Thread about vampires.

[broadband]

Well ive seen some threads about the Twilight books here, and how the butcher the old vampire fiction, since de Anne Rice ones, some people have mentioned Hellsing, including me, between other vampire fiction, and well... i simply wanted to start some discussion about it.

What do you think about the Anne Rice esque vampires, which series of these days seem to keep the old miyths, etc.

 

[Sennz0r]

Well every vampire movie I have seen to date has kept to the vampire demographic: immortal, blood suckers, burn in sunlight etc. Only things that were inconsistent were the stakes through the heart and crucifix stuff.
all these movies (Blade, Underworld, Interview with a Vampire, Van Helsing...) kept to this. And now Twilight goes and changes it, which agitates me.

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

I haven't seen a whole lot of vampire movies, nor do I know much about Anne Rice's vampires.

But, I can tell you that 30 Days of Night was absolutely AWESOME

 

[DayDark]

can you sum up the difference? sorry but I don't know anne rice's vampires, can't be ar*ed to google.

 

[lukemdizzle]

no more vampires, there frickin everywhere I look

 

[teh0riginalb00n]

Vampires are fictitious creatures, there doesn't need to be any standard vampire, from which any deviation is denounced as not really a vampire. in fact i think you'll find very few modern stories about them which stick to the whole mythos surrounding them. To be honest my own favourite interpretation of them is to be found in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Personal opinion though.

 

[Cousin_IT]

Twilight...are these the emo vampire stories that have spawned a subculture of fagvamps South Park takes the piss out of in its latest episode?

 

[TJ rock 101]

go watch the new southpark episode "the ungroundable" its about vampires.

 

[tomdavi]

Anyobody ever read Bram Sotker's Dracula? His ideas and version of vampires are completely different from the ones portrayed in most of the more modern stylised vampire books, and yet Drac. is seen as being the archetypal vampire. He was in fact seen as being a reptilian creature (bats etc never get a real mention to the best of my knowledge), who had the capacity for extreme violence. He also struggled to disguise his desires for blood. Going back, before even that to the origins of western vampire myths and most of the time the only "restrictions/ drawbacks" on them, was that they struggled to enter holy buildings, couldn't enter buildings without permission (something now often edited) and, in light they were simply reduced to not being as tough or powerful and having at best sensitive light skin. (btw I'm not some kind of vampire nut, I had to do a project on them in school for english once).

 

[Lord George]

I like the old style of vampires not the moody teenage angst emo ones, I always liked the vampires in the Discworld novels who are possibly the nearest depiction of what real life vampires would be like if they existed

"they believe in vampire watermelons, although folklore is silent about what they believe about vampire watermelons. Possibly they suck back."

 

[R-C]

My favorite breed of vampires would have the be the ones featured in Vampire: The Masquerade and ones like that in other works of fiction.

The brooding socialites working behind the scenes of history, stabbing each other in the back as they go.
I think the Underworld movie(s) kinda stuck to that as well. Although the rest of the movie was kinda crappy .

 

[Sidiron]

Vampires, as in the Anne Rice (suave)/Hellsing (homicidal) type, are cool. However Twilight is more of a teen romance film than an actual Vampire film. The actual mythology behind vampires is so broad and diverse that its nearly impossible to create a true depiction of vampires.

 

[broadband]

no more vampires, there frickin everywhere I look

sorry pal but is the popular thing these days, like halo and after that, hating halo.

 

[jim_doki]

Werewolves are better! *Runs away giggling*

fuckin' ai

 

[ZantetsukenQ]

Beckett is the epitome of vamps (from White Wolf Vampire lore). What a legend.

 

[jim_doki]

if we're talking White Wolf, I have to go with Gangrel. not for any reason, he was just one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

if we're talking White Wolf, I have to go with Gangrel. not for any reason, he was just one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid

*twitch* Saying that is like asking a roleplayer if D&D is anything like the cartoon.

Anyway, Malkavians are better.

 

[ZantetsukenQ]

if we're talking White Wolf, I have to go with Gangrel. not for any reason, he was just one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid

*twitch* Saying that is like asking a roleplayer if D&D is anything like the cartoon.

Anyway, Malkavians are better.

I was always a Lasombra man myself, although I can totally see the appeal of those damn crazy Malks. Makes for interesting RP.