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Summary: Five stars because 10 are not available...
Review: This movie is amazing. It is morbid, but there is so much beauty in it. The vampire girl is a great actress. Tom's acting is fine. Antonio Banderas looks great. I would not want to see so much blood, but it is a vampire movie and vampire movies are bloody.
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Summary: one of the best
Review: i loved this. tom cruise did a great job and it was well made. bradd pitt plays a vampire and so does tom cruise.
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Summary: Interview with the Vampire is a awesome movie
Review: I think Interview with the Vampire was and is a awesome movie, as a Anne Rice fan I went to see it when it first came out and absolutely loved it. Tom Cruise, brad pitt, antonio banderas, kirsten dunst and stephen rea did a excellent job as actors and Neil jordan did a awesome job of directing it. For all those people out there that didn't like the movie. I'm sorry but all I have to say is you have bad taste.
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Summary: Darkly satisfying......
Review: Let me begin by saying that I have not read the book and am judging the movie solely on its own merits. "Interview with the Vampire" is a luscious, guilty pleasure of modern filmmaking, visually resplendent and with wonderful performances by all (including Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas and Stephen Rea). It follows the adventures of Louis de Pont du Lac (Brad Pitt), a 200-year-old vampire hailing from Louisiana, as he recounts the story of his life (and unlife) to interviewer Daniel Malloy (Christian Slater). Along the way we meet his maker Lestat de Lioncourt (Tom Cruise), his "daughter" Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), and Armand (Antonio Banderas), leader of the Parisian vampires.Tom Cruise, in my mind, perfectly portrays the elder vampire Lestat...beautiful, cunning, selfish, a seducer, many of the same qualities present in Armand, and possesses an excess of dark humour. Brad Pitt's Louis still clings to the last shreds of his humanity...his sense of right and wrong, the value of life, the horror of killing in order to survive (angstmaster Nick Knight from "Forever Knight" springs to mind). There is a lack of onscreen romantic tension between Cruise and Pitt...something that makes their relationship seem less immediate and binding. However, there is definitely a spark between Louis and Armand (Antonio Banderas), and it was easy to believe that Louis was tempted to stay as a companion to such an intelligent, beautiful vampire who could teach him the answers to his questions. Kirsten Dunst is phenomenal as Claudia, the vampire with the mind and desires of a woman eternally trapped in the body of a doll-child. The visuals are lavish, moody, stunningly brilliant, especially the world of 1800's New Orleans with its brocades, silks, and elaborate dresses. The atmosphere is appropriately dark, with plenty of fog and menacing nighttime damp. Elliot Goldenthal's score is string-driven, pulsing, tense, and underscores the action perfectly, the crowning piece being "Libera Me". Yes, this film is graphic at times, including two very graphic scenes involving mutilation, numerous "feedings," homoeroticism, and brief nudity, but "Interview with the Vampire" is an unconventional drama that probes the meaning of life, death, love, seduction, and regret. More than anything Anne Rice's vampires make us realize the conventions and trappings of humanity.
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Summary: Great Story!
Review: I was really excited when this movie was brought to TV. I had always wanted to see it but the subject matter and goryness that I heard it contained prevented me from going to see it. This was an ideal situation for me because they cut out the gore and left in the story. I thought it was great! Never read the books but really liked the fantasy and reality of the characters. Sure they were vampires but I felt like Claudia and Louis were terrific! I really empathized with their situations. I did get a little bit confused around the time they met with the Vampire Actors in Paris. It made me want to read the book, so I think I am going to :) I don't know if I will try and watch the full version but for those of you that can stomach these types of movies, go for it and enjoy yourselves!
