While guessing a movie, I came across a shot from an unknown film of the 11th year with Kristen Ritter (favorite freaky Bitch from apartment 23). Yes, there is also Sigourney in the lists was listed - can not pass.
Remained satisfied - Ritter and Silverstone created a light, ironic duo of blonde vampires, who lives in the rhythm of the Big Apple, visits the club of anonymous bloodsuckers, tied up with a human, drinks cocktails, studies at the evening and mastered social networks.
Director Amy Heckerling in the first half of the film presents a girlish vampire farce, which could easily turn into a successful comedy series like Two Girls on a Meadow, Predator City or Don't Trust Christina Ritter from Apartment 23. If you get any of the above, vampires will go hurrah. There are many jokes, comic situations and Dracula knitting sweaters.
I would draw a parallel with What We Do in the Dark, but there the banter over vampires trying to keep up with the progress that has gone far ahead has brought the viewer to the final without changing the style. And "Vampires" somewhere from the equator go into melodrama with a kind, naive and slightly sad ending. I'm sorry, absolutely. Cocktails made of rats were promising.
A good funny movie with nice actresses that swerved halfway from the cult vampire comedy.
In the process of watching this film, they did not leave such thoughts: what nonsense? Why? That's ridiculous! What nonsense? What was that? Is anyone laughing?! I don't. The director’s vampire comedy, originally from New York, attracts attention because of a pair of actresses. The film itself is highly questionable. I love the movie "I'll Never Be Yours" with "Michelle Pfeiffer" so I expected something interesting and fun from this film. I got all the stupidity and "vampire" mud.
Meet the two main characters in this story. They are vampires and live in the modern world. Dead girls love the way they "live" and get high every night. Everything collapses in an instant when their immortality is threatened, and one greedy and domineering vampire does whatever she wants. The girls start a war with her.
If it was a comedy, it's not funny at all. If it’s a horror movie, it’s not scary at all. So what was it? When I saw the movie, I couldn’t believe my eyes. They showed such nonsense and nonsense that I just wanted to forget forever. Almost every scene is fake, the dialogue is played, and the special effects... They're just awful. The movie is like something disgusting and unnecessary, as if it was taken out of a trash can. That’s where he belongs.
The vampire was played by such American actresses as Alicia Silverstone and Kristen Ritter. As for Silverstone, she took place as an actress in her youth, and pleased the viewer with a couple of wonderful roles. But Ritter is a loser actress, playing constantly secondary, unnecessary roles. Either way, I would give both actresses a Golden Raspberry as the worst actresses and the worst duo. Both of them were so overplayed that it looked even unpleasant.
From a seemingly comical, vampire story was a complete failure of directing and acting. The film is so stupid and unnecessary that it is better to forget. The only thing that somehow brightened up the movie is participation in it Sigourney Weaver. The scenes with her at least somehow animated him, but the comical performance of the actress is ignored due to the weak directing again, the fresh, slick atmosphere, and God, the most terrible special effects I have seen. The final scene killed me. I couldn’t believe it was released and given the green light to go to the movies. It was a complete failure.
“Vampires” is a comedy horror movie with a taste of melodrama in 2011, to which I say no. Cinema to the extreme slick and sweet, stupid and empty, disposable and eerily dubious quality. Don’t worry, it’s not worth it.
I haven't seen anything with Alicia Silverstone in a while. And so, the choice fell on this tape, as it has not yet been familiarized.
In this film, Alicia (who, by the way, looks worse and worse, alas) plays a real vampire who lives with her friend in a city of ordinary people. They have friends in this town. Even the Anonymous Vampire Club and stuff. Live, have fun, walk around clubs, meet with young people. And all would be fine, but on the threshold of their carefree walking life stands true love. In general, the film has everything to please the girls.
However, if I were asked what age rating to put this picture, I would think hard. Here's why. In the film there are explicit hints of sexual relations, but in everything else there is a feeling that this picture is for girls of the age of twelve. There is so much humor and naive plot.
Honestly, I got the impression that I watched some long series of some stupid American TV series. What was missing was the annoying behind-the-scenes laughter when one of the characters was joking. I thought I was joking.
It is a pity that a talent like Silverstone is wasted on ridiculous pseudo-comedies.
