Went and saw Underworld 2 last night. The highly anticipated sequel to a movie I really liked was a huge disappointment to me. In all honesty, it could have been due to my dark mood last night, but I’m really doubting that. First of all, who let the ugly, bad-acting guy (who played Michael Corvin) back in? Couldn’t we just say that after becoming a hybrid, he went and got his teeth fixed? Kate Beckinsale seemed to recapture Selene for the most part, but there was *something* missing. Perhaps falling in love and developing moo-cow eyes whenever she was looking at Michael made her seem less incredible than in the first movie. Maybe it was her newly developed quasi-sassy attitude (versus the hardcore attitude in the first movie), which I can only assume came about after killing the man she idolized as a father-saviour. I don’t know, but her persona lost its mystique.
It makes me think that if I didn’t like it, poor Ralph must have been planning all the ways he can hold this over my head (“No honey, I don’t think I can fix the plumbing today…Why? Well why did you make me sit through Underworld 2?”) because he didn’t much care for the first one. More that the plot line didn’t sit well with him than anything else. However, he seemed genuinely interested in seeing the sequel, so he can’t hold it over my head for too long.