Queen of the Damned Movie Reaction Babyyyy

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

Crack open a cold one and take a drink every time I roll my eyes or burst out laughing 🍻

[@roderick8167]

Are you trying to kill us ? 😂😅

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@roderick8167 you can switch to water ten minutes in 😁

[@roderick8167]

@@AutumnBottomBrown good idea 😁😂

[@DaysieRose]

On it.

[@toninannerobinson-io6bq]

WWDITS, series, movie or both?

[@eparvier]

The best thing that came from this film was filming in Melbourne and kicking off Sam Reid's lifelong quest to become Lestat.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@eparvier SO TRUE

[@haileydixon7239]

The ONE reason we celebrate

[@mlandry491]

facts!

[@valeriag9443]

Wait is that really the reason?

[@user-io2ts6mj9n]

and we are so lucky for it 😊

[@ElizabethHoward]

Aaliyah does slay, and the soundtrack was fire at the time. That's... that's the good things. Those are them.

[@ElizabethHoward]

"Spiderman that bitch!" also needs to be a sticker, please.

[@psychedelicpegasus7587]

Another cool thing was they didn't use crowd duplication or shoot the same group from different angles for the concert. That was 3000 goths and alt kids rocking out to playback in a quarry near Melbourne. They filmed entirely at night in low temperatures in skimpy outfits and they gave it their all the entire time. Even though it wasn't his voice in the movie and the mic wasn't on, Stuart Townsend started really singing and lost his voice because the energy from the audience was so incredibly electric. Gotta respect that at least.

[@nebulous8389]

Aliyah was great!

[@Sirena_Luna]

This

[@Heyitslia21]

YUP

[@flightoffools3966]

I love this movie - let me tell you why - twelve years ago I was hopelessly in love with my best friend (she knew this and told me was not gay and didn’t reciprocate my feelings but wanted to stay close friends) - it was around Halloween and we were watching this movie together. In the middle of the movie, inexplicably, SHE KISSES ME. That was 12 years ago. We got engaged two weeks ago. When I asked her why she chose that moment to kiss me, she says she doesn’t know and didn’t plan it and didn’t even really know she wanted to until that moment. So thank you - Queen of the Damned - for kickstarting my relationship with the love of my life. We’ve tried to rewatch it a few times for fun but never actually make it to the end of the movie 😉

[@icyravens]

@@flightoffools3966 You know what, Internet Stranger? Your story has singlehandedly redeemed the existance of this movie in my eyes, and I've always considered it a blight on all vampire media across time. So, a wholehearted but still somewhat wincing Thank You. 🖤🩸🦇🧛‍♀️❤️

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@flightoffools3966 ok this is so cute, congratulations

[@qianahill515]

@@flightoffools3966 this is the best story related to this movie I've ever read. Congrats!

[@Heyitslia21]

Nothing like bad movies kicking up that romance! CONGRATULATIONS BTW! 😍😍😍🤣

[@evangelinasmusic]

That’s so cute!

[@TigglesToggles]

This movie is iconically 2000's, people will dig it up in 300 years and know exactly what 2000-2008 was like

[@Heyitslia21]

YES!

[@tvaddict6623]

That - um- blondie Is supposed to be…. Armand. Yes.

[@AppleLatte]

"who's that character?" girl dont look it up, dont even worry about it lol!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@AppleLatte character introductions? Who cares! Nothing matters!!!

[@Kai.9876]

Autumn when you held that knife in your glasses it gave me SO MUCH ANXIETY-

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@Kai.9876 gotta add a bit of danger to the experience

[@spameranne]

fun story this actor dropped out of playing Aragorn in LOTR last minute for this role and that's how we got Viggo

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@spameranne at least it gave us that! I read also that at one point Heath Ledger was approached to play the role but couldn’t due to scheduling conflicts and I can’t help but think what beautiful casting Heath Ledger as Lestat would have been.

[@GwendolynnBY]

did he drop out? if I remember correctly, lotr dropped him. I remember him complaining about how it turned out that they wanted someone completely different than him in the end (a comment about Viggo being older than him). but it's been like twenty years, so maybe I'm forgetting something from that whole event.

[@anacarolmsc]

​@@GwendolynnBYYep, he was fired, it wasn't working for professional and personal reasons, and they'd already started shooting. Great decision 😬

[@realrosie23]

im ngl im going to be very disappointed if i dont see Sam crawl up a wall in s3...

