapons training for the role, much more than Carrie-Anne Moss got for her role in the Matrix. I believe it was mentioned somewhere in the commentary that Kate got to be so comfortable firing her weapons that she trained herself not to blink at the muzzleflashes, whereas the Matrix characters wear sunglasses at all times, even indoors, which helpfully covers up the actors' blinking.

The second movie wasn't as good as the first one (because it had less intrigue and more Lara Croftian adventure type stuff. Which is okay, made for a watchable flick. Pity about the silly Hollywood ending though, and what was up with that shamefully obvious miniature of Corvinus' boat?

/as

privaronT

I strongly disagree as someone whos a huge fan of White Wolf and who to this day holds Vampire Bloodlines as one of his top three RPGs of all time I dont think Underworld remotely did it any justice. Maybe the scenes with the vampires and the mansions and the various clans but other than that I suppose I just dont feel it was as cool.

The great thing about Vampire Masquerade is the truley unique differentiations between the clans.

**TonyJaa** · 10/24/2008 20:01:23

The first movie was "Meh" and the second one was "Boooooooooooo"....So in other words,i think i'll pass!!