The Economy Must Be Worse Than I Imagined....

I understand that America is going through a pretty bad phase right now and I feel sorry for all who are affected by this time of crisis, I really do. And when major billion-dollar companies can crumble overnight, what's to stop big machines like Hollywood from lowering their costs for advertising, marketing, and overall film budgets?

That being said, there's a difference between lowering costs and deliberately being cheapskates. Take the new French poster for Underworld : Rise Of The Lycans, for instance. We see the death-dealing vampire chick and then we see the werewolves in the background. At first glance I knew there was something ver familiar about those werewolves and I also knew that it had something to do with Van Helsing. I looked up the Helsing posters and lo and behold; same werewolves!

I'm not kidding, folks. Whoever markets this gig actually took the werewolves out of the Helsing poster and placed them in the Underworld poster. I don't call that budgeting, I call that being cheap and stupid. I liked Underworld, had fun with Underworld 2, and wanted to give this Underworld prequel a go...well not anymore. I'm not spending my cash on something that dares to look embarrassingly low-budget to the world. Either they borrowed the werewolves from the Van Helsing poster, or the same people are handling marketing for both flicks, or they just used images off the same library. Whatever the reason, they suck.

And now this movie sucks.