I watched Interview with a Vampire again on TV last night. Of course it was pretty cut up, but I realized I haven't seen that movie in many years. And what a star studded cast! You got Banderas, Cruise, Pitt and that ...girl..what's her name...she gets to keep all the clothes she wears in movies...Dunst! That's it. So you look at the quality of that film and compare it to just the....glimpse that we are getting of Queen of the Damned...and it just doesn't compare. What we are seeing here is another case of sequel death. Queen just looks like utter, over the top, crap. I already hate Lestat...he's one of those teenage boys they scraped up from a rural highschool that wanted to be goth...but just couldn't quite make it (no doubt the gaming the medieval fantasies got in the way). Weak, pathetic-trying WAY to hard. And the Queen? I can't tell what she looks like, her mouth is open the entire time. I just hope it doesn't rain in the movie, or our poor vampires are going to drown to redeath.

But what makes me dread this even more is that Claudia Black in it. For those of you poor saps that don't know who Claudia is, please check out Farscape. I think she has a chance in the 'movie' business if she could only be sure she was going to get good parts that would DO something for her career. I just hope this movie isn't another Crow II, or any of the Batman's 3 and on. But then again, I there are thousands...nay millions of teenagers that are going to flock to this and say it was the best stuff they had ever seen, and soon we are going to have faux vampires running all over the place playing Vampire the Masquerade.