Interview with a vampire
 

I watched the movie last night...
I was not pleased.....

Good goth..Well, I personally am a big fan. Both of the film and the book. It was an awesome film to me, just as I'd invisioned. The only con were the actors playing the roles :p

Oh but dearest Bleed, why did it not please you? I can see how someone can be disappointed, yet I still am curious in this case.
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I liked the film, although I hated how they changed parts of it. And kudos to whoever decided to put Brad Pitt in it ...NOT!!!! ...Ugh!

For one brad and tom are not beautiful enough to play lestat and louis, antonio banderas was okay....
They cut out all the parts where Louis and Claudia were in europe searching for their kind.... and the zomby vamp thingy.....

I didnt like how they did the ending.. It did not do the book justice.. Although the girl who played Claudia pleased me... she was good.

I definitely agree with what you said about Claudia. Although, I thought Lestat was good.

Brad Pitt wants shooting.

I think Lestat was one of Tom Cruise's few good roles. I, like Vyvian, am a big fan of both the movie and book.

Regretably, I actually saw the film before I read the book, yet, I'm also a fan of both.

Yep that was really a rather major part of the book showing the more monstorous aspect of vampire society.

Kristen Dunst's best line in it I think was "can I have some more" she looked soo sweet, yet evil at the same time exactly how you envisioned her in the book.

I thought the movie was done very well. The only thing that annoyed me about it was Antonio Banderas playing Armand. While not as bad as Stuart Townsend playing Lestat in Queen of the Damned (and don't even get me started on that movie), it was still annoying nonetheless.

I fucking love Interview. One of my favorite movies.

I do love this film.

They gave Armand black hair though -_-, it's meant to be auburn (I think). Isn't he meant to be really young aswell!? Oh well, I can overlook that. as beneath the shadows said, it's not as bad as Stuart Townsend playing Lestat.

I think Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise did a good job in this film, i'm not going to knock them.

I say they should have chosen different actors. All the vampires in the movie are supposed to be much younger. Not to mention more beautiful. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas?! Come on.

The only one I liked was Kirsten Dunst.

I really think the actors were just fine for the roles.

What I don't quite understand is why they made all the hair color wrong. Is is so hard to give Armand red hair? Actually, Brad Pitt probably would have made a better Lestat.

The zombie vampire part I never quite understood. I can't remember the point of it in the book.

I don't see it

I honestly couldn't think of anyone else that was an actor at the time that could have done it.

Wow, that would be kind of a cool thread. If Interview was to be remade, who would be cast as who?

Keep them the same. Seriously.
Even the changes that were made. Keep them.

I preferred the movie to the book. To be fair, though, I didn't finish the book.
But to be fair to that, the book was too tedious to finish. It all happened so slow, and for a 'dark' book, there was not much that would surprise you or scare you.
Now, the movie! The movie is incredible. It moves in just the right pace, and it's never boring.
Also, it looks all the much better if you put her fugly sister Queen of the Damned nect to her.

I fully agree with this quote. No matter how many things were different than the book in Interview, nothing can prepare you for the borderline Lovecraftian horror that is Queen of the Damned.

First off I don't think Godslayer was complementing queen of the damned. Second of all I really wouldn't say that Queen of the damned is a horror, if anything it is a bit of a thriller with romance and seduction followed by a huge decision. Sure the possibility of most of the male population being whiped out and the remainder kept merely for the purpose of sexual reproduction could be considered scary by some. But vampires bursting into flames all of a sudden makes it more of a thriller, where you are racing against the clock trying to get all the ingredients together to counter this threat to men and the current way of life.

I guess that came across differently than I meant it. I meant that the movie in its self is horrible, not that the content is. I do agree though, that it was more of a thriller than horror.

I loved both movies as they were, if they were to make the movies at the exact detail of the book, then they should have made an extended version for DVD release.

As I recall, Anne Rice did say that she would have prefered the movies be made better with effort, but it seems that the directors followed their own perspective and not hers.

I think despite the shock of the chosen actors, it turned out perfect. The director of Interview did a phenomenal job of it. It was slightly frightening with highly dramatic scenes. For being an adaptation from the book it was excellent. It was based on the book, stayed as true as a two hour movie could, but the changes that were made were better for the silver screen.

That's exactly what I think.

Leave the film alone, there are far too many remakes as it is.

The movie story line itself was not bad. The problem with the movie was the actors. Tom Cruise... What the hell were those people smoking. Brad Pitt... thats even worse.

This isn't just to firewizardvamp, this is to everyone bashing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

The only reason you guys don't like them is because they're popular actors who do films you don't like.
So what?
They're both extremely talented actors.

If you can find a scene in the movie that you had a problem with, and explain it, then you won't look like an ass.

I love Interview....I've watched it three times in one weekend SARAH!
That was fun.

That was so funny. "How about you two don't fall asleep this time so I don't have to sit through this fuckin' movie for a THIRD TIME?"
Ah, John.

I thought the movie was pretty good. Sure it didn't follow the book exactly, but then again, what movies do?

Tom Cruise, in my opinion, did well in this film though I have to say Kirsten Dunst was wonderful. I think the role of an evil, immortal child with a hatred for vampires who dance with the corpses of her diseased mother is appropriate for her. ^^

(btw Lestat dancing with the corpse was one of my most favourite parts of the movie and also I believe the book as well.)

I have the book. I still have not read it. I know. I will, I will.

