 
Went to see Queen of the Damned yesterday with a friend. I enjoyed it, but I think the reason which caused reviewer's distaste was that the scriptwriters had two of Anne Rice's novels to condense into a single film. Like my disappointment in Atlantis, there seems to have been much more intended than actually appeared on screen. As in Lord Of The Rings, there are plenty of in-references included for fans of the novels, but unlike LOTR there wasn't enough included for those unfamiliar with the original stories to enjoy it. Still, Queen of the Damned was good for eye-candy, without much of a message, and I don't think it attempted to be much more than that. So what if the characters had faint flashes of greater complexity than presented on the screen? Read the books.I did, however, notice the hints of Tale of the Body Thief as a sequel. I have to go re-purchase the novels to re-read them. All of my Anne Rice books were lent to a friend of my ex-wife's, a man who went by the alias ^*^vampire^*^ on the BBSes, and I never got them back.
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