Another Thing About Underworld

I neglected to mention this in my original comments, but here’s another detail that irked me. Halfway through the film, an elder vampire is awakened after a couple hundred years (I’m not clear on exactly how long, but it’s been a while). Not only does his accent seem to migrate from Dallas, Texas to Sussex, England, but he speaks with modern lingo. Has he been listening to Berlitz language tapes? Where are all the prithee’s and alas’s and the like? And isn’t he a little shocked to see cars and guns and computers and such?

I was reminded of this thought by this excellent review from NewMoanYeah: ‘It’s like the AV club and the Young Astronauts are having a turf war, only no one has any batteries or rocket fuel. Also, there are a lot more long overcoats.’