Underworld Awakening

[hossdelgado]

Kate Beckinsale or Anna Silk from Lost Girl?

I got Kate by a large margin..

http://youtu.be/lxRyDKn3Hpw

 

[WolfCypher]

Its funny you mention Lost Girl. I JUST (only a minute before coming back to this thread) read about this show for the 1st time. I go read up on it, then come back here, and the 1st new post mentions LG. Weird.

 

[Destructus86]

I liked the story and the whole concept behind this film better than the previous films.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Just got back from seeing it again. each viewing gets better... I still prefer if the super lycan would have looked like William from UW:E. That would have been badass and all kinds of scary. Still wish the movie was a little longer though. I'm always touched by the scene between Selene and Eve when they talk about Michael. I really felt something there... "My heart is not cold, it's broken," is my fave line next to "Running is not survival,"

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Kate Beckinsale or Anna Silk from Lost Girl?

I got Kate by a large margin..

http://youtu.be/lxRyDKn3Hpw

Kate Beckinsale all the way, baby. Vroom vroom!! *shoots at a Lycan* Hells yeah.
oh Selene

 

[WolfCypher]

I personally liked the way the super-lycan turned out, visually. I always disliked that Lycans came off extremely sinewy (or is it stringy?) with orangutang-like limbs and had almost no fur on them. That's...dumbish to me. Wolves have fur. These are werewolves. Not were-naked mole rats. Willaim from UW:E was definitely closer to what I had imagined all the lycans should have looked like from the start. I liked his visual for what it was, but I prefer here what we got, super-lycan, CGI or otherwise.

But its all cool. You like this, I liked that. What's important is that we're having a broment.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Who else plans on seeing it again??

 

[Bastila]

Who else plans on seeing it again??

def! tomorrow night at the IMAX!

Also I like the scene she has with Eve and her heart etc, nice moment.

off topic, lost girl isnt a bad show I've been watching it but Dyson in it is aka super Lycan from Underworld!

It has a link to this thread now, his also a wolf in that show too!

 

[#1Batmanfan]

just saw it and i liked it a lot!

 

[Primal Slayer]

Just saw it and I liked. Not as good as 1&3 but still highly enjoyable. Im glad that they found a way around not having Scott back as Michael though it obviously influenced the movie but hey they did a good job of having Michael around without using him that much so you barely notice the stand in the had for him.

But I wish the bad guys could be as smooth as Lucian. Even though its not that big of a deal I didnt like the whole father/son thing they had going on. The main Lycans are father/son, the main vamps are father/son. I also thought that the big bad giant wolf actor couldve passed as Lucians son. I wouldnt be surprised if he had some offspring out there.

Also wish they couldve brought back some familar death dealers from the first film and hope we see a new wave of them if we get another movie.

If they ever get to properly end this franchise or just need to end Beckinsales run, they should just have them come full circle and become the new Elders. That way we can have Selene and Michael go into hibernation and have Eve/New Vamp guy take over.

And as I have said before, they really should try to make this into a tv series. It would make a great fit for the CW.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

hmm I like the idea of Selene as an Elder. Sounds rather hawt. MMMM... oh yeah baby. lols.

 

[WolfCypher]

I'm seeing this again tomorrow, 3D.

 

[Primal Slayer]

hmm I like the idea of Selene as an Elder. Sounds rather hawt. MMMM... oh yeah baby. lols.

lol and then they dont have to worry about killing her off and can have her come back if needed.

 

[Jordacar]

hmm I like the idea of Selene as an Elder. Sounds rather hawt. MMMM... oh yeah baby. lols.

I do too. That's kinda where I thought it might go after the end of UW2; Selene and Michael beat out the Corvinus bros to become the new king & queen of the immortals.

I'd also say they came up with probably the best story possible where Michael doesn't do ****, but without dropping a bus on him.

 

[Lasirius]

Just came back from it, it was alright. The 3D looked downright silly and cartoonish so I saw half of the movie without the glasses on.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I kind of wish that Eve would have an accelerated age so we could just get her to adult form and be done with it and see her as kick ready as her mum is. Then Eve and David could have their thing and we wouldnt have to worry about any new love interest.

