Vidor wrote:"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is getting poor to bad reviews, but I still want to see it. Maybe because it's the only summer blockbuster this year that isn't a sequel or a prequel or a reboot.
Yeah, the bad reviews almost threw me off from going, but honestly, it was a lot of fun.
Agreed. The movie was somewhat predictable at times (especially towards the end), but was a lot of fun. Tons of violence and gore, but not Saw-esque gore where it's horror movie-like... More like the fighting/gore that you would see in something like 300 or The Immortals.
A nice fictional twist in what would have otherwise been a historical biography of Lincoln.
I'd say it's probably my second favorite movie so far that I've seen this summer behind The Avengers.
This surprises me. I watched the trailer and I was shocked that it was not presented at all as some kind of parody or something. Did it have any of that parody angle to it, or is it a straight up action movie?
I'm concerned that this movie is going to make kids think that Abe Lincoln was a real person.
Vidor wrote:"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is getting poor to bad reviews, but I still want to see it. Maybe because it's the only summer blockbuster this year that isn't a sequel or a prequel or a reboot.
Yeah, the bad reviews almost threw me off from going, but honestly, it was a lot of fun.
Agreed. The movie was somewhat predictable at times (especially towards the end), but was a lot of fun. Tons of violence and gore, but not Saw-esque gore where it's horror movie-like... More like the fighting/gore that you would see in something like 300 or The Immortals.
A nice fictional twist in what would have otherwise been a historical biography of Lincoln.
I'd say it's probably my second favorite movie so far that I've seen this summer behind The Avengers.
This surprises me. I watched the trailer and I was shocked that it was not presented at all as some kind of parody or something. Did it have any of that parody angle to it, or is it a straight up action movie?
I'm concerned that this movie is going to make kids think that Abe Lincoln was a real person.
It's more or less a straight up action movie. The action sequences are brutally unrealistic, but that's the only "parody angle" i could really see. There aren't any jokes. It really is just a "mindless entertainment" movie.
Aww, Nora Ephron died. I've always had a huge soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle (for some weird reason I adored that movie as a kid; probably because I had a huge crush on Meg Ryan, I believe my first) and a less defensible one for You've Got Mail. Yet I've never seen When Harry Met Sally.
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Two unconnected friends posted nice Ephron quotes on their facebooks today, with no mention of her passing. I noticed the coincidence, and am now sad to realize it wasn't actually one. I knew several people (okay, women) in college and elsewhere who considered Ephron a favorite author of theirs. And, yeah, nice believable rom-coms. RIP.
Vidor wrote:"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is getting poor to bad reviews, but I still want to see it. Maybe because it's the only summer blockbuster this year that isn't a sequel or a prequel or a reboot.
Yeah, the bad reviews almost threw me off from going, but honestly, it was a lot of fun.
Agreed. The movie was somewhat predictable at times (especially towards the end), but was a lot of fun. Tons of violence and gore, but not Saw-esque gore where it's horror movie-like... More like the fighting/gore that you would see in something like 300 or The Immortals.
A nice fictional twist in what would have otherwise been a historical biography of Lincoln.
I'd say it's probably my second favorite movie so far that I've seen this summer behind The Avengers.
This surprises me. I watched the trailer and I was shocked that it was not presented at all as some kind of parody or something. Did it have any of that parody angle to it, or is it a straight up action movie?
I'm concerned that this movie is going to make kids think that Abe Lincoln was a real person.
It's more or less a straight up action movie. The action sequences are brutally unrealistic, but that's the only "parody angle" i could really see. There aren't any jokes. It really is just a "mindless entertainment" movie.
Not even a "A house divided against itself cannot stand" or a "With malice toward none, with charity for all-- unless you are a vampire!"????
Vidor wrote:"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is getting poor to bad reviews, but I still want to see it. Maybe because it's the only summer blockbuster this year that isn't a sequel or a prequel or a reboot.
Yeah, the bad reviews almost threw me off from going, but honestly, it was a lot of fun.
Agreed. The movie was somewhat predictable at times (especially towards the end), but was a lot of fun. Tons of violence and gore, but not Saw-esque gore where it's horror movie-like... More like the fighting/gore that you would see in something like 300 or The Immortals.
A nice fictional twist in what would have otherwise been a historical biography of Lincoln.
I'd say it's probably my second favorite movie so far that I've seen this summer behind The Avengers.
This surprises me. I watched the trailer and I was shocked that it was not presented at all as some kind of parody or something. Did it have any of that parody angle to it, or is it a straight up action movie?
I'm concerned that this movie is going to make kids think that Abe Lincoln was a real person.
It's more or less a straight up action movie. The action sequences are brutally unrealistic, but that's the only "parody angle" i could really see. There aren't any jokes. It really is just a "mindless entertainment" movie.
Not even a "A house divided against itself cannot stand" or a "With malice toward none, with charity for all-- unless you are a vampire!"????
Nope.
It's a historical biography with a bunch of awesome action sequences where he kills vampires. And the historical biography part is, for the most part, fairly accurate.
I was definitely a naysayer regarding the way-too-early remake of Total Recall. No Albert? No Mars? The [expletive]? The first trailer was alright for a sci-fi flick, I guess, but nothing special. I feel like this one was done much better. Poor Colin Farrell, his two women are Kate Beckinsdale and Jessica Biel.
Apparently the film's PG13, which is a lame third strike. But maybe it'll be put together well enough to be worth pirati- I mean, going to see in the theaters.
I'm kind of surprised that people think the first one is that good. It's okay in a sort of campy, Evil Dead kind of way and Verhoeven has his cult following. It's hard to top the 3 breasted woman, and the guy who lives inside the other guy's stomach, but outside of that and Sharon Stone looking amazing, the rest of it is mostly forgettable.
