Interview with the Vampire

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Summary: read the book first
Review: I loved it but had to knock off one star because of the changes, like the ending although I do admit I liked the last line "Oh louis louis still wineing louis! Have you had enough I've had to listen to that for centeries!" I didn't like the inpliing that Danial becomes Lastat's fedgling but hey. I didn't like Antonieo Bandaras's Armand, one of the great things about Rice's Armand is that he was made so young, yet has lived so long and convays such power. I think they should have cast someone younger. Pitt's Louis was fantasic! and Dust as Cluadia was brillent! Honestly Tom Cruise could have been better. The movie was great but readthe book first there are so many great parts left out from the movie

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Summary: this movie is non stop bordom and gore
Review: this movie only derseves 1 star because of the good make up jobs on the "vampires" other than that this movie was really stupid. I watch the whole thing and in the first hour of the movie I was bored out of my mind. I don't care who the actors are this movie stunk. You just watched cruise and pitt walk around and drink the blood of every living creature. And then pitt would feel so bad about it which is supose to make us feel bad for him. Well I tell you one thing it didn't work. The only reason I feel bad for cruise and pitt is because they were stupid enough to agree to be in this movie. It wasn't their acting that was bad it was the story. Their acting was o.k. Pitt was good he had the right kind of creepyness to him in the beginning but that is it. Like I said the only thing I really liked about the movie was the makeup. All the "vampires" were rather pale and you could see the veins in their faces the good thing was they didn't look too pale.

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Summary: decent movie
Review: I enjoyed it but I must subtract one star for Cruise, subtract two stars for Pitt's performance, and add one for Banderas.

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Summary: You feel to much
Review: I find the movie to be beautiful yet sad. Lestat doesn't seem to question his existence, he just makes the best of it. Whereas Louis wants to understand, reason and find meaning. When he finds only despair, then there is Claudia. At first she doesn't question, but as time goes on she too wants answers. Mysterious Armand has answers, however, they are just for Louis.

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Summary: haunting
Review: When I first saw this movie I couldnt get past the first five minutes because of the gore.Then a year or so later I forced myself to see the whole movie I was captivated . . I was actually disapointed that it ended.The movie starts in our time, as a reporter (christian Slater)follows Louis (Brad Pitt) to his home . From there on the story unfolds as Louis tells his tail . He was a vampire , and was made so by Tom Cruises chareter Lestat. Majority of the movie shows you their relatonship and Louis denial of his situation . The story takes a turn when they both come across Christan Dunst , a poor girl who is bitten by a hungry Louis . In ordre to save her life Lestat makes her a vampire. The two men , both lonely treat her liketheir daughter . It is Louis though that the girl grows a liking to . Tom cruise is a villan in this film and prbabaly the most complex charecter of them all. He is introduced as as an uncaring bloodthirsty vampire but in some places you see him do things that are ever so slightly good .We acnt blame him for Brad Pitts position for he gave him a choice. Loui's charecter is probably the most basic charecter . He was easily manipulated first by Tom Cruise then by Christan Dunst . I think Brad Pitt aws probabaly the worst actor in the movie. Despite having the biggest role he is overshadowed in all the scenes even by some of the extras.I really loved this movie because of Tom Cruise , he was amazing! I am not refering to his looks but his acting and portrayal of witty Lestat.

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Summary: it was really good
Review: This movie was thrilling and touching. I enjoyed it very much. The actors fit Anne Rice's fictional character's descriptions extremely well.

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Summary: And then I said farewell to sunlight...
Review: Really great acting by the ravishingly gorgeous leads - Brad Pitt (as Louis) and Tom Cruise (as Lestat), and a fine performance by Kristen Dunst (as evil Claudia...she later appeared on ER as Charlie =)) The directing and script are great - they capture the dark mystical essence of the book perfectly, but at times the movie lapses into long and rather tiring ramblings.

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Summary: God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we.
Review: I can not say for certain what most people's reactions to "Interview with the Vampire" will be. Some love it, (not necessarily fans of the books), some find it a fluffy piece of fun and still others find it a dark piece of horror. I have read all of the books in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. And I agree with the author's delight with the cinematic version of her story. It captured the sensuous mood of her book perfectly.

If you want to know a little bit more about the novel then check out the area I have put aside for it in the Authors page. The vampires are portrayed less as demons and more as tormented artists in the medium of predation. "Interview with the Vampire" is depicted from the point of view of Louis, (Brad Pitt). He is a young vampire, made by Lestat, (Tom Cruise), who is portrayed as a capricious, self centered, secretive and powerful figure that dominates Louis's life.

Lestat, with Louis, is trying to live a normal, semi-human existence but the urgency of this desire is like a prison for the tormented Louis. Just as Louis seems ready to break free, Lestat uses a momentary weakness, on the part of his partner, to create a vampiric daughter for the pair of them.

In the end even this is not enough. Louis and his "daughter", Claudia attempt to destroy their creator and flee New Orleans to seek the legendary vampires of Europe. There they find a coven, lead by the charismatic Armand, who tries, (due to very complex motivation, not shown in the movie), to seduce Louis. This event climaxes in an orgy of destruction as the coven is destroyed by Louis in revenge for the murder of his Daughter.

The movie version of "Interview with the Vampire", is very close to the novel but it does have a completely different ending which will force further divergences from Anne Rice's work as the movies continue. I look forward to the sequel, as the second book, "The Vampire Lestat", was even better than the first.

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Summary: Lush horror - good enough to sink your teeth into!
Review: This movie is wonderful. The imagery and emotions set the dark, brooding moods from the instant the movie begins. You're immediately enraptured by it, transported back in time with Louis, LeStat, and Claudia to New Orleans and Paris as only Ms. Rice can take you there. The mood was captured perfectly in the movie as it was in the book. It was a feast for the eyes, a great gothic story . . . an elegant horror film!

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Summary: Yum!
Review: This film is soo good, it makes you want to be a vampire, honest. If you read the books it makes you love it even more.