Posts Tagged ‘ Vampires ’

While I like Let The Right One In quite a lot, I’m not as huge a fan of it as many are.

It’s the best vampire movie in recent memory, yes, but that’s damning with faint praise given that recent memory involves things like Twilight and Van Helsing. I’d go so far as to say it’s the best vampire flick since Near Dark, which is over 20 years old so I guess that’s saying something.

However, I don’t see the point of the remake, no matter how the trailer looks –

I understand the fact that this will get a wider audience as it’s in English and will be better distributed – but there seems to be very little new about this movie. It doesn’t seem to add anything to the original.

Weird housing complex? Check.
Snow on the ground? Check.
Hospital? Check.
Attack in tunnel? Check.
Swimming pool? Check.
Creepy kids? Check.

I’m probably just being cynical -after all the trailer itself is pretty good; still, nothing about this makes me want to see it now I’ve seen the original movie.

Unless of course it’s going to make a bigger deal out of Abby/Eli’s true sexuality. That would be interesting and take the movie to places that the original only hinted at – but as this is a mainstream US studio release, I can’t see that happening.

If Kevin Huxford and Bleeding Cool are to be believed, all these ‘We are the X-Men’ ads are leading to the adjectiveless X-Men book (currently Legacy under Mike Carey) being about X-Men vs Vampires.

And yes, that certainly looks like a vampire Jubilee with Nate Grey up there. The rest of the ads feature Gambit, Elektra, Hope, Blade, Magneto, She-Hulk (Llyra) and Psylocke and Spider-Man.

So…really?

I’m not against it per se, since rumor also has it that Victor Gischler will be writing (although Rick Remender does have that rumored X-Men project) and I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Deadpool Merc With A Mouth, so I’m okay with that.

Furthermore, does anyone think a team using those characters with that premise is going to be around too long? It’ll be an arc or two then done.

In the meantime we can only hope we get something like this:

Speaking of which, I fully expect the next all ages Power Pack series to be Blade and Power Pack. Just because.