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Now, watching this came about by accident cos I thought Netflix had restarted Underworld, whereas I knew I had 40 mins til the end. So I pressed play, fast-forwarded through to the -40m mark, and then rewound back through again cos I didn’t recognise anything… only to find I’d clicked on this sequel instead of…
Nice bit of fairly mindless vampire action nonsense here, with a suitably arcane backstory – albeit somewhat odd to think of Bill Nighy as an ancient vampiric lord once you’ve seen About Time. I think my subconscious interest in this came about from reading that it was on this film Kate Beckinsale met Michael Sheen…
What a weird film! I think we got drawn into this by seeing Alexander Skarsgard on a chat show and selling the idea so fully. And yet when you watch it you find yourself thinking, “Well, this isn’t what I thought this was going to be”. Great prodiction values for an epic story – however…
Nowhere near as bad as people might have you believe. Nostalgia’s a funny thing, though. Seeing a film make a nod to a TV show or film series seems reasonable, but seeing a slightly self-indulgent film making a nod to a single earlier film… maybe that’s not it/why. Not awful, but fine. Although I don’t…
I’ll confess to only having seen about 40% of this, through a combination of drifting in & out of sleep on a flight, and being interrupted by the flight having to land. It seemed like a lot of fun though – combining a story from my childhood (including some tangible memories of certain sections of…
It’s the third… aaaaah, OK then. You can go into tedious detail about Jackson taking licence with Tolkien’s magnum opus, but there’s no denying that this trilogy is a masterpiece of ambition and scale, and that there’d never been anything quite like it – and I’m hard pressed to think of anything since. It’s gotten…
It’s the second bit of Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
It’s Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
Confession time: I’d never seen this end-to-end. Turns out I’ve seen it all in fits & bursts over the years (commencing with a run at it at Martyn Symons’ house when I was about 14 – around the same time I discovered Spinal Tap, but hadn’t yet “got it”)… and of course a film that’s…