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@realrosie23 ok low key yeah I need that too, Sam has the pussy power to make it work

[@arianakeil6157]

As an "elder millennial", and dedicated teen mall goth/VC fan, I saw this in theaters opening weekend. And other than the new metal soundtrack (which I did love at the time), I spent the whole film :: surprised Pikachu face:: at the screen. The heteronormativity. The accent. The brown hair! The software engineer dad looking Marius. There are few movies that are such a pure time capsule.

[@SuperMathNerd314]

Eating cheese with a knife on the couch is absolutely the vibe for watching a 2000s vampire flick. Also, I am truly grateful for getting to experience this movie for the first time through the wonderful filter of Autumn Brown. I don't know if I could have survived watching it alone now that I've started making my way through the books 😅

[@GwendolynnBY]

is this movie bad? objectively. did I watch it repeatedly as a preteen? absolutely. it's biggest crime? making me, between the ages of ten and thirteen, think marius was cool.

[@mackenziegoodwin459]

"Are those the Chanel boots?" "Uh, yeaah." 😂

[@samf.s.7731]

That's someone who understands what the tone of this is supposed to be 😂 Bam, a Devil Wears Prada reference 😂

[@JordanVanRyn]

I'll say this; the only two good things about this movie was the Soundtrack AND Aaliyah herself as Akasha. They made the movie. But when season 3 comes, they have to get SOMEONE to match Aaliyah's presence for Akasha.

[@yorgivon-schmourgeussborgi]

@@JordanVanRyn I'm honestly hoping they do a movie industry casting, like FKA Twigs or Willow Smith or Doja Cat

[@JordanVanRyn]

@@yorgivon-schmourgeussborgi Actually I was thinking the R&B singer, H.E.R. She looks like Aaliyah in her prime.

[@Falxifer95]

The only bad thing about Aaliyah as Akasha is that we sadly lost her. I will always say that making Lestat a Nu metal fukkboi is funny for all the wrong reasons on top of dating this movie in the 2000's hard, the editing and Jonathan Davis from Korn jumpscare also does it.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@Falxifer95 100% to all of this!!

[@myridean2k4]

Sam Reid's Lestat, "Why the long face, my pretty baby?" Autumn: "I just watched the Queen of the Damned. Damn movie." Sam Reid's Lestat. "I've got long fangs. Come appraise me." Autumn: "Yeah, at least, you got the blonde hair, blue/violet eyes, the singing voice and the accent. Much better than that Stu dude." (Yeah, Stu had a singing double as well as a stunt double.) Sam Reid's Lestat: "Bring your long stakes. That doesn't phase me." Autumn: "For me, this film didn't phase me either. I had to stop to talk about the horrible pacing 3 times!" Sam Reid's Lestat: "Yeah, now we're having fun!" Autumn: "No, I'm not! Only people having fun are LAUGHING AT ME for choosing to suffer through this film! It's called Schadenfreude!" Poor Autumn, Sweet Autumn, you should have made this a drinking game but that's what first reactions are. You didn't know; you didn't know. I'm sorry, if you had warned us, we would've come up with some rules for you. Anyway, thanks for your whine to go with that stinky cheese of a film. - Myri

[@zachbrehany2253]

@@myridean2k4 you, my dear fellow Autumn fan, are doing the Lord's work with this comment. Bravo.

[@Venom_Toys]

3:32 into watching the video, I stop to make a comment - then I gotta read the comments and now THIS!!!!!! THIS CHEF'S KISS!!!!!! Bravissima!!!!!!!

[@mercuriallady]

Omg, that Amadeus cut was awesome 😂 You can find a deleted scene online of Marius greeting all the other vamps as they arrive but it doesn’t really add... anything... Also now I'm wondering if Sam's delivery of "you wanna find out?" to Antoinette about the beds upstairs was a reference to Jesse saying the same to David. I know the new team never acknowledges that this movie exists (and rightfully so) but still!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@mercuriallady I bought the dvd so I could see all the behind the scenes and extras because I really wanted to understand what went so wrong with this movie, and I am BAFFLED that they cut the “ancients” introduction scene. It not only introduced those characters but also discussed how to defeat Akasha in a not-rushed, right-before-the-final-showdown way. I question almost every decision made in arriving to this movie’s final destination!

[@lkcullen1918]

My family owned both the IWTV and QoTD movies (there was practically a bucket of vamp movies in our house), and when I was a wee lass maybe 8/9 I would watch all the movies when I was home alone. And I had no clue IWTV & QoTD were even related. No correlation at all besides the vampires lol But I was so confused because I was like.... TWO vampires named LESTAT?? So my child-brain kinda figured 'Lestat' was just another OG/cliche vampire figure that a bunch of different iterations existed of, like Dracula or something😅

[@dianayellowberg8042]

@@lkcullen1918 Well, exactly. How was it supposed to connect to someone, when here Lestat is completely different from the canon. I don't really like Tom, but at least he stuck to the book somehow.

