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Fall in love with a vampire? Really?

posted 11 years ago by VirtualMark
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So, you meet this lovely girl, you get to know her a bit, then it turns out that she goes around in the night killing people. And she hangs out with a gang that drive from town to town killing people. And they've been doing it every night for years - some over 100 years. So that's 365 killings a year each, they must have racked up about 100,000 killings between them.

But it's ok, because she's pretty. Just give her a blood transfusion and she can move into the family home. Lol!

[–] davannacarter 11 years ago

The movie utterly lacks logic and believable situations from beginning to end. It was extremely clumsy. In the hands of a better filmmaking team, this could have been a suspenseful horror that's also a great character study.

I never thought about how she must have killed thousands of people since becoming a vampire until you pointed it out. The movie should have shown how there's a lot of physiological and social problems that come from returning into a human after being a vampire. It has all the makings of a good TV show. Too bad it's nothing more than a ridiculously clumsy movie that has a surprising amount of popularity and praise.

[–] VirtualMark 11 years ago

Well I did love some parts about the movie. Such as the atmosphere and some of the scenes. But when we pick the movie apart, he basically falls in love with a serial killer who feeds off people. Not a pleasant thought really!

[–] bluersun 10 years ago

So many retards who need to stick to watching Twilight. *beep* off.

[–] ImTheToad 9 years ago

She was a vampire. Vampires drink blood.

In this version it seems like if a vampire bites you you turn into a vampire yourself, which is probably why she killed people after feeding. I mean, what else was she suppose to do? We don't know if something like animal blood would work.

She even seemed sad when she told Caleb "it's like you're one of us now" after the shooting. She didn't seem to kill just for the fun of it like the rest of the group.

She's pretty and she seems like a good person (when taking away the vampire-part).

I'd say it's ok to welcome her into the family.

[–] harrychalcraft 9 years ago

Post makes no sense because Caleb didn't know Mae was a vampire before she bit him and her posse kidnapped him.

"YOU WANT THEM TO DO TRICKS!? I WANT THEM TO DROP OVER!!!!"

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

i know right, movie's plot was very contrived

so many movies, so little time