Queen of the Damned
Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau
After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He's a rock star. And his awesome punk-chic sound has echoed around the glo...( read more
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DVD Released: August 27, 2002
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April 17, 2008I am so sorry she died and could not finish the movie but this movie is good I love most vampire movies.
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March 9, 2008''There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable. Living in the shadows, feeding in the darkness with only your own company to keep, rots into a solitary, hollow existence. Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you... ...( read more )
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February 2, 2008stands above other vampire genre films as a worthwhile investment of time
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July 4, 2009I'm a fan of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The movie, "Queen of the Damned" is a mixture of books "Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the Damned". The movie is very good. It's one of my favorites. Stuart Townsend was nice choice for Lestat, if we neglect the fact that almost every ... ...( read more )
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May 25, 2009~Never Yours - Lestat & Jesse Hate Site:
http://hiddenkiss.net/lestatjessehate.php
I hate the relationship because of how it is done and how it effects too significant things.
I go in detail with:
1. DISMISSES ALL IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS
2. NO CHEMISTRY & STORYLINE
3. SHE'S NOT HIS TYPE
4. BOOK? WHAT BOOK?
The fans of this relationship are blind to the way how in the least poorly the pair's storyline works and how much the relationship lacks any chemistry. We haters wish to open some eyes with voice of reason.
"This song really fits them!", "This song screams Lestat & Jesse!" NO, it does NOT. I hate Twilight too but Lestat & Jesse ship is even worse. Far more worse, since in this so-called "romance" a truly awesome and in-depth character (Lestat) suffers great injustice. It's actually offensive they try to pair him with someone like this film-version of Jesse, especially when the story doesn't even work with no chemistry -
and how could it when she's just not Lestat's type. -
May 7, 2009i love this movie my friend Amanda got me in to it and i love it i love Stuart Townsend and AAliya i miss her
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January 12, 2009One of the most overated movies that I think I have ever seen! I know that Aaliyah died while making this film & since filming was not complete they basically had to work around Aaliyah not being there & that's probably why this movie is so terrible!! I'm not saying that they should have refilmed the movie with another actress, keeping her in the film was probably the best thing, but the editing was VERY poor!!! The name of the movie certainly does suggest that the movie is about her, but she was barely in 30 minutes of the film.
This movie would likely have been much better if they had kept Tom Cruise as the main character for this movie too. I can't believe I wasted $8.50. -
December 17, 2008
Re-written critic again 'cause I can't decide how much i want to say here.
This film works and is good as a vampire film in general and I love it as such but this is a total disgrace to the Vampire Chronicles and the characters this film includes. It's obvious they never wanted to adapt the books and that they didn't even respect the books or the characters.
Even so I think the casting is great. Everyone does a great job - I especially adore Stuart Townsend as Lestat and dream that he could play a true version of Lestat - he'd be perfect. He highlights whatever little there is left of the true lestat in this film version. Same goes to Vincent Perez as Marius. Actually they are the only reason this film is worth watching over and over again, for me. That even though the Lestat & Marius relationship is f*cked up in this film, this is only one that has it in any way and Stuart and Vincent bring the father and son alive so well. You can see it underneath all the out of character bs they couldn't effect as they were just actors given a script to study.
The atmosphere is nice though not true to the books, it couldn't be since they slaughtered everything. The music is hooking and awesome.
I blame most of the bullshit this movie has, on the Lestat & Jesse pairing they wasted half of the movie with and it isn't even in the books at all and that pairing dismisses EVERY SINGLE ONE of the important relationships of Lestat's that DO exsist in the book. I f*cking HATE this film's ending even if I do like this film in general.
I first saw this before I had read anything of the books and I think that is why I love this as much as I do but have now after reading the books, a strong love-hate thing for this. This film is worth watching as a vampire fan but a nightmare for The Vampire Chronicles books' fans - BUT even to us this can be bearable if we just think before we totally trash this! SOME changes were fine, you know.
More on everything I think - on my Lestat & Marius Fan Site. Link in my channel's About Me section. -
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February 10, 2008yeah....this is my favourite movie....Stuart Townsend is perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!Basically everybody was incredible!!!!!!!1
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January 14, 2008This is a great movie, besides the fact that it came nothing close to the novel. THe movie in itself is great, very good vampire movie.
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November 17, 2007If perfection could be embodied in a movie this one would definatley take the trophy home!!!!!
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