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Why all the hate?

posted 16 years ago by alidede
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I am a huge fan of the interview with vampire movies. Ofcourse Interview with the Vampire is my favorite and only considered true Vampire movie.

I didn't read the books yet but I enjoyed QOD. I think Stuart Townsend's performance was ok; ofcourse Tom Cruise's was much better but Stuart as Lestat I think was a success.

Anne Rice says she did not liked the movie and she thinks it is poorly acted. I think she just pissed that they did not stay true to the novel like the first movie.

I can agree that they should have not changed it and Anne Rice should have written the screenplay.

But I dont agree that it is poorly acted. Just evaluate shall we

Stuart Townsend as Lestat in my opinion was successful

Vincent Perez as Marius was perfect and even his character is true to the books

Lena Olin as Maharet, she was also very good choice couldn't acted more
beautifully.

Aaliyah as Queen Akasha, even though she had no experience as an actress, again in my opinion she really played well.

Hence, what do you think about the movie without having the prejudice of not staying true to the book.

ps: Soundtrack was really good.

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[–] JupiterStorm 14 years ago

I've read 10 vampire chronicles books in order, There fantastic.
Interview with the vampire was a masterpiece for a book to film.
Whereas Queen of the Damned was truly awful, they changed so much, and shifted through events so quickly and badly, It is a disgrace of a film. ugh, hated it.

Actor for Marius, didn't look like what i imagined

Completely agree. I HATED this film. It was nothing like the books, the actor who played Marius has no resemblance to his book counterpart. One of the things that pissed me off the most was the make-up. The Vampires didn't look pale enough, Lestat looked exactly the same when he was human and as a Vampire. No pale, veiny skin.

The make-up for IWTV was pretty good and accurate, just not as pale as I'd like it to be.

I really hope they get this series right and make The Vampire Lestat into a movie, and make it as accurate as possible and do their best work.

"Sunlight in the hair, and the blue sky fixed forever in your eyes."
The Vampire Lestat

[–] crowess_spawn 13 years ago

one problem, noandree. Rice supposedly okay-ed the movie.

[–] jingizu_z 11 years ago

And retracted her ok after she saw the completed version. She actually now loathes this movie.

[–] leBratPrincess 11 years ago

Yeah once she saw how much it wasn't going to make her, then she hated it. If it had turned a major profit, I don't think she would have hated it so much.

She sold her rights to it, she blows with the prevailing winds on things so her opinion = equals nothing.

Here All One Needs Is A Pair Of Fangs
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
-Lestat de Lioncourt

[–] jingizu_z 11 years ago

No, you are actually wrong. The rights reverted back to her in 2003 I think, but anyhow she has the rights back now again, of all her books. Authors often sell the movie rights to their books for only a limited time. So she can sell them again if she wants. And she made TONS of money with her books and Interview movie.

She was critical of the choice of Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview as well, but after seeing him in the role she took out a full-page add in a newspaper to apologise, since she saw that he was and still is the perfect Lestat.

I suggest you read up on Anne Rice, she is a strange one...

[–] leBratPrincess 11 years ago

Well at the time, she did.

Yes, her not liking the idea of Tom in the role then changing her mind, she liked Stuart as Lestat at first as well too, then decided otherwise.

I agree she is a strange one. She pens brilliant stories though.

Here All One Needs Is A Pair Of Fangs
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
-Lestat de Lioncourt

[–] ValkyrieOakenshield74 14 years ago

I agree partly with you, I love this film, but as a vampire film, this is not Anne Rice, and that´s the mistake... it was made to be an adaptation of her book and it isn´t. It´s basically a distorted thing.

Thats why the hate
You are missing the most important thing: the changed the whole meaning of the book and that is propably the worst thing they did as an adaptation.
Not Lestat or Marius, or the Love story between Jesse - Lestat (I think that was nice and romantic, and there was hints of that in the book). Its the meaning Anne Rice put on her book.

I wonder if people even noticed that meaning, people tend to miss the meanings, I haven´t seen anyone complaining about that missing and changed completely in the film.
And thats the most annoying, insulting thing adaptations and fanfics can do!!!...

It would have been fantastic as a totally different vampire film not attached to Queen of the Damned.

I can say merely, this is a fanfic and fanfics are not legal, they should not be legal or worshipped, becoz they are stealing original ideas from someone else to do something that is not at all the spirit of the story.

Stories are NOT like real life, they are fiction: so, the only way a story can be considered real is by the hand of its own author, and probably a fanfic can be accepted only *if* the author likes it or approves it as real.
I wonder if people can understand what a mean.