[@brittanydeeann5269]

100% I didn’t even know it was based off of a book series until much later.

[@pisto30]

I've always thought the most frustrating thing about this movie is the amount of scenes that they edited/cut out that would've added so much TO the movie. Like when the other vampires show up at the Death Valley concert, not including Marius, they're never addressed by name so you don't really know who's who. And one of the deleted scenes on the movie DVD is OF all of them talking at the Hollywood sign and they call each other by their names! It's SO aggravating!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@pisto30 I’m making a more in depth video about this movie because I didn’t really talk a lot about the fundamental issues of the film here and this is SO on the money!!! Why they edited that scene or the extended cut of Jesse’s dream and her explaining to lestat WHY she wants to be a vampire will never make sense to me. Those were all crucial scenes we needed in the movie

[@corinnejackson2732]

I’m dying for more IWTV content and this is my new fave channel 😊 even though it wouldn’t be the same live reactions it’d be fun to watch you react to/break down/point out Easter eggs for the first season too! I know it’s not likely, just throwing it out there 🤸🏾‍♀️ thanks for making me feel like I’m not alone in my obsession 😊

[@solla9486]

oh dear god im both scared and excited

[@Aeunax123]

Same baby, same. For completely unrelated to TVC, QotD is one of my fave movies of all time. I just have it removed in my mind from the canon 😅🖤

[@solla9486]

@@Aeunax123 I respect that so much

[@Sirena_Luna]

Also I will say that as a 2000s girlie, that soundtrack is kickass...if you listen to the version where Jonathan Davis doesn't sing the whole thing. That's actually how I got into the series in the first place. And I think Aaliyah died midway through filming, so they had to rearrange some stuff. I wonder what would have changed if she hadn't died.

[@LadyGreensleeves33]

This was a formative experience for my 12 year old, baby bat self and I still bump the soundtrack to this day (his voice is Jonathan Davis from Korn, by the way). That's...the best I can say. 😂 Other than, of course Aaliyah slays and Stuart Townsend is hot? Edit: I think they were playing off Marius being Roman, and the generic vision of Romans having short hair in most depictions these days. But who knows 😂

[@AnxietyRat]

@@LadyGreensleeves33 yeah, Anne Rice was super inaccurate in what Roman men did with their hair. Marius 1 million thousand percent would NOT have long hair like he does canonically.... She just liked long-haired blondes and so that's why he has long blonde hair even though historically he would not have been wearing that hairstyle when turned. We have a surprising amount of information on the type of clothing and hairstyles that existed back then. Anne took a look at that and said "no thank you I'm just going to do whatever the fuck I want" and then she did. 🤣

[@psychedelicpegasus7587]

​@@AnxietyRat Nope! Blood & Gold addresses Marius' long hair.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@LadyGreensleeves33 you know what I’ll take that explanation 😂

[@lilianaarmijo4518]

@@AnxietyRat en el libro marius tenia el cabello corto fue secuestrado x un grupo celta y lo encerraron para sacrificarlo a su dios vampiro durante ese periodo le crecio el pelo yel dios lo convirtio en vampiro segun el libro pueden cortarse el cabello pero este vuelve a su largo original

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Look, I unapologetically and unironically love this movie. But this movie was my introduction into the Vampire Chronicles universe-this movie was *THE* _THING_ that started it all, for me. I went from this movie, to the Interview movie, then finally to the books. I regret nothing. So many parts of who I am and what I love in this world stemmed specifically from me undertaking that exact trajectory/journey. I have so many good things/fond memories/endless discussions throughout the last two decades with my bestie, various family members, and eventually even with my longtime life-partner all wrapped up around this movie....and so on. It may not be the movie for everyone, and it may definitely have been sorely slacking in certain respects as an adaptation of the original source material especially, but I will recognize zero shade. This movie is an underappreciated gem. But it's also a little bit like 'The Emperor's New Clothes' I guess. Lol 🤣🤣

[@kayleighroche4672]

oh thank god you watched this bc i started it a month ago and i don't know if i would have been able to sit through any more without your commentary! also the fact that you held that knife for like two hours 😭

[@loulove321]

I watched this movie at like 13 years old, and that bathtub scene with Deftones playing in the background altered my brain chemistry. I still think the movie itself sucks (no pun intended) but the soundtrack is still one of my all time favourites. Aaliyah was also amazing and iconic as Akasha.

