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Stop Making Terrible Vampire Movies
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1) vampire movies are usually set in present day and so should only be set in present day
2) since Tolkien didn't have vampires in Middle Earth they cannot work in a medieval setting
Both ideas are weak and somehow taken as givens by the author who also assumes that a movie nobody has seen yet has to suck. I read blogs for opinion as well as information, but I like that opinion to be supported by stronger arguments that these...
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Seriously. Do they?
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As far as medieval vampires, I am not entirely opposed. Sure it has been overdone lately and I haven't seen it done well in a modern story set before 1800 or so but I see potential there. Maybe an alternate history of the spanish Inquisition where the real target was vampires? I'd read that.
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Hell, with a little filing, you can replace the Xeno with a Vamp in the original Alien no sweat... near the end of the movie you'd find the missing crewmembers strapped down in the hold, with feeding tubes in and arterial taps out - a blood farm instead of a xeno nursery.
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The Werewolf and the Vampire should be friends.
Oh, the Vampire and the Werewolf should be friends.
One creature likes to drink some blood and how, the other likes to eat a cow,
But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.
Really scary folks should stick together,
Really scary folks should all be pals.
Vampires dance with Werewolves' daughters,
Werewolves dance with the Vampires' gals. (repeat)
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this
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Underworld 3 is going to suck, but so? The first to movies also sucked. You could tell the whole franchise was doomed to suck when the vampire almost drowns and has to be resuscitated, and then werewolves can climb on the ceiling.
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@tetracycloide: Yes, okay. Underworld's werewolves have more in common with crap than they do with werewolves in western mythology.
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still, while the individual pieces of the world often exist in whole or part in real european mythologies the conglomeration and the way in which they were conglomerated is certainly an original work.
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Oh-ho, ah-ha! According to Wikipedia, Tolkien took the word "orc" from the Anglo-Saxon, and was suspicious of the Latin provenance of the term!
"in an unpublished letter sent to Gene Wolfe, Tolkien also made this comment:[1]
Orc I derived from Anglo-Saxon, a word meaning demon, usually supposed to be derived from the Latin Orcus -- Hell. But I doubt this, though the matter is too involved to set out here."
It's a reasonable supposition, both that they might be related, and that the similarity is coincidental.
@tetracycloide: Agreed. The whole point of the LOTR-Middle Earth setting is that all of the cool stuff was on the way out. This is why over the course of The Hobbit and LOTR, the last dragon is killed, the last balrog is killed, the last demon god-king is destroyed, the last wizards lose their power or go into hiding, the elves all leave, &c. &c.
I always found that world to be really depressing.
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The first two Underworlds were successful because they mined the very fertile territory of White Wolf Games' World of Darkness "gothic-punk" setting. WW also had a well-developed Dark Ages line, though obviously the Underworld 3 people didn't look at it. It was miles away from the cod-medieval trappings on display here (and in the trailer).
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