Is Buffy passe' now in light of more current vampire movies & series?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 19:32
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BIGRICHARD

Monday, January 19, 2009 12:07 PM

I'm all for new takes on the old myth, and True Blood does a similar thing in saying "a lot of the stuff you've heard was myth". Although in True Blood I like that he actually says that the vampires made up some of that stuff so that they could prove they WEREN'T vampires when need be. Like if someone says "Vampire!" and rushes him with a crucifix, he's fine and they think "oh, that proves it, he's not a vampire". But Twilight does the 'myth' thing and then adds a whole bunch of little 'powers' and 'attractions' and stuff. Not my cup of tea at all.

Just thought of another actually, although I'm fairly sure it's older than Buffy.

George A. Romero (of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, etc. fame) directed a film called Martin. Which is a very odd film, and CERTAINLY not for everyone. I can't say I absolutely loved it, but it's an interesting film nonetheless, and you should check it out if you've seen/liked his other films, or appreciate different takes on the vampire myth. It's less supernatural and more...realistic...I guess you'd say.

PSYCHOTIC

Monday, January 19, 2009 2:39 PM

True Blood is certainly not BtVS caliber, but it's not supposed to be. It's different. If Buffy was 10/10, I'd give this 8/10. I liked it.

The acting is superb. And I lol'ed the first few episodes. But, the story arc wasn't clear to me until late in the season, and ends suddenly in the finale. I think it could have been done more elegantly and satisfying. Vampire deaths were more B-movie funny than realistic.

That said, Season 2 seems to have a lot going for it. Hopefully, the creators have more experience and budget. Interesting things happened in Season 1, and I'd like to see how a certain vamp will progress.

CHRISISALL

Monday, January 19, 2009 3:03 PM

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Originally posted by BigRichard:

George A. Romero (of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, etc. fame) directed a film called Martin.

Saw it in the theatre, it was somewhat unsettling.

The sneakin' into R's Chrisisall

THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, January 19, 2009 3:38 PM

BigRichard wrote:

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have you not read/seen 30 Days of Night Chrisisall?

Both (the film and the graphic novel) have things I'd change about them, but it's an absolutely brilliant idea, and executed much better than most other vampire stories.

I saw 30 Days of Night and I thought it a very cool vampire flick. Up there with Near Dark. The look of it is fantastic. Great premise.

CHRISISALL

Monday, January 19, 2009 4:23 PM

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I saw 30 Days of Night and I thought it a very cool vampire flick. Up there with Near Dark. The look of it is fantastic. Great premise.

Oh now I just HAVE to see it!!!

The determined Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:55 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I SAY HELL NO!!!
Eff Twilight & Thirst or whatever the Hell that crap TV show is- Buffy is Queen of all vampire stories!!!

The undead Chrisisall

Buffy? You're KIDDING me! That's like sooooooo 1997. OMG! Get with the program, grandpa. Hello, this is the 21st century! Heard of y2k much ?

Buffy... hah!

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CHRISISALL

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:02 PM

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Get with the program, grandpa.

Why, in MY day, vamps couldn't go out in daytime....

The ancient Chrisisall

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:47 PM

I remember when vampires liked kittens and hugs!

*senility?*

EMBERS

Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:55 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I SAY HELL NO!!!
Eff Twilight & Thirst or whatever the Hell that crap TV show is- Buffy is Queen of all vampire stories!!!

The undead Chrisisall

Ah, once again we have a thread started by ChrisIsAll so that he can respond... and argue with people who have been lured into the argument....

I got the first three books of Twilight from a friend who clearly doesn't know me as well as I had thought she did....
And believe me, they are NOT Buffy. I don't know why they have hit the Best Seller lists, but in writing, plotting, excitement, and love story even (we won't compare humor because the books are devoid of humor) these books cannot touch Buffy...

I have to confess that I only watched 20 minutes of HBO's 'True Blood' and the bad Southern accents were just making me grind my teeth... and I can't afford to see the dentist at the moment.

Vampires can be so cheesy, and evidently Cheese is VERY popular at the moment!

I hope people are still watching Buffy, because she is the BEST.
(but full disclosure, I have to confess that I enjoyed 'Moonlight')

New Firefly fans should check this out: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=15816

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 7:27 PM

This is probably the wrong crowd for this, but I wanted to put my vote in as a non-teenage-girl who loves Twilight. I’ll be 28 before the end of this month, have been happily married for 6 years now, and read the entire series over Christmas vacation on my mother’s recommendation. And my 36 year old husband stayed up until 2:30am last night finishing the fourth book. In fact, I don’t know anyone under the age of 18 who likes Twilight. Of the several dozen fans in my family and friends, all are adults.

I actually saw the movie before reading the books, and liked the movie enough that over the next few days I kept thinking about the characters, until finally I snuck into the library at my parents’ place and started reading the book, just to see what happens after where the movie left off. At first I didn’t want to get sucked in, but now I’m glad I didn’t pass up the opportunity to get to know these characters. After I finished reading the first book I went to see the movie again, and liked it even better. After I finished the fourth book, my husband (who had been rolling his eyes at it the whole time) said he figured he should see what I was all wrapped up in, so took me to see it again. The next day he bought the first book “for me”, and 15 days later had read all four books straight through, with no urging from me whatsoever.

I have to say that I find it very ironic that people on this board of all places are this opposed to trying out something with a cult following. I also find it painfully ironic that some of you are willing to watch hours and hours of a show about a girl in high school, but can’t be bothered to pick up a book about a girl in high school. And seeing the movie Twilight and then dismissing the books as crap is like watching the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie and then assuming the show would be at least that bad.

Now, I liked Buffy a lot when it was on TV. It started during my sophomore year of high school, with Buffy also a sophomore, so a lot of the things in the show matched up with my life very well. For several years, I was totally wrapped up in Buffy. But somewhere around the 5th season, the show lost me and I stopped watching. I went back for the last couple of episodes of the 7th season when I heard the show had been cancelled, but never really got back into it. When I saw that Hulu had a bunch of episodes up, I tried to watch them all over again, but I couldn’t get through it. Buffy represents a time in my life that I am past now, and I’m not particularly interested in revisiting it now (I won’t be going to my 10 year high school reunion this summer either).

As far as Twilight goes, I think it’s important to go into it thinking as little about Buffy as you can. The author has stated that she didn’t watch Buffy before writing the books, and has carefully avoided watching anything Buffy while writing, so her stories won’t be influenced. Yes, there are similarities, but if you actually read the books, you can tell that she hasn’t watched Buffy – the similarities would be much more self-conscious if she had. Try to think of the Twilight vampires as a totally different species as the Buffy vampires. Who knows, you might actually enjoy yourself.

Anyway, I just wanted to get another point of view out there, so people don’t read this thread and think that Twilight isn’t worth the time. I have found it to be more than worth the time, very enjoyable and some of the best books I’ve read in a long time, despite the YA reading level. But just like Firefly, Buffy, and all the other geeky cult following things that people around here love, you won’t know if you’ll love it until you try it. If you read the first book and decide it isn’t for you, that’s fine too. I can’t stand “Once More With Feeling” and barely made it through “Dr. Horrible”, but I know there are tons of people who love both. To each their own.

The lesson of loving a show named “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It’s deeper than you

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