One of the easiest (not lightweight) and pleasant comedies. Both main characters are unusually cute and cute, despite their essence. And although there are good vampires here – “vegetarians” and bad ones, I want to say that people are different. It's people, because the idea of this movie is that what kind of vampire you are depends on what kind of person you were. It is a very good idea to show the transformation into Children of the Night from this side, and even with humor.
The main antagonist can be considered a slightly survivor of the mind from antiquity Cisseus (brilliant Sigourney Weaver): she is kind of like the mother of our heroines Goody (Alicia Silverstone) and Stacey (Christine Ritter), Sir, that is, a vampire capable of converting. Tsisei has problems with her personal life, and she exploits the girls in every possible way so as not to die of boredom.
There were a lot of fun moments for us and Malcolm McDowell. He made such a peaceful grandfather, a wise lover of knitting sweaters.
The filmmakers did not do without the Van Helsings. And here, of course, not without a love line.
Aesthetically beautiful looks the second “I” of girls, when they apply persuasion or just demonstrate fangs.
And what is most interesting, even here, where it would seem that everything resembles a parody of vampire films, a rather high-quality parody, a serious topic is put forward - the burden of eternal life, the inability to live a lifetime with those who are dear. This is the oppression of Goodie, who is stuck in her past and twists the memories of the past in her head. She finds it difficult to move forward with the restless Stacey: partly because Goody is a hundred years older than her, and partly because the best of times are in the past. Such an unexpected depth and reason to think.
Once upon a time in the century before last, the beautiful Goodie was bitten by the vampire Siserus, but Goodie did not eat people like the rest, but peacefully fed on the blood of rats, pigeons and other animals. Other vampires followed suit. And in 1992, she received another “worked material” not rested during this time Cizerus, Stacey’s friend, also converted to a vampire. The two of them survived until 2012. At night, they went to goth parties, listened to The Cure and fooled around, and during the day they slept in coffins. But suddenly Stacey has an affair with cool pepper... by the name of Van Hellsing. And at the same time again comes to the city of Siserus, to a little limitless. And her cases are usually investigated by Van Hellsing Sr. Which ends up making some pretty dangerous crossings.
Amy Heckerling is the director of such great comedies of the last century as European Holiday, Safe Times at Ridgemont High and Night at Roxberry. But, having reached the graying of the new millennium, Amy lost her grip. That "Loser" with Jason Biggs, that "I'll never be yours" with Michelle Pfeiffer so nothing to please and could not. In the new project, a little unexpected for her, but to the banality timely, the director decided to climb into the territory of bloodsuckers. When they are already only lazy after “Twilight” does not suck. Here the whole action is played out in the framework of comedy. They make fun of modern realities, to which 200-year-old vampires have to adapt every time, sneer at Alcoholics Anonymous and Chinese, deftly throw geek terms, and touch on standard “black” jokes about bloodletting and torn limbs. There are two Van Hellsings here.
But that's not funny. There are problems. First of all, there are many jokes, but most of them are completely past, because they are very simple, as in Sex and the City. Apparently, this is the result of the second problem that the movie from the very beginning seems to be some kind of protracted episode of a pop, not too gilded (special effects are rather crappy) series on the life of vegan vampires in modern New York. All that's missing is laughter behind the scenes. It makes you instantly tired. I am sure that some “True Blood” presented this topic at times more thoroughly.
It would be sad if it weren’t for the little joys. In "Vampires" there are often stars of the past: Sigourney Weaver (her role, although important, but rather stupid), Alicia Silverstone ("Explosion from the past"), Kristen Johnston ("3rd planet from the sun"), Meredith Scott Lynn ("Night in Roxberry") and cool Malcolm McDowell in the role of elderly Vlad Tepes. And the young leading actress Kristen Ritter is a copy of Winona Ryder. Yes, and the game matches.
In general, it was quite a failure, but not uninteresting. And it would be better not to shoot on this topic at all. Now this movie even missed everything in the world will not surprise.
Vampire Goody (Silverstone), who was converted as early as 1840, in the early 1990s meets the vampire Stacey (Ritter) - a young club girl who saves her from eternal vampire boredom, drags her to clubs and teaches her how to use a computer and the Internet. Having found a “brave new world” in all its colors, Goody re-experiences the long-lost joy of life, and everything goes well, until Stacey falls in love with a handsome guy from the Van Helsing family.