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Summary: A Beautiful Dramatic Horror
Review: Interview with the Vampire is a pure example of what good horror should be. Actually, I would classify it as a Dramatic Horror because that's simply what it is. Interview tells the story of a 200 year old vampire (Brad Pitt) who isn't happy with being what he is. A vampire. In the present day, we see him telling his life story to a man (Christian Slater). As he tells it, we see the story play out. How he, Louie, became the vampire he is, and how it almost destroyed him. Lestat (Tom Cruise) is the vampire who made Louie. Their relationship is shown as a love / hate type thing where it seems as if Lestat only puts up with Louie because he has too. Not being a respectable vampire, Louie only wants to drink the blood of animals and not harm a human being, but the first person he does harm, puts a burden on not only him but Lestat also. It was a little girl (Kirsten Dunst), and Lestat decides to change her into one of them, and make her their "daughter." That, and what occurs after that, is a very interesting and never dulls. It keeps your attention, and the characters take your emotions. The actors who portrayed the characters in the film were astounding. I believe this is Tom Cruise's best part to date. He brought life to an undead character, and a character who would not die. Brad Pitt's eyes brought soul to the character of Louie, there was real depth there. But the most superb is the acting of Kirsten Dunst. Only at the tender age of 11, her acting spoke volumes as the role of Claudia. In the movie, her soul aged but her faced never changed, and Kirsten worked very well with that. The mood is set just right in every scene. The tone of the movie is dark, and mostly all of the colors are dark. Sometimes a dull bright green will contrast with the colors, but it only makes the tone better. Interview with the Vampire is a beautiful, if twisted, story of love and faith that can even be given by the darkest of souls.
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Summary: One of my favorite DVD's
Review: As a fan of author Anne Rice, I was anxious to see "Interview" when it made its cinematic debut, but I was very skeptical that the movie would be able to live up to the novel. Since Anne Rice herself adapted the screenplay, it was very true to the original spirit of the story, and the ensemble cast is outstanding. The only cast member that didn't suit the character in the book (although he gave a commanding performance; had you not read the book, you wouldn't have any problem with this casting) was Antonio Banderas as Armand (Armand was supposed to be very young, cherubic and Auburn-haired). In addition to the engrossing plot line and the top-notch performances by all of the actors, the visually stunning use of light, color and fabulous period costuming as well as the understated special effects (edited so well, the effects are not easily noticeable as such) make this truly entertaining. The DVD picture is very clear and sharp (I did not find the Chpt. 15 glitch distracting), and the DTS sound (especially in surround) is phenomenal. The DVD also contains great extras - especially rewarding are the interviews with all of the principal cast members, with the director and with Anne Rice, and the complete Director Commentary. If you liked the movie, you MUST see the DVD. Learning how attention was paid to every production detail by every one involved in the movie (for instance; Stephen Rea (my hero!)spending a great deal of personal time studying how French Theatre of the Macabre performances were actually delivered in order to accurately portray the vampire, Santiago) makes watching this movie even more enjoyable. (Is there actually a woman somewhere who wouldn't lose her soul to at least one of these "vampires" (Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater)? This is a good one for a "girl's night in".)
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Summary: "Kill them swiftly if you will"!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved that movie especially when Lestat goes "Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it, For do not doubt you are a killer Louie". I know you all probably saw the movie too but, I just love that part. What can I say when you have Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise on one screen together you can't lose with 2 men as beautiful as they are.
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Summary: The best movie in the entire world!!!!!!
Review: I have this movie memorized word for word, scene for scene! Minus the full nudity, movie can't get better then then this. I love how the vamires aren't really monsters, they're people, immortal people. Tom Cruise did a masterly job, Brad pitt/Kirsten Dunst too. I read all of Anne Rices books after watching this movie, became a hardcore Tom Cruise fan, critisize a lot of vampire movies I used to like, for example; John Carpenters: Vampires, (I really like James Woods too) Blade, Dracula 2000, Pale blood...I now think the crosses, Garlic and stakes are retarded or as Louis would say, it's "Nonsense." I must say that I still like Bram Stokers: Dracula, just because. So go out and buy thie movie! it's too good not to buy!!!!
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Summary: One of the best movies ever
Review: This was an astonishing movie. One of the best ever. The casting was perfect, the acting wonderful, theplotline following the book nearly exactly. If you like vampires, but want to see more of them and the way they think, what the vampire might be going through, this is the movie for you. Watch it.
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