[@mel_ottav]

Rolin we NEED that line in season 3

[@makaylaw8771]

So excited to be the first one here and to see your reaction to such an iconic movie

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@makaylaw8771 very excited for you to experience this, god [lestat] bless

[@MeganSmiley]

We can only hope for plenty of more mesh shirt action in season 3. So excited to see what Carol does with Lestat’s rockstar fashion! Quick Side note: Do you know how nervous I was for you holding that knife in your hand that whole time?! It’s impressive you did that for so long without accidentally hurting yourself.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@MeganSmiley WE NEED MESH SHIRTS CAROL!!! Also if it helps, it’s a laughably dull knife. I don’t think I could cut myself if I tried lol

[@MeganSmiley]

@@AutumnBottomBrown That definitely helps! 😂

[@TheSim1derful]

HAHAAHAHAH I still remember the first time I watched this movie. And Armand has exactly ONE LINE at the end of the movie to pointlessly explain that Maharet is dead...and btw, I only learned their names AFTER BECAUSE THEY'RE NEVER MENTIONED IN THE MOVIE...and I was like "....ok...." Fire soundtrack though

[@benhamilton1156]

I saw QOTD after Season 2. It was good, Aaliyah’s final cinematic performance, thrilling. Vincent Perez’s performance as Marius was enticing. Book description is different from movie description, but to be fair, Marius was an Egyptian vampire who cultured himself in Rome (hence the Roman haircut). I spoke Lestat’s lines as if Sam Reid spoke it. Hopefully when AMC does Season 3 n QOTD, Sam Reid shall save us all.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@benhamilton1156 as discussed, Aaliyah slays absolutely. But in watching and rewatching this through the editing process, I have come to the conclusion that Vincent Perez was the only person aware of the campiness and goofiness of the premise of the film and embraced it & therefore should deserve more aplomb for his performance. He imparts an undercurrent of humor and menace that no one else quite achieves

[@benhamilton1156]

@@AutumnBottomBrown “aplomb”?

[@cullenarthur8879]

From what I remember from the books, Marius had a Roman father and a Gaul mother. He was a Roman citizen. I don't remember anything about him being Egyptian.

[@KatieKingloveselephants]

I saw this in the theatre when it was released; for those who were fans of the books and the first movie, this movie groups two books .. Lestat and Queen of the Damned.

[@tessapichotta24]

So excited to see your reaction to this masterpiece of a movie 😂😂

[@beyondthestacks]

Christmas came early with a gift from Autumn!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@beyondthestacks 😘😘

[@greyhope9413]

this movie is hilariously camp so I can’t wait to witness your reaction lmaoo

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@greyhope9413 it was ridiculousness beyond all my expectations

[@MsMp15]

Stuart Townsend. The Wish version of Lestat

[@NicoleM_radiantbaby]

THIS!

[@samf.s.7731]

Lestat at home... Poor guy, I think he takes the most of the criticism. He was camp, but that was not Lestat. Lestat is... Fun.

[@psychedelicpegasus7587]

Not to throw shade at a fellow Irish person (although I totally will), but Stuart Townsend quite evidently did zero ZERO! prep for this role. I honestly hope he didn't read any of the books, because if he did... wtf?? *gestures despairingly at the performance* Wikipedia launched in 2001, so wasn't available during pre production, but I doubt he'd even bother read that anyway. 😅 Look, I'm being a bit harsh, so I WILL say he looked well in leather trousers, swamp ass or no swamp ass. Ao that's something he had going for him. Grand job, well done that man. Bualadh bos 👏

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@psychedelicpegasus7587 I hate to dog people in their chosen profession but OH MY GOD HE WAS SO BAD in this. You’re right, the only consolation is that he looks good and rocks the leather pants, no shirt, no problem

[@tvaddict6623]

The music was fire though!!! And I like the beginning of the movie- like, a lot!!

[@tvaddict6623]

And it was all we had back then!!!! 😂

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@tvaddict6623 the beginning is fun! I I was having fun at the start! But things quickly derailed

[@alexie5201]

This movie is my guilty pleasure! I've seen it when I was young and haven't read the books yet, so I just enjoyed the story and the camp of it. The soundtrack is absolutely on point in this one.

[@luveniwai]

TBF you can't have Lestat without the cheese, and all we had up until this was Tom Cruise's Lestat. Until the series, this was def the more accurate Lestat IMO

[@FortressofTrees]

This is absolutely my thoughts on it. Cheesy, ridiculous movie? Yes. Bad adaptation? Yes. But Stuart was a far more accurate Lestat than Tom, and at least seemed to be having a good time.

