Movies and Vampires - 91.8 The Fan

05-01-2010, 11:20 PM

I love Stephen King...he's my favorite author....Dark Tower is one of the most amazing series I've ever read...
But! On the topic of Vampires...I feel the series in a decline. I hate it when Hollywood decides to take a small sub culture thing and pop it into the limeline, insulting the said sub culture in the process. It would be a different story if Twilight was actually a story worth telling, but it isn't. It's more dirty piggy capialist junk! It makes me cry inside when horror is insulted in such a way. There is a difference in making fun of vampires, and destroying them. It saddens me that when I start a discussion about horror, it somehow always loops to vampires...which is now looping to Twilight. Sigh, all the years as a horror buff and this is what I get @.@ ....

Salems' Lot is Win for Vampires
(The Shining is my personal favorite SK book ^-^)
And Count Chocula is win as well :wink:

~~twillÿ~~ · 02:37 AM

Although I'm not a big vampire fan myself, I will say this...

Bram Stoker's Dracula was an amazing piece of work. I don't even really like Keanu Reeves much, but that didn't even hold that movie down. Gary Oldman, on the other hand, did a fantastic job as Dracula, imo.

I understand the original poster and their disdain for so many vampire flicks popping up, but then again, what genre hasn't been overdone. Not many people these days are breaking the mold with new ideas, so we get to sit in this slump. Time for some brainclouds in Hollywood to start appearing and thinking more of the movie than the money...heh, as if that will ever happen. :rolleyes:

05-01-2010, 11:20 PM	#1
Très Bien! Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Sasnak Posts: 633 Rep Power: 187	Re: Movies and Vampires I love Stephen King...he's my favorite author....Dark Tower is one of the most amazing series I've ever read... But! On the topic of Vampires...I feel the series in a decline. I hate it when Hollywood decides to take a small sub culture thing and pop it into the limeline, insulting the said sub culture in the process. It would be a different story if Twilight was actually a story worth telling, but it isn't. It's more dirty piggy capialist junk! It makes me cry inside when horror is insulted in such a way. There is a difference in making fun of vampires, and destroying them. It saddens me that when I start a discussion about horror, it somehow always loops to vampires...which is now looping to Twilight. Sigh, all the years as a horror buff and this is what I get @.@ .... Salems' Lot is Win for Vampires (The Shining is my personal favorite SK book ^-^) And Count Chocula is win as well :wink:

05-15-2010, 02:33 AM	#2
~~twillÿ~~ Banhammer'd Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Starfishtopia Posts: 295 Rep Power: 0	Re: Movies and Vampires Although I'm not a big vampire fan myself, I will say this... Bram Stoker's Dracula was an amazing piece of work. I don't even really like Keanu Reeves much, but that didn't even hold that movie down. Gary Oldman, on the other hand, did a fantastic job as Dracula, imo. I understand the original poster and their disdain for so many vampire flicks popping up, but then again, what genre *hasn't* been overdone. Not many people these days are breaking the mold with new ideas, so we get to sit in this slump. Time for some brainclouds in Hollywood to start appearing and thinking more of the movie than the money...heh, as if that will ever happen. :rolleyes: ______________________ Last edited by twillÿ; 05-15-2010 at 02:37 AM.