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I’ve never seen the film Queen of the Damned, and I was thinking about maybe watching it and turning it into a drinking game. If I were to do this, would I die from alcohol poisoning? I’m curious about the movie, and just don’t think I could get through the movie without intoxication, but I also don’t want to shuffle off this mortal coil.

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(First of all: I do have movie!IWTV VC Drinking Game Rules maybe you can modify them, or enjoy them as-is, as-they-are)

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So I’ve only seen QOTD 1x all the way through, and I had people helping me through it by making fun of it via group rewatch, so I couldn’t come up with drinking game rules other than just buy one bottle of wine per person and work your way through it the entire time, maybe every 5 minutes take a sip?

Nonono wait, don’t die of alcohol poisoning  I can’t afford to lose a follower that way!  

Opening this up to everyone. Anyone have drinking game rules for QOTD?

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annericevcmexico:

‪#‎NightOfCuriosities

Did you know…?

I don’t now if someone else made this before o see it. But about the redeemable things   — and I think that the only one— of the movie “The Queen of The Damned”, was his soundtrack and the videos that they made for it.

Among them we could find the song “Forsaken”, interpreted in the album by David Draiman from the band Disturbed and in the movie by Jonathan Davis from the band Korn.

Who was filmed based on the silent film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” of the year 1920.

Considered the first expressionist film in history and one of the most influential German expressionist films.

Basically tells the story of Dr. Caligari and the sleepwalker Cesare, who are involved in a series of murders in a German mountain village.

You could read more information about the movie in the link below.
Wikipedia: The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari

And here is the comparison with the video “Forsaken”, in which Stuart Townsend in his interpretation of a brunette Vampire Lestat, made the character of “Cesare” in the music video.

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And i-want-my-iwtv there is the comparison 🙂

To the makers of that film:

That’s one of the details I did like about the QOTD movie; I don’t remember Lestat taking earphones/buds into his coffin in any of the later books, but he did in the film, and I can absolutely see him doing that, and forgetting them often.

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Yep, agreed. Since you mentioned movie!QOTD, I was reminded of Time Warner Cable’s eloquent synopsis of it:

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Riiiiight he unites with his counterpart, Akasha. RIGHT. That’s not what I’d call her.

Rutger Hauer is Lestat

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cloudsinvenice:

duendology:

Today Facebook played “I know what you did last spring summer” and reminded me what I did on May 29th but 4 years ago. I am  so grateful…

 Ok and this is what I did. Honestly, I completely forgot about it. And yes, nothing has changed in this department…

BUT let’s make something clear…Tom Cruise was brilliant as Lestat. 😉

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I  reposted this status on my wall, because of course I  got nostalgic and I am lestatized heavily. We had a lovely conversation with friends there. 

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It PAINS me that Rutger Hauer didn’t play Lestat back then. Just look at him, god damn. *thousand-yard stare*

^Agreed. VERY PAIN. Forever mourn that Rutger Hauer was too old when they were finally ready to make IWTV. The book came out in ‘76, and the movie languished in production hell until it finally started filming in ’93-’94 and like afg;huljl;!?kflifiimsfifghtl! *strangled anguish noises* 

Travis Fimmel also has a lot of Lestatuesque potential in him… Even Stuart Townsend did the best he could with the trainwreck he was given (who do I blame his accent on? Probably the director). At least Townsend had the right build, I’ll give him that. It’s another tough thing to achieve; Lestat would have been athletically muscular from all the running and hunting in the Auvergne, and then the acrobatics in Paris. Not a bodybuilder level of muscular. Plus he was like 21, remember.

BUT! YES! let’s make something clear…Tom Cruise was brilliant as Lestat. 😉

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khay-thedevil:

12-year-old Kirsten Dunst was made to look 5 years old in IWTV and technology has advanced so much since then so there is no excuse for Tom Cruise not to be Lestat again.

^Agrees aggressively

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sailor-sparkle-kicks:

i-want-my-iwtv:

vampchronfic:

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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vampiredevelopment:

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 ;] 

can you imagine if they re-do queen of the damned and the concert is amazing??( even though i really like the soundtrack to the first movie)

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YES I want this bc of reasons! He deserved so much more out of that concert. I would suggest that the people behind the scenes look at footage of ACTUAL 80’s BANDS for reference on how to do Lestat’s concert accurately.

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Hit the jump for my rambling about the soundtrack…

Honestly tho, the soundtrack to IWTV was mostly orchestral, and I would imagine a re-do of that trainwreck of a movie QotD would be more … modern rock? At least 80’s, because it takes place in 1985, IIRC… more along the lines of the G ‘n R’s Sympathy for the Devil cover that plays at the end (which I still prefer to the original, because I heard this cover first!)

Or Bruce Springsteen. We know Lestat and Louis both love the Boss, don’t even try to convince me otherwise. 

Elliot Goldenthal did an amazing job on the IWTV soundtrack, especially in how he perfectly captured the different characters: humorous/upbeat pieces like Lestat’s Tarantella and the more quietly disturbing Libera Me, etc. 

Side note: Speaking of The American Boychoir (they sung Libera Me), I’m reminded of the Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s Creep for the Social Network. That was sorta along the same lines.