Just got back from seeing this movie. Honestly it was a big meh.
To much failed character development and not enough vampire asskickery.
The whole time I was watching the movie I was like did the writer of this buy a bunch of Rifts rpg books and rip them off (the visual style).
The vampires looked like something from an H.R. Gegier painting.
Really not worth paying to see it in 3D.
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I'll note the orgainal graphic novels are -very- different that the moive. Only thing they really have in common is the title.
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Originally Posted by Stealth_Bomber
Anyone seen it yet? I had not really been interested until I saw the previews, and I picked up one of the prequel graphic novels. Now I think I want to see it.
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"And for us this is the end of all stories, and we can mostly say they lived happily ever after. But for them it was the beginning of the real story. All there life in this world and all there adventures in Narnia had only be the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of The Great Story which no one on earth has ever read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before" - C.S Lewis, The Last Battle.
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Rifts vampires don't look anything like H.R. Geiger though, what was the same?
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Originally Posted by Ahab001
Just got back from seeing this movie. Honestly it was a big meh.
To much failed character development and not enough vampire asskickery. The whole time I was watching the movie I was like did the writer of this buy a bunch of Rifts rpg books and rip them off (the visual style). The vampires looked like something from an H.R. Gegier painting. Really not worth paying to see it in 3D. |
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It comes highly recommended.
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I just got back from seeing Priest in 2-D. Since the Rotten Tomatoes rating was only around 18% or so, I went in to it with low expectations. It was nothing mind-blowing and it ripped-off a lot of other movies, but I actually kind of dug it a little bit.
Here is my recipe for a Priest "cocktail" -- add equal parts of Blade 2 and Equilibrium. Add a splash of The Searchers, and shake. Pour into a glass with twist of Mortal Kombat peel as garnish. Enjoy.
Also, there was one scene where I halfway expected a voice-over announcer to come in and say, "Kung Lao wins! FATALITY!"
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Not the vampires just the visual style of the world, the bikes, what little tech there was shown, the characters, it all just looked like Rifts' Wild West to me. The vampires looked like rip offs of Geiger or Resident Evil critters.
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Originally Posted by Halcyon_S
Rifts vampires don't look anything like H.R. Geiger though, what was the same?
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Doesn't surprise me, sounds like someone in Hollywood flipped through the manhwa, got a few ideas from it and spun a completely new story while licensing the name.
After all it's Hollywood that's looking to cast a 40 something white guy in the role of a teenage motorcycle gang member while keeping the name.
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It's an okay flick. Basically I see it as a SyFy quality flick with a budget big enough to do decent special effects.
Ahdunno, I thought it was okay. Action was good, and there was actually a plot and dialogue that wasn't too painful to hear, but my main complaint is the movie was waaay too short. It needed another 20-30 minutes to wrap up the story. They're obviously going for another try at a first-movie-in-a-franchise, but unless this thing does gangbusters overseas, there's no way it's going to make enough money. If they'd have treated the movie as a standalone and left it at that, well, wishful thinking and all.
I've seen some reviews comparing it to Daywalkers, but that movie -completely- fell apart after establishing the premise. Priest is solid the whole way through, I think, it's just a solid average good-looking-post-apocalyptic-jedi-vs-vampires-kung-fu-movie.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
Anyone seen it yet? I had not really been interested until I saw the previews, and I picked up one of the prequel graphic novels. Now I think I want to see it.
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