Since Karn was brave enough to confess his Twilight experience, I thought I’d report on my recent viewing of a vampire flick.  Now, I’m sure you’re thinking: Oh, Aggro must have gone to see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans since it just came out.  Well, that certainly would be more topical and useful but…no.  I actually just finally saw the original Underworld, which came out in 2003.  Yep, I’m certainly behind the times on this one.

I waited so long because I’m not really into vampire movies and the reviews on Metacritic were pretty bad.  Also, what little I knew of the film (vampire falls in love with werewolf though they are at war) sounded like a pretty cheesy Romeo & Juliet knockoff.  But when I saw the commercials for the third film I figured there had to be some kind of fanbase if they were making another movie.  And I noticed the user reviews on Metacritic were a lot higher on average than those of the professional reviewers.  The DVD was also rated an average of 4 stars on Amazon.  So I figured there had to be something to it and I decided to check the film out.

I usually like movies with great dialogue, terrific character development and at least a smattering of humor.  Underworld has none of those things.  But yet, to my surprise, I actually ended up liking it.

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