Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

[DragonCowboy]

We should file a complaint with our local board of education because our high school history teachers apparently lied to us about Abraham Lincoln, if we're to believe the new film about the former president being a vampire hunter. The 16th President of the United States knew martial arts. He was incredibly graceful at doing a jumping roundhouse kick while beheading bloodsuckers with his ax. His mother didn’t die from tremetol. She died from vampires, causing her son to go on a vamp-killing spree. Also, did you know he single handedly stopped the Confederate Army (who were all vampires) with weapons from the White House kitchen? Oh, and let’s not forget that the great emancipator also had a hidden gun in the butt of his trusty ax that fires silver bullets.

Yes, those are all elements of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and no, this movie is not a comedy.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...vampire-hunter/?intcmp=features#ixzz1yYXBzC6A

My friend and I were actually going to watch Prometheus, and we missed the movie, so we ended up watching this Lincoln movie. I actually liked it.

Also, the Confederate army was nowhere near "all vampire".

Honestly, I thought it was a good movie. I can see how some Southerners (and technically I'm a southerner) might not like it - the South isn't put in the best light in this movie, hah.

EDIT: And I think it also had some actual meaning behind just the vampire hunting stuff. I liked it, my friend thought "meh", but it definitely isn't horrible.

 

[Doomsday101]

My friend and I were actually going to watch Prometheus, and we missed the movie, so we ended up watching this Lincoln movie. I actually liked it.

Also, the Confederate army was nowhere near "all vampire".

Honestly, I thought it was a good movie. I can see how some Southerners (and technically I'm a southerner) might not like it - the South isn't put in the best light in this movie, hah.

EDIT: And I think it also had some actual meaning behind just the vampire hunting stuff. I liked it, my friend thought "meh", but it definitely isn't horrible.

I like the preview and the premises of the movie and had the vampire killer been some avg Joe instead of the 16th President of the US it would not come off as corny.

Really it has nothing to do with north or south or the fact it takes place around the time of the civil war just the crank pot notion that before he became President, Abe was a vampire killer.

 

[DragonCowboy]

I like the preview and the premises of the movie and had the vampire killer been some avg Joe instead of the 16th President of the US it would not come off as corny.

Really it has nothing to do with north or south or the fact it takes place around the time of the civil war just the crank pot notion that before he became President, Abe was a vampire killer.

Honestly, they made it fit, they really did. You'd have to watch it to understand. My friend wanted to watch it, and I thought it was dumb (although the movie theater just showed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire, so I thought he was a vampire). It wouldn't have been the same if it were an average Joe...they put certain historical events that happened in his life and showed how "the vampires" were related to it. It's just an alternate reality of looking at it, kind of like, "yeah this is what really happened, but this is how you remember it".

 

[Doomsday101]

Honestly, they made it fit, they really did. You'd have to watch it to understand. My friend wanted to watch it, and I thought it was dumb (although the movie theater just showed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire, so I thought he was a vampire). It wouldn't have been the same if it were an average Joe...they put certain historical events that happened in his life and showed how "the vampires" were related to it. It's just an alternate reality of looking at it, kind of like, "yeah this is what really happened, but this is how you remember it".

Chances are at some point I will watch it, likely when it comes out on DVD. As I said the previews look pretty cool

 

[cowboys#1]

they said hollywood ran out of ideas and when they come up with something different we still complain.

 

[Doomsday101]

they said hollywood ran out of ideas and when they come up with something different we still complain.

running out of ideas does not mean coming up with bad ideas being the solution. :laugh2:

 

[Stash]

they said hollywood ran out of ideas and when they come up with something different we still complain.

Who are 'they'?

The fools who came up with this?

 

[Doomsday101]

Who are 'they'?

The fools who came up with this?

Just shows how bad the drug problem is Hollywood. :laugh2:

 

[Stash]

Just shows how bad the drug problem is Hollywood. :laugh2:

It never ceases to amaze me what Hollywood will give the greenlight to.

'Suits' are out of touch with their target consumer.

 

[TNCowboy]

Booth was a BA Vampire.

Found a link to the final scene of the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S29cHWgDiaw

 

[TNCowboy]

It never ceases to amaze me what Hollywood will give the greenlight to.

'Suits' are out of touch with their target consumer.

Don't these people ever look at each other when they're making this stuff and say, "This sucks. We need to redo it or start over altogether" ????????


Puzzling how anyone thought spending $70 million on a premise that would be laughable for a SciFi channel made for tv movie was a good idea.

 

[Stash]

Don't these people ever look at each other when they're making this stuff and say, "This sucks. We need to redo it or start over altogether" ????????


Puzzling how anyone thought spending $70 million on a premise that would be laughable for a SciFi channel made for tv movie was a good idea.

Again, it shows me a complete disconnect between the decision-makers and their target audience and what that audience wants.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

He better not kill Kate Beckinsale's vampire character because then I will have to dig up his bones and burn them.

 

[Doomsday101]

Again, it shows me a complete disconnect between the decision-makers and their target audience and what that audience wants.

Scary thought is they do know their target audience and people's taste just sucks. :laugh2:

 

[Stash]

Scary thought is they do know their target audience and people's taste just sucks. :laugh2:

Not quite bad enough to where this turd is successful.

And please note that this is the second consecutive failure with Tim Burton's name on it.

Will he get the 'bomb trifecta' with October's Frankenweenie?

One can only hope...

 

[wittenacious]

Scary thought is they do know their target audience and people's taste just sucks. :laugh2:

ALVH target audience example...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FWtCxOZ1rv0/T8_KgRY_RXI/AAAAAAAAAN8/EjP0gs69tko/s1600/zombie.jpg


Unbecoming, I know. I really shoulda shaved.

 

[Doomsday101]

ALVH target audience example...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FWtCxOZ1rv0/T8_KgRY_RXI/AAAAAAAAAN8/EjP0gs69tko/s1600/zombie.jpg


Unbecoming, I know. I really shoulda shaved.

That was the guy sitting next to me this past sat while seeing the movie "That's My Boy" had to nudge him and tell him he was in the wrong place. :laugh2:

 

[Stash]

That was the guy sitting next to me this past sat while seeing the movie "That's My Boy" had to nudge him and tell him he was in the wrong place. :laugh2:

So you were that one person who went to see that?

Hang your head in shame!

 

[Doomsday101]

So you were that one person who went to see that?

Hang your head in shame!

Girl friend wanted to go to the movie and because she was late getting to my house it was the only show playing at that time. All in all it was a cheap laugh movie not bad but not something I would care to see again. Pretty nasty movie. :laugh2:

 

[Stash]

Girl friend wanted to go to the movie and because she was late getting to my house it was the only show playing at that time. All in all it was a cheap laugh movie not bad but not something I would care to see again. Pretty nasty movie. :laugh2:

I used to be a big Adam Sandler fan but after the last few films he's been associated with, he's burned his bridges with me.

If he doesn't care anymore, neither do I.