Thoughts on Underworld: Awakening

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So this movie finally hit the Redbox! A few jumbled thoughts right after viewing it.

First of all, I agree with other fans of the series that this movie is definitely the second best of the series. The story in UW3 is a touch more tightly written, but this was much better than I expected!

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Re: Whee! I should be sleeping but f. that!

[wrongly_amused]

-It's not that fentanyl is a bad drug, but Lane seems to be the type of guy to have his shit together. I'd have thought he'd prepared for that sort of crisis in advance - he certainly didn't seem to be panicking early on.

-I thought there was a rape-y undertone to Lane's treatment of Eve as well, particularly since the surgery is - what? Performing an invasive operation to remove her eggs for cloning? He's destroying her body by attacking her feminine element. The fact that he specifies her "coming of age" is particularly telling, since if he was really just after her genetic material, he could have removed the eggs at anytime without havin to wait for female puberty to occur. (The look on Quint's face when they're talking about it seriously skeeved me out. There was a moment where I actually thought they WERE going to forcefully breed her to produce some sort of lycan dominant hybrid. I have never been so relieved to hear somebody was going under the knife.)

I don't know if it's specifically intended as misogynistic by the writers, but I do think they were borrowing elements of that dehumanizing violence to represent how deep his hatred runs for vampire kind.

-I'd totally forgot about Markus and William's connection. Hmm. That could be an interesting argument for the possibility of Selene having conceived her naturally, if we go by the idea that the bond could be formed in the womb. If they release extra promotional material beyond this movie, I'd be interested to see if Eve's bond to Michael is dual-functioning as it is with Selene.

-I should have specified that I thought David was a Vampire/Corvinus hybrid, not a lycan/vampire one. :)

Also, while I'm talking to you about this, I just realized that the three sewer lycans that chased down the van must have been under Lane's orders. Which meant they must have been playing (and looking) the part of starved underlings in order to complete facade. Worst job ever.