...the ads didn't seem to have a good mix of showing that.
I've pretty much figured the ads are crap. I mean Colin Farrell has spoken of how much he loved the original, which made me like him more, and how he didn't want to be part of a remake until he saw the script. That says to me the script has to at least be decent which is hard to tell from the ads.
Chris Sarandon? Really?
Yes, really. I think the first time I saw him was... *looks at his filmography* ...the A Tale of Two Cities he did in 1980. To me he will always be Jerry Dandridge and Prince Humperdinck. I can't pick just one.
Okay, to me, Chris Sarandon didn't exist before Felicity...
I never watched Felicity, but from his filmography that was over a decade later. You should see him younger.
He looked really, really different in the 80s but I think Colin Farrell comes off more my type...
Colin Farrell is younger than me. I don't notice it as much as I did when we were both younger, but he still isn't my type. To the extent that any of the actors in the remake increase my interest in it, David Tennant playing Peter Vincent does intrigue me. It would be laughable if they hadn't updated Peter, but with the new version of Peter...
I loved Buffy.
I loved vampires long before Joss Whedon conceived of Buffy. Don't get me wrong, I not only saw the original film with Kristy Swanson and Donald Sutherland, but watched the show. It wasn't the first "Young Adult" vampire story. I'm vastly annoyed when I see people talking about The Vampire Diaries as a Twilight knock off when the original novels predate not only Twilight but Buffy. The original trilogy was done in '91, the year before the original Buffy film. It's the added fourth book that's '92.
I started watching Buffy from the very first episode being premiered on WB...
I didn't have a WB station when it first started to air, and it's possible there are episodes from both first and second season I still haven't seen. Of course, since my interest was in the vampires rather than the slayer, I've made more of an effort to see Angel and Spike than Buffy herself.
...I loved the idea of vampires looking like my age or teenagers.
I've always been leary of younger actors playing vampires. I know good ones can act much older than they are, but I can't help feeling there really is no substitute for experience.
It seemed novel compared to Anne Rice and everything else.
Younger vampires weren't new when Anne Rice was including Claudia in her books. I can never remember the name of the short story that inspired her to write Claudia, but it was one from the 1930's.
But then, it became the norm and Twilight killed it...
I've only seen the first Twilight film. I haven't tried reading the books or watching any of the other films. The combination of the teen angst and the vampires sparkling is just too much for me to take.
So, I liked how Colin Farrell has this look of timelessness but he is a bit older.
Colin Farrell may work as a vampire, I won't know until I see it, but he'll have to work at it to impress me.
Actually, that was one of the things I really enjoyed about Darren Shan's books...his vampires aren't immortal...
Doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I prefer immortal vampires.
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Date: 2011-08-27 09:34 pm (UTC)I've pretty much figured the ads are crap. I mean Colin Farrell has spoken of how much he loved the original, which made me like him more, and how he didn't want to be part of a remake until he saw the script. That says to me the script has to at least be decent which is hard to tell from the ads.
Chris Sarandon? Really?
Yes, really. I think the first time I saw him was... *looks at his filmography* ...the A Tale of Two Cities he did in 1980. To me he will always be Jerry Dandridge and Prince Humperdinck. I can't pick just one.
Okay, to me, Chris Sarandon didn't exist before Felicity...
I never watched Felicity, but from his filmography that was over a decade later. You should see him younger.
He looked really, really different in the 80s but I think Colin Farrell comes off more my type...
Colin Farrell is younger than me. I don't notice it as much as I did when we were both younger, but he still isn't my type. To the extent that any of the actors in the remake increase my interest in it, David Tennant playing Peter Vincent does intrigue me. It would be laughable if they hadn't updated Peter, but with the new version of Peter...
I loved Buffy.
I loved vampires long before Joss Whedon conceived of Buffy. Don't get me wrong, I not only saw the original film with Kristy Swanson and Donald Sutherland, but watched the show. It wasn't the first "Young Adult" vampire story. I'm vastly annoyed when I see people talking about The Vampire Diaries as a Twilight knock off when the original novels predate not only Twilight but Buffy. The original trilogy was done in '91, the year before the original Buffy film. It's the added fourth book that's '92.
I started watching Buffy from the very first episode being premiered on WB...
I didn't have a WB station when it first started to air, and it's possible there are episodes from both first and second season I still haven't seen. Of course, since my interest was in the vampires rather than the slayer, I've made more of an effort to see Angel and Spike than Buffy herself.
...I loved the idea of vampires looking like my age or teenagers.
I've always been leary of younger actors playing vampires. I know good ones can act much older than they are, but I can't help feeling there really is no substitute for experience.
It seemed novel compared to Anne Rice and everything else.
Younger vampires weren't new when Anne Rice was including Claudia in her books. I can never remember the name of the short story that inspired her to write Claudia, but it was one from the 1930's.
But then, it became the norm and Twilight killed it...
I've only seen the first Twilight film. I haven't tried reading the books or watching any of the other films. The combination of the teen angst and the vampires sparkling is just too much for me to take.
So, I liked how Colin Farrell has this look of timelessness but he is a bit older.
Colin Farrell may work as a vampire, I won't know until I see it, but he'll have to work at it to impress me.
Actually, that was one of the things I really enjoyed about Darren Shan's books...his vampires aren't immortal...
Doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I prefer immortal vampires.