I finally caught Underworld: Awakening on my VoD service. Come by and check out my review to find out if it’s worth your rental fee or snagging it on DVD/Blu-ray!
Underworld: Awakening stars Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as Selene, along with newcomers to the franchise of Stephane Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James and Lost Girl‘s Kris Holden-Ried.
The story goes, that humans have discovered the existence of the Vampire and Lycan species and it’s an all out war between humanity and the non-human species.
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The movie started out and I was surprisingly sucked in quickly in how the story was presented, and it was, for me, an interesting and fresh spin on the Underworld franchise.
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DC Entertainment landed a press release in my inbox at around 5:30 A.M. today (Feb 1, 2012) announcing a series of prequel comic titles based on the Watchmen franchise, called “Before Watchmen.” Check out the thoughts and details we have on it, here from the Cinema Static column on Brusimm.
The 2009 Watchmen film, to me, is a wonderfully detailed and gritty movie that takes a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a vigilante superhero. It took a look at their lives behind the scenes and introduced us to the idea that not all heroes are perfect. They have their… issues.
Working in an alternate timeline did not hurt the movie at all, but rather, helped the movie going world become a part of what was built up within the franchise of the Watchmen to gain a better foothold on fans’ imaginations.
(And yes, I’m not mentioning the comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that came out in 1986/87 that was the source of the movie, Watchmen, because I never read it. My only exposure to the franchise is via the Warner Bros. Pictures movie that was directed by Zack Snyder, and starred Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan, amongst many.
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