[@nebulous8389]

When i was 16 I loved this movie and I only read the first 2 books. One of my favorite soundtracks of all time!....then gradually understood how bad they butchered the source material especially after reading Queen of the Damned. I consider it an camp elseworlds tale now. I was also just happy to get any Vampire chronicles movie when I saw it.

[@evangelinasmusic]

I was 20, and same 😂

[@eventingirl001]

RIP Aaliyah because she would have been a total scream queen after this movie!!! The 20 odd minutes that she is in this film is fully the best 20 minutes of the entire movie. The soundtrack is fun in a totally nostalgic horacrux to the early 2000s but I am so excited for glam rock Lestat in season 3. I think there was a random vampire script hanging out on some exec's desk but the studio still had the rights to the vampire chronicles and they said, "hey, why not??". Having also been a TVD fan...if IWTV doesn't cast Kat Graham as Akasha...after everything that Julie Plec did to her and Bonnie Bennett...I'm just putting that into the universe. Kat deserves her revenge!!! PS: if anyone wants to read a FANTASTIC fanfic for ArmandxDaniel, check out "in the deafening polar provenance called You" on AO3 by shineforthee. It is chef's kiss, seriously, so GOOD!!!

[@alexandrabogner9638]

Also the vase moment 👌🏻👌🏻

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@alexandrabogner9638 girlies with pent up aggression unite

[@leanc8906]

I am thinking maybe Marius’ haircut would be the short shorn style of the Roman Empire when he was made. Not necessarily in a longer style.

[@eliseivanica]

watched this movie after i finished the show and before i read the books, unfortunately i loved it 😭 it’s not canon accurate at all, but i love it!!! it’s just fun, the music is good, lestat is hot, akasha slayed & jesse is my gf tbh… did they fail at making it what it should be? hell yeah! do i rock with it anyway, also yeah!

[@roderick8167]

Oh this reaction is gonna be my favorite reaction of this movie I just know it 😂😂🙌, also I think this movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasures but I can't wait for Season 3 of IWTV to be the superior version of this story Lol

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@roderick8167 SEASON THREE TURN UP I CAN’T WAIT!!! This movie is BEYOND ridiculous; hope you enjoy all my giggling 😁

[@roderick8167]

@@AutumnBottomBrown Season 3 Gang Let's Go ! !!! , also hell yeah your giggling is hilarious 😁😂🙌

[@JayOwinFull]

This movie is good except the screen play (and the hair). The AMC series is going to do this so much better.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@JayOwinFull unfortunately no amount of style of good scoring can save a bad script

[@JayOwinFull]

@@AutumnBottomBrown ya it carries over into so many other aspects. I saw this in theaters. I could not get my money or my enthusiasm back. Luckily AMC is doing it right

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

35:16 - That is Armand, and Pandora. 😅😅 Lmfao In a deleted scene they get mildly catty with Marius about how he left both of them.😂 But I guess the movie pretty much decided we didn't really need to know who they were aside from random other vampires. Tbf, it probably would've gotten hella cluttered.

[@mslaurondo]

Loved this movie when it was released but that’s ’cause I was a teenager 😂. Best thing about it are Aaliyah’s outfits

[@Sirena_Luna]

I'm crying 😂. You can't watch it *after* you've watched everything else! Oh no!😂

[@sagesdream]

We need a watch through for the first movie too ❤

[@thevimonsterinyourcloset]

Watching you react to this was absolute GOLD!!!! Listen, I saw this in the damn theatre when it came out. I was 19, fully in my goth diva stripper phase and gaslit myself HEAVILY into thinking that "if I think of this as its own entity and not a supposed adaptation of my beloved vampire chronicles media it's actually not that bad." But the more I thought about it, the angrier I got lol. The soundtrack was fire, though...I danced to many of those songs in my stripper days :) And Aaliyah was the BEST part of the whole thing. SHE DESERVED TO REALLY BE AKASHA FOR REAL!!!

[@scottielise]

Your George Miller cut to Amadeus made me explode laugh expectedly. Kudos.

[@HelloGoodbye2085]

GIRL my partner was horrible and toxic and cruel and we broke up - I’ve been crying all evening, I’m currently at the 28 minute mark of this video and I’m laughing, you’re a true sister thank you for your service to my spooky mental health.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@HelloGoodbye2085 you’ll get through this babe and you’re better off without them 💛

[@HelloGoodbye2085]

@@AutumnBottomBrown appreciate that doll, can’t be dating people as toxic as leslut de lionwhore

[@ben361971]

I was in Disney World when this came out...My sister and I were sooo excited to watch that we went to the theater in the park. We are both book readers and obsessed with the Vampire Chronicles. Im sure you can imagine our EXTREME DISSAPOINTMENT!!!!!!! I was like ....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT BOOK DID THEY READ!!! ...UGH...Thank goodness this will all be rectified with season 3 of IWTV The Vampire Lestat. :)

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@ben361971 OOF I can only imagine. I was at least prepared for disappointment

[@ben361971]

@@AutumnBottomBrown ha... ya probably easier when you know what you're getting into.😄

[@coribug42]

No! Not the mixing of Armand and Lestat and a little bit of Claudia origins! OMG. And deletion of Louis?

[@heatherv3515]

hahhaaaa i was absolutely obsessed with this movie as a teenager.

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

37:38 - Not poison fangs, Maharet drank the very last drop of Akasha's blood and took Akasha's death into herself.😅

[@bee_zzus]

god i went through this with my friends yesterday, safe to say i have no idea what the plot was

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@bee_zzus good news, no one on the film did either

[@user-io2ts6mj9n]

​@@AutumnBottomBrown😭

[@AnnaShelkovaya]

This is exactly what I needed today, thank you!! 😅❤🦇

[@ashscott6068]

I always wondered...after Lestat broke the chain, how did Marius fix it in such a way it couldn't be broken again, and why just walk off, assuming the chains were now unbreakable...after already having to somehow fix one cus it BROKE!

[@bebesomething]

have we had a full watch through of the original Interview with the Vampire? That would be a fun rewatch with you.

[@gwenharper5334]

I really hope you do more reactions! (Manifesting “Hedwig” and “Velvet Goldmine” 👀)

[@goodtrubble9688]

Keira Knifely.. hahahahaha

[@linatenenbaum6595]

I watched QoTD for the first time a couple hours before watching your video. I'm commenting before watching your video because I know it's gonna be a good time!! You mentioned in your livestream a while back a potential Velvet Goldmine reaction/watch party? Fingers crossed that you're still planning to do that!

[@mildredhubble5324]

Good knife, sweet dreams!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@mildredhubble5324 🔪💤😴

[@samf.s.7731]

Yep, the first few chapters of QoTD are actually very fast paced and introduce a lot of characters... With A LOT of stuff happening 😅

[@mitchmatt6002]

You deserve the whole drinks trolley for enduring that cringe-fest! 🤣 I salute you for suffering in the name of our entertainment - bravo!

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@mitchmatt6002 🫡🍻

[@beckmannm]

"In the mozzarella-gouda era" is right 😂😂 11:58 I do have to quibble, because Marius as an ancient Roman having short hair actually makes sense! The long book hair is silly!!!

[@maryammohammed4779]

lmfaoooo this was my exact reaction to this movie like yeah im open minded and then was just downhill from there

[@pisto30]

I saw the notification and raced right over here. Can't wait to see your reaction to this movie! Edit: and just keep in mind no matter how you feel about the movie.....at least the soundtrack's good?

[@Aeunax123]

PERIOD! Wonderful movie soundtrack, so so so good! Still listen to it religiously to this day 😂

[@pisto30]

@@Aeunax123 I never bought it but I love so many songs from the soundtrack....I guess we know where the money for the plot went. LMAO

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@pisto30 very true!

[@preciouslyinsane22]

Autumn!!! You've been missed!! Hope you've been well and taking care of yourself ❤

[@colourfulshadows-w3j]

I watched this movie for the first time recently: The music? Nice :D Akasha? Yes :D Some costume decisions? Great. Anything else? Aaaaaaah I just CAN'T get over the drastic changes from the books, there were too many! Wonder what it would be like to go back in time and see the movie before I knew the show and books. I like the emo atmosphere though xD

[@Heyitslia21]

I will say in their defense about the akasha situation, they basically could only film so much due to Aaliyah’s passing. I think that effected the entire movie as a whole

[@user-io2ts6mj9n]

Come on its not so bad, other than Lestat being brunette, Armand being a blonde, Marius turning Lestat, Lestat turning Jesse, Maharet being just one twin and there are no signs of Louis, Nicky and Gabrielle, this is pretty accurate 😂

[@ladycarys3008]

ok, here me out. Is this movie nothing like the books (cause its supposed to be both "the vampire Lestat" and "queen of the damned" adapted together)? yes. Am i usually a book purist? yes, but i saw this first. Did i happen to see this movie at a very crucial young age and it was a huge part of my sexual awakening? also yes. Is this soundtrack one of my favorite things ever? also also yes. So basically, is this my biggest guilty pleasure ever? 10000000% and i will not apologize for it 😂

[@jackkay4310]

Yep, the memories of me as a kid watching this film on the telly are coming back, and it's still just as cheesy. 😂 But Aaliyah is still super cool, hot and badass as the Queen of the Damned. (Edit: Yep, Yamaha makes keyboards and motorcycles, and a hell of a lot more which surprised me.)

