#Tyto watches QotD

[kingdomoftyto]

"Vampires don't hold grudges. We harbor them."

Who WROTE this fucking movie ghsdjkghjasdkf

[kingdomoftyto]

Alrighty that sure was a movie

Apparently Lestat's singing voice was actually the vocalist from Korn, which is why it sounded so goddamn familiar to me gashdjgfsdh. I don't know why, but I assumed that was the actor's actual singing voice. (In my defense, the dubbing is just as poor for some of the spoken dialogue in this film as it is for the singing.) I guess I figured he must be a singer irl otherwise why would they get this random dark-haired guy to play Lestat de Fucking Lioncourt??

Anyway yeah that's why the music was disproportionately good. It was literally Korn lmfao

But yeah, overall an interesting view into what happens when filmmakers are forced to cram two already overly-dense books' worth of plot into a single movie's runtime, WHILE writing around the missing context from the book that came before that

Did they piece together some fun, gothy visuals; a decent soundtrack; and cool if slightly doofy special effects? Yes.

Did they manage to include an impressive amount of references to events and worldbuilding details from the books? Yeah, kinda!

Did they succeed in making a coherent movie? HELL no lmfao

And frankly that just feels fitting for a Vampire Chronicles movie from the early '00s. This movie sucks, but it sucks in a uniquely earnest, circle-jerky, Vampire Chronicles kind of way that I kind of can't help but adore

On that note, I'll leave you with the song that plays during the best scene in the movie (Akasha murdering a bunch of rando vampires and then burning down a bar), which on the official soundtrack is actually sung by Chester Goddamn Bennington: