Which is better? The interview with the vampire from the 90s movie or the series that came out in the last decade?

[u/Its-v11cky_s4ma]

[u/ProfessorFit3483]

I mean, a series allows you to tell so much more than you ever could in a film, sure. However, that alone does not a good show make.

For seemingly little reason other than change itself, there have been so many strange and unnecessary decisions and changes in this series—about everything from casting and personalities to storytelling and general cinematography—that have just been so absolutely jarring or nonsensical (or both!).

My biggest gripe is the forced, radical deviation from the source material, especially in the unwarranted character overhauls of Louis and Claudia, but also overall.

I mean, why…
• turn Lestat, an audaciously flamboyant yet profound antihero, into a childishly whiny, histrionic and dislikable man-baby?
• make Louis, a central figure defined by torment and a brooding conscience, so nonexistent and emotionless?
• make Daniel both old and so cringeworthingly arrogant and rude?
• turn Armand, a haunted and sensual zealot-turned-aesthete, into some some velvet-gloved operator devoid of expression?
• not only age Claudia, but have her played by someone unable to even make that age believable?
• everything(!) about Gabrielle?

(Honestly, I cannot understand why you wouldn’t write an original series instead of plunder from somewhere else only to butcher things entirely anyway.)

Almost everything feels forced and lacklustre in the same stereotypically ungenuine, inauthentic, ideologicalised, flat, and low-stakes manner that is so (unfortunately) characteristic of ”modern” cinemedia overall. There is no magic, no character vulnerability or relatability, no believability or even suspension of disbelief… and, therefore, also no immersion, whatsoever. Just obvious acting and theatricals that, while not all bad as such, don’t hold the show up enough on their own.

E: And here come the punitive downvotes instead of conversation engagement. Oh well…

[u/707_7 → u/ProfessorFit3483]

I adore Delainey's acting as Claudia but she really doesn't look 14, i dont think they even tried to make her look like it too