True Blood
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\"\'cause thats how they make Brawndo?\"
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I agree with both of you guys, The vampire myth is way over-exploited and mixed up nowadays. Just like this idea about elves without beards and cat eyes... And, yes... Ritual, you can never get enough of boobies! No matter where they hail from! lol
Oh, and the TV-series name was Kindred, they used Vampire The Masquerade as inspiration and props, other than that they haven\'t got much in common.
(and the fact that they used RPG sourcebooks as props kinda says it all about the series. lol )
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I agree with both of you guys, The vampire myth is way over-exploited and mixed up nowadays. Just like this idea about elves without beards and cat eyes... And, yes... Ritual, you can never get enough of boobies! No matter where they hail from! lol
Oh, and the TV-series name was Kindred, they used Vampire The Masquerade as inspiration and props, other than that they haven\'t got much in common.
(and the fact that they used RPG sourcebooks as props kinda says it all about the series. lol )
Amazon warrior
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It\'s what plants crave!!!!
Einion
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Nah, that\'s when it starts getting really fun
Which original vampire myth though? If you read about Stoker\'s research in the British Library he picked and chose at will from amongst the legends in the source material - vampir, strigoi, upir/upior.
Even just in Central/Eastern Europe their supposed abilities and weaknesses varied from region to region, as well as beliefs in what created them. And that\'s not even counting the similar creatures from other continents, including the Asian and Indian versions.
Just in case it\'s of any interest to people here\'s how you\'re supposed to kill a vampire according to one source, if you want to be really sure:
attack during daylight (unless you\'re suicidal);
stake the heart (with hawthorn);
stuff mouth with garlic and sew shut;
sever the head and place it face-down in the coffin;
weight the coffin with rocks and dispose of in flowing water.
Einion
Well, if we\'re calling them \'vamires\' it seems logical to base them at least loosely on the central/eastern European myth, from where the name comes from (in its present form, the original source seems unknown).
I don\'t mean that all vampires in modern culture should be exactly as they were in some folkloric myth hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but they should have some profound qualities in common. I don\'t see much of those qualities in the films/series etc. I mentioned above. Vampires are too often depicted as too similar to people in their behaviour. If you remove the blood-sucking (and the occasional super-power) there would be no big difference. A vampire, to me, should above all have a sense of \"otherness\" to it. And in my eyes, they\'re solitary creatures... like spiders. Yes, Dracula had his female spawn, but he still appears as a very solitary person.
Anna Paquin?
havent watched the show, and i personally dont intend to. im perfectly happy with peep show.
as for how a vampire should be represented, i personlly feel attratced to the ideal of the normal human, who is aware of their condition, but after transformation is an otherworldy brutal beast without a shred of humanity
as for how a vampire should be represented, i personlly feel attratced to the ideal of the normal human, who is aware of their condition, but after transformation is an otherworldy brutal beast without a shred of humanity
I´m actually looking forward to this one - Daybreakers
...But what do I know - I actually liked Blade
...But what do I know - I actually liked Blade
alextheartist
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Let me just remind you guys.... Twilight...
freakinacage
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i loved blade, it was cool.Originally posted by slah
I´m actually looking forward to this one - Daybreakers
...But what do I know - I actually liked Blade
that daybreakers looks interesting too
alextheartist
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I\'m not sure, i was just browsing and stumbled across the image at the same time I was reading this thread
ipaintminis
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Becca\'s Rant Against Cute
I\'m so sick of all this vampire this, vampire that. glamorized vampire nonsense.
Twilight was the most ridiculous movie I\'ve seen in a very long time. Sparkley greasy brooding man/boy is the epitome of sexy?! Hell to the No. honestly I felt like I was watching a B movie, not something that makes millions of tween girls scream in ecstasy.
[rant] tell me someone else started yelling at the TV/theater when the final fight was IN A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS and everyone COULD SEE everyone else. pissed me off so bad. [/rant]
I\'m looking forward to the next two movies ever so much
But that experience alone has made me not want to touch any other recent vampire shenanigans...vis a vis True Blood.
I\'m so sick of all this vampire this, vampire that. glamorized vampire nonsense.
Twilight was the most ridiculous movie I\'ve seen in a very long time. Sparkley greasy brooding man/boy is the epitome of sexy?! Hell to the No. honestly I felt like I was watching a B movie, not something that makes millions of tween girls scream in ecstasy.
[rant] tell me someone else started yelling at the TV/theater when the final fight was IN A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS and everyone COULD SEE everyone else. pissed me off so bad. [/rant]
I\'m looking forward to the next two movies ever so much
But that experience alone has made me not want to touch any other recent vampire shenanigans...vis a vis True Blood.
