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©2005 Jason Cross
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 Monday, September 2, 2002 |
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Late last week I finally saw Queen of the Damned on DVD. Having read the entire Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles series, I was hoping that it would be good yet fearing that odds are it wouldn't be.
Sadly, I was right in the latter of my judgements.
The movie bothers me with its stupidity in decisions. Vampires are described in the book as having a preternatural beauty and grace, so in the movie they look like heroin-strung addicts. They fill the movie with characters and settings that only make sense if you've read the books, yet they deviate from the books greatly in the history and reasoning of these characters.
Why make a movie that will only have a chance of appealing to the fans, and then screw with it in ways that are sure to annoy these fans?
And Aaliyah is actually in it for only 20 minutes or so. And she's not that good, though I blame the movie, not the late actress.
Queen of the Damned. Stay away from it. If you need a vampire fix, watch Angel. Sundays on WB. |
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