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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jun 25, 2012 9:30:11 GMT -5
It came out this weekend, and I was amazed...
...amazed at how such a great concept could be so horribly executed. It's like they couldn't decide if they were going to be tongue-in-cheek or actual horror, and failed miserably because of it. Too much slo-mo. Too much vampire mouth. Too many "coming at ya" shots. There was dialogue that had no business being in the mid 19th Century. There was an axe that doubled as a rifle. There was Abe jobbing out vampires left and right. There was even a couple of appearances by Harriet Tubman. All of these things would point to a campy, fun movie, but they just kept getting all serious about it.
They should have sold the slavery idea harder, or stayed with Lincoln's adventures in Springfield, or even showed him becoming President, signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and having his old mentor show up with a team of bodyguards for him and his family as the first modern Secret Service agents. I could've lived with that, but damn, did this movie suck.
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Post by Perd on Jun 25, 2012 9:35:06 GMT -5
It was horrible. The book was nothing special, buy it was way better than the movie.
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Post by stinger on Jun 25, 2012 9:36:55 GMT -5
Yeah, it was a huge pile of crap. My wife is reading the book and said it was good and wanted to see the movie. She was disappointed and said the movie didn't follow the book at all.
Just...the horse scene....the train scene....just awful, awful stuff.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jun 25, 2012 9:41:57 GMT -5
It was like watching the last two Matrix movies if they were set in the mid 1800s.
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Post by Cela on Jun 25, 2012 9:51:08 GMT -5
I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was dumb as hell, but each next level kept me facepalming with joy. Honestly, once Stephen Douglass showed up, I was hooked.
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