I've never gotten the vampire craze

[TZ]

I read the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Meh. She has much more interesting reads (about Sleeping Beauty..:evilgrin:) but the Twilight appeal..is beyond me. Granted I haven't read them but I've heard from fellow fantasy readers that the writing is not good and that the writer is a Mormon who has a Abstinence Only agenda of sorts..which is weird considering that most writers consider vampire stories allegories for erotic behavior.
I like fantasy and the occasional horror too. I just don't get the appeal of vampires. :shrug:

[mcctatas]

1. timeless stuff...

all about penetration without being about sex (OK, not True Blood, but I watch that FOR the sex :evilgrin: )

as for those sparkly dusted virgins from Twilight, they are not vampires, just anemics with super powers

[TZ]

2. !

"anemics with super powers".....:rofl: So dead to Debi...

[MorningGlow]

3. Me neither

I read Anne Rice's stuff back in the day and thought it was fine, but it never inspired a vampire fascination in me. And this whole nonstop vampire/werewolf onslaught is getting seriously tedious--talk about groupthink--ugh. :eyes:

What I find frightening is that it just keeps coming, too. I belong to several writing Web sites where you can submit your ideas/opening chapters/query letters for critique, and EVERYbody is writing vampire shit.

Make. It. Stop. :banghead:

[Debi]

4. POST # 98!!

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[Debi]

5. Me either

You are so entitled to your opinion - being that you haven't read the books or watched the movies.

(I've done both and they are truly crap)


But RPattz is still fucking eyecandy!

[TZ]

6. Hey now, I not be h8in on Twilight in particular,

I be h8in on Vampires in general. They SUCK! LOL. The only vampires I like are the ones from Uberwald in the Black Ribbon Group..(Terry Pratchetts Discworld)

[Debi]

7. Whatever - and I don't want to start a battle over such a trivial subject

but you have decided to form an opinion on a specific subject.

If I had posted about a political topic or pharmachological topic and only gotten my information from shit my friends said on the internets you'd be all up in my ass about it.

Seems there's pots and kettles flying all over this site right now.

[LostinVA]

9. Jesus, knock it the hell off

I mean it. How frigging stupid can you two get?

[TZ]

11. LOL

Well what do you expect from too angry bullies like me and Debs. Clearly we both have intimacy issues that we are taking out on the board...

[Debi]

17. WTF are you talking about? n/t

[TZ]

23. haven't you heard?

People who post angry stuff on message boards are doing it because of lack of intimate relationships. I hear its the hot new theory in the amateur internet psychologist groups.

[Debi]

30. Who the fuck is that stupid? n/t

[FloridaJudy]

33. +1000 n/t

[Debi]

12. It just gets fucking old

This is the goddamn lounge and some here happend to like a certain actor. WTF do people have to shit all over our threads? I don't h8 on fucking Rush and Geddy Lee looks more like the undead than RPattz EVER did! At least I've listened to Rush on the radio. X(

[Debi]

13. dupe

[TZ]

14. Wow so angry she posted twice!

Don't worry you will have plenty of time to hate all over my Rush threads on Saturday...:)

[LostinVA]

15. I noticed that too, TZ

:rofl:

[Debi]

20. Shut up n/t

[LostinVA]

21. wtf

[Debi]

19. I probably won't

that'd be kind of an assholey thing to do, so I doubt I'd do it.

[kentauros]

8. I've never even read Anne Rice.

In fact, I don't think I've read any stories with vampyres, Earth-based or space-based ;)

I do like both Nosferatu movies as well as the horror soap opera "Dark Shadows", and the "space-vampires" in Stargate: Atlantis. But for the most part, there's just no appeal.

I'm guessing, too, that for most of those that are heavily into the current-day vampires that the ones I've just mentioned don't register.

[LostinVA]

16. I loved Dark Shadows!

And, Buffy (TV show).

[area51]

31. +1 Dark Shadows

I also watched Buffy.

[LostinVA]

10. This is a better thread anyway

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9498662

[JCMach1]

18. Prefer True Blood to the Twilight

:puke:

[LostinVA]

22. I prefer Buffy to all of them

[mtnester]

24. Naughty Naughty

don't forget Exit to Eden

[uncommon]

25. The writing is terrible, the story is self-indulgent, and the "oh noes no sexxxx" theme bah BUT

I still loved them and the movies... sometimes terrible is just what my brain needs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. The fad is getting pretty tired.

A lot of copycats, copyvampires, whatever. While I've managed to avoid the Twilight series, on a friend's recommendation I'm reading a book, "Let Me In" (which has been made into a movie, "Let The Right One In"), about a Swedish child vampire. It's pretty good, and fortunately it seems so far to be avoiding the stale themes of the genre -- all that anemic lovelorn teen angst. But I'll be just as happy to see the fad vanish, like Dracula at dawn.

[EastTennesseeDem]

32. Let the Right One In is my all-time favorite movie

and one of my all-time favorite books.

I am afraid that the American remake is going to, well, suck...the trailer looked meh.

Hope I'm wrong.

[flvegan]

27. mainly because half the people I was with believed it until I explained the situation to them

[PVnRT]

28. I'm waiting for the Blade/Twilight crossover

Edward: Wait, you don't sparkle in the sunlight like us!

Blade: No. (SLICE)

[Forkboy]

29. This is the only great vampire movie I've seen in over a decade....

In fact, it was the 2nd best movie I saw last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHBkbERaJI&NR=1&feature=fvwp

[FloridaJudy]

34. I wanna see Buffy take out Edward

Angel and Spike are way too cool to glitter.