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redfiona99Needless to say, I mean the Paul Bettany vampire-hunting warrior priest one, not the Linus Roache one.
The case for the prosecution:
Dear film, you are about vampire-hunting warrior priests, how are you so boring? No, really.
There is so much potential, like, I'm fascinated by the world building and it has Paul Bettany and vampires. I should love this film. And yet, it's boring.
Some of that is the script, which is leaden in places, and some of that is Cam Gigandet. I try not to rag on actors, but in scenes where we're supposed to believe he is terrified of what's happened to his lady love, he manages about as much fear and worry as when I think I've forgotten to put the milk back into the fridge.
The scene itself:
Is frustratingly in the gap between these two scenes.
Why the scene is so good:
Basically the Priestess has been moping after the Priest for the entire film. She adores him, but he's still in love with the girl he had to leave when he got press-ganged into the Priests (also, you know, they're both priests).
She's just pulled off the mad awesome stunt you see in the first clip, and everyone is recombobulating themselves afterwards, and the Priest realises what he's lost and saved and for the first time in the film he looks at her and actually *sees* her. It's just a marvellous bit of work. Also, you know, Priest x Priestess forever.
I think the reason I chose this, despite the fact that it's a little throwaway scene is that when I think of Priest, it's the thing I think of, the look on the Priest's face, not the explosions, or the stunts, or the fightscenes, just that look.
The case for the prosecution:
Dear film, you are about vampire-hunting warrior priests, how are you so boring? No, really.
There is so much potential, like, I'm fascinated by the world building and it has Paul Bettany and vampires. I should love this film. And yet, it's boring.
Some of that is the script, which is leaden in places, and some of that is Cam Gigandet. I try not to rag on actors, but in scenes where we're supposed to believe he is terrified of what's happened to his lady love, he manages about as much fear and worry as when I think I've forgotten to put the milk back into the fridge.
The scene itself:
Is frustratingly in the gap between these two scenes.
Why the scene is so good:
Basically the Priestess has been moping after the Priest for the entire film. She adores him, but he's still in love with the girl he had to leave when he got press-ganged into the Priests (also, you know, they're both priests).
She's just pulled off the mad awesome stunt you see in the first clip, and everyone is recombobulating themselves afterwards, and the Priest realises what he's lost and saved and for the first time in the film he looks at her and actually *sees* her. It's just a marvellous bit of work. Also, you know, Priest x Priestess forever.
I think the reason I chose this, despite the fact that it's a little throwaway scene is that when I think of Priest, it's the thing I think of, the look on the Priest's face, not the explosions, or the stunts, or the fightscenes, just that look.
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Date: 2018-09-30 12:57 am (UTC)