Sign, HBO has Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter on it's rotation and movie list.

Vachel Lindsay in his magnificent poem "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176810)" begins most solemnly with the lines:

It is portentous, and a thing of state

That here at midnight, in our little town

A mourning figure walks, and will not rest,

Near the old court-house pacing up and down.

Now Lindsay may write solemn and heavy lines but Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter cannot sustain such a solemn tone with an ax.

And this movie is written with an ax and not a fine pen.

The premise is that the Southern States and the white ruling class used slaves to feed on. Abe Lincoln as a child loses his mother to a vampire and in his later years, grows up to be a hunter. Harriet Tubman is thrown into the mix. Gettysburg is the defeat of vampires. Abe likes to swing a silver ax.

All of it goofy vampire fighting frenzy.

Silly and pretentious and unsuccessfully trying to maintain a serious and heavy tone.

Sorry, it didn't succeed. I played games on the computer while it was on, made tea, and ate cake, and rolled my eyes a lot.

The title wasn't enough to scare you away?

It would have been a better movie if they hadn't tried to make it a serious horror film. I was disappointed.

I love this movie dearly. Haven't seen it though. Don't expect to unless I doze off in front of the TV. There are some movies that the title is enough, you don't need to see it. This is one. Another is "Snakes on a Plane." I read the title smile and laugh. Seeing the movie couldn't live up to the one I play in my mind.

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Paolo wrote: Sun May 05, 2013 8:41 pm The title wasn't enough to scare you away?

Yes it was but writer's block and boredom wasn't.

I know where I want this next story to go but it won't come to mind.

transward (imported) wrote: Mon May 06, 2013 1:23 am I love this movie dearly. Haven't seen it though. Don't expect to unless I doze off in front of the TV. There are some movies that the title is enough, you don't need to see it. This is one. Another is "Snakes on a Plane." I read the title smile and laugh. Seeing the movie couldn't live up to the one I play in my mind.

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"Snakes on a Plane" in the scripting and in the acting knows it's silly and stupid. THey all know it was an over pretentious pile of action garbage and bullshit and they didn't try to make it "portentous" (there's that word again) ...

One of the problems withe "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" is compression -- its time period is decades and the movie mishandles that. That makes it harder to believe as a true story. "Snakes on a Plane" never suffers from the thoughts that it might be real.

All went reasonably well till the little train that could(n't) appeared and my disbelief kicked in. It was better than a Saturday night SiFi made for TV disaster/Nature run amok offering with only a touch of mind bending where the hell are we in the timeline flashback and almost plausible costuming sans the catwoman outfit.

Far superior to an evening featuring open floor plan HGTV.

All in all I enjoyed it, markle