Stories have spirit when they exist by the hand of the original author, for that I can not like copies, I see those things are not real.

So Queen of the Damned has that feeling but at the same times it is Anne Rice becoz it use her characters...
And it is annoying.

And the most annoying thing is how they *changed the whole deep meaning of the book*, the true purpose of Akasha...

Well, it is just soo long to write all the changes and my english is not my native language

But seriously, what a ripping.

Do you recognize my voice...?

[–] crowess_spawn 13 years ago

PEOPLE! PLEASE PAY ATTENTION BECAUSE I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONE MORE TIME!!!

Queen of the Damned is NOT, I repeat NOT based on one book. it is a train wreck based on *Queen of the Damned* AND *The Vampire Lestat*. TWO books, not one. if you just read QotD, you'll wonder where everything else in the movie is. it's in TVL.

[–] mickeymsb 13 years ago

I didn't watch the movie, only seen the trailer. From that is sucked and it speaks to the preppy twilight fans and not the mature fans who know what make a great book and movie. Without reading the books I can tell by IWV that the books could be even better then one of the vampire projects (as in movies and tv shows) that helped break the mold on how vampires are always evil and out to cause the weak and happy pain.

@milesreilly I would LOVE to see the books made into a series like Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and so on. Would be better then watching stupid girls wanting some guy and getting knocked up in twilight. I hate the movies, the acting, the story, and the message it sends out to kids. If girls want to look up to another girl or woman look at Hermione or Princess Leia, not bella.

@crowess_spawn Yeah sick of seeing movies not sticking to the books they are based from. I mean ask Stephen King about that when it comes to Needful Things (from what I heard the movie is a *beep* joke) and even more so Lawnmower Man. I heard Pet Sematary dealt more with death which would have been great to see. I hope though they don't go ahead with the movie of a Dark Tower book cause they need a series to really bring it to life. The books are to much for a movie. Also another movie I liked, but read the book and wanted to see that in the movie was Clive Barker Nightbreed. Just dude why not? Hell as much as I love Hellraiser, the movie was weak so the book better have more in it.

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[–] mickeymsb 13 years ago

Dude you don't get it. Those kind of fans are a type of fans. Doesn't matter how long they have been around. Understand?

[–] leBratPrincess 12 years ago

-- and it speaks to the preppy twilight fans --

What does this statement mean ?

Here All One Needs Is A Pair Of Fangs
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
-Lestat de Lioncourt

[–] danimal09752 13 years ago

"I didn't read the books yet but I enjoyed QOD./Vincent Perez as Marius was perfect and even his character is true to the books"

Read the books and you will know why this movie gets all the hate it does. And if you haven't read the books, how exactly do you know Marius was true to the books exactly?

[–] crowess_spawn 13 years ago

OMG. someone SERIOUSLY said that? *facepalm* Vincent was a JOKE in this movie. loved him to death in The Crow: City of Angels, but as Marius? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! even if I hadn't read the books, I'd have thought he was awful.

[–] danimal09752 13 years ago

I know right. I was completely baffled by that statement.

[–] raunka 13 years ago

I have read The Vampire Lestat and I think Vincent was a decent Marius. Sure, he doesn't look physically like the Marius from the book, but he did what he could. Had the makers of the movie given him a long blond wig and made his skin more pale, he would've looked more like Marius, but I don't think Vincent would have looked good with a wig.

[–] crowess_spawn 13 years ago

wig? ewww. better that they gave it to that young kid whose name I don't know.

[–] ryto_69 12 years ago

One of my favorite movies.. but people hate it because they are book-fans and things were not the same as the book.. get over it, that doesn't make it a bad movie, just not something you were expecting it to be.. that is no reason to dislike this movie.

[–] pawelzietek 12 years ago

People hate it because it is a *beep* of a film. I wasn't able to watch till the end it was this bad. And the list of the films I couldn't finish is very, very short.
Everyone who liked it is an idiot.

[–] skatepunkkid 12 years ago

It's very simple, the book was amazing and the movie was such a poor adaptation that anyone who read the book will hate the movie.

"This is the west sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

[–] leBratPrincess 12 years ago

Saw the movie before I read the books. Read the books I still like the movie.

Here All One Needs Is A Pair Of Fangs
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
-Lestat de Lioncourt

[–] raunka 12 years ago

Same here, though I have only read the first three.

[–] JupiterStorm 12 years ago

It's very simple, the book was amazing and the movie was such a poor adaptation that anyone who read the book will hate the movie.

Exactly! The movie was awful, and it had so much potential.

"Sunlight in the hair, and the blue sky fixed forever in your eyes."
The Vampire Lestat

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