Favorite Movie

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

Are you kidding??? Did you read the book? Armand was supposed to be a very youthful (teenage) vampire. Don't get me wrong, I love Antonio Banderas - he is damn hot!! But Armand was not Latino neither. It was total miscasting. That whole movie sucked 'cuz the casting was so bad. Louis was suppose to be a tall slim dark-haired man. Lestat was a blonde - Tom Cruise bit!!!! Julian Sands was Anne Rice's initial choice but they waited so long to make the movie JS had gotten too old. That whole movie was a total letdown to Anne Rice fans who had read the book. Worse book-to-film ever! I was living in NO when they filmed it - my house is in the movie - and everyone was saying how horirble it turned out. 13 y/o Kirsten Dunst as Claudia?? Claudia was supposed to be 5 years old. It sucked!

They took liberties and Rice initially was pissed and said so publicly. But, she later recanted and said she liked it.

I lived in NOLA when they were filming it. It was way cool.

As for the movie, I thought that while it was different than the book, it, on its own, was good if not great. But, to each their own.