I love the movie. I thought the actors were fine. I mean, this is a movie where I didn't even think of who was playing who until the movie was over. I also didn't "see" Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or anyone else while they were acting, I saw their characters. They actually, as it should be when you're an actor/actress, made me forget who they were.

Yeah.


Go die.


:P

LOL .....................


OHH MAybe I will make a youtube remake... with stick figure men!!!

I actually liked Tom & Brad as Louis and Lestat. I was only extremely pleased with Kirsten Dunst as Claudia. Antonio looks nothing like Armand should, but looking how he did in that movie, I'm not complaining.

Egad, really? I loved that movie, and the book!

Considering that Anne Rice herself wrote the screenplay and was involved with the filming of it, I have to say I can accept it pretty well.

I thought Pitt and Cruise were -perfect- for the roles. Sure, they can't equal Lestat and Louis on the physical beauty scale, but they both acted the roles -perfectly-, -especially- Tom, who makes a way better Lestat personality-wise than, oh say, Stuart Townsend from Queen of the Damned.

Banderes was the only one that got on my nerves, actually...even though I usually like his acting. Armand wasn't...augh...yeah. He just wasn't Armand..

Agreed; the book was difficult to get through. The Vampire Lestat...and pretty much all the other books 'written' by Lestat...are much much better.

For some reason, they're the only Anne Rice books I like. All the others are difficult for me to get through..

Not a big fan of Anne Rice, though I do have both movies.

It would be nice if they made a trilogy.

If you compare it to the book and expect it to be like the book, it's rather... bad. So much has changed. Who put Antonio Banderas in that role? He looks about 30 years older than the character he's suppoed to be playing XD Plus, Lestat is supposed to look younger (and have a smaller nose! XD), but I sorta liked Cruise as Lestat anyway O.o And in general, I think the actors did a rather good job, even though they didn't perhaps exactly look as the "real" characters should.

As a movie, NOT compared to the book, I think it's really good. To it's defence you could also say that everything in the book would not have fitted. And it still managed to keep that slightly creepy-not-outrageously-scary feeling. Good thing. It's incredibly beautiful, too. One of my favourite movies. ^.^

Well, you can't really ever expect a movie to be exactly like the book...because when you read a book, you form for yourself what the characters look like. A movie could NEVER be right.

Aside from that, books are long, and unless the director and producer want to make zero dollars, they have to crop it to make it fit into about 2 hours.

I am a huge fan (as most are) of the film and book. There were a lot of things cut out of the movie that were in the book, but thats expected from all movies. I think Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt did wonderful jobs in their roles. Both I think, were beautiful men, and their character was captured well, Claudia most of all!

As for Armand, I was disappointed. They took a young, auburn haired youth and made him a dark haired latino? I don't think so.

I love the movie's plot in general, but then there was Armand, who's a Hispanic vampire..... (O_o?) and Tom and Brad not being cut out for vampire roles...

First Anne Rice book I read was 'The Vampire Armand', then read the others in her Vampire series. So, being intimately aware of Armand's personality and appearance, I was very disappointed with how he turned out in the movie. How on earth is Antonio-blasted-Banderas meant to accurately portray an elfin, waiflike vampire on the edge of adulthood? He's meant to be delicate as a porcelain doll, not looming and tanned.
I like Banderas, in his own place. But he's really not a sixteen-year-old auburn-haired Russian boy, is he?
Yeah, Armand's my favourite character in the books. I know it's obvious.

I have arguments with the whole movie- the bits they missed out, the bits they re-arranged, the casting choices... but Ms Rice has approved it, so it's good enough for her and her fans. Thank goodness I'm not much of a fan.
The ending song is perfect, though.... Sympathy For The Devil is a wonderful redeeming point in the film.

Haven´t read the book so can´t compare, but as a movie I think it´s fantastic. There aren´t so many good vampire movies around, at least not since 1979, and this is very well made. The actors were good, also liked Kirsten Dunsts performance the most, scariest of them all... "Queen of the damned" is the opposite, an all over crappy movie.

I still haven't gotten around to seeing it. I read the book, and I enjoyed it. The best part was the discussion about the pangs of hunger for mortality... but it wasn't something that I would really like to continue reading the series for... maybe someday.. I have the second. But the movie looked good enough, and the direction they went with it seemed to be very.. satisfying. Plus, Anne Rice actually liked it.

I didnt read the book but I liked the movie
The only problem was the hair colour of lestat and armand
By the way Queen Of The Damned was great too but its not a horror movie

Yes I agree. A book made into a movie cannot contain all the scenes in every chapter, the movie would go on for hrs and hrs. With a book you can put it down and read more later. I can't imagine being able to do that in a movie theater.

I liked it, I thought it was a pretty good adaption of the book.
Certainly better than some of the books made into movies I've seen.

I enjoyed this movie, but I enjoyed it for the fact I was completely in love with Christian Slater and wanted his babies at the time.

The movie turned from the book was okay, it's not a horrible adaptation. It left in all the things it needed to in order to make sense, and I actually think Tom Cruise was a perfect Lestat. Arrogant, charming, and deadly.

It could have been better. It stayed pretty close to the book (though not all the way, I'll admit). And they could have picked someone a little less familiar than Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

However, I couldn't help laughing my ass off at how they pulled off Lestat dancing with the corpse of Claudia's mother. It was so deliciously obscene. XD

I didn't read the book and thought the movie sucked ass.

There is not one thing wrong with this movie.