Can vampires ever be cool again?
polycounter lvl 8
Its tough to be optimistic with new moon destroying the hopes of vampires ever being cool again, but I saw this preview for Daybreakers and thought it looked interesting:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/daybreakers/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/daybreakers/
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I dream that someday there will be a blade<>twilight crossover... Finally something I can go see with my girlfriend
now that is a great idea!
Imagine that same picture with a group of men in the same age group, with a sign saying "Twilight Dads".
I'm sure the gals at The View would love that.
Ah the sweet justice!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnicula
there's already a thread about Daybreakers that isn't a lame excuse to bash Twilight.
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=63873
Last cool vampire was Klaus Kinski in the nosferatu remake
Saw this subtitled once:
"If these were men, they would be arrested for pedophilia."
Seriously, you should have heard the women during New Moon oohing and aahing over 16yr old Jacob.. :poly117:
Seriously...so many zombie movies based around the same thing.
Also, Twilight is ghey and ruined the vampire movie market.
Ah come on, you know theres never a 'lame' reason to bash Twighlight.
To be honest daybreakers seems tacky as hell but at least they don't glitter or play baseball.
It's supposed to be pretty awesome!
Best Vampire flick I've seen in ages.
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The Wolfman movie is looking pretty cool and pretty much makes the new moon pups look like crap. Would be very cool if they did a total remake of all the universal monsters. The mummy and van helsing movies don't count.
I'm actually wearing my monsters shirt today.
seriously though, i've been re-watching Buffy recently and season 1 Angel don't look all that different from glitterboy
Although season 1 Angel was 11 years or so ago..
I hate those type of teeth.. sure it goes back to Nosferatu but LEAVE IT THERE!
Go watch it
but the vampire movies always make them too fucking big and forget the underside of the mouth
there are also scarifier teeth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/
And actually had depth to it..
Wait, so are they lesbians who kill vampires? Or vampire lesbians who kill? Or people who kill lesbian vampires?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ6W7wzTY0o
Does it really matter?
This movie is totally awesome, although I've heard people say its an amazing love story who I think have missed the fact that
:thumbup:
Great film by the way, definitely recommended.
Yes.
Definitely an awesome movie.
In any event, as someone who doesn't typically care about love stories, vampires, etc, it was totally awesome.
best vampires in recent history. read the book and see the movie.
a non romantic depiction of vampires, kinda like in nosferatu, they are monsters like they should be.
I have not read any of the Twilight movies, and I haven't seen any of the films. But what little I've gathered about the series is this. Apparently, the sun doesn't kill vampires in the world of Twilight.
Vampires are a fictional convention, so there is plenty of leeway in their portrayal. But the nocurnal nature of the common vampire, and the devastating effect of sunlight, is pretty consistent across most of literature and film. I can safely say that I don't have any interest in vampires that don't crumble to dust in the face of the noonday sun. Several people here are touting 30 Days of Night as a sweet vampire property. That entire premise is based on the vampiric aversion to daylight.
Monsters are supposed to have some manner of weakness. You have to have a way to stop them. The exception is when you are dealing with Japanese horror. Since Twilight is clearly not Japanese, or even horrifying, it doesn't get a pass.
I thought the vampire rules were broken after nosferatu :P
As for vampires bursting into flame in sunlight... that is pretty much a product of Hollywood. European folklore vampires nor Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel were harmed by sunlight.
This is more a matter of me personally taking issue with the way the Twilight franchise deals with vampires + daylight. I am given to understand that they...sparkle. I think many fans who enjoy literature and film involving vampires will agree that this is lame. Very lame. The character of Blade is a vampire who can survive in the sun. You'll notice that he doesn't sparkle, he doesn't moon over teenagers, and he kicks tons of ass. If we are going to have a vampire franchise that involves imperviousness to sunlight, this is the sort of behavior I want accompanying it.
Don't be racist.
I think Buffy [and Angel] did far worse to vampires then Twilight could possibly hope to. What Twilight portrays horribly is teenage girls.
What are people's main complaints with the vampires in Twilight, out of curiosity? And don't list particular traits of a shitty character, we're talking about a race of beings here, not individuals.