Review: Underworld (the film)
4:52pm, 12th October 2003
(Wrote this weeks ago. Don’t know why I didn’t post it. The film was probably so bad it wasn’t even worth writing a bad review of.)
Underworld is 100% shite. It wasn’t even bad enough to be entertainingly shoddy; it was just boring. All the bad bits of the Matrices, but aimed at goths, and crapper. About 20 people walked out.
It’s not bad like an MST3K’d film is bad. It’s bad like a one legged chair is bad; it’s pointless and useless, no matter how nicely it’s carved. The photography was OK, the sets were well built, etc., but there was just a screaming hollow emptiness where things like characters, acting, and dialogue should’ve been
It’s films like this that make me think obnoxious literature snobs are right: when you haven’t read/watched/listened to much, anything seems good. When you’ve read around a bit, you start to notice the truly original works which reveal supposedly new ideas for the cheap derivatives they really are.
If you like vampires and werewolves, play nethack instead.
“If you like vampires and werewolves, play nethack instead.” <– hahahaha. I just saw Kill Bill yesterday with lsd in leicster square, and its it entirely style without substance. This is a good thing. Unlike this film, which I would have probably walked away from being so bored, if I hadnt downloaded it, h0h0.
You minor warez baron!
BTW, are you putting the article URL in as your URL, or is this some horrible bug I didn’t anticipate?
Oh, I see now. Curses. Fixing.
Fixed.
What, no way for me to see all the comments, and have a cookie based ‘highlight the ones i havent seen before’ page? :) *whip crack*
Er, time lol.
I find cookies displeasing. However! It’s a legitimate feature request. Easy, but time consuming. /2003/recent/ should point to the last ~20 comments.
that’ll do, forget the cookies. Although it doesnt work! :( http://james.lab6.com/2003/recent/ gives your amusing 404 page, but the 28th feb link it broken, pointing to /2003/03/31 and saying 404!
/2003/recent/ *should* point to the last 20 comments, but doesn’t, because I haven’t done it yet :)
Feb/march was when I started working on the blog scripts, but I never actually got anything done until July when the holidays had started. 404 page amended.
Well i thougth it was a brill film to go and see because like me i like vampires and werewolves so if you did not like it why did you go an see it…
> if you did not like it why did you go an see it
On the one hand, how can you know whether you’ll like anything unless you try it? On the other hand, the adverts and previews looked bad, so I should’ve known better. I just went with a load of people who wanted to see *something*.