Movie night #1

The Company's Movie Night is back with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the pick for January. It's back but for how long I don't know. Somehow in the light of the current state of the economy, in the light of what happened two weeks ago, of saying goodbye to laid-off friends, and the uncertainty of the rest of the calendar year and the next fiscal year, somehow it doesn't matter anymore whether there will be another such movie night in the coming months. The US economy got the colds and every other economy is feeling it, too.

Anyway, back to Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. I haven't seen the first two movies in the trilogy so I don't know how well its story blended with the stories in the first two movies. As it is, though, its story was easy enough to understand and to follow even without understanding the deeper impact of the events in this movie to the first two movies, this one being a prequel. I had one slight problem with it. The story was very simple and not much was happening with it that I'm not really sure if it should have been made into a movie at all, except perhaps to get a bigger budget than it would have gotten if it were just a tv-movie or a miniseries.