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Summary: Where's Buffy when you need her?
Review: ... a big disappointment. ... Unfortuntly, Queen of the Damned is dull, boring, cheap, and unintentionally campy. It is frankly hideous. The storyline is a blending of both The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, and is very muddled and confusing. The special effects are cheap and silly and the whole thing has an air of campiness that is unfortuntly taking itself far too seriously. Supposedly emotional scenes, such as the one where Marius changes Lestat into a vampire, fall flat on their faces and end up being unintentionally funny. This is a really lame and sloppy movie. ... The script is bad too, very silly and dull. All of the characters deliver weighty pretentious dialogue that will bore the audience to tears. And why did every character in this movie look seedy, trashy and slutty? There wasn't one character in this movie who wasn't wearing black leather at some time or other.Lestat had no personality whatsoever. He was bland, boring, and seedy looking. All he done during this entire movie was whine and brood over being a vampire (sound familiar???), pout in a sexy manner at the camera while engaging in rock star cliches, drool over Jesse, kill slutty seedy looking groupies, and sing lousy Marilyn Manson sound-alike songs. He also speaks with a Hungarian accent (despite the fact that Lestat is French) that sounds vaguely like a Transylvanian "I vant to suck your blood" type accent. ... Townsend is just plain boring. He is NOT Lestat by any means. The other vampires don't fare much better. Marius is short haired and weak, Louis is nonexistent, Armand is played by a bizarre chubby cheeked, girly looking guy in a phony blonde wig. ... Akasha is in it for about ten minutes ... Everyone overacts horribly. ... I didn't think it was possible to make a boring vampire movie but Queen of the Damned has proved me wrong.
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Summary: Nothing Like the Book
Review: If you enjoyed Anne Rice's Books, and thought that you wanted to see the movie "based" on the book you will be very dissapointed. It was as if someone gave the writer a incomplete outline on what the book was like. No twins, no story on how the queen became damned, no historical story line what so ever, is just another vampire movie. It should be viewed in that light.
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Summary: You think you're smart,,,YOU"RE NOT!
Review: I give this movie 4 stars for the fact I'm an "Interview" fan. For what these actors and actresses had to work with, they did a splendid job. I'm also a vampire freak nasty kind of person anyways. This movie took me 3 viewings to appreciate, but in the end I'm in love with it now. The lady that plays the violin is the reason I love this movie, she is so BEAUTIFUL! Just buy it!
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Summary: Scary,Emotional Movie
Review: This movie was great althought If Had seen this in theaters I probably wouldnt have bought it but Im happy with my choice. Aaliyah was scary looking and made me feel she really was Queen of all vampires Lestat and her had good chemistry The guy that said you couldnt play it on an x-box is wrong I watched this on my x-box. I would have love for this movie too have been a lil longer, They kind of cut and paste everything like they could have showed akasha killing all the people in the world and that girl that plays the human girl did a good job I dont scare easily and this had me Shaking a lil it was a great story told watch this at night and it'll feel even more scarier the reason it gets 4 stars is for not being longer. Great movie and put together decently.
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Summary: Great music by Korn's Jonathan Davis; Townsend fabulous!
Review: To begin with, Interview With the Vampire is my favorite movie of all time, and I thought Tom Cruise was wonderful as Lestat de Lioncourt. When I first saw the trailer with Stuart Townsend in the role, I thought, "Who is this guy? What were they thinking to choose him?" Nonetheless, since I love the Vampire Chronicles, I just had to see the movie anyway no matter how terrible I thought Townsend would be in it. When I saw the movie, I finally realized why Townsend had been cast. He was absolutely fabulous as Lestat. He seemed more natural in the role than Tom Cruise had (though still great). He brought to Lestat the beauty and sensuality I felt Cruise had not been able to completely perfect. Townsend's Lestat is arrogant, sexy, and sleek. Did I care that Townsend refused to bleach his hair blonde? No way! As for the DVD, I was delighted that it had as many features as it did. Especially great (to me) are the Lestat music videos and the extended concert sequences. As opposed to the soundtrack you can buy, these songs (as in the movie) all feature vocals by Korn's Jonathan Davis. I especially found this interesting, being able to compare the renditions between the CD soundtrack and the movie. So, if you're a Korn fan, I'd say this would be especially interesting to you. Though I did not favor this movie over Interview With the Vampire, I still do love it!