 

[Lasirius]

^Potential story for the sequel right there.

 

[Primal Slayer]

You know what was missing from this one? A flashback. A flashback with the elders and the old times.

 

[actionavenue]

Haven't seen it yet, but own the previous films and have enjoyed them. This looks like a great entry into the franchise. I don't know if I have a need to see it in 3D. Beckinsale knows how to fill out a leather suit and she is an above average actress. Oh Yeah!

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Vapor]

Saw it last night and enjoyed it but found it... somehow lacking. Good and enjoyable but not as good as the 1st.

The overall direction and action was handled well and I liked the step up in gory kills. I liked the idea of some lycans being left to go 'feral' and the Super Lycan was pretty cool too. I also liked the look of the lycans more in this one compared with the past films. The story was alright.. as a continuation and fast forward, it worked but it (the pacing of the film/story) felt rushed IMO. It kinda felt like there was no real middle to the film, you know.. [blackout]she gets caught and froze and escapes and before you know it and really get any proper sense of what's going on, she's making her assault on Antigen and clearing up.[/blackout]

Part of what makes the original good is that Lucian is such a great and likeable character/villain (it's helped that he's played by Michael Sheen). Even though the lycans are the 'bad guys' you can imagine watching Underworld from their point of view with Lucian as the main character and you would see the vampires as the bad guys.. (oppressing the lycans and wanting Michael to use him to wipe out the lycans once and for all)

Whereas in the 4th, they're not really that fleshed out, not really that likeable (as characters) and are portrayed as more straight up villains with regular kind of 'villain motives'. I guess the answer to this would be that it's a different Lycan clan with different plans but it was just a bit of a shame I thought, to lose that kind of 'neither good nor bad' dynamic. I also thought, based on the trailers and the opening dialogue of the film that the humans were gonna be the main villains, with the vampires and lycans potentially teaming up... so maybe 'cos I was expecting that, that might be why it didn't quite work for me.

The worse bit of the film, for me though, was the 3D.. Except for a couple scenes, it just wasn't that noticeable IMO. The fight scene in the coven where David has his chain whip out, where Selene jumps over the fire and the 3D effects on the silver nitrate gas in the air looked alright but for the most part, I didn't even get a sense a depth.. I might as well have been watching it in 2D really.

I'm not sure if it's 'cos it was a conversion or not but it was just a bit of a poor do on the 3D front really... the 3D trailer for John Carter looked fantastic, by comparison.

 

[Jordacar]

When the Lycans revert to human after getting killed...was that a thing in the previous films? I don't remember Tanis's bodyguards reverting after Selene & Michael took them out.

 

[WolfCypher]

That was not a thing. Awakening is the first movie in this franchise to go that route. Even here, it happens infrequently. Many lycans die, only about...two change back to humans after.

 

[marvelman2006]

So I see everyones giving there reviews and thought Id chime in after just seeing it tonight.

Theres a bunch of stuff I liked and stuff I didn't.

I liked:

- Seeing Selene back in butt kicking mode after taking a movie off.
- The action scenes were all top notch.
- The super lycan was handled better then I thought it would have been.
- The Idea of humans targeting both clans.
- The 3D was handled nicely and the night shots looked good.


What I didn't like:

- No michael and don't think for a second scott speedman isn't getting a check for using his likeness.
- Mentioning how lycans were looking for a cure to Silver but ultimately just tossed it to the side when they should have stuck with that as an interesting idea.
- The mother daughter thing was ok but it didn't really go that smoothly or explained very well, considering Selene didn't look pregnant at the beginning.
- The CGI was a bit spotty in certain scenes involving tons of lycans at once.
- Making Lycans ultimately pure evil and controlling the humans and using them to hunt vampires.
- Not a long enough run time in my opinion, the story felt like it was about to take off and then ended.
- No michael at all and you can clearly tell they wanted him in the movie but I don't know if speed man held out for more money.
- The main head vampire being a total *****.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Im seeing it again tomorrow. yay ness.