A Curious Girl: Neverwhere was much cooler

Went to see Underworld with Ricci. Gloriously cliché in parts, and some wonderful Matrix references. Perhaps they could have renamed it Matrix Regurgitated.

I like going to the cinema with Ricci. He's the sort of person who'll happily make snide remarks about a film, so he was also happy to listen to mine :)

It rather reminded me of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, in that it was about a secret world with social systems and everything going on without our awareness. I mean, it was like Neverwhere but with more gun fights and fewer puns, and more pseudo science and less coolness. Seriously, Neverwhere is much, much cooler than Underworld.

Because -

Silver Nitrate is colourless, dammit!

Vampires don't have reflections, imbeciles!

You can't kill vampires with swords, not even if you *are* a vampire!

I thought werewolves were meant to be actual wolves, not men with hairless dog faces.

Selene is a daft name for a vampire who hates werewolves, since 'Selene' means moon - which implies werewolf rather than vampire.

So much for being vampires, where did the whole neck-biting thing go? So lame.

Calling werewolves 'Lycans' is confusing, since I thought they were talking about the algal/fungal things on gravestones at first.

It's a bit bizarre that they just gave a guy an enzyme to stop the transformation to a werewolf - the whole turning into a wolf at a full moon thing is meant to be magic, so it seems a bit pathetic that a handy enzyme managed to stop it.

Part of the plot is that someone can't survive a bite from both a werewolf and a vampire. So why do they insist on shooting each other with guns, when biting would be effective? Why does this never occur to them?? All an angry unarmed vampire needs to do is bite the werewolf -> dead werewolf.

I find it hard to believe that a vampire would take the Hogwarts Express.

But on the plus side

It rightly warned that men in silk shirts are evil. Fear them! :)

The plot (what little there was of it) was pleasantly twisty.

The chief werewolf bloke was definitely Sirius Black's brother.

*Sigh*. Well that's today's rant over with. I did get to watch the highly amusing Making of Toast: a Mockumentary *smiles*.

If I was any Shakespearian character, I think I'd be Yorick.

Thanks Sez, glad you like the doughnut story :D The sciencey guy said it was just water, but I think we are right to be skeptical.

David Blaine is much cooler than Underworld though.

Random word for today: subterranean

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