redambrosia Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I too am weary of zombies and pirates. And vampires. Bleh. So overdone. Of course, pop culture can take anything and beat it to death. Ona really neat note, I was at Target today and saw boxes of Count Chocula, Boo-Berry, and two new cereals, a werewolf one and one I don't remember. Of course, I also don't remember what they were called... "Woof"-somethings, hehe. They even had the old packaging. /nostaliga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingwreckage Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Vampires will never ever be cool again. Talk about saturation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingo Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The werewolf should have been "Fruit Brute." Did they have "Yummy Mummy?" My nostalgia for those cereals is a little different from normal. I yearned, ached for them as a child, but got homemade unsweetened granola instead, or generic cornflakes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klawzie Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I think vampires can be cool... but small-scale cool. I play Monsterhearts, so I'd be okay with letting a vampire into one of my games. (Wouldn't encourage it, though.) I know vampires will be one of the supernatural creatures I write into my urban fantasy novels... (But I've never really been enough of a fan of them to make them into main characters unless I find an interesting tweak on the mythology I find fun.) There are a few book series I've read that had interesting vampires. (Usually as side characters or background characters.) But I will say that the glut of them that was sparked by Rice's novels and bore fruit in the last five years or so.... has certainly put me off them on a larger scale. When they become the focus of a storyline, I tend to lose interest. Though I'll probably adore Spike from Buffy forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 When a vampire worked his way into my steampunk Western fantasy NaNoWriMo novel year before last, I made it a point to play up that he was a monster - a ravening corpse thirsting for blood, more Count Orlock than Count Dracula, more vrykolokas than vampyre. It worked out fairly well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The werewolf should have been "Fruit Brute." Did they have "Yummy Mummy?" Yes, Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute! I think there may have been a 5th one, because I swear one of them was "Woof" something. That or I'm just mis-remembering something. I'll have to ask my hubby, his memory is more accurate for that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nocturne Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The film, Bram Stoker's Dracula is about as much romance as I can accept in a vampire film (when I'm not actively blanking every line of dialogue by Keanu Reeves). They are monsters, The vampire with a heart romantic thing worked briefly as an exception, once it became the standard it ruined everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 (when I'm not actively blanking every line of dialogue by Keanu Reeves). Poor Keanu Reeves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nocturne Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The werewolf should have been "Fruit Brute." Did they have "Yummy Mummy?" Yes, Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute! I think there may have been a 5th one, because I swear one of them was "Woof" something. That or I'm just mis-remembering something. I'll have to ask my hubby, his memory is more accurate for that sort of thing. Not being American I'm only vaguely aware of these from pop-culture references. Mostly Count Chocula and Frenken-Berry. I hadn't heard Fruit Brute before and had to google him. He's kinda preachy: He just want's it dark so you won't see him coming. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loim Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I like Bram Stoker's Dracula. While I don't hate Keanu Reeves, it's far from his best work. I think the main reasons I liked it were Oldman and Hopkins (with a little Dread Pirate Roberts thrown in). Tom Waits did a commendable job as Renfield too. I agree that it's always interesting to find something that goes against the norm, but that usually leads to rapid overuse (zomg it's an evil elf that's good). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nocturne Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 (edited) (when I'm not actively blanking every line of dialogue by Keanu Reeves). Poor Keanu Reeves. Poor Gary Oldman! EDIT rather than double posting: Gary Oldman was wonderful as Dracula in all three main forms in that film (Human Vlad, mad old count, fashionable young count). I love the film. It's just Keanu's slack jawed "whoa dude, it's a vampire" expression throughout that I don't like. Edited October 15, 2013 by Nocturne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loim Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 The werewolf should have been "Fruit Brute." Did they have "Yummy Mummy?" Yes, Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute! I think there may have been a 5th one, because I swear one of them was "Woof" something. That or I'm just mis-remembering something. I'll have to ask my hubby, his memory is more accurate for that sort of thing. Not being American I'm only vaguely aware of these from pop-culture references. Mostly Count Chocula and Frenken-Berry. I hadn't heard Fruit Brute before and had to google him. He's kinda preachy: He just want's it dark so you won't see him coming. Don't feel bad. I had to google wine gums the other day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 (when I'm not actively blanking every line of dialogue by Keanu Reeves). Poor Keanu Reeves. Poor Gary Oldman! EDIT rather than double posting: Gary Oldman was wonderful as Dracula in all three main forms in that film (Human Vlad, mad old count, fashionable young count). I love the film. It's just Keanu's slack jawed "whoa dude, it's a vampire" expression throughout that I don't like. Bill & Ted's Undead Adventures? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nocturne Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Don't feel bad. I had to google wine gums the other day. Wine Gums are wonderful, especially Maynards. Really juicy. Black ones are the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loim Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 It took Keanu a while to get beyond the "whoa dude" in any movie. It worked ok when he was playing a surfing FBI agent (seriously?), but it didn't serve him so well in other things. He's another one of those actors that I think have matured fairly well in their ability, and most of the movies people judge them on, rightly so, were 10 or more years old. I liked Constantine, though it's not much like the source material. I also enjoyed A Scanner Darkly. I will admit that Point Break is one of my guilty pleasures. Mostly because of the association with Hot Fuzz, but also because Patrick Swayze was a pretty solid actor. Plus it has Anthony Kiedis in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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