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The most ridiculous scene in this movie, no joke.

posted 9 years ago by tommyk1287
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At the start, Selene (the protagonist) is cryogenically captured by humans, but she breaks free. She ends up in a locked room, and notices the man who put her there (the antagonist) watching her from a windowed station above. They lock eyes, and Selene visibly fills with rage. Her reaction?

She kicks over a chair and marches to a corner of the room.

Why? I'm not sure. She literally walks over to a corner and pouts, while the antagonist orders his lackeys to gas the room and leaves. As Selene notices the gas, she remembers that she is in fact a vampire, and leaps through the window. She easily murders the lackeys and escapes, missing the main bad guy by mere seconds because the director had no idea what to do with her.

I saw this movie when it came out and I forget almost all of it, but this scene is burned into my brain through sheer idiocy.

[–] falseprophet616 8 years ago

Lol. Good outline. They didn't put a whole lot of thought into this movie...

[–] elliot-manning01 8 years ago

The scene you describe doesn't not occur.
I'm watching it, right now...
She pushes aside a cart of utensils as she head over to the door.
Guy orders her to be put to sleep.
Gas canisters.
She busts open door lock panel.
Gas rises and she falls to knee, then notices guys in window.

The scene where she slits the throats of several security guards without one of them getting a shot off while already aiming at her is more ludacris, imo.

[–] tommyk1287 8 years ago

I haven't seen it in a while, but I believe you. I honestly just thought this entire movie was garbage from the get-go, which sucks since the first few were good old cheesy horror and fun. The second one is probably my favorite, but I couldn't get into them after that.

[–] elliot-manning01 8 years ago

Yes, this one was definitely out of step with the previous movies. Hopefully Blood Wars will restore the storytelling, but with that title...

[–] Korios 8 years ago

Blood Wars has a very interesting main bad guy, Tobias Menzies, who is an excellent actor. Stephen Rea is a great actor, but in this film he acted like a caricature of himself. It's possible that he was weakly directed, I don't know.

This is director Anna Foerster's first feature film. She has an extensive TV background and in features she has mostly worked as DP. I think she did a fine job on Outlander, but cinema is a different medium, we'll see how she handles it.

Len Wiseman does not appear to be involved in the script at all this time. It was penned only by Cory Goodman (solo written scripts are a rarity in blockbusters), and before that he only wrote the script of Priest and The Last Witch Hunter.

So both director and writer are either "amateurs" or "fresh blood", depending on your point of view.

Oh, the DP Karl Walter Lindenlaub is a total pro. He has worked in films like Stargate, ID4, Narnia - Prince Caspian, City by the Sea, Ninja Assassin, Kill the Irishman etc

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

[–] mrbwiz422 7 years ago

At the end that dude hits people over the head with his gun because he's out of ammo, meanwhile none of them shoot at him.

There was also the part where she uses her blood to resurrect that 1 vampire dude while like 10 others lay dying