Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994): A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger. (7.5)
Director: Neil Jordan
Writers: Anne Rice (screenplay), Anne Rice (novel)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas
Okay, so people who like vampire stories would love this. Me? You see one blood-sucking scene and you've 'em all; that's my take on the whole vampire theme. I know that I'm missing quite a lot of nuanced relationship details between the vampires in the movie version versus the book, but ... meh. Lots of inconsistencies though, so, they have a hunger for blood, but they live forever, but they die from fire, or by drinking blood of dead, but not quite, and from sunlight but the one who doesn't want to be a vampire can't kill himself ... ugh, there's an easy way out; just walk out into the sun. Whatever. Yeah, Rutger Hauer (or more precisely Roy Batty in Blade Runner) would have made a better vampire than Tom Cruise (of jumping on Oprah's couch fame). My Rating: 6.5
