Member AlbertV Posted January 28, 2011 Member Share Posted January 28, 2011 Dark Horizons announced that Benjamin Walker has beaten the likes of Adrien Brody, Josh Lucas, James D'Arcy and Oliver Jackson-Cohen to take on the title role of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. Walker recently starred in the Broadway play "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" which was another unconventional story of a U.S. President. He also starred as the teenage version of Alfred Kinsey in Bill Condon's "Kinsey", had a key role in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of our Fathers", and got to seriously make out with "Stargate Universe" hunk Brian J. Smith in the 2009 indie drama "The War Boys". Filming begins this March for a June 22, 2012 release date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member OpiumKungFuCracker Posted January 28, 2011 Member Share Posted January 28, 2011 Will be picking up the book soon, can't wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted January 29, 2011 Member Share Posted January 29, 2011 I'd rather just see a sequel to Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman even though it wasn't great. DragonSword: Its funny you said that I just got my BR of Van Helsing today and just watched it. I did love the whole storyline even if it was a little cheesy, but I did enjoy it overall. Since I grew up with the Original Horror Movies. And Yeah I'd like to have seen a sequel also. But come on you got Kate Beckinsale in it enough said! And what is this about Abraham Lincoln as the Vampire Hunter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted January 29, 2011 Author Member Share Posted January 29, 2011 It's based off a popular book that came out from the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Vampire_Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted January 29, 2011 Member Share Posted January 29, 2011 And "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters". I understand they're really fun reads and pretty gory at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted January 30, 2011 Member Share Posted January 30, 2011 I hear the blu-ray is a nice upgrade from the dvd. DragonSword: It was good not great, I was expecting to be blown away more, but really so far not that many BR's have done justice for me, that I have been like WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted February 1, 2011 Author Member Share Posted February 1, 2011 Dark Horizons reveals that Joaquin Phoenix may join the cast as Henry Sturgess, Abe's mentor in the art of vampire hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted June 23, 2012 Member Share Posted June 23, 2012 OK I just got back from seeing this movie and it was pretty good, I like how it started with a Young Lincoln to an Adult and also how it had the back drop of him running for president then becoming President it also featured ceratin major events during our US History including The Civil War all the while Fighting Vampires. The whole Vampire take was some new stuff which I enjoyed. But I will say I didn't see it in 3D so I didn't notice anything that would make me wish I had. Overall if you like Vampire movies you'll enjoy this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted July 10, 2012 Member Share Posted July 10, 2012 my rambling review on the film: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012: Timur Bekmambetov) ***/**** I have been looking forward to this since I first saw the poster aglow on the wall of the cinema. While I had no previous interest in the Seth Grahame-Smith novel (who also did the screenplay), I saw that this had Tim Burton as a producer and Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) as the director and I am already salivating at the thought. After watching a few trailers of the film I was even more intrigued. I did wonder who else would actually be excited by this and if it would actually be good according to my own bizarre and ineffable criteria. I wisely did not bring the axe to the theater or dress like Abraham Lincoln, but I would have loved to see a rowdy bunch dressed with stovepipe hats and fake beards attending the show brandishing their rubber axes. I wonder how many ICP fans were looking forward to this movie. I was able to stakeout my favorite seat in the last row toward the middle. There was a new Fandango (I will not reiterate my hated for these commercials) and an unmemborable Mountain Dew commercial that had a Dark Knight tie-in. Trailer comments: Savages just does not interest me and why was there so many couples watching the film? There were a few kids that were a little annoying during the trailers, but during the film their mom became the nosiest person there. I call her “The Clapper.” Every action scene moment was involved with vigorous clapping. I have no issue with this; I like when people get involved with a film and I just found it more hilarious than anything else though sometimes it does take you out of the film while you fight the urge to shout obscenities (I fight this urge and occasionally give in everyday). When I write I feel I have to be honest. Whether these feelings eschew “common sense” or betray an intelligent cinematic acumen so be it. I liked and enjoyed the film.