I would rather have watched these outtakes than the movie, tbh.
LMAO Ok, so I actually used to LOVE this awful movie when it first came out. Feel free to judge, I was in only 7th grade at the time, and most films with darker themes were still new and fresh and exciting to me back then (thinking about it, the movie may have been my gateway into the VC universe). My opinion of it has changed pretty drastically since then. But I created some pretty fond memories with the friends I was close with in those days, when we would watch it together, so I can’t bring myself to hate it entirely. XD
But yeah, I really get the biggest kick out of seeing actors dressed up, but out of character, having a blast on movie sets. And as atrocious an adaptation (and, well…movie) as it is, Queen of the Damned’s gag reel is one of my favorites of any movie’s that I’ve seen. I’ll admit some of this has to do with nostalgia, but I think it’s mainly because as I watch it, it seems like the actors were frequently losing their shit during filming, and even themselves collectively going through feelings of WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN WHAT DID I SIGN ON FOR, and it just makes me laugh how SO DONE they look, at times. I’m probably doing a lot of projecting here, but this is all just the impression I take away from what little we’re shown. And the cheesy big band music they chose to go with it just makes me love it that much more.
This is all only my own personal experience of course. I certainly don’t blame VC fans for hating it. TL;DR, this movie’s awful, but I could watch its ridiculous gag reel 5EVAR
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Kitty: Do you like my outfit?
Gob: Not as much as I like what’s underneath it.
Kitty: Gob!
Gob: No, I need your chair. Get up.
Episode 1×05 “Visiting Ours”
I can feel weird spending so much time staring at Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise’s faces, but then I do a QotD meme and I’m ready to run back to the IwtV movie. It’s not that Stuart Townsend isn’t hot, it’s that he’s blatantly not blonde.
Never feel weird about staring at the wildly more correct faces of the IWTV cast ;]
We live in a world of accidents finally, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky-such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.
the Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned
“Sometime during the night he died… His pencil was lying on the coverlet, and there was a piece of paper – the flyleaf of his precious book – crumpled under his right hand.
Gently, she closed his eyes, and kissed his forehead. He’d written something on the piece of paper. She lifted his cold, stiff fingers and removed the paper and read the few words he’d scrawled in his uneven spidery hand:
IN THE JUNGLES – WALKING.
What could it mean?”
– the Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
the Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned
If Lestat were to design a wedding, what do you think he would do?
For whom? I think Lestat would be like David Tutera, he would do a magnificent job as a wedding planner!
If it’s for himself & Louis (what, are they gonna be King & Queen of the Damned now?! Is Louis gonna be QUEEN OF THE DAMNED???):
- lots of candles,
- sparkles,
- glitz and glamour,
- tastefully done,
- and cameos,
- and the wedding invites would be from Calligraphuck.com:
I heard that they made QOTD just because they were going to lose the film rights if they didn’t put one together in a hurry.
Sounds like a good reason still I wish they’d lost the film rights instead of presenting us with that horrible mess i mean honestly ugh.
Tom Cruise was the best Lestat. Townsend was a try hard.
In short: YES.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
However, Townsend’s fail is not all his fault. He was doing what the director told him to do, he was made up the way the director wanted, and he was working from a terrible script. Unfortunately it was a trainwreck of a movie.
IWTV had Anne Rice on the script, working closely with the director to keep her vision as close to the book as possible.
Also, Tom Cruise did his homework. He read IWTV, TVL, (and presumably QOTD and TOBT bc at one point he was trying to star in and get TOBT made). He’s been at this longer, he’s a more practiced actor, he just *got* Lestat better.
DESPITE all those ppl who still complain that he was too short, bc honestly, to judge an actor by his height, something entirely outside of his control (he did wear boots w/ some vertical assistance) is so narrow-minded and other related complaints so don’t even get me started.
I don’t know what the deal was with QOTD, but they clearly didn’t care for canon. That was the real source of its failure, not just it’s terrible Lestat.
And I understood that in her own way Akasha was a monster. I was a monster as well. I had no intention of creating a devotion for her. She was a secret. And from the moment she came into my hands she and her consort were most truly
Those Who Must Be Kept.
I-want-my-IWTV 