twilight and vampires

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The last good vampire movie I've seen was Interview with the Vampire. That just never gets old for me.

Let The Right One In was disappointing as it focused more on gore too much. What part of sucking blood requires an arm or head to be ripped off? And the cat attack was horrible CGI.

Twilight was worse as a movie than it was as a book. The books were typical teen girl fare, nothing unusual or particularly bad about it. But the movie was just horribly acted, and made very little sense as an adaptation. The best part of the Twilight series was the backstories on all the vampires, and if they skip that, well then it's just dull and lifeless.

I liked the movie a lot (though I saw it before reading the book-I'd never heard of the series).

Personally I thought (at least at the time) that it was very well acted, and pretty subtle. I thought Bella was great.

I have no idea how they could possibly adapt the other three though. Just doesn't seem possible. I think it's amazing she was able to do the first one as well as she did, and she got fired for it, basically (despite it being a successful adaptation, and doing well at the box office).

I haven't seen/read Twilight, but I do fancy "True Blood" on HBO. Pretty bloody and violent, and sexy.

As far as other vampire things go, I was always creeped out by "Fright Night".

I've been curious about that True Blood. I really don't know anything about it, but figured I might rent it from Netflix at some point to try it.

My vampires don't use fangs, but use proboscises. They also are the weakest of supernatural beings, as they can be killed by either destroying the brain or heart, supernatural forces, and are extremely flammable. They also are a bit faster than humans. They can't heal wounds in the sun. If they don't drink blood once a day(whether from man or beast) they go insane. Also, very pale and red eyes.

In short, a way to make my vampires not sparkly mary sue angstpires.

However, there is a group of badasses are those you don't usually consider so in most fantasy worlds:fairies. Why? Here's why: they are human sized, have glowing eyes of any color, hair of any color, pointed ears, have the wings of a flying creature(not just bugs), and don't sparkle. They also have yellow blood and iron and super natural forces are the only things that will defeat them. They use telekinesis too.

What do you think will happen when a fairy packin' dual uzis sees the sparkle stalker?

I tell you what happens: THE SPARKLE STALKER DIES, B****H!

Couldn't agree more, Twilight is a pimple on the arse of the vampire myth. The last good vampire movie was Let Me In, which featured a creepy,yet bittersweet performance from Chloe Moretz.

I'm indifferent on the whole vampire thing. I tend to prefer zombies, but I HATE twilight.

However, I don't mind SOME vampire movies, like Quentin Tarantino's "From Dusk til Dawn." That's a great f****n movie... but be warned. If you have some aversion to seeing breasts, you might not want to watch it.

Oooh, also, the Lost Boys trilogy was decent. The scariness factor was pretty much non-existent, as it was in From Dusk til Dawn, but it had Corey Feldman as this awesome eccentric vampire hunter, and it was pretty damn funny. Edgar Frog was a great character...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYemdxzxBG4[/youtube]

I just recently watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Again, it wasn't really scary(it's kinda hard to actually scare me, especially with a movie, as my mind over-analyzes the s**t out of everything, and all scary movies have some element of fantasy that I can't quite swallow. That doesn't mean they can't be entertaining though. It's just that the ones that are entertaining to me are few and far between) either, but it had some pretty cool vampire fighting scenes. One thing I didn't appreciate though is the extremely theatrical fighting style used by Abraham Lincoln in the movie. Like, he keeps spinning that damn axe around like it's a baton. But beyond that, it was a pretty good movie.

I liked Let Me In and Let the Right One In, but I like the Twilight series better (the books) but they're radically different stories anyway, and not really comparable.

So...not quotable enough?

Don't take this the wrong way, but vampire do not resemble sparkly hair-care product obsessed pretty boys, at least not on my watch. If i want a proper vampire, i'll watch the likes of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman and even Wesley Snipes, all of whom don't sparkle.

Obviously,everyone here has never read over my post about how my fairies are cooler than the Angstpires. If you noticed, you know that my fairies are basically a combination between the Fair Folk and Tolkien's elves, except cooler.

Did you also notice that my fairies:

DONT.

BLOODY.

SPARKLE.

There, so you have it: My fairies are cooler than Twilight pretty boys.

Also, you might notice how vunerable I made the vamps. This is because vampires have been overpowered for too long. I decided to make them as weak as possible.

Oh yeah, and some fairies sometimes work with demons too, who are also cooler than Twilight pretty boys, obviously.

Just becaus no one replied about your story ideas Anarbaculardrop, does not mean that no one read it.

I have been writing my own story also, and had vampires inspired from older myths where a vampire can be another spirit inhabit a corpse, light not being a burning thing as that was not included until the movie Nosferatu, preferation to dark being from coruption to spirit in becoming a strong enough spirit. Wasn't sure about many of the myths reasons for blood, but I gave the idea of requiring life force to have the body going, blood just being the most direct method.

I wrote fairies also in a sense, called them Fae, beings of various forms that travel from their world through fairy circles.

I think your talking about the Fair Folk which I mentioned.

My vampires are mostly based of that mosquitos are what I think of instead of bats when it comes to vampires, seeing how I find that using bats to represent vamps is overused.

Also, for some inane, disturbing reason, I think were-beings are part of a certain group of internet people. I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Vampires exclusivly turning into bats is fairly recent in lore also as they were attributed at being able to turn into a large range of nocturnal animals (owls, cats, wolves), or in some stories a large manner of animals (lizards, insects, etc).

What I said still makes more sense then the bat-thing.

I think that thats an interesting riff on the vampire image- making them mosquitos. After all -mosquitos really are blood suckers.

Though when they morph into human form- they would have to look more like space aliens then like palid-but-handsome hollywood leading men- what with all of that blood sucking tubage on their faces.

I guess the bat trope does go back to the original central european vampire folklore- but not EXCLUSIVE use of bats. Vampires, apparently, could morph into other animals as well in the original legends.

Vampire folklore predated Columbus discovering the Americas. Shortly after columbus europeans encountered a real bat species in northern south america that lived by sucking the blood of bigger mammals but using fangs. The existence of real "vampire bats" reinforced the association of bats with vampires in the Western mind.

Then Bram Stoker and Hollywood further latched on to bats.

So yes-you could argue that bats are overemphasized when compared to the original medeaval folklore.

But whether they are or not- you can make em mosquitos.

Works for me.