Rise of the ... Who gives a figgy pudding?

[Base_Delta_Zero]

I really enjoy the Underworld franschise, don't get me wrong. And this is nothing against the up-coming prequel -it just happens to be timely- but why does every other movie/book/videogame inevitably involve the friggin' RISE of one damn thing or another?!

I can't take it any more. Open a dictionary fer chrissakes, people! Thumb through the thousands of words and try to come up with something a little bit original, or at least vaguely different. I have never once heard/seen a title which included the "Rise of ______" and thought to myself, wow, I really want to watch/read/play that. i just groan and often bypass the thing entirely, unless I get outside confirmation it's any good in spite of the title.

And no, "_______ Rising" isn't any better. It might even be worse.

Anyway, maybe I'm completely insane and everyone else thinks shit rising left and right is teh aw3sum. Just throwing this out there. (PS - I've found this happens most often in sci-fi/fantasy, thus why I posted in this forum)

 

[marillion]

"Lycan Revolt"?

"The Lycans Strike Back"?

"Revenge of the Lycans"?

Ok.. Sorry, I couldn't resist.. But I get what you're saying.. For me, it's the movies or TV shows that cap themselves with the "Endgame" title.. Ugh...

 

[Aragorn]

Underworld III: The Prequel That Sets Up Underworld IV If Enough Of You Pay To See This Movie.

 

[Smiley]

I'm not upset with the subtitle. Sometimes a generic but classy subtitle works best. The tagline, however, irritates me greatly. "Every war has a beginning." Does that sound familiar to anyone? The most famous recent example of that one is The Phantom Menace, and I don't think that's a prequel association that the Underworld people should want.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Underworld: Rise of the Figgy Pudding sounds pretty good.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

"Lycan Revolt"?

"The Lycans Strike Back"?

"Revenge of the Lycans"?

Ok.. Sorry, I couldn't resist.. But I get what you're saying.. For me, it's the movies or TV shows that cap themselves with the "Endgame" title.. Ugh...

Absolutely. "Endgame" or anything else chess-related.

"Dark _____"

"State of ______" (That new Russel Crowe movie looks good, but State of Play? Really?)

"something Latinish"

"over-used Bible quote"

"over-used Shakespeare quote"

"boring-ass one-word episode titles"

"over-wrought parapgraph-long episode titles"

It's never ending.

I'll beat up on Underworld some more. First one, good enough title. Sequel? Evolution. Ugh. How about Blood Sin? Or Death Dealer? Or anything really.

 

[3D Master]

I don't see the point of the movie though. It's basically one part of Underworld blown up into a full on movie; and I'm basically going:

- I already know the entire ffing movie from beginning to end; at least with Star Wars I only know what Anakin becomes, but not HOW he got there. But this movie... I know it all, beginning to end. What's the point?

 

[melltyun]

Hey, good stuff

 

[Yoda]

Well, after being reprogrammed by commercials before EVERY SINGLE BSG WEBISODE for this thing, if anyone's going to go see it, it'll be me.

I'm not going to see it.

 

[Extrocomp]

There was already a prequel to Underworld long before this movie. The novel Underworld: Blood Enemy by Greg Cox. From what I've read, the stories are very similar. And Greg Cox has also written the novelization of Underworld RotL. How does that work?

 

[Kolrad]

I have no idea what this is, but when I saw the commercial today on SciFi, I wasn't looking at the screen initially and was disappointed to find out it wasn't actually called Rise of the Lichens.

 

[Greg Cox]

There was already a prequel to Underworld long before this movie. The novel Underworld: Blood Enemy by Greg Cox. From what I've read, the stories are very similar. And Greg Cox has also written the novelization of Underworld RotL. How does that work?

That's easy. I just wrote completely two different versions of the same events!

 

[Skywalker]

There was already a prequel to Underworld long before this movie. The novel Underworld: Blood Enemy by Greg Cox. From what I've read, the stories are very similar. And Greg Cox has also written the novelization of Underworld RotL. How does that work?

That's easy. I just wrote completely two different versions of the same events!

That must have been easy as pie. "Let's see, a little change in dialogue here, fudge a few paragraphs there, and...manuscript away!"

 

[Greg Cox]

There was already a prequel to Underworld long before this movie. The novel Underworld: Blood Enemy by Greg Cox. From what I've read, the stories are very similar. And Greg Cox has also written the novelization of Underworld RotL. How does that work?

That's easy. I just wrote completely two different versions of the same events!

That must have been easy as pie. "Let's see, a little change in dialogue here, fudge a few paragraphs there, and...manuscript away!"

Alas, the two versions only have one scene in common!

 

[MNM]

I don't see the point of the movie though. It's basically one part of Underworld blown up into a full on movie; and I'm basically going:

- I already know the entire ffing movie from beginning to end; at least with Star Wars I only know what Anakin becomes, but not HOW he got there. But this movie... I know it all, beginning to end. What's the point?

The point is to flesh that aspect of the story out over the length of a movie, to give you more details about it and play it out properly rather than simply in flash backs.

 

[Greg Cox]

Plus, it's the only way to bring back all the characters who were killed off in the previous movies!

 

[3D Master]

Probably played by totally different actors defeating the point.

I much rather see an Underworld 3, where Seline and Werebat boy are in between the Lycans and the Vampires, and they have to find away to survive and even forge a truce or even peace.

 

[Greg Cox]

Probably played by totally different actors defeating the point.

Nope. Viktor, Lucian, Raze, and Tanis are all played by the same actors as before. Only Sonja has been recast.

(And Sonja was only glimpsed in a brief, blurry flashback in the first movie, so I'm not sure that really matters.)

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Wasn't this franchise sued for basically stealing its entire backstory from the World of Darkness RPG?

 

[Orintho]

I am happy they did not go with 'Underworld III'. I'll take 'Rise' over that.