* Of course coming into the movie my preconceptions of a martial arts imbibed Abraham Lincoln with a penchant for an axe and body part decapitations like he was in a Chang Cheh directed film was soundly met. There were even the Hong Kong ubiquitous training scenes. So much on this film rides on Benjamin Walker's performance. While he does look like a younger Liam Neeson more than Abraham Lincoln, he does have the height (almost) and plays the role with a deadly seriousness. For me this helped the film, though I know many were expecting camp and kitsch. Every vampire film seems to come with its own set of rules. Here we have the ability of daytime vampires, who have to wear sunscreen to prevent skin cancer, and they cannot kill one another. Adam (Rufus Sewell in an effective performance), the progenitor of these vampires, created a enemy when he killed Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper) only to turn him into a blood sucker so he can suffer for eternity (or whenever you get dispatched by a vampire hunter) after he watched his wife's death at the hands of Adam. Adam did not conceive that Henry would be that most rare of vampires -- one with some remnants of a soul. He then makes it his mission to find and train hunters for his cause to wipe out the bloodsuckers while he is, of course, a bit hypocritical and feeds on the living (only the evil living). He finds and trains Abraham who had lost his mother years ago to the fanged fury of Jack Barts who had recently fired Abraham's father and demanded, but did not get what he considered owed to him. And then we get to learn the unsung history of Lincoln and his fight against the undead. The film is unsurprisingly weak on the historical attention to detail, though its tone is appropriate if you are a Yankee. Some of the secondary characters could have used more attention like the triangle of friendships with Joshua Speed and Will Johnson and I did wonder why they did not do more with the Stephen A. Douglas character which he was alluded to as a vampire (this is not necessarily a fault, just an observation). And some of the dialogues made me cringe such as:"A man only drinks like that when he's planning to kiss a girl or kill a man. Which is it" But I still quite enjoyed the movie. Bekmambetov's cinematic style (with Caleb Deschanel as the cinematographer) seems to owe a lot to Guy Ritchie with his use of CGI, slow motion mixed with real time in action scenes. He lacks the sagacious use of depth and montage that Richie uses in his kinetics, but I found the action scenes quite fun here as they are more geared toward the fantastical than realism (as one might expect from a film with Abraham Lincoln and vampires). The horse stampede/fight scene was impressive. The vampire throwing the horse like he was doing a hammer throw was freaking cool. That was not expected. There is a later train sequence that is equally as impressive with its suspense and conflagration. I watched this in 2-D as I read that this was not filmed in 3-D, but had the effects applied later. There was no extra after the credits. I will be getting the BD and/or DVD and a newer axe. * When reviewing a film I like to find critics who agree with you. It gives you piece of mind that you are not a complete moron for your views. I am glad Roger Ebert gave it ***/****, though he took some derisive hits from IMDB commentators for giving it a positive review. Armond White does not like the film, but he gives kudos for "Two visually lush sequences in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter belong in a great movie" http://nypress.com/a...of-abe-lincoln/ http://rogerebert.su...VIEWS/120629989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member QueMuchita Posted July 10, 2012 Member Share Posted July 10, 2012 Nice review, I haven't seen this yet but from the trailer alone, my guess is I'll really like it. It looks like a fun movie and that's the way it should be viewed. If I was going to watch movies based on IMDB reviews, I would watch about 2 movies a year, if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted July 10, 2012 Member Share Posted July 10, 2012 Nice review, I haven't seen this yet but from the trailer alone, my guess is I'll really like it. It looks like a fun movie and that's the way it should be viewed. If I was going to watch movies based on IMDB reviews, I would watch about 2 movies a year, if that. Thanks. I just tend to read as many reviews on films after I watch it as I can, but I go over the IMDB ones as well . I liked the review which stated it was the worst film ever replacing Ishtar (does that date the reviewer?). Almost no matter what the film you can find extreme reviews. Like with Amazon, the best reviews tend to be the ones usually in the upper middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member massa_yoda Posted July 11, 2012 Member Share Posted July 11, 2012 Armond White does not like the film, but he gives kudos for "Two visually lush sequences in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter belong in a great movie" I read Armond White only when I need a laugh. That guy is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member masterofoneinchpunch Posted July 11, 2012 Member Share Posted July 11, 2012 I read Armond White only when I need a laugh. That guy is ridiculous. Oh yes, but I constantly need a laugh. I like his writing style and you can always crib some points off of him. He is too contrarian though, to the point of intellectual disingenuousness. Sometimes I think he flips a coin to decide what side he is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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