[ SECRET POST #2023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2023 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb335/al28894/ABVH-secret.png

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, you like what you like. Personally, I didn't care for what I saw in the trailers [yes, I admit certain parts of the film rubbed the wrong way], so I didn't go see it. But I've met people who liked it - so you aren't alone.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my best friends really enjoyed this movie, OP, you're not alone :D

[(Anonymous)]

How did people react to this movie in other parts of the country/world? I'm from Lincoln's hometown and whenever the preview was shown in the theater people groaned and laughed. Was that the common response to the trailer?

OP here.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, where I come from (Malaysia) people really like the movie once they got to see it. Granted, some of the scenes were a little weird but when the part with Jack Barts comes up everyone I knew covered their eyes (vampires, why must you be invisible?). From then on, everyone liked the film and I personally recommended the movie to my college mates. Dunno about other countries though.

[elaminator]

That's perfectly fine. We all have guilty pleasures, and you shouldn't even have to feel guilty about it; movies don't have to be Oscar worthy for you to enjoy them. It's okay to like a little mindless fun now and then.

Hell, I adore the Fast and the Furious movies. Do I realize they aren't art? Yes. But I watch for the pretty.

[visp.livejournal.com]

I don't think too many of the history buffs took offense. It's sort of like 'Pride and Prejudice With Zombies' in that it's not meant to be taken seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the books were written by the same guy, Seth Grahame-Smith.

[thecrazyalaskan]

If loving this book is wrong, I really don't want to be right.

Seriously, I'm a big history geek and I adored this book. (Unfortunately, the closest movie theater to me is 400 miles away, so I've yet to see the movie.) It's fantasy, so I can't see why people would get their panties in a twist about it.

[ninety6tears]

Apparently a lot of the Lincoln historians were very impressed by the verisimilitude. Seth Grahame-Smith got invited to ~events at the Lincoln museum and all, which I find hilarious but kind of cool.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the movie, don't know much about it or the book, and don't have any particularly strong feelings about it, but why is that picture so sexy?

[blackmare]

I liked the movie a lot! There was one totally lol-worthy scene (involving a herd of horses, and just, LOLNO) but it was a fun movie and also RUFUS SEWELL, for whom I have an eternal weakness. And the guy who played Henry was wonderful.

I don't see why this is a secret.

[fingalsanteater]

Why would history buffs complain about this movie? Do they think people will really think Lincoln fought vampires? Were there other parts in the movie ABOUT LINCOLN FIGHTING VAMPIRES that were historically inaccurate?

So you like a stupid* movie; a lot people like a lot of stupid things. It has nothing to do with you being Malaysian.

*Note: Not judging (haven't seen and can't form an opinion on it; doesn't matter if I think it's stupid anyway- haters gonna hate). I'm just going on your inference that people think it is stupid. My mom and brothers saw it and said it was awesome.

[mekkio]

I don't think anyone is/was really angry over that movie because of Lincoln, himself, is fighting vampires. (Though, there have been some rants about how the whole thing is some white guilt fantasy. But, again, not because OMG! how dare you mock Lincoln!) But, Americans, by and far, don't really have sacred idols when it comes to their political figures. Everyone is fair game. ESPECIALLY Lincoln who is just ripe for parody.

For example;

Conan O'Brien's Lincoln Money Shot (slightly NSFW)



Electric Six - "Gay bar"


Clone High - Lincoln is cloned and now a high school student!

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen it yet, but a lot of my friends liked it. They're fans of the book. The author is an alumni of our college.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the movie yet or read the book, but I really want to see this partly because I know it will be ridiculous. I lived in Springfield, Illinois for three years during my childhood (2nd-4th grades) and so my family spent many a weekend out at various Lincoln-related things, like New Salem (which is like Colonial Williamsburg for Midwestern people and looks like a cleaner version of District 12 from The Hunger Games film). I want the vampires to either tear through New Salem (for the kewl/LOL factor) and/or take over Springfield because I'm pretty sure that actually happened since I went to school with their hideously awful offspring and because nothing happened there outside of folksy shows/festivals and tornado warnings.

[nagaina]

Don't feel guilty. At all. Anybody who gets their historical accuracy panties in a wad about a movie/book in which Abraham Lincoln kills vampires needs to be taken aside and gently beaten with the cluebat marked FICTIONAL STUFF IS FICTIONAL.

Also: loved the book, though I thought it could use some more flesh on its bones toward the end, and haven't had a chance to see the movie yet.

Also also: I'm writing this comment from the place of having written literally hundreds of thousands of words of historical-vampire-related fiction and roleplaying game text for White Wolf. Fuck 'em if they can't hack the fictionalization of the real world.

[(Anonymous)]

I've not seen it, but part of me really wants to just because it looks so damn ridiculous.

good times

[(Anonymous)]

So I have a fun story about this movie!

So, was out walking across the country with my dog. Dog got a little injured and I needed a ride to the next town ("next town" is many miles in Utah). This lady generously gives us a ride and the whole trip is telling me all about this amazing new book about Abraham Lincoln. It's this expose talking about how he started the Civil War as a front for the Vampire War, and how he was really a Vampire Hunter, and how there are all these secret historical documents to back up the claims. She told me about this amazing book and how she had no idea vampires even existed, let alone that Lincoln was a Hunter, for the entire hour long ride.

To this day I have no idea if she was bs'ing me or if she honestly thought the book was a historical expose about The Truth About Lincoln.

~Ameranth ( Sorry for the Anon. I deleted my LJ and don't want an account here.)

[ninety6tears]

I didn't hate the movie, I'm just really happy I knew going in how completely different it was from the book because then I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy it as much. The book is actually dramatically satisfying to me, the movie just works as a good LOLfest.

[la_petite_singe]

I totally liked it. I am 100% open about that. Totally silly, yes, but strangely sexy axe-swinging + a very strong SPN-like homoerotic vibe + Mary Todd Lincoln becoming a badass (?!) + tons of actors I love + somewhat tongue-in-cheek history = me being a happy camper. (My audience giggled at "come on, we're going to be late for the theatre!") I especially loved the final brief scene, as well as the end titles. Haters to the left.

[writerserenyty]

I didn't see it because I didn't really want to, but I've heard it's a fun action movie that, if you don't take it seriously (and really, who'd take it seriously) it's very fun.

Honestly, even though I am very into movie critique and such, like what you like, no shame. There are plenty of movies that I like that have been panned by critics, even though I'm a film studies major and apparently that means I should be above those movies.

[tenebrais]

Honestly, if anyone didn't like the movie, they probably shouldn't have gone to see a film called "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter", because it delivers perfectly on its premise and doesn't deviate from it.

[lovelycudy]

Honestly, I can't stop laughing at the insanity of the title.

[(Anonymous)]

If any idiot went into this movie looking for historical accuracy, they got exactly what they deserved.

That is literally the stupidest fucking thing. Are you even kidding me.