Too many of the movie's elements looked like they were directly taken from
those books and games. Too many for it to be coincidental or just tapping
into the same archetypical concepts.

larry

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> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I knew about the lawsuit, but just didn't see that much to
> crow about... the most fundamental concepts in the film are
> more archetypical than anything else.  It just seemed more
> "Romeo and Juliet" than "White Wolf" at any stretch.
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> Sure some of the concepts are shared, but those that are just
> didn't seem that original or innovative (to me at least).
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> Jim Davis
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> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:58 PM
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:37 PM
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> > Subject: RE: Weekend movies
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> > I did like "Underworld" and loved some of the concepts
> > (although much of it was clichéd), but was really let down by
> > the ending... the creature effects at the ends just really
> > didn't do it for me  at all and although they were trying for
> > "epic" with the battle it just deflated.
> >
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> Having being very familiar with the mythos behind White
> wolf's Masquerade
> and its companion RPG for werewolf's, it was painfully
> obvious what the
> movie was based on. Enough so that White Wolf Games tried to
> stop the film
> http://www.white-wolf.com/News/underworldrelease2.html
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> larry
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