"Entertaining story, sucky Hollywood prettyboy actors."
Can't say that the film made me want to read the book, but I bet the book was better.I went to New Orleans last spring and went on the Haunted History Vampire Tour (which I highly recommend to anyone visiting Nawleans). It was so fun and they made so many references to this movie, I had to see it in spite of the wretched actors peopling the story. I was happy with the story and the way it was played out in this film. Tom Cruise: yuck. Brad Pitt: ack! Kirsten Dunst (the little girl vampire): looked like a real pro next to the bumbling idiots previously mentioned.
The story is based on the idea that a vampire is giving an interview to a writer detailing his life since he entered "darkness." Brad Pitt is Louis, a whiny, emoting, pretty boy who was made into a vampire by LeStat (Tom Cruise). Seems Louis is unhappy with his new state of affairs and is reluctant to kill humans for blood. LeStat tries everything to win him over, including turning a little girl into a vampire to be a companion to Louis. The little girl realizes, after 30 years, the downfalls of vampirism. Namely that, although the world changes, vampires never can. Oh, the bane of immortality! Kirsten Dunst is pretty good as a spoiled, yet beguiling little monsterette.The story redeems the film from the handicap of overexposed, under-talented actors.
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