The New Road

Underworld Evolution

Lori and I went to see Underworld Evolution last night. Nothing says date night like a gory goth vampire flicks where the women dress multiple layers of form fitting leathers. It was actually an Underworld weekend as we watched the first one on Saturday night in preperation. That was preperation wasted, however, as the sequel used copious cuts to the original film to give us all the reminder we needed. In fact, as sequels go, this one was as tight as it gets backing up the the original film as cleanly as if it were extra scenes in the same movie.

Did I like it? I thought it was a little long, and I thought it was a little over the top bloody. But, yeah, I liked it. When brain splats on the side of the screen you know it's going to be more than a little gory. Actually, I knew it was going to be a wet red ride when the trailers were all from the pages of Fangoria magazine.

Strangely I liked the effects more than Lori did. Early on she leaned over and whispered that the effects looked cheasy to her. Which I found odd since at that moment there was an effects shot where a man on fire was transforming into a werewolf, which is a tough shot that I was very impressed with.

Anyway, to sum up. Good stuff; Reasonable fight scenes, copious blood, hot chick boobies, reasonable man flesh, not entirely predictable plot, but pretty damn close. Bad stuff; too much man flesh, not great pacing, and, dare I say, maybe too much leather. 

As usual, several people brought the kids that were a little too young.

I also saw Hoodwinked with Megan this weekend. Good comedy, but the animation was really rough. Pixar goes frame by frame to smooth over the animation to give it a realistic feel. These guys obviously took shortcuts and let the computer do the work. Some of the characters had jagged portions in their gate which I found really distracting. That being said, the bunny stuff at the end of the movie was pure comic genius in spots.