I like vampire movies....some vampire movies. I also like Casino Royale, Poirot-series, The Scoop, The Sting, The Painted Veil...but that is not the point. I like some sort of variety.
The point is that i have found some serious movie mistakes....at least i find them serious....but you can decide it for yourself.
#1. Underworld 1.
There is always a great advantage in speaking a language which is not worldwide known. Speaking two languages like that, is swell.
At the beginning of the movie we can see a very pale Cate Beckinsale (as Selene) with blue eyes and latex outfit, standing on the top of a building in Budapest. After a short monologue she is getting involved into a fight , which takes place in the subway, between vampires and lycans a.k.a. werewolves. (Honestly i never knew that traveling by subway was so dangerous) A vampire dies, and the whole thing is not very subtle... Before the whole shooting begins she notices a young man. Love at first sight.
Later we see her uploading some photos to a notebook, instead of getting ready for the party. Looking at the photos she notices she notices some dark pixels and she identifies them as the guy from the subway (the advantages of the vampire-vision: you can see things on a photograph that are not even there). She clicks the "Search" button on Google (i suppose; as we can see that Google answers all of your questions) and she finds out where he lives. ( I don't have that kind of information about people i actually know and see on a daily basis, but it is OK)
Aaaaaand here is the first mistake: he's address is "Laktos János Street NR...." Laktos....doesn't exist in Hungarian. LakAtos....it does. Pay attention guys, it is not that hard to copy one name!
Second: we find out his name. Be prepared. his name is: Michael Corvin!!!!!!!!! MICHAEL CORVIN!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS????? If there is someone who knows anything about Hungarian history, they know that Mathias Corvin was one of the greatest kings of Hungary and Transylvania. (No, i am not trying to solve the eternal dilemma, if he was Romanian or Hungarian, that is not the point here!) I hope they were not trying to make this a romantic-historic-horror drama because it SUCKS! Why Corvin? Couldn't it be Calvin? Or Jones? Or whatever... The only historical vampires who are still allowed are Vlad Tepes a.k.a. Dracula and Elisabeth Báthory. That's it!
But Selene is not concerned about history as she has all the time in the world, and she goes to visit this human guy at home. After she "subtly" brakes into the house she takes a look at some photo albums, when she is disturbed by the poor Michael who has just arrived back home from work. And here is the next stupid thing! She asks him the following question: "Why are they after you?" The poor guy, of course, cannot answer, -not just because he is thrown at the wall by Selene who is holding him by his neck-, but more importantly: BECAUSE HE HAS NO IDEA!!!! He is just a young doctor who has never heard in his whole life anything about that vampires and lycans might actually be real and even if he knows he has been followed by lycans, he might not know WHY. Not his fault he hasn't been told!
Despite Selene's efforts, he is bitten by Lucian. (Michael Sheen who seems to be comfortable in playing mythological bad guys) In return of saving her life, she enlightens him about his injuries, she helps him escape from the other vampires, tells him that he is in the middle of a war between vampires and lycans and that he is going to turn into a lycan himself in 2 days. Well, i must admit, he takes all of these news pretty well. OK, he takes the VERY WELL, almost like he has wanted to become an immortal all of his life. Really, he is not scared, not shocked....just content. Brave soldier, good lad! C'mon....
After waking up an angry and dehydrated Bill Nighy (nobody likes to wake up too early) to prove that their chief vampire (Kraven) has formed an alliance with the enemy, she runs away to find Michael and help him. Isn't it lovely? They are saving each other's loves all the time....
Oh, by the way, when she is injured by Lucian... He stabs her into the shoulder with a knife or blade. She loses a lot of blood and passes out....as vampires mostly do after a blood loss.
After finding out the truth about her parents and Victor (Bill Nighy), she kills him. And here goes the 2nd episode.
#2. Underworld 2.-Evolution (sounds almost like Matrix)
Selene is still Selene and Michael is a hybrid. Cool. And while she is trying to get back to the castle to wake up their last remaining elder, Marcus, the first vampire there ever was, many things happen.
A very hungry Michael goes into a pub in the middle of the woods (!!!) to get something to eat, ignoring the fact that human food can and will make him sick. As he eats we can see some members of the Hungarian frontier police watching TV, when Michael appears in the news. And a very interesting thing happens: the police identifies Michael, while those who speak Hungarian might notice that the woman from the news, the announcer is NOT Hungarian (because she has a foreign accent), but the soldiers/police...they are. And on top of that, the clients look like they has arrived there a century ago. Wow.
It gets even worse, because later we can hear Selene speaking French. WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?????? Two different Hungarian accents, French....what comes next? And Alexander Corvinus lives on a ship, in a port. I hope they didn't intend it to be the sea, because Hungary has no sea. Period. It used to have a few hundred years ago, but not now.
And from vampire movies we move on to history-adventure-horror movies.
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