Day 18: Interview with the Vampire
Another big one I had never seen before, this is one of those movies that's so popular people often reference it even if they haven't seen it before, myself included.
While I certainly appreciate the excellent visuals and how grand in scale the story is, there's simply a lot of this movie that's unintentionally funny to me.
It mainly stems from Tom Cruise's performance, a bizarre casting choice from the start, who is over the top to the point of silly in every single scene he's in. His blonde wig and eyebrows don't help either. But I had several people on Facebook tell me to check out the book, because apparently this is how he's meant to be portrayed, though the author Anne Rice herself hated him in the role.
Brad Pitt doesn't really seem to care about the film, which, after doing a little background check, turns out he actually just didn't care about the film.
The best performance in the movie is by 12-year old Kirsten Dunst, who also happens to be the most interesting character in the story. But even then I wasn't always convinced by her, with some of her more dramatic scenes being just her shrieking, a method I'm sure she picked up from Tom Cruise.
It's a bummer that the acting isn't so great because there was so much hard work put into making every other aspect. The sets, costumes, lighting, cinematography, and both practical and digital effects are all stunning, they're just slightly muddled by weird acting choices.
The ending is especially silly, which wouldn't have bothered me too much seeing as how I was never that invested, but then they played that awful Guns N' Roses cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" and I was very annoyed.
Oh, but Christian Slater's great. He's always great though.
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