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NEWS: Live-Action Blood: The Last Vampire Film Opens in U.S.


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Primus



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:23 am Reply with quote
As it stands this movie has a worse Metacritic then DBE. DBE's at 45, while Blood: The Last Vampire is at 28.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:28 am Reply with quote
Primus wrote:
Apparently it isn't in any theatre at all in Canada.


Yeah, I wonder if that means it won't play here at all. I live in Toronto so if it does get a release here, I should be able to see it. I saw the first five minutes streamed and I'm not sure I'll be missing much, but I'm a huge fan of the Blood+ series and even though The Last Vampire films aren't part of that narrative, I'm enough of a completist to want to watch the live action version even if it isn't great.
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tygerchickchibi



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:11 pm Reply with quote
It was getting sold out, so I think I'm going to go see a matinee...
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:32 pm Reply with quote
ManOfRust wrote:

I wonder if it does reasonably well if they will give it a wider release or if they are just planning on giving it a short, limited run and taking it to DVD. If the latter is the case, I suspect we'll see a fairly quick DVD release.


This sort of extremely limited theatrical release is pretty much meant just to get (hopefully) favourable "pull quotes" from important critics like Roger Ebert to put on the DVD/BluRay case.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:17 pm Reply with quote
KKDW wrote:
I saw this last Saturday (I live in the UK where its been out for a while).

Was it just me, or was every suburban bus shelter advertising this film?
When going along a high street in a primarily residential area of London, I found that I was never far away from a Blood poster.
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:38 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
vash: It's not gonna wow you, but it does do the trick if you're looking for a quick action-horror fix. And it's good to reward studios which get these adaptations right, or at least "close enough".


Yeah, but I'm not a huge action-horror fan to begin with. I am glad to hear that it's stayed pretty true to the original; hopefully future anime adaptations will do the same.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:50 pm Reply with quote
Primus: I think it says more about the low standards the reviewers for DB: E have than it does about the quality of Blood. Rolling Eyes
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tygerchickchibi



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:54 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Primus: I think it says more about the low standards the reviewers for DB: E have than it does about the quality of Blood. Rolling Eyes


I'm going to have to agree with this.

DBE was pretty terrible, but I'm wondering what kind of reviewers could feel that Blood was worse.
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Primus



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:56 pm Reply with quote
Only reason I even brought up DBE's score compared to this movie was to see the reaction of some people. A lot of people, especially on this board, were very much "lol, worst movie of the decade, roflcopter,it deprived me of what little grasp of a childhood I still had" (to that I replied "I have some Uwe Boll movies I can lend you"). Atleast most of them got over the fact that Goku was played by a Caucasian Canadian. Rolling Eyes

I'd watch this movie, if it was actually in a theatre in Toronto. There is a smaller indie theatre that may play the movie nearby, since it fits their bill.
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Primus: Uwe Bollocks' movies don't rape my childhood. They rape my adulthood. Razz
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