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Summary: What were they thinking
Review: I came into this movie really, really wanting to love it. I am a veteran Anne Rice reader and this was so loosely based on the work it's not even funny. Many of the important details were either changed or overlooked entirely. (The most annoying of these was Maheret's bleeding eyes. It's mentioned once with no reason for it. If I hadn't read the book that little detail would have driven me crazy). I'd list the others but I don't think there isn't enough space. The acting was adequate, just barely, and although Townsend was pretty he just wasn't Lestat (neither was Tom Cruise, but at least that was a good movie) The only real fun was trying to figure out who the vampires were in the end.
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Summary: really sucks
Review: OK, I knew that this movie would not be exactly the story from the books, nevertheless I was very excited and curious to see how it would be done. After watching about an hour of this movie, I had to shut it off before I started throwing things at the TV! I knew that important parts of the book would have to be left out of the movie, however I did not expect those parts to be replaced with NONSENSE. Having Marius make Lestat and teach him about the world seriously takes away from Lestat's character. The fact that Lestat had to learn about his vampire senses and powers on his own is part of who he is. Also I just can't believe Lestat would be the type to spend hours playing the violin just because he saw some girl playing it. And Jesse-WHAT??? In the book she was a strong, intelligent woman, in this movie she was reduced to a childish obsessed fan. I might not have hated this movie quite so much if I had not read the books, however I still don't think I would have given it another star.
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Summary: An Awesome Vampire Shocker
Review: Queen of the Damned is a fantastic film(for some) with lots of energy and spunk. Aaliyah is the best actor is the film playing the part of the evil Mother of all Vampires, Akasha. Aaliyah bless your soul and rest in peace forever. Stuart Townsend plays the wicked, devious, and sly vampire Lestat. Michael Rymer, the director, also does an amazing job with everything in the film. The DVD of Queen of the Damned is wonderful. The picture is crystal clear and the sound is amazing. The DVD features include: AALIYAH REMEMBERED and 2 other documentaries, commentary by the director, producer, and composer, 13 additional scenes, 3 full-length Lestat music videos, extended concert sequences, gag reel, production book stills gallery, cast film highlights, and a theatrical trailer. Overall the DVD is A++ work. Queen of the Damned follows Lestat into his acceptance in the tattooed and pierced world of being a gothic rock star. The movie goes deeper into how Lestat came to be through his journal found by a reseacher of the vampire who created Lestat. Lestat turns fellow vampires against him becuase he tells the world is a vampire and that vampires walk among humans. This angers the vampires because they do not want to be known by the humans. When Lestat awakens Akasha, the Mother of all Vampires, he is intoxicated by her and her powers. The film has a lot more to it than that. This film is definately worth the rent but for some(like me) the buy. Its a great film with great actors. Hope you enjoy the film. Thank you for reading my review.
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Summary: Where is the nearest exit?
Review: I am glad I didn't see this at the movies. This was a poor book based movie. Where was the twin sister? The one with no tounge. Why didn't the other one not eat the heart of the queen? Where was Louis? The music was awful. I put the movie on mute and had subtitles so I could know what was being said without hearing satanic music by Marilyn Manson. I know this is based on the book but not by much. This movie could have done more with the book if it did less with the musical career of Lestat. The acting was good. If you want to see a vampire movie this isn't much of one either. I like Anne Rice but this movie could have been done better like Interview with a Vampire. Now that was a good movie.
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Summary: Damned Movie
Review: I had not heard good reviews for this movie when it came out in the theatres, but I watched it, hoping against hope that it was more than the critics had made it out to be. Well, as it turns out, the critics were nice. I have read Anne Rice's, "The Queen of the Damned", and it was a good book. This movie raped that book in almost every possible way. Even were one to forget about the book and watch it just as another movie, it would still have been absolutely atrocious. I am usually nice to movies. I go easy on most. I even liked the Dungeons and Dragons movie, but Queen of the Damned disgusted me. Poor acting, poor screenwriting, poor directing. Please do yourself a huge favor and close your browser on this movie forever.
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