Queen of the Damned (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Please don't waste your time
Review: I'll keep this review short since most of the extreme dissapointment I felt towards this movie has already been expressed. Anne Rice is absolutely one of my favorite authors. Her books are seductive and simply wonderful, which - quite frankly - this movie is not. I felt that the film redition of The Queen of the Damned was completely miserable in comparison to the extraordinary book. If you are thinking about seeing or buying this movie, please do yourself a favor: DON'T. Read the book which is exceptionaly written and will leave you utterly satisfied, which is something this movie never could.

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Summary: WEEEEEEOOOOOOOPLOPY!!!!!
Review: That, dear elves, or effing elveis as you're not often know in these parts, they hate the old as you'll see....

Is the sound of this filmy wilmy falling in the basin like a fat poop. Uh did i say basin???? i missed the basin , seepage overlord prevented me from achieving my shakkka by locking the loo-bog. uhhhHHHHHHHHHHH poopy in the pantas, which leaves me to say that it stinks like an hour of my time which was spent sniffing this anal seepings which wormed out of that actress ynwi or whatever the bugf she's called. Effing elves?????


EFFING ELVES over and out
BEEB

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Summary: good story line but the movie is alright
Review: interview was hel of alot better but this story line is much cooler in queen of the damned.

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Summary: There are some good & BAD things about this movie...
Review: Well...just let me get the negative out of the way first. First of all this movie is not true to the book. I have never seen such a chopped up plot in my life! Magnus made Lestat, not Marius! Jesse was portrayed as a lovesick waif, not a grad student. The actual story did not make sense to me. There was just not enough depth in the storyline to satisfy me. Aaliyah's performance (God bless & RIP!) was so-so, but her character was only in the last 30 minutes! Am I wrong, or wasn't her character supposed to be the MOTHER OF ALL VAMPIRES???? And why in the world didn't she put up a bigger fight when the other vampires ganged up on her?!?!??? Why did she make herself so vulnerable by offering Lestat blood in front of the other vamps??? If she was the Queen of the Damned, why was she so stupid? Didn't she know that Lestat was using her? Aw come on now! The name of the movie should have been called "The Vampire Lestat", "Lestat's Ticked Off!""Lestat has Fun Ticking off his fellow Vampires!" or "Lestat & Friends Gang Up on the Queen of the Damned!", or something like that! :-) But all kidding aside, the movie was not as scary as the trailer made it out to be; it looked like one long MTV video.

Now for the good things....I think Stuart Townsend did a wonderful job portraying Lestat as a rock star...especially during the concert scenes & the bonus videos...the music is dark & brooding. He did a great job portraying Lestat as an angry vampire tired of the prospect of being alone for eternity. The fight scene where the vamps rush the stage, a little comic relief there as Lestat just lops off one vamp's head. I did get a little laugh from Akasha's little rampage in the club & the way she just sashayed out the the club as it went up in flames. Vincent Perez did a wonderful job portraying the out of touch Marius. Overall, this movie could have been better, but it still had it's good points!

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Summary: this vampire tale rocks!
Review: i want to say that i refused to watch "queen of the damned" for the past couple of years because i was so afraid of how bad it was supossed to be. the trailer for this film does it no justice, and the amount of negative reviews, plus it seemed as if the whole 'vampire chronicles' was raped by these fimmakers, allegedly.
now, after finally letting curiosity get the better of me, i finally relented and bought a copy of "queen of the damned" on widescreen dvd. i won't bother w/ going into plot and/or characters, but i will state that this is the BEST vampire movie ever!! don't pay attention to other reviews, get this movie and make up your own mind. i'm sure you'll be glad that you did, especially if you're a fan of the 1st three novels by anne rice. sure, some things get left out, but my god it would take a 3-part mini-series just to tell "The Vampire Lestat", and another 4 or 6 hours for "The Queen Of The Damned". and a large part that was cut was just repetitive stuff to begin with. and, plus, now there's the chance to make an entire film about "the legend of the twins". that story is not dead (as some reviewers on amazon seem to think). just because it wasn't in this film doesn't mean it can't be used in another!
the filmakers of "queen of the damned" pieced together the most important aspects of the story that connected between two novels and ran with them and made an extraordinary masterpiece! vive lestat!! (and the dvd is SO loaded w/ bonuses that definetly make this a very worthwhile investment!)

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Summary: The plot and storyline was interesting, however, ...
Review: A very good movie. Although not true to the novel, the movie is well written and takes Lestat to a new level as a rock star. Lestat seem right at home with the goth culture. So, why only one star? Aaliyah proves that singers can not always cross over to acting. She does an embarrassingly poor performance as Akasha, the queen vampire. No one wants to say this because of her untimely and unfortunate passing, but Aaliyah was a terrible actress and single handedly brought the movie down from a solid 4 star rating to a one star rating. Her pathetic performance was laughable and certainly not worthy of being in any movie. She should have stuck with singing.

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Summary: Movie Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend, thumbs up
Review: Being a fan of Ann Rice's books I didn't think I would enjoy this movie very much only because a lot of movies slaughter the story that the book set. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed this movie. They have great effects with fire in the bar scene which was very incredible looking. If you like movies about vampires or even hard rock music I suggest this movie.

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Summary: Queen of the Damned
Review: The 2002 screen adaption of Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned" is a mood film. Stylish and dark, it serves its purpose well as a chilly late-night watch. Beyond that, the film is too empty and devoid of any emotion or substance. Stuart Townsend delivers a decent performance, but again not anything exceedingly impressive. The real standout is, obviously, Aaliyah in the title role, but the late singer (who died during production in a 2001 plane crash) doesn't appear until a good hour into the film. She doesn't do much acting- plenty of sexy moving, devilish looks- but she still manages to steal the film (which poses a problem right there). Not a straight-out horror film, not quite a suspense piece, "Queen of the Damned" is just another excuse for sets and costumes.

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Summary: The Queen of the Damned
Review:

After reading 587 reviews, I debated if I should even write one myself. Everything that could be said about the movie has been said already, the fallacies have been mentioned over and over.

The only thing I want to point out is that as an Anne Rice fan, I'm not so much outraged at the incredible lack of similarities between the movie and the book as I am sorrowful in knowing I will never see this beautiful story told on-screen the way it deserves.

I feel loss when I think of this movie, because I will never see Lestat portrayed as his true self: blonde, gorgeous, witty, full of himself . . . adorable.

I'll never see accurate portrayals of the characters I love so much.

I will never feel the emotion of watching as Maharet sees her long lost sister for the first time in thousands of years as Mekare finally comes to fulfill her curse on Akasha.

And to see The Legend of the Twins unfold on-sceen . . . sigh.

No, I didn't like the movie, but mostly my heart weeps for what could have been. They could have made million off this story - made it a Great movie deserving of an oscar nomination. Instead they settled for mediocre, and The Queen of the Damned will go down in history as just another vamp flick when it could have been a Masterpiece.

I'm gave this movie 3 stars, but here is my real opinion.

TQOTD As an adaptation of an Anne Rice book: Minus Five Stars

TQOTD As a Vamp flick: Three & a Half, maybe Four stars.


Joliette