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Fri Jan-23-09 10:18 PM
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I really like Vampire movies |
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Just saw the new Underworld, which I thought was entertaining.
What is your favorite vampire movie?
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:21 PM
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1. Herzog's remake of Nosferatu |
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The Citizen Kane of vampire films.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:27 PM
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4. hmmm...I will check it out |
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:06 AM
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34. Kinski was terrific in that. |
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And I really loved the Frank Langella "Dracula". Not a great movie, but he was one sexy vampire.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:21 PM
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:28 PM
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:23 PM
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3. Shadow of the vampire. |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:28 PM
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7. ok...now I am thinking I don't know much about vamp films |
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another I will have to check out.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:29 PM
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:31 PM
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11. Shadow of the Vampire is neat. |
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Edited on Fri Jan-23-09 10:31 PM by ghostsofgiants
It's about the making of Nosferatu, and the premise is that Max Schreck really was a vampire.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:33 PM
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13. Cool...I'll check it out |
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:11 PM
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51. "I'll eat her later." |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:28 PM
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6. "An Interview with a Vampire"... |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:29 PM
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9. I have avoided that cause for tommy boy |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:36 PM
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18. He and Brad are both delicious in it... |
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but if you like some bad with your Tommy, then I think you'll love it.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:38 PM
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23. I am not a fan of Cruise at all and i did read the book but he was good, i think |
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maybe he would have been better as Louis and Pitt as Lestat but it's done, anyhow he was good.
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Sat Jan-24-09 11:57 AM
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39. I was very disappointed when I heard |
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Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were going to be the leads. I still am, but, nevertheless, they did an ok job and the movie is worth watching. Tom Cruise surprised me. Brad Pitt didn't. I don't think Brad Pitt is a versatile actor and this role wasn't for him. I think almost anybody else would have been better as Louis and it's too bad Rutger Hauer wasn't a bit younger. He would've been a perfect Lestat. That's how I pictured Lestat when I read the books years before.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:30 PM
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10. Vampyr, Nosferatu (DerekG is right, Herzog's remake is brilliant), Let the Right One In. |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:33 PM
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12. i need to see that, i'm thinking i should just buy it. |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:34 PM
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14. Let the right one in was really good |
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and I don't usually like subtitles
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:36 PM
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19. Maybe check out Twilight as well... |
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If you're ever in the mood to make fun of a bad movie, Twilight is a worthwhile candidate, haha.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:37 PM
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20. I read the book and hated it |
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Not sure I want to see the movie
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:38 PM
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22. The movie is awful, which is why it's so hilarious. |
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Apparently Stephanie Meyer has never even watched a full vampire film. How absurd is that? Explains a lot though.
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So you decided to finish it, eh? I'm afraid I can't recommend the movie, even for its campiness. It's just.that.bad.
I can add another vote to Nosferatu, though. Just rewatched that after LTROI and both are remarkable Films (yes, with a capital F).
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:39 PM
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24. that movie had more pancake makeup than a funereal parlor. |
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it was like the Airplane! of vampire movies.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:45 PM
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Yet so much fun to make fun of.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:47 PM
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28. for sure, i'm glad my daughter skipped it, she loved all the books with the exception |
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of the last one and i think the movie would have really disappointed her. I ended up seeing with some friends and only 1 out of 6 of us liked it.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:48 PM
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29. I've never read the books, nor do I ever intend to, but I knew the movie would be awful. |
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And I've taken to watching really awful movies just for the sake of mocking them. It's pretty fun.
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Sat Jan-24-09 11:50 AM
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38. I just finished the book. |
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Initially I was dead set against the English language remake, but now I'm starting to think it can be done. The novel reads as something much more in a Stephen King or Clive Barker vein, and a few important sub-plots were left out (particularly that of Håkan). If the writers of the English language version go back to the source material rather than copying the Swedish version, and make a good watch-through-your-fingers thriller rather than concentrating on the Oskar-Eli relationship, then I think it could be good. Different, and likely not as brilliant as the Swedish version, but a good, solid horror flick. If they just copy the Swedish version and cast Oskar and Eli as brooding emo kids, it will suck.
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:09 PM
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49. According to the Wiki... |
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Even before Let the Right One In was released in cinemas, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves had signed to write and direct an English language remake for Overture Films and Hammer Films.<16><99> Hammer Films acquired the remake rights at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and Overture films plans to release the film in 2010.<99> Alfredson has been reported as saying that he is not happy that the film is being remade, saying that "Remakes should be made of movies that aren’t very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong" and expressing concern that the end result would be too mainstream.<100><7> Lindqvist, in contrast, is excited that Reeves will be adapting the book from scratch rather than merely copying the original film and that the end result could be quite different.<6>
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:44 PM
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26. LTROI is one of the best films I've ever seen |
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Sat Jan-24-09 01:33 PM
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44. just found out that movie is playing at the Modern Art Museum here in Feb |
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so now I have to go see it!!!
