Hollywood's Vampire Obsession

[Ohri-Jin]

You can and make a sodding fortune from it. Anne Rice had gothic romance in her novels, as does Charlene Harris with her True Blood series. Sex and vamps go together well, its just school romances with them dont float everybodys boats.

Have to agree, I have no problems with romance, (cause I loved every romance aspect in any FF)

Anime: Macross Frontier for example has many romance in it with the love triangle and I actually adored the anime serie so much.

But if they mix it with vampires/werevolves etc... its hard for them to do it balanced.

Do it on a lower scale please...High school romance is overly dramatised and so wack and corny to the point it makes me wanna vomit.


My point of view : You always know who falls in love with who SO CLICHÉ and so CORNY way of it happening, these types of movies are fail imo.

 

[Valvalis]

TBH I get irritated when anything becomes a "fad" in Hollywood, especially when it's so blatantly obvious that a new show/book/film is just following a trend. One example I was just "" ing at the other day was an ad for an upcoming TV show called "The Gates." It looked like just another Desperate Housewives-style show at first, but then at the end of the ad someone bit someone else's neck One has to wonder what exactly they're going for, because it's certainly not originality this late in the game

And I can understand wanting to sell something if it's popular, and if you're a fan of something obviously it's great to have it so easily accessible in the media. However, vampires are something I've never been that interested in, and I think the main problem I have with them is that they have been so overly glamourized by Hollywood that it is impossible to relate to them as a species. I'm sure there may be exceptions that I'm not aware of here and there, but for the most part I get the impression that vampires are uppity, fashionable, model-thin, beautiful/handsome (though I disagree; many of the actresses/actors they use are quite unattractive IMO), they have no sense of humor whatsoever, and they are always in perfect athletic condition. It may just be me, but I can't relate to characters like these; how can you have empathy for something that gives the impression of being a "perfect" entity? The vampires in popular culture lately may be physically anthropomorphic, but other than that they don't really resemble most humans at all And it's not to say that I always want the characters in a story to be warm and fuzzy, but when ALL of them have godlike bodies and frigid attitudes, it's a lot harder for me to care about what happens in the tale.

 

[Madaraki]

I think the main problem I have with them is that they have been so overly glamourized by Hollywood that it is impossible to relate to them as a species. I'm sure there may be exceptions that I'm not aware of here and there, but for the most part I get the impression that vampires are uppity, fashionable, model-thin, beautiful/handsome (though I disagree; many of the actresses/actors they use are quite unattractive IMO), they have no sense of humor whatsoever, and they are always in perfect athletic condition. It may just be me, but I can't relate to characters like these; how can you have empathy for something that gives the impression of being a "perfect" entity? The vampires in popular culture lately may be physically anthropomorphic, but other than that they don't really resemble most humans at all And it's not to say that I always want the characters in a story to be warm and fuzzy, but when ALL of them have godlike bodies and frigid attitudes, it's a lot harder for me to care about what happens in the tale.

A thousand times this. Really, the closest I've seen to glamourpires in movies has been Interview With a Vampire and the Blade films. In both cases; no matter how attractive the vampires got, they were still monsters.

As I've said before though, vampires work not when they're unhuman, but when they're inhuman. I like there to be at least a hint of the monster they're supposed to be. Case in point, the absolute antithesis (as I see it) to the pointy-toothed sex gods of Hollywood are the vampires in Hellsing. They're power-flaunting monsters, and from all the times I've read/re-read it, none of them have been at all rigid or cold in personality. They cry, they blush (dunno how though), they get horny (volume 2), they show fear, joy, and in Alucard's case; laugh like hell.

 

[Saints&Storms]

I use to adore watching Buffy:TVS (still do <3 Spuffy fan here) I think Twilight is overrated, I wouldn't go as far to say I hate it, but I gave the series a try -- or tried to and have to say I like Mysteries and plot a lot more than I do Drama.

I'd have to say Nay to the new Vampire craze, unless there is a new Spike that is XD

I have to say changing the old way Vampires work...Stephanie...bold?

 

[Channizard]

SMeyers way of vampires aren't Vampires at all. Why? Because she doesn't know what one is. In an interview, SMeyer admitted that she has never read a vampire/horror novel because she feels that it'll be too close or too far to her own smeyerpires.

Have you read Bram Stoker's Dracula?
No, but it's on the list. I should've read that one a long time ago, but right now I can't read any vampire novels. I tried, after I wrote Twilight, to read The Historian, because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close [to my writing], I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

Basically the woman is really childish, and hasn't read a vampire novel before. =/ So no wonder her smeyerpires are so off from what the original thing is. She would have been better off making a new race instead of botching up an old fav.