Let's just say that I didn't enjoy the movie Ultraviolet. The only quality I liked was the heroine's hair color changes, so I don't think they did it enough. But I'd have to because I have a heroine that can change her hair color too. [ShallaMai, secondary in Starlit Destiny and the heroine in the follow-up that is a WIP.]
The vampires had fangs, yet not the need or desire to suck blood. Call me silly, but isn’t that one of the cardinal rules of vampiredom?
Their vampires were mortal. They went to great lengths to show that Ultraviolent wasn’t immortal. [A double negative. :)] The ending scenes screwed that up for them though. In futuristic and paranormals people are willing to have “the rules“ bent ... but not within the same story.
The whole light-sensitivity issue was another thing they played with to fit the scene. The heroine wasn’t light-sensitive, so she couldn’t see in the dark. Yet there were other characters that weren’t light-sensitive that could see in the dark. In fact, the movie pretty much took place in the daytime, so I couldn’t figure out why they bothered bringing up that vampires are light-sensitive at all.
Some purists don't like playing with light-sensitivity and vampires. That doesn't bother me. In Never A Sunset, I have day walking vampires.
Their explanation of how vampirism is caused was a “blood virus” so they used the term hemophage. But, by definition a phage is a virus that attacks bacteria and thus wouldn’t attack a multi-cellular organism like a human being. Apparently whoever wrote this comic book just got out their thesaurus and found an alternate for “blood virus” and didn’t bother looking up the meaning. I remember high school biology so I noticed.
The apparently realized there were holes in their plot because through portions of the movie the dialogue didn’t match the actors lips. I assume they rewrote huge portions of the movie after they filmed it. My question would be ... why not rewrite it before hand? Isn't that a lot of money to spend on a crappy script?
Anyway... I’m convinced if I’d written this story I would have not found a way to get it published. Had I read this poor review at the Horror Channel, I may have still wanted to see it to see if it was really that bad.
Cool hair color decision though.
The vampires had fangs, yet not the need or desire to suck blood. Call me silly, but isn’t that one of the cardinal rules of vampiredom?
Their vampires were mortal. They went to great lengths to show that Ultraviolent wasn’t immortal. [A double negative. :)] The ending scenes screwed that up for them though. In futuristic and paranormals people are willing to have “the rules“ bent ... but not within the same story.
The whole light-sensitivity issue was another thing they played with to fit the scene. The heroine wasn’t light-sensitive, so she couldn’t see in the dark. Yet there were other characters that weren’t light-sensitive that could see in the dark. In fact, the movie pretty much took place in the daytime, so I couldn’t figure out why they bothered bringing up that vampires are light-sensitive at all.
Some purists don't like playing with light-sensitivity and vampires. That doesn't bother me. In Never A Sunset, I have day walking vampires.
Their explanation of how vampirism is caused was a “blood virus” so they used the term hemophage. But, by definition a phage is a virus that attacks bacteria and thus wouldn’t attack a multi-cellular organism like a human being. Apparently whoever wrote this comic book just got out their thesaurus and found an alternate for “blood virus” and didn’t bother looking up the meaning. I remember high school biology so I noticed.
The apparently realized there were holes in their plot because through portions of the movie the dialogue didn’t match the actors lips. I assume they rewrote huge portions of the movie after they filmed it. My question would be ... why not rewrite it before hand? Isn't that a lot of money to spend on a crappy script?
Anyway... I’m convinced if I’d written this story I would have not found a way to get it published. Had I read this poor review at the Horror Channel, I may have still wanted to see it to see if it was really that bad.
Cool hair color decision though.
Darn it! You're the second person who has said this about Ultraviolet. Those previews looked so good too! {{sigh}} That's how it usually goes, though. Probably all the great parts were in the previews, right? LOL.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it seems that Hollywood just can NOT get vampires right!
ReplyDeleteWhat gives? It's not like there isn't great material out there, case in point, yours.
Are they too afraid to rock the PC boat? Have they no true understanding of what makes vampires so popular...haven't they done their research?
LKH's series is going to be made into graphic art -comics- starting this year. I hope THAT venue gets it right. Should be awesome and mind blowing if they do.
And IF they do, why can't Hollywood "get it?"
Anyway, sounds like a library rental when it comes out...just to satisfy my curiousity.
Thanks for the review, Annalee!
Yikes. Guess I'll be waiting for this one to come on SciFi. From the sounds of it, it won't be long before it's on a cheesey movie night.
ReplyDeleteFaith - The preview I saw matched what I expected as far as special effects, and they did spend a lot of time on that. One of the scenes that I found inconsistent for their vampire mythology had fire involved in a unique way during a fight scene. They were probably thinking... we've just got to use fire like this. The hair was my favorite FX.
ReplyDeleteMichele - I'll make a movie! But I skimmed over the kick-butt fight scenes between Simeon and Marianne. So even she has the potential of being an ultravampire (I'm bad) ... needs more violence. Sex content probably fine though. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI didn't heard that about LKH. I'm not much for comics, but I'd be curious to check out a copy of this one.
I'm going to blog more about books/movies today.
Karen - Yeah... unless you're addicted to the special effects and the whole surround-sound experience.
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