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Enough with the Fuckin' Vampires

Originally Posted by CanvasShoes

They weren't at all attractive to me, they're petulant, angry, sullen-looking children, there's nothing the least bit sexy or attractive about them.

But they're BROODING because they're so DEEP!!!!!!! You just don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Kobal2

How about vampire pumpkins ? That lame enough for ya ?

Ursula Vernon used them with great effect in her comic Digger. (Well, squash, but they're based on the same folk legend.)

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Originally Posted by Guinastasia

But Edward/Jacob is soooooo dreamy!!!! *blech*

God, I hated Twilight. I read them just to see what the fuss was about. I don't know how anyone can stomach that bullshit. And vampires do NOT sparkle, goddammit!!! (Although I still want to know if their poop sparkles)

I just saw the kids from the movie on my soda cup from some fast food place (I mean, I've seen them before, when I'm FFing by a commercial on my TiVo, but I thought of this thread and took a good look at them). Well, just the three main characters, two boys (the vampire and the bad werewolf?) that is. These are "dreamy"? They weren't at all attractive to me, they're petulant, angry, sullen-looking children, there's nothing the least bit sexy or attractive about them.

I don't get it either.

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I never liked vampire movies, so their bastardization doesn't bother me.

Now, if they write a book about angsty, mint-smelling zombies who just want to be loved by girls 1/100th their own age, I'd probably go postal.

Although with movies like Resident Evil, zombies have already been bastardized enough...

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Hobbits for 3 lousy movies. The vampire movies have been made for a century and just seem to be getting bigger and bigger. It's like global warming.

I recall a few angel movies, but that fad didn't even touch the vampire one.

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It was hobbits? When was it hobbits?!

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10-15 years ago it was angels, then hobbits, now it's vampires. I predict a leprechaun fad soon. Tom Cruise IS Paddy the Leprechaun - he wants to use his secret pot of gold to fund sustainable energy research. But not if a fictional company very similar to British Petroleum has anything to say about it. Their chief scientist, Dr. Cameron Diaz, has just perfected an end-of-the-rainbow detection system. But she's torn over its potential applications, and hot for Paddy in his little green velvet suit.

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Originally Posted by Boyo Jim

I really don't get it. A three hundred year old delusion is no more respectable than last week's desusion.

I think there's a dozen threads on that issue over on GD, usually with the word "religion" in the title

What I do is remind myself there are three different "scenes":

In one, anthropologists, folklorists, and the like seriously study the traditional tales of the supernatural, the uses of magic and herbalism, the syncretic incorporations of prechristian religion into Christianity, etc., as they were throughout history.
In the second, artists, fiction writers, poets, and more recent philosophers use some of the elements of those traditions to create new interpretations or to use the language and imagery in a new sense, as a way of exploration about the supernatural or the subconscious...
Finally, in the third "scene", a bunch of fluffybunnies go all gaga over Magyck and Vampyres and Wicca 'cause oooohhhh it's so cool and so rebellious and so sexy... these are the ones you find yourself wishing Cthulhu will chew very, very thoroughly. Some writers will pander to them but hey, it's a free market.

I can live with Group 3's high visibility, if groups 1 and 2 retain their integrity.

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Originally Posted by Martini Enfield

I'd be interested in some titles of movies which you think are of the "Full of bouncing titties/must have a strip club scene" because I must say I can't recall many non-porn (softcore or otherwise) films from the past few years that would qualify, with the exception of things like Sin City and a couple of other films clearly aimed at a more "Mature" audience than your standard "R" rated movie.

Obviously there's going to be nudity in "Mainstream" films, but I certainly don't recall (and haven't noticed) it being de rigueur in the way you're suggesting it is, at any rate.

I've only seen a few movies in the theater in the last few years and yeah, I feel like a lot of them have gratuitous boobies. Not gratuitous nudity - just breasts.

Off the top of my head: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and The Wrestler were both 'serious' movies featuring naked boobies (mostly Marisa Tomei's) and some strip club scenes. I felt it was unnecessary, but at least it made sense within the context of both plots.

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Originally Posted by cricetus

The Swedish movie LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was fantastic.

I enjoyed both the film and the book--and I'd recommend doing it in that order. There are some things that are different in the film from the book, or at least more ambiguous, which allows for a slightly different interpretation of certain things. If you read the book first, you'll only be able to see the movie one way, whereas you won't miss out on that if you read the book second.