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The wrong casting
The vampire-crowd are so thirsty for material that they often wind up reviewing the subject more than the actual film.

So here are my feelings: Ann Rice was right to have initially complained, publicly and bitterly, about the casting of Tom Cruise as LeStat-- and why she took back such criticism as the film was being released theatrically, I'll never understand.

I have nothing against Mr. Cruise, but he's all wrong -- in fact, terrible -- in the film. And Brad Pitt, duller and flatter than I'm accustomed to seeing him, is at least a tad better as Louis... But if you HAD to cast these two actors in "...Vampire", they're playing each others' parts!: Pitt would have been far better than LeStat than Tom. (As would several other stars).

The film is directed with some style, but the wrong casting keeps the movie a bit shrill and at arm's length the entire time.

A missed opportunity, nearly-ruined by Hollywood...

A Drama
First off I just want to point out to the person who was freaking out in a review about the movie not being scary and it's "pansy" yadda yadda yadda. This was NOT meant to be a horror film. Anyone familiar with Anne's work would understand that she writes drama and the characters in her stories are indeed mythical: witches, vampires, ghosts etc. If your goal is to watch a slasher movie go see The Mangler.

The truth is there ARE NO set rules as to wether or not vampires have a conscience. Any outrage because of the portrayal of a vampire with one is well. . .odd. Vampires don't exist. So if you actually KNOW any vampires who are mindless cold-blooded killers and are bound to stand stubbornly by your plea at how OFF the mark this movie is, please introduce us!

I actually do know real life vampires who are nothing more than hardcore goth and blood drinking mortals. Yet they too seem to have a conscience. Sound the alarm! Vampires with a conscience! Haha!

There is no doubt this movie is intended to be full of romanticism just as are Anne's literary works. It is unapologetically romantic and full of yes "mush" and emotion and *cough**cough* a battle with morality and conscience. This is the REASON I enjoy her work. If I wanted brain-dead horror I'd read something else, I'd watch something else-like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I was afraid to watch this movie when I first heard it was coming out because, like so many other fans, I had read Anne's work before she hit the mainstream and I had fallen in love with it and all it represented. I wondered how Hollywood could bring her prose to life. I was upset that Tom Cruise was Lestat yes, I was upset Brad Pitt was Louis yes, and I was even upset that Antonio Banderas was Armand (and I do LOVE Antonio!).

But after watching the movie the first time around I was overjoyed at how the characters were portrayed and I was totally blown away by Tom's attempts to capture the essence of Lestat. More than that I was really impressed with Kristen Dunst as Claudia. Even though I still had my power struggle with Antonio as Armand, if I forgot everything else about Armand-his history in the Chronicles-then indeed Antonio's portrayal captured Armand's persona of seduction and selfish destruction-and yes loneliness-the driving force of it all.

So, if you aren't afraid of romanticism and moral battles, of drama within an underworld of vampires, and you can allow yourself to get lost in the thoughts of starry nights, candle light, sexuality, and pain-then my friend this is the movie for you. You can always watch horror slasher films another night, they come by the truckload. Movies like this are few and far between.

INTERVIEW IS ANOTHER SEXY VAMPIRE MOVIE!!!!!!!
Interview With The Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt deliver erotic tale of two vampires that live in New Orleans and one trys to take over and control of the people and the other still trying to figure out his new life as a vampire.... This is a must have vampire movie and if you have read the vampire chronicles by Anne Rice... I think that Tom and Brad do a wonderful job in this erotic sexy vampire movie and i do have to say that this movie is one of my favorite vampire movies that is out now!!!!!!

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