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That first picture... unf. *dead* Good looking dude, is it just a younger pic of him? He looked nothing like that in the movie.
In real live he's very handsome. But the long hair and the way he was styled, he looked so old and flat.
I loved the movie. Still enjoy watching it.
I agree, it's not as good as the book. BUT. If people looked at it as just a move it's a good movie.
Yes, there are things in the movie that are NOT supposed to be in that storyline, like Lissa's speech at the end, but it empowered her character and made her awesome. I agree, if that director had any thoughts about making another movie he would have ended it differently.
The lust spell scene was done poorly. In the book Dimitri had on jammie bottoms, not ugly underwear. They couldn't burn her dress because she had to wear something out of his room. But the whole thing was more....silly...that's not quite the right word either. Maybe vampy, campy. They did a great job with what the director gave them.
If you look at the end scene between them, that was dynamite. I LOVED the movie for that scene if nothing more. Then when Rose is talking to the bird. That was classic Rose and great.
SO the movie was good, for what it was. I loved it, the kids loved it and watched it maybe 50 times.
I didn't even read the first book until after I'd read the whole series and short stories.
All in all. The movie is like fanfiction. Someone who writes a story based on the books but puts their own twist to it.
There were some good changes that didn't make any difference too. Like the girls going to the party together. Some of the stuff they did with Natalie but otherwise we wouldn't have known much about her or thought of her as a character. Like I said, I hadn't read the books yet so Natalie had to be more involved so I'd feel bad when she was turned and not expecting it.
I love the movie. I can separate it from the books and enjoy the books for the story and watch the movie for itself. I read fanfiction and there are some amazingly true to character stories that fill in the background that Rose's POV didn't do.
Like Gigi256's stories of the books from Dimitri's POV. I can imagine those things going on in the background while I'm reading the book now.
There are stories by other writers that take us through what Tasha was doing while the gang was planning Rose's jailbreak and then on to when she figured out she could get them to think it was Danialla instead of Rose. How she manipulated so many people behind the scenes. Then chapters in those stories about other characters that we feel a connection to now, how they were dealing with everything.
Fanfiction isn't bad. The movie was fanfiction.
If I was directing any Vampire Academy book turned into a movie I'd hire some of those fanfiction writers to write the screenplay. They understand the stories from all the different POV's.
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That first picture... unf. *dead* Good looking dude, is it just a younger pic of him? He looked nothing like that in the movie.
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In real live he's very handsome. But the long hair and the way he was styled, he looked so old and flat.
I loved the movie. Still enjoy watching it. I agree, it's not as good as the book. BUT. If people looked at it as just a move it's a good movie.
Yes, there are things in the movie that are NOT supposed to be in that storyline, like Lissa's speech at the end, but it empowered her character and made her awesome. I agree, if that director had any thoughts about making another movie he would have ended it differently.
The lust spell scene was done poorly. In the book Dimitri had on jammie bottoms, not ugly underwear. They couldn't burn her dress because she had to wear something out of his room. But the whole thing was more....silly...that's not quite the right word either. Maybe vampy, campy. They did a great job with what the director gave them.
If you look at the end scene between them, that was dynamite. I LOVED the movie for that scene if nothing more. Then when Rose is talking to the bird. That was classic Rose and great.
SO the movie was good, for what it was. I loved it, the kids loved it and watched it maybe 50 times.
I didn't even read the first book until after I'd read the whole series and short stories.
All in all. The movie is like fanfiction. Someone who writes a story based on the books but puts their own twist to it.
There were some good changes that didn't make any difference too. Like the girls going to the party together. Some of the stuff they did with Natalie but otherwise we wouldn't have known much about her or thought of her as a character. Like I said, I hadn't read the books yet so Natalie had to be more involved so I'd feel bad when she was turned and not expecting it.
I love the movie. I can separate it from the books and enjoy the books for the story and watch the movie for itself. I read fanfiction and there are some amazingly true to character stories that fill in the background that Rose's POV didn't do.
Like Gigi256's stories of the books from Dimitri's POV. I can imagine those things going on in the background while I'm reading the book now.
There are stories by other writers that take us through what Tasha was doing while the gang was planning Rose's jailbreak and then on to when she figured out she could get them to think it was Danialla instead of Rose. How she manipulated so many people behind the scenes. Then chapters in those stories about other characters that we feel a connection to now, how they were dealing with everything.
Fanfiction isn't bad. The movie was fanfiction.
If I was directing any Vampire Academy book turned into a movie I'd hire some of those fanfiction writers to write the screenplay. They understand the stories from all the different POV's.
