Aaargh!! I'm so sick and tired... by Khyron

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Aaargh!! I'm so sick and tired...

POSTED BY: KHYRON
UPDATED: Saturday, January 21, 2006 18:24
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:11 PM

... of seeing that bloody Underworld Evolution trailer! I don't even watch a lot of TV, but when I do, that trailer is in pretty much every single ad break! Makes me think about not even watching those few shows that I do watch, just to avoid seeing that awful trailer to what will probably be a pathetic-yet-successful movie.

Who are they marketing it to anyway? Probably the horny-teenage-male-who-thinks-all-English-chicks-sound-like-that-and-vampires-are-cool demographic. Now I'm starting to think that the shows I watch (Family Guy, Futurama, Daily Show) are maybe also geared to that demographic - I hope not, because I actually think those shows are quite clever at times (in their own respective ways), and I don't want to find stuff made for adolescents clever.

Had they spent 1/100th of the advertising budget that Underworld Evolution has on the marketing of Serenity (and done it properly), we would've already broken even by now.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:17 PM

OMELET

Totally agree. The first was OK at best. The sequal will probably suck. Unfortunately, my dad thinks its fantastic so family movie day will probably go see that instead of "New World" which I heard was very good.

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Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:32 PM

AERIN

I am embarassed to admitt that I really liked the first one and I'm looking forward to the second one. I actually enjoy the trailers. Vampires, werewolves, and NIN playing in the background. However, it does bring to my attention just how few Serenity trailers there were. Sigh.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:37 PM

OMELET

Quote:
Originally posted by Aerin:
I am embarassed to admitt that I really liked the first one and I'm looking forward to the second one. I actually enjoy the trailers. Vampires, werewolves, and NIN playing in the background. However, it does bring to my attention just how few Serenity trailers there were. Sigh.

I know! I didn't even see one single trailer for Serenity, but thousands of these trailers for Underworld are everywhere and Serenity is probably going to be the better movie.

I think I'm still going to see it anyways for my pop. He likes these type of movies.

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Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:49 PM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

"I am embarassed to admitt that I really liked the first one and I'm looking forward to the second one."

:::waves hand::::

Hi, My name is Colorado Companion and I liked Underworld....LOL

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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:05 PM

SIMONWHO

Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:

Serenity is probably going to be the better movie.

Probably? Probably?

*marches on Omelet's castle with pitchforks and flaming torches*

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:15 PM

OMELET

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:

Serenity is probably going to be the better movie.

Probably? Probably?

*marches on Omelet's castle with pitchforks and flaming torches*

Just kidding. Don't hurt me. I lied. Peace please. Serenity is the best gorram movie ever! Don't poke me with a pitchfork please

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Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:06 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

I watched the movie today more out of respect for the first one than any expectation it would be good.

It was good, let me repeat, good. Not great, not excellent, but neither was it bad nor mediocre. Hell of a lot better than I thought it would be based on the trailers.

I agree that they're over saturating the ads. Also in what I think is an odd move the local theater is cutting it close, the ending credits of one showing start ten minutes before the next showing starts. I'm told that you only do that when you think the movie will crash and burn fast.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:26 PM

CITIZEN

Quote:
Just kidding. Don't hurt me. I lied. Peace please. Serenity is the best gorram movie ever! Don't poke me with a pitchfork please

Angry Mob Member #1:Grrr! Kill the...
Angry Mob Member #2: Nope, we've been disbanded, total cock-up, misunderstanding see.
Angry Mob Member #1: What! WHAT!
*throws down pitchfork and torch*
That's it! How am I supposed to make a living as an Angry Mob Member if the mobs keep getting disbanded, I'm calling my union.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:28 PM

OMELET

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
Quote:
Just kidding. Don't hurt me. I lied. Peace please. Serenity is the best gorram movie ever! Don't poke me with a pitchfork please

Angry Mob Member #1:Grrr! Kill the...
Angry Mob Member #2: Nope, we've been disbanded, total cock-up, misunderstanding see.
Angry Mob Member #1: What! WHAT!
*throws down pitchfork and torch*
That's it! How am I supposed to make a living as an Angry Mob Member if the mobs keep getting disbanded, I'm calling my union.

Oh thank God, I'm not going to be killed by pitchfork. Didn't really want to go out that way.

Funny response by the way.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:30 PM

CYBERSNARK

Add me to the list of people who liked the first one, and plan to see this one when my schedule permits.

Sure, it's no Serenity, but then what is?

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:01 PM

GRIMJACK21502

I saw the first one...meh.

Did the original Underworld make any money? It shocks the hell out of me that movies like Underworld and Hellboy (which I sorta liked) get sequels put into immediate production while Serenity/Firefly sits on the sideline.

Did either of those movies bring in the revenue of Serenity (theatre + DVD sales)...no way...very confusing.

"And once you're gone, you can never come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black"
-Neil Young

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:28 PM

GWENHARKER

Underworld was pitched and bought as a trilogy (DVD Extra interview with Len Wiseman). So we can expect one more out of Underworld!verse.

I actually liked it. Not ashamed to admit it.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:35 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Quote:
Originally posted by GrimJack21502:
I saw the first one...meh.

Well I just loved the fact that it completely defied expectation, after all of the vampire and werewolf movies out there it was a refreshing change. Even Joss never had a supernatural character like Lucian, his motivation was completely real in all possible ways, his personality perfectly presented, his goals in a way that fit the two perfectly, and yet none of it was cliché nor was it expected.

Of course in the mythology of the movie Lucian isn’t supernatural, but you know what I mean.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:51 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

A little warning to those of you who saw the first movie and are going to the new one:

There are no werewolves acting on their own. There are some in the movie, but they never so much as utter a single word.

The first movie was the state of the world and the catalyst for change. This one is about the Corvenus clan. The next one, I assume, will be about what that change results in.

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:09 PM

PINBALLWIZARD

I only saw the first movie yesterday, and that was by chance. My friends were going to see the sequal in the theater, so they watched the first one while eating chinese

. I pretty much suffered through most of the movie, mostly because I was forbidon to make fun of it (my friends know me very well). The thing I couldn't wrap my head around the most, though was calling werewolves "lichens." What the flipping hell was that about?!!! I know some pretty stupid people, living at college and all, and I think even they could tell the difference between a man-wolf and a moss that grows on rocks.

Actually, I remeber my friends telling me that "lichen" was the latin equivalent for werewolf. They thought if people kept saying werewolf again and again, it would get annoying. That logic doesnn't follow; lichen is even more annoying, especially when the heros are being chased and they say something like "Look out! It's a lichen!" and I think to myself "No, you stupid

, it's a

WEREWOLF!!!

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Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:24 PM

MRSMACK

Lycan i.e... Lycanthrope

ly·can·thrope ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lkn-thrp, l-kn-)
n.
A werewolf.
A person affected with lycanthropy.

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[Greek lukanthrpos : lukos, wolf; see wkwo- in Indo-European Roots + anthrpos, man.]

Thought this was as good as the original. Thought Kate Beckinsale is exquisite.
Thought it pushed the story along well, while not really showing where the next would go.

I loved Serenity, but came out of it feeling drained. Came out of Underworld feeling pumped. Different movies, different so completely that they shouldn't ever be compared.

I just feel that by comparing stuff without ever seeing it, is not only stupid, it's sad.

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