I will not pull the cat by the tail: to all fans of the vampire movie genre, but not to fans of the sequels of Twilight (the first film was quite nothing), watch - be sure!
This is a light and piercing female vampire comedy, shot in the style of the series “Don’t believe the bitch from apartment 23” (from there Kristen Ritter migrated here). Everything is built on a funny assumption: vampires have lived among us since the beginning of time, but most of them hate the idea of killing a person. They feed on rodent blood (mice and rats are used as packs of juice with straws stuck in them for drinking) and go to meetings of the “Group of Anonymous Bloodthirsty”. And to turn a person into a vampire can only "special" ancient vampire individuals, which are called "strains".
Of course, in the course of all the traditional vampire paraphernalia - sleep in coffins, show teeth and thirst for blood. Not without the genre of disgusting scenes (there are several of them) – so watching with children is not recommended.
But at the same time, the film brings a lot of new things to the genre - in order not to reveal secrets, just say that Vamps is "Sex and the City", where Carrie and her friends are vampires.
The film is definitely inspired by a “new reading” of the vampire theme in Denis Ganzel’s Taste of the Night. The situation is very similar: there is an old (tired of fuss) vampire and there is a very young, sticking out from sex and raves. And there is a “mommy” – a vampire strain, who converted both: in this role Sigourney Weaver brilliantly performed. Even the emotions that these two films evoke are very similar: only “Taste of the Night” is extremely serious and dramatic, and “Vampires” from the very beginning declare themselves as an easy, almost weightless movie for laughter and entertainment.
This entertaining approach is the main drawback of “Vampires”: by undertaking to talk about really exciting things in the vampire theme, the film devalues them with its own hands, reducing them to flat jokes and a general idiotic mood. Nevertheless, if you look closely, you can see behind the outer sarcastic shell an interesting reading of the topic.
What is the main thing: to prolong your life or to catch moments of real happiness, even at the expense of life, through burning it? What is the point of living without true friends who always support and enrich you, showing the world as they see it, and learning how you see it? “Vamps” is a touching, clutching something in the chest of a movie about friendship, which shows that the main thing is not how many breaths you took in your life, but how many times you caught your breath.
Vampire was only seen for two reasons: vampires are now (or still are) a popular subject. And of course – Alicia Silverstone, the actress evokes nostalgia from everyone who remembers and loves the video clips “Aerosmith”, thanks to which, this girl gained her popularity in the mid-90s. After Alicia began to have problems with excess weight, she began to be ignored by the producers and she disappeared from the big movie for a long time. In the movie “Vampires” Alicia looks great, but still you can see that she is a little loaded. The current Alicia, a direct road to Sex and the City, change one of the elderly and lustful friends who are no longer helped by either plastic surgery or hormone pills.
When looking at the Vampires poster, you can’t be wrong about what the story is. I immediately recall the numerous covers of translated books on the topic of sexual relations between people and bloodsuckers, written mainly by female authors or men hiding behind female pseudonyms. How many are written, but this film is not a film adaptation. The seediest screenwriter to adapt such epigones is to disrespect himself. Enough with the script brother Lisa Jane Smith, whose first novel The Vampire Diaries is about ten minutes of one series. You can write no worse than epigones, but in this case, for some reason, it did not work out better.
Throughout the film “Vampires” — I was haunted by the thought: why make a bad movie when you can make a good one?
Well, really, wasn't it still at the stage of conception that it turned out to be a mess? Who needs all that pink snot about vampire psychological problems? Any seriousness in the vampire subject threatens to be cast into vulgarity. It seems that the debut script was written by an old maid, a fan of “Twilight”.
One smart woman, having written the fan fiction “Twilight”, after criticism for excessive sexuality, threw out all vampires and turned out a realistic novel “50 Shades of Grey”, which broke the records of “Twilight”. Vampires suck ...
"Vampires" is a depressing comedy. It's such a gloomy satire that you never want to laugh. After “The Cabin in the Woods”, which, as they say, buried the horror genre, it would be nice to make a film that sums up all this vampire orgy, under the sign of which the mainstream decade passes.
The film is reminiscent of one of the series of an endless series created to score airtime. The strangest thing is that it starred quite good actors - from the two main characters, from whom you can not take your eyes off, to Sigourney Weaver.
Out of respect for Sigourney Weaver's dyed gray hair: