 | being a fan of anything vampire or anything werewolf or Lycan, as they're called in this movie, I thought I was going to enjoy the film, but with bad character building and at least 15 minutes of shots from the previous film shown in that dreamy hazzy edge style that I thought went out over a decade ago. The movie altough the action was fantastic the bloodfest was decent it still didn't bring much to who these people, vampires or lycan were. If my understanding about vampires is correct, if you kill the lead vampire all vampires in his line are destroyed. This being said and even mentioned in this movie there were terrible plot holes that surely should have been addressed before continuing to make it look like there's going to be yet another movie in the Underworld saga.
this gets 3 pieces of popcorn and to sum it up: if you know anything about the mysterious creatures vampires you'll be very dissapointed.
my ratings are out of 10. |
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 | after all the hype and being a huge fan of the original 1933 film I was very excited to hear the genious behind Lord of the Rings trilogy was going to be re-making this movie. the first 40 or so minutes were great, old new york came to life, to boat trip was believable and the cast were decent. Jack Black's constant smirking made it very hard to take him seriously but very easy to accept that he is an eccentric artistic film maker.
the movie fell to bits as soon as they entered the Island, what a dismal display of special effects and hours of wasted story telling. The effects took us back at least 10 years in digital special effects with blue hazes around the brontosauruses, or were they diplodocuses? whatever type of Dinosaurs they were they had a blue haze and the chase scene left people tumbling and falling over for what seemed like 3 hours, it of course wasn't due the fact the movie was a 3hr and 7minute flic already! This part added nothing to the feature and was a very sore addition.
back to New York after more fights with over sized bugs and bats, loss of most of the crew and yet there still seemed to be about 20+ people after numerous deaths. the New York scene was a lot more appetising and more truethful to the original, I was still blown back by the costumes, the sets and the cars. Peter Jackson managed to get these parts right, sadly he'd lost most of his audience by this point, either to boredom and eventually sleep or by the exit.
I give this movie 1/2 a piece of popcorn and sum it up with this: if you don't like insects this film isn't for you! |
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 | the restaurant at Sydney's famous Opera house is an amazingly exquiste feast of beautifuly crafted dishes.
starters: MORETON BAY BUG in a light chilled tomato broth with cucumber, Yarra Valley salmon roe and mint
which was delish, but could have done with more bug, a lot more of that great Moreton Bay Bug
Main: SEALED GRAINFED BEEF TENDERLOIN with a tombé of field mushrooms, baby spinach, confit of shallot and merlot sauce
fantastic tastes and the sauce was a very wild mix of great tastes complementing the beef so well.
Dessert: GRAND MARNIER SOUFFLÉ with chocolate sorbet
the 15 minutes wait for this delish dessert were well worth it, to be sat with harbour bridge views in one direction and the opera house sitting right behind was just amazing. This restaurant has a 4.5 star rating on gav's food calculator (I will get some sort of graphic representation in the near future, this is a first test)
for more info check Guillame At Bennelong |
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