The Librarian: Curse Of The Judas Chalice

Noah Wyle, Bob Newhart (2008) A librarian and a beautiful singer must prevent vampires from taking over the world.

The opening scene is at an auction, which devolves into a swordfight with the bad guy. (Is that proper use of the word devolve?) Anyways, about halfway through they start to argue about their swords, and both come to the consensus that the sword they're using is overpriced.

And dude is currently wearing a shirt that says "I (heart) (pi the mathematical symbol)" where the stuff in the parentheses is the symbols not the words.

And they keep making reference to time traveling ninjas. Apparently it supposedly happened immediately after the first movie, but had already occurred by the time the second movie rolled around. I'm sort of disappointed.

And the main character is quite fantastically smart-ass-ish.

"I've dated older women before. But dead is... new for me". Turns out the "beautifuly singer" is also a vampire. But a good one. Until the potentially inevitable betrayal. Although, there hasn't been an inevitable betrayal in this movie series yet. At least by the female lead. All sorts of other people, yes, but not the female lead.

And it seems that Senator Kelly from X-men is actually a professor of Eastern European studies or something. With gimpy legs.

Bad Guy: "Well, got you again. Honestly, we're not this good. You two kind of suck at sneaking around." This movie's awesome.

And now Senator Kelly's a vampire as well... first he gets all blobby and skooshing through prison bars and stuff, then explodes into water, and now he's a vampire. And somewhere in between he was a murderous doctor on the Battlestar Galactica. This guy gets around...

"I've fought evil in many forms. Approximately 35 forms. Give or take. So you have every reason to be afraid." I am thoroughly enjoying this movie and the randomly humorous lines they've got.

Apparently the mythology of this movie is that Judas Iscariot was the original vampire. Sorta makes a little bit of sense, what with the 30 pieces of silver, and the vampires' aversion to silver and stuff. I wonder if they just made this up for this movie, or if this is actually an established myth.

And they seem to be going for a Blade 2 ending with the watching of the sunrise. Although the vampires in this movie don't explode into embers, but dust. Although their clothes turn to dust too. Doesn't make much sense. With Blad,e, at least you could say that the burning embers burned the clothes too. Ah well, whatever. A good movie nonetheless...

They seem to be setting up the scene for possible sequels. I approve.