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:18 PM
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54. I loved Let the Right One IN. nt |
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I'm dying for it to come out on DVD.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:34 PM
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15. I just found an old one today with Morgan Freeman. |
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:35 PM
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17. Probably Bram Strokers Dracula, the one with Gary Oldman. |
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I liked the Interview movie too. The ones I'm really waiting for are the movies based on the Brian Lumley books.
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:38 PM
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21. Bram Stokers was good |
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what are the Lumley books?
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Fri Jan-23-09 10:43 PM
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25. They are like my favorite all time vampire books. |
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I've read the first 5 and there's a bunch more. I guess they might be a bit dated now, they were written in the 80's, but I just loved the imagination behind them.
If you like spies, vampires, with a little bit of science fiction thrown in, then you must read these books. The first one is called Necroscope. Don't be fooled by the over the top cover, the books are really good.
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Sat Jan-24-09 11:09 AM
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36. YES THEY ARE> I also read the first five, and really need to get the |
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list in proper order to read the next set. Lumley is nothing if not prolific. Very very inventive theory of how vampires came to be.
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Sat Jan-24-09 01:32 PM
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43. Adding a link to Lumley for those interested |
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Sat Jan-24-09 11:07 AM
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35. are those in the works or is this just a fond dream of yours? That would be |
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SO AWESOME> I love those books.
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Fri Jan-23-09 11:20 PM
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"Near Dark", it's a realy good vampire movie from the 80's.
A weird one is "Vampire's Kiss" with Nicolas Cage. I think it's funny.
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Sat Jan-24-09 03:25 AM
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31. I prefer vampire books. |
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Movies, for some reason, really don't do it for me. :shrug:
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I'm trying to think of why that is and the only thing I can come up with is that in Rice's books, for instance, a major part of the charm was her writing style. She took her time in setting up a scene and did it in an interesting and entertaining way. I think it's hard to linger on the ambiance of a scene in a film without being boring. The details in a film can't be properly described, they can only be shown.
I'm not very satisfied with what I just wrote but it's the best I can do. Maybe a better example for me to describe is PBS's (I think?) adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles". It was pretty good, I enjoyed it, but it was a shallow soap opera compared to the book. I'm almost completely lacking in the poetry appreciation department, but reading "Tess" was almost like reading poetry I think. He could spend a couple paragraphs describing a snail making its way on a garden wall at dusk in order to set a mood, and it was mesmerizing. There just isn't time for that in a movie. There's the film producer's "Tess" and there's Thomas Hardy's "Tess". Two completely different things.
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Sat Jan-24-09 11:11 AM
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37. Van Helsing was really fun. I love Vampire movies and books too. |
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Vampire lit is pretty much the only horror fiction I really like. Currently reading the totally campy and funny Sookie Stackhouse books, which are the source of 'True Blood' the new HBO series.
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Sat Jan-24-09 01:34 PM
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45. (slaps self in forehead) "Love At First Bite" how could I forget that one |
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or "Dracula, Dead and Loving It"
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:21 PM
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56. "You're getting sleepy." |
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"No, you are!"
Love At First Bite was pretty funny stuff. :)
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Sat Jan-24-09 01:51 PM
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46. I liked the movie "30 Days of Night" myself.. |
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none of this romantic, mysterious vampire stuff.. these guys/ladies were there to drink blood and they didn't care if half the victims throat got ripped out in the process. And they weren't pleasant to look at either..
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:10 PM
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50. Solid horror flick, for sure. |
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:02 PM
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47. How was Rhona Mitra in the movie? |
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She reminds me a bit of Kate Beckinsale...
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:08 PM
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48. My Best Friend is a Vampire |
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That movie is so silly, corny and fun. It actually puts vampires in a positive light. (haha) The other thing that cracks me up is the fact that his parents think he is gay, and they are reading books about it and trying to figure out how to confront him about it. At the end he's says, "Mom, Dad...I'm not gay, I'm a vampire!"
Most vampire movies are too pretentious. I would say I liked Coppola's Dracula, but it has crazy plotlines that have nothing to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula, and he leaves out some of the best parts of the book. I thought Near Dark was pretty cool, but the whole transfusion cure thing really bothered me.
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:12 PM
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52. Oh yeah, Jesus Christ Vampre Hunter is worth watching. |
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But if I had to choose one it would be "Interview With a Vampire".
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:18 PM
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55. The Night Stalker, Shadow of the Vampire, Night Watch. |
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Night Stalker because it's hilarious and cool, Shadow because Willem Defoe is even better than normal in it...and he's always great, and Night Watch for the sheer fun and different take on the genre (you'll never look at mosquitoes the same way again).
I also totally dig the Dracula movies with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing by Hammer Films.
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:27 PM
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58. George Romero's Martin |
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Edited on Sat Jan-24-09 04:30 PM by Taverner
Ultimate deconstructionist vampire flick
Post modern to the core
If you haven't seen it, you need to. Today, preferably.
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Sat Jan-24-09 04:31 PM
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59. Dracula, with Frank Langella .... mmmmm "bite me"! n/t |
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