So when do we get the spoof movie, "Vampire Batman"? You know, combine Twilight with Batman and...maybe I should call the Wayans Bros.

The banks ARE the government. We are not ruled by the the current 4 year term-ers, it is and always has been the 400 year term-ers and their constant legion of wannabee vampire lords (who end up with a few million in nickels and dimes and carry the can when it goes tits-up).

You cant EARN enough money to compete in the plutocracy in one lifetime. And when you take elected office you find out pretty fast who your real boss is.
http://youtu.be/40K7p3kZO9c

Couldn't resist submitting this beautiful imagery, with the theme soundtrack to my favorite game of all time: 'Vampire: the masquerade'

The really sad thing is that is skill is complety hidden behind the impression he gives of trying to avoid flying vampire spiders

so basically god is a vampire.

I think I like him better as a constipated vampire.

>> ^bareboards2:

Sorry my response was so pissy..... I am just frustrated that after forty years of talking about this, I am still hearing the EXACT SAME RESPONSES from folks who don't take the time to actually think about the topic. It all just parroted back, the same old same old.
I sound like a broken record because I hear a broken record. For forty years.
Anyway, had you gone back and listened to the beginning of the clip where they call themselves "real men" or something like that, my comment might have made more sense. Can you imagine three young women saying "if I do this amazing act of bravery, then I'll prove myself as a real woman"? We just don't talk like that in our culture. And that makes me sad. And had done for FORTY YEARS.
If it is still going in ten years, I shall be even more sad.


I have some exciting new thoughts for you to try out, but let's start with the mundane specific case of the gentlemen in the video. It seems obvious that they're contrasting 'men' with 'boys' rather than 'men' with 'women/girls'. That's the old rite of passage being invoked, nothing to do with sex at all. Being British, they also can't help talking with a certain degree of irony that some might miss. These points are only worth making because they highlight your paranoia and oversensitivity.

Sex is ultimately irrelevant; at a 50/50 split it's too shallow a distinction to be meaningful in most cases. Gender is a personal construct, which scarcely signifies outside the individual who inhabits it. If someone, for whatever reason incomprehensible to us, chooses to incorporate their ability to tolerate capsaicin into their gender identity then it's really none of our business. We've certainly no cause to be threatened by it on a personal or cultural level.

I don't consider myself to have a gender. The rational thing to do is treat people as individuals. When you talk about the cultural implications of calling someone a girl, that means as much to me as a teenagers complaining about discrimination against vampires.

It's possible to think very seriously about a topic and decide it doesn't matter. It's just as important to point out what doesn't matter as what does. Then we can stop wasting our energy, forty years worth in your case, on trifles - and concentrate on what's actually worth thinking about. Feminists seem to only think about things that don't matter, which is why everyone hates them. Every human being on earth, and I mean that literally, agrees that the various sexes and genders don't need to be assigned different rights, or at least that we're not sophisticated enough to be able to tease out and codify the very subtle differences between those groups, individuals, and any individual at different moments in their life. That's where the issue ends. There is nothing else to talk about, but when you've squandered so much time on and identified yourself so strongly with such a simple little idea you have to invent a lot of nonsense non-issues to rant on about just to make it all seem worthwhile.

Stop being a feminist; start being a rational person who naturally agrees with the single sensible point feminists have to make and go and do something useful with your time.

>> ^Hive13:

I have to agree with some of the comments here. Having read and loved the short story first, I was very disappointed by this movie, however this ending at least is a tiny step closer to the original. The scary part of the short story was that the vampires spoke and verbally harassed Neville every night. Turning them into guttural monsters ruined that aspect. Also, the ending of the story was a fantastic twist in that Neville, having hunted and killed the "monsters" every day, had, himself become the last living man and thus the "monster". Great stuff.


I actually thought the first half of the movie was excellent. IIRC, they even seemed to be setting up the idea that the "vampires" were intelligent as in the book (didn't they set a trap for Neville?), but then it just chickened out and devolved into a dumb action/horror.

I thought Will Smith was pretty good (not normally a fan). The scene where he kills his dog was very well done.

I have to agree with some of the comments here. Having read and loved the short story first, I was very disappointed by this movie, however this ending at least is a tiny step closer to the original. The scary part of the short story was that the vampires spoke and verbally harassed Neville every night. Turning them into guttural monsters ruined that aspect. Also, the ending of the story was a fantastic twist in that Neville, having hunted and killed the "monsters" every day, had, himself become the last living man and thus the "monster". Great stuff.

Despite being let down in the second half, this film scared the crap out of me. I had no idea there were vampires going in, so when they turned up I lost it.

Hate to beat the old drum, but...having read the book first (by the great Richard Matheson), I HATED this film, alternate ending, or no. It misses the whole point of the nature of Legend, and ends up as a poor action film.

This ending is closer, though. In the book, Neville is the "vampire" of legend, and the vampires are the new normal...and legends are not meant to survive but in stories and warnings.

For anyone that missed it, Todd Holland (the director) recorded a commentary for Child's Play that can be downloaded here.
Holland also recorded two commentary tracks for Fright Night as well (my favorite vampire movie).

...same burger now is only 99 cents, and a dollar is worth about 20 cents!! Did we mention the meat and vegetables 29 years ago were probably a fuck of a lot better?? THANKS MONSANTO!! THANKS WORLD BANK!!

Do something Buffy, SAVE US FROM THE REAL VAMPIRES!!!

Short fat balding vampire in purple pants and sneakers. So much better than twilight.

That looks retarded, and I'm a person who likes the idea of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...