moogling over a semi-all right vampire movie

[lunareism]

Watched Queen of the Damned last night, and I'm.

Hmm.  I don't know if I liked it or not.  Though, I will admit Stuart Townsend made an appearance in my dreams last night, as a floating head if I remember correctly.  It almost makes me want to read the books, but Anne Rice's writing is so stiff and way too descriptive.  Last I tried, I hardly got through the first couple chapters of that one book about Armand; it was so boring!  I ended up really disappointed.

They're probably still boring. le sigh.

BUT! I did go through the wikipedia to learn more about the series and uggh it could be so good if it wasn't so bad.  Lestat's character is just, what exactly?  A mass of contradictions, and super attractiveness?  And are all the vampires bisexual?  And why am I so picky?  I think zombies have ruined my love for the sexy undead.

Give me a shotgun and a zombie apocalypse any day over a vampire that sparkles and/or can't get it up.

Comments

[shireheart.livejournal.com]

i've personally always liked anne rice's writing.

[saturate.livejournal.com]

To each their own, amirite? I feel as though I should try her books again, but I don't know.

[oilymoonmooncow.livejournal.com]

omg how bizarre. There was a Stuart!Lestat in dear_mun like two nights who tried to out-badass or something BOOK DRACULA. Like seriously, dude, Lestat was raised a courtier, he has manners (or should).

And the books are totally impossible to get through, dude. I like the fact of the matter that Armand is like twelve in his body and stuff forever, not freaking Zorro though, haha. IDK I'm very picky about vampire stuff and even Dracula is a little, uhm, yawn-worthy at parts. Though he's certainly not the first, just the most well-known for that time.

[saturate.livejournal.com]

I saw! I zoned in on him immediately because I had just watched the movie, but didn't pay too much attention. He got flooded with replies, though!

I'm fairly picky when it comes to vampires, too, always have been. I'd go through my schools library, read all the books on vampires, and then put in requests for more because the books were never as good as I hoped. Though, I did read an interesting one about a girl who thought she was a vampire because of her diabetes. And, in regards to Dracula, I didn't care for the book, but I like modern spins on the tale and what not.

[oilymoonmooncow.livejournal.com]

I mentioned that because I was Dracula and just had to...stop replying. And IM all my vampire-frothy friends for the lulz.

Yeah, the book can be quite difficult, but the one I found at the used bookstore has a fabulous forward (sp is wrong i think i'm exhausted 8() discussing what makes the book so popular, and it's not the writing, it's not the characters (which are rather 1D), etc., it's the Vlad Dracula is, ultimately, the paragon of unadulterated evil. I wrote an app for him once, and I could only think of Satan (biblical) to compare him to. There's nothing redeeming Dracula, there is no love affair that spans ages, there is no mercy, compassion, nothing in him that's redeemable in the least.

Granted, the book is a series of letters and diary entries showcasing the ineptitude of the better off citizens of Europe during the era to think outside the box, but still. There is a strange power to his character, and how the Stupid Posse manages to kill him at the end is beyond me as I haven't read it quite thoroughly due to that fact and having to dissect lots of it for app-writing stuffs. Still, people claim that Keanu Reeves (my homie dude) ruined Coppola's film of it in 1994, which I say HARUMPF to! Keanu played Harker more to the book than anyone else in that Harker is, quite frankly, the stupidest stupid dumbass I have ever encountered in any media ever. At all. Not to mention, he added that Elizaveta love of his reincarnated as Wilhelmina, etc., which is very "lol what" when you read the book.

I WAX POETIC sob