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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hinWQiv2rVc

Looks like good fun which will surely be shredded by the critics.  :awesome_for_real:

Looks, awesome

Judge Dredd vs Vampires, looks great.

Um.

Where's Edward ?

Hopefully rotting in a ditch.

Yeah, I'll bite.  :why_so_serious:

Little nitpick: These, like the creatures they resemble in I am Legend, are more ghouls than vampires. They eat human flesh in order to survive rather than drinking human blood to gain power. Vampires aren't animalistic monsters, even starving vampires, and movies cheapen the idea of a vampire by making them so. Additionally they're not physically beautiful so much as they have a hypnotic aura of power and command. Also they don't twinkle in the sunlight, they set fire and turn to ash.

The mythos is in pretty poor shape. I blame Anne Rice.

I agree with ya, but if I am not mistaken, this is cut straight from the graphic novel. And we all know how "reality" is in that media.  :awesome_for_real:

The original "wampyres" of folklore had a lot more in common with what we'd today call "ghouls" or "zombies" than the cape-wearing Dracula types.

I want a modern movie about Chinese Hopping Vampires damnit

You've got me well at truly stumped. What angle are you taking here?

This.  More 30 days of Night and less Bram Stoker.

Personally I don't mind some differing mythos, I prefer the more viscious but can enjoy the suave monster. The Twilight vampires are crimes against nature though.

Bram Stoker. I want vampires as supervillains, monstrous without being merely monsters. Also without being part of tedious secret societies designed to create plots for comic books and romance novel soap operas. Also with the overwhelming, surprising, and arbitrary weaknesses supervillains tend to have.

If you want secret societies, use humans. They're scarier and their flaws are more fun. If you want ghouls, use ANY OF THE DOZENS OF HUMANOID BEASTS AVAILABLE FROM WORLD FOLKLORE.

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Anne Rice's have more in common with what you expect than, like, actual folklore vampires. As people pointed out. But I wanted to point it out too!

The best vampires were Octavia Butler's vampires (http://boingboing.net/2006/01/17/octavia-butlers-fled.html) though!

I feel the need to pile on here - Bram's Dracula didn't burn in the sunlight, he just wasn't as strong and couldn't shift shape (well, at noon he could shift shape).  He was repulsed by crosses though.  And needed soil from his home turf.

Seems like you are describing the Hammer-style vampire.

Okay yeah, I've done my research and I have no idea what I actually like.

I just don't like centuries of inbred vampire politics and I don't like animalistic vampire ghouls.

As long as they don't sparkle while raping 14 year old girls, I'm ok with it.

As I've said before, Vampires were good before they were turned into teenagers. Even Anne Rice acknowledged the 2 real forms of vampires in her original book. I know you all like Blade but that film was just another step along the road to sparkly vampires.

this thread is waaaaay to neckbeardy

Lets talk about how awesome Paul Bettany is instead

Vampires bursting into flame and turning into ash in sunlight is a thoroughly modern convention.  Vampire myths show up in a great many different cultures, and different cultures have different takes.  Some *are* animalistic monsters.  None sparkle, though.  :oh_i_see:

Sparkling is where I draw my line as well. This far! No further!

Paul Bettany is a good actor.

Pity that he keeps appearing in drek like this.

It's possible that the filmmakers could have fit in a few more cliches into this movie, but I'm not sure where. It's a base of "The Searchers" mixed with "Pitch Black", a strong splash of "The Matrix" and a hint of "Mad Max".

Not worth watching as you've probably already seen it.

I would disagree a bit. If you liked Pitch Black, which i did, you will like this movie.
Essentially the same thing but with vampires.

Not high art but some decently done sci-fi escapist action fun.


I do agree though that Paul Bettany should be getting much better roles, as i think he's a very good actor.

Pitch Black was a great fucking movie.

This is a fun action movie.

Anyone know if the third Riddick movie is still supposed to be happening? or did it get lost in the shuffle somewhere?

Prob lost after all the horrible movies Vin has been doing since pitch black.

I saw an article about it a few days ago, its in pre-production right now and will be rated R.  Vin Diesel took a pay cut and is only getting paid scale just so that it got the R rating as well.

I agree that you should watch "Pitch Black" instead of "Priest".

Priest was no horrible movie, but it was a run-of-the-mill storyline where every four year old could have connected the plot points in advance with a cranyon.

I enjoyed it - a good fun popcorn movie. Paul Bettany was suprising (just not the kind of role I pictured him in), Karl Urban got to act very Karl Urbany, over the top Christopher Plummer, and

I hate movies that set up a sequel and then fucking bomb.

So you hate 99% of movies then.

I watched it this weekend and wouldn't recommend to anyone.