[@samf.s.7731]

And the only actor who understood what movie they were in didn't have much screentime... The titular Queen of The Damned... Ooooof... 😂

[@ginouclint7845]

I was in pain the entire time 😭

[@alexandrabogner9638]

It's 1 a.m. and I'm exhausted but what do I see, there's another autumn brown video so here I am...... forgot what I was saying wait why am I awake oh yes right..... Go autumn🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@isabellaalvarado3496]

New Autumn content!! Yay! I was just finishing your video trilogy of the Vampire Chronicles as LDR albums (a masterpiece of a trilogy, might I add) today, so seeing this pop up in my feed was a fun little surprise!! I do have to know: how does the QotD movie rank when grouped with the IWTV tv series and the IWTV movie for you? Any hot takes about the tv show/movies/books?

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@isabellaalvarado3496 oh thank you, the TVC/LDR series is my beloved little cherub. As far as rankings go the IWTV show is by far my favorite. I can literally gush for days on end (and have) about why I love it so much. But I do really love the movie as well; it was my first introduction to this world. I’m so glad we have Jacob Anderson, someone who actually cares about the character, in the role of Louis now- I will always sing his praises. But at times Brad Pitt’s real life abhorrence for the movie actually work in his favor to show Louis’s despair and antipathy. But other times he kills me. Lestat is Tom Cruise’s best performance in my opinion; he absolutely floored me in the movie. Sam is my favorite Lestat (he was seriously engineered in a lab to play this character, I don’t think his performance can be touched), but I do not tolerate TomStat slander either. He really embodied the character in a way I never would have expected or thought possible for ole Maverick. And we’ve been blessed with all three varied and gorgeous portrayals of Claudia; I love Kirsten, Bailey, & Delainey dearly in this role. As far as QotD goes though…. In the words of Aretha: “beautiful gowns”

[@isabellaalvarado3496]

@@AutumnBottomBrown you’re very welcome! I’ve re watched those videos a couple times since deciding to read the whole VC series (minus the Mayfair witches- I have not decided yet if I’ll read those or not). I just finished the Vampire Armand and while I have grown to understand and appreciate Armand as a character more (Assad Zaman you’ll always be the perfect Armand to me), I miss our boy Lestat as the narrator. I also had a very similar introduction to the series: my mom actually got me into the movie at 12-13 and I was obsessed with it for a long time. There are probably lines I could still quote from memory. After that I read the first book, loved it, re read it a few times in high school and in college, and it wasn’t until I finished season 2 this past July/August that I decided to give the rest of the series a shot. I will always have a special place in my heart for that movie, especially for Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst. Learning that Brad Pitt had a not so great time on that movie honestly broke my heart a little bit bc I related a lot to Louis in both the movie and the book. And my god, the show!!! I love and am forever appreciative of everyone involved in it so far. You can just tell how much love and care they all have for the series. I could gush about the series forever. As for the books: I’ve liked every single one I’ve read so far. The first 3 are the top three for me so far, body thief was very fun, Memnoch made me think a lot and was an interesting read, and the vampire Armand was either a good time or a “oh my god, this poor child” type of vibe. I’ll either get Pandora or Merrick next and I’m excited and scared. Anne Rice really loves her freaky little vampires, but so do we.

[@elonaruci2820]

Aaliyah as Akasha was great in this movie. Can't wait to see who they will cast for her for the TV series.

[@noa_thinks]

my anne rice journey started with this movie as a pre=teen - i think i loved the numetal bisexual vibes more than i realised how much it lacked a plot. i got more into vampire media as a teenager and watched the interview with the vampire movie, and now the series exists and i have read interview with the vampire, lestat and queen of the damned, so it's interesting to see how the series has been interpreted by different studios

[@evangelinasmusic]

I’m just so thankful that I saw the movie before I read the books 😂

[@monicarayford522]

To be fair to the movie, Aaliyah passed away before she was finished making the movie. They had to work with what they had to keep her in the movie. Her brother is even doing some of the voice overs for Aaliyah.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@monicarayford522 I’ve seen a couple of people say this, but they wrapped filming in February of 2001, and Aaliyah died in August of that year. I watched an interview where they talked about using her brother’s voice to patch some ADR, but that’s supplementary post-production work. It’s not anything that would change the structure of the film. All shooting was complete by the time she passed, so I’d assume this is still the same movie they would’ve put out had she been alive to see the end result. Rest in Peace Aaliyah 🙏

