For my bad movie this week I watched the movie Vampire Academy which had a 11% on Rotten tomatoes. I chose this movie because just from the title I assumed it we be some stupid Twilight type teen fiction and the trailer was fairly confusing. The movie follows a girl named Rose Hathaway, who is a dhampir, and Vasalissa aka Lissa, who is a royal Moroi. Ok so a quick breakdown of the different types of people in this movie- Moroi:basically the good vampires, they have a normal lifespan and have magical powers; Strigoi: basically the bad vampires, they are undead vampires and prey on dhampir, humans and moroi; and Dhampir: half humans- half vampire they train to protect the Moroi from Stragoi. I used wikipedia a bit for that but you get the general message from the movie. So the movie starts off with a car crash involving Rose, Lissa and her family, only Rose and Lissa survive. This turns out to be a nightmare Lissa was having but Rose was also seeing so basically they're connected. They ran away about a year ago from St. Vladmir's Academy aka Vampire Academy. So these damper guardians from the academy show up and capture the girls, but first Rose beats up like three only to be stooped by one named Dimitri. The rest of the story follows the girls return to their high school and protecting Lissa from an unknown enemy. Basically a cross between Mean Girls and Twilight. On a positive note on more than one occasion it makes fun of Twilight and vampire fan culture.
I think the acting was fairly decent and the story line for the Vampire genre was actually pretty good. Note this is based off of the first book in a series. The plot was very very rushed and it switched from scene to scene very fast. The editing and special effects were fine but nothing to be proud about. It had some typical cliches and very cheesy moments but it wasn't the worst I've ever seen. I think the cinematography was pretty decent and the setting at the Academy was very pretty. I don't think this movie deserved as low of a rating as it got, I'd probably give it a 5/10 mainly because it actually did keep my interest and it wash't near as bad as Twilight.
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