why why why??? this is so sad.

[gouniara]

why why why did they cut this movie to 88 mins?

I just reread the missing stuff psyclops and that other guy were describing about and the movie makes real sense and almost fill in all the plot holes everyone was complaining about!

I am definately 100% sure people would like this movie more and rate it much better if all these stuff was back in.
Not that it would fix the bad acting, or dialogue (i didnt mind it myself), but it would fill in all the gaps which made the movie suffer more from.

If you look at all the reviews, its the big plot holes that made everyone feel this movie seemed stupid!

i do feel all these scenes described needed to be in the film!

1. how violet got the virus. (I wanted to know that violet was a nurse caring for people and that she got her virus by blood of a hemophage through her eyes etc. That her husband abandoned her after this and he wasnt killed like its said in the movie. You feel more for her, her anger, her motivations, why she cannont connect with garth etc...
2. the introduction to hemophagia, (explains why people feard the desease in the first place! cause they die in 10 years, and need blood transfusions all the time. which also explains why violets shoots her leg with blood after she vomits. Without this story it seems stupid why someone would be bothered to be superhuman! I know i wouldnt bother myself to have hemophagia which would make me strong and faster than others! i would do anything to get infected!

3. the scene with her husband and the new wife. explains violet's reaction to garth and people wouldnt say her line was stupid. plus gives more time to take it to the next scene when she wants to kill herself.

4. the scatterproof guard scene, needed to explain how she started crashing all this glass in the first place.

5. shooting that guys arm, and nerva contacting the blood chinois explains why they were up there in the first place waiting for V and builds up to the point.

6. Six telling V to show him her teeth and tell him she grinds them down. Explains why she hasnt got vampire teeth in the whole movie till the point she is resurrected and how she tricked the doctors to pass as a human (except the change of her blood characteristics, which was explained in the film) when she was collecting the parcel in the beginning of the movie.

7. Daxus obssesive compulsive disorder, although u can guess it in the movie with all these things he does, its far more explained by adding that scene with his men sanitising everything for him too.

8. All the missing bits from the action!


I am pissed off for not seeing all these, i can see why wimmer is too!


I WANT THE DIRECTORS CUT NOW! other directors cuts dont do anything to a studio cut film just add some cool stuff here and there, that dont need to be there in the first place.

In UV's case though this would definately make the film more complete!

How could they do that? Damn you Sceen Gems.

I am sure you'll get back what u did to this movie somehow.

[gouniara]

Another thing i was thinking about, and almost everyone was complaining about since the rough cut is this question.

why the hemophages need to have fangs if they dont suck blood? isnt it stupid?

well my answer is this: the only reason i would think of why wimmer used fangs in this movie, is because he needed something that would differentiate the humans from the deseased population. Thats the only characteristic that shows someone is a hemophage. the fangs! how else could the humans tell who's a hemophage or not?

so my point is the use of the fangs wasnt stupid at all, it is justified.

[kaitenproductions]

but couldnt they just grind them down like UV?

[TheKaiser]

gouniara said:

Another thing i was thinking about, and almost everyone was complaining about since the rough cut is this question.

why the hemophages need to have fangs if they dont suck blood? isnt it stupid?

well my answer is this: the only reason i would think of why wimmer used fangs in this movie, is because he needed something that would differentiate the humans from the deseased population. Thats the only characteristic that shows someone is a hemophage. the fangs! how else could the humans tell who's a hemophage or not?

so my point is the use of the fangs wasnt stupid at all, it is justified.

That is not justification at all. Its called contrivance.

I've yet to see the film actually (no time), but I was never a fan of the vampire angle from the get go. In one of the clips online it showed hemophages being labeled with red bands (allusion to the Stars of David the Jews were first to where from WW2), that's all Wimmer would need if using fangs was a means to saying whose a hemophage (sp) and who isn't.

I think its interesting that Wimmer took the vampire stereotype and played around with it as serious illness, but the teeth sounds unnecessary. Probably worked better on paper then in practice.

I'll check it out soon and get my thoughts on the film.

I'm not expecting too much with the negativity I've seen around. I know Wimmer is capable of some good stuff (though I've been critical about his writing), and I'm sure traces of it will shine through patches of UV. But from the get go I wasn't too interested in the concept, just hoping for some fun action (but with the studio cut, i'm highly doubting being satisfied)...

[jackmode211]

the fangs are just a symptom of the disease.....

....they dont suck blood but they do need transfusion because thier bodys cant regenerate blood platlets.....

[kalaong]

The novelization has an intruiging bit of pseudoscience saying that the virus was the source of vampire legends-but it was then altered by government scientists to make it stronger and-accidentally-more communicable. The only problem I can see with this movie is that it was edited.

[tjfbryant]

exactly....

;D

[CGenro]

kalaong said:

The novelization has an intruiging bit of pseudoscience saying that the virus was the source of vampire legends-but it was then altered by government scientists to make it stronger and-accidentally-more communicable. The only problem I can see with this movie is that it was edited.

yes that`s exactly what I thought. The book made more sense in the way the virus was explained. The media labeled them "Vampires" becuase that`s what society needs to do to everything. They didn`t suck blood but because of the fangs and sensitivity to light it created this myth about them.