[@Aeunax123]

Listen, listen, I know now having gotten into the TVC/IWTV fandom extremely recently (like 3 months ago) that this movie is NOTHING like it should have been … However, My god do I love this movie holy fuck, LMAO. Can remove Jesse for sure, I always thought she was just kinda There. But Akasha and Lestat are so fucking hot in this movie I’m sorry. I was confused bc I had watched the IWTV Movie before watching this back then, and Brad Pitt vs Townsend is SO different lmao I thought they just happened to be two vampires w the same name but those two properties had nothing to do with each other lmao. I will forever love this movie, will continue to bump the soundtrack until I die, I know y’all hate it though and I respect that still 🥲🤍

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@Aeunax123 hey I respect a guilty (or not so guilty pleasure), different strokes for different folks!

[@avogrid296]

That movie earned every one of its 14 percentage points on Rotten Tomatoes! But you made it fun -- glad you ended up with no knife wounds!

[@freida808]

EEEKKKKKKKSSSSSS i havenʻt watched QOTD yet 🤭 read the book of course ... will I be betrayed? Iʻll watch with you and see. 🤩

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@freida808 betrayed like Jesus on his way to hang out with his good buddy Judas

[@freida808]

@@AutumnBottomBrown 😭😭😭 I mean like were was Louis or Gabriel??😱😵‍💫😵

[@ValyTraveler]

Yep, after all these years - I still have no idea who the curly blonde guy was... Some said it was, Louie. And re-watching it now... Still lost in the cheese sause

[@AHalloweenSky]

I watched this film the other day and I really enjoyed it! I also found it quite disappointing and underwhelming, having just read the first 3 books lol. But I still really enjoyed it overall, I loved the vibe, music & costumes

[@1femalegeek]

I was shown this movie a few months ago by a friend who had been trying to get me to watch it for a long time. After she showed me the movie, I had to tell her that I didn't really care for it and it's not a favorite and that I believe Aaliyah should've had more scenes in the movie, especially since it is called The Queen of the Damned. I also told her that while it's not the best movie, it does have a good soundtrack. She thankfully agreed with me on the soundtrack part and I do listen to the songs from movie and even dance to them a bit when I can. I would play that soundtrack for everyone to hear and enjoy on Halloween if I could I hope that the show in the future at some point will play the song System as a nod to Aaliyah since that's the song she was dancing to in the movie or if not that than something else.

[@leldel803]

Slightly embarrassingly early😅 but nonetheless, excited 🎉(chronically online)🤭

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@leldel803 🫡🫡🫡 not early, just on time!!

[@leldel803]

@@AutumnBottomBrown also ,emotional support knife 🎀 love it 💅✨️

[@squirellbrain]

i was literally thinking "damn i want a new autumn vid" AND YOU DELIVERED. THANKS QUEEN now i dont have to watch this dumbass movie lol

[@AlexInVegas-702]

"On a less somber note;" I loved some actors so much: Aaliyah was spot on as Akasha, Marguerite Moreau was lovely as Jesse, Vincent Peréz, Paul Gann, Lena Olin as Maharet, Claudia Black as Pandora. omg! But still the movie is wrist cut inducing disappointing with some great actors tossed in this stinky tuna salad of a movie. If it wasn't for being part of Vampire Chronicles it wouldn't bother; but at least they tried to make something for the Vampire Chronicles fans. Now I'm very thankful for everyone who made this movie, now I appreciate it for it's silliness, for some bad acting, and all the silly bs it created... lol. It was also a sad time because we were seeing on the screen a beautiful young actress who passed away just 6 months prior; we we're doomed to watch it still kinda in morning all over again. Nowadays I just put the judgement and sadness and the past to the side, along with the popcorn, and appreciate it to the bits.

[@Rea13434O]

22:49 the 🔪 in the glasses is wilddd

[@Pooobaihr23]

Apparently Aaliyah had more scenes, but died before finishing the filming. So they used what they had.

[@sm_3265]

BOO BACK!

[@ГерганаЦънцарова]

Please film your reaction to finding out who the characters helping in the end are.

[@AutumnBottomBrown]

@@ГерганаЦънцарова it’s at the end of the video!

[@Methos08]

I rewatched this recently and remembered liking it as a teen, but as an adult I just kept thinking "Wait...was it always this terrible?" The answer is yes! Although Sam has asked for the Boo/Boo back exchange to be included in Season 3.😂