If I’m on an “unofficial” vampire romance strike – and I say unofficial there because while I haven’t acutally made a concious decision to stop buying/reading them, I do tend to shy away from them a lot lately - I suddenly felt the need this weekend to record both Underworld and Underworld: Evolution on TIVO. Then watched both of them, one right after another. And really liked them. 

I’ve tried telling myself that it was the werewolf element that drew me. Not the vampire, uh, stuff.

Uh-huh.

And you know what really gets me? Put the two movies together and they’re a pretty good romance. Complete with a satisfying happily ever after – always assuming they can figure out exactly what the heck they both now are.

Very strange. Me, not the movies.

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  2. dark vampire romance is an oxymoron. the fact that women write romance tells you it won’t be dark. unless someone like Stuart or Bishop decides to come up with something.

    regular vampire fiction is dark and full of goodies mehehehe. but lately I am even having a hard time finding trully bad vamps.

  3. First, Mailyn – please share dark vampire romances if you know of any. Pretty please?

    Bev – I’m with Ames in that I wasn’t thrilled with the second one but I wonder if watching them back to back would keep up the sexual tension. I was missing that in the second movie. Hmmm, looks like I will need to rent them both and do a marathon 😉

    I generally won’t watch vampire movies / horror movies because they are too gory for me. The first Blade movie was brutal because one of the vamps continued to live but he was all torn apart and everything. Hmmm, now I want to do a Blade marathon!

    Other than that, no horror movies for me.

    CindyS

  4. They probably appealed to you because they weren’t dark. LOL. Most of the vampire novels/movies as of late have de-fanged the vamps. I guess not everyone likes the dark vamps. I’m in the minority it seems. Then again, I love action movies best of all. The more bloody the better!

    I’m a normal person, I swear.

    ;-P

  5. Ames: I guess I liked both of them about equal with maybe EVOLUTION tipping the scales just a tad bit. The only thing that really bothered me about it was that the beginning was very confusing.

    Mailyn: I should probably clarify that I don’t really read “real” vampire romances in the first place, unless one counts Feehan’s Carpathians as real vampires. ;p And I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to read them. I have read a couple of the funny vampire romances but usually they’re sort of psuedo-vamps, too. I just don’t do dark. So, does that mean that maybe U & U:E appealed to me becuase they weren’t “real” vampires either? 😀

  6. Funny because I thought the movies were so damn stupid but that’s what happens when you have read and watched so much about vampires all your life. At some point you get cynical and demanding. LMAO. Although I do like the way the vamps look with the leather and the blue eyes. Very cool. But I am dissapointed with most of movies and books about vamps. They suck! No pun intended. LOL.

    Have you read Rene Lyons, Midnight Sun? Highly recommended.

  7. I loved Underworld! Not so much Evolution. I thought they would have played up the hybrid aspect more. And I thought it was so cheesy when Michael unzipped Selene from her leather suit. LOL

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