Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Trailer

[VanHelsingStandIn]

Chuck Norris is tougher.

[Murfreesboro]

Forgive me if I'm showing my ignorance, but American history always bored me to tears--wasn't Theodore Roosevelt a big game hunter? Perhaps he could be a werewolf hunter...

Yes, he was. And he went on a bear hunt in Mississippi (my home state), but the only bear he found to hunt was old and hurt, so he wouldn't shoot it. That's why the toy makers invented the "Teddy Bear" and named it after him.

American history is fascinating, Pumpkin. You need to give it another try. I'd recommend some of the good narrative histories aimed at the general public, like McCullough's John Adams or Ambrose's Undaunted Courage (about the Lewis & Clark expedition). Both books read like novels. I read a really good book about Lincoln a few years ago called Redeemer President, can't remember who wrote that one. But it was an intellectual biography, focusing on Lincoln's education and social milieu, and I learned enormously, not only about him, but about what the American frontier was like in his youth.

As for graphic novels and their influence on movies--I think film makers like them because they are already "story boarded," so to speak. You know, the way movies have to be imagined scene by scene before they can be filmed. Also, of course, there seem to be quite a few imaginative and even thought-provoking graphic novels nowadays, although I myself have never gotten into that genre.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I actualy went and saw that movie, against my 'better judgement,' but as it turned out it was a pretty good flick. I am not a huge fan of using real historical figures like Abraham Lincoln in fiction stories, but this movie worked.

Mike

[NeverMore]

I just saw a paperback book based on the movie at a store. So let's see... the story goes from comic book to movie back to paperback book. What's next? Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Musical?

I'm still looking forward to seeing it when it comes out on disk.

[Rising Dead Man]

I'm still looking forward to seeing it when it comes out on disk.

I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

[NeverMore]

I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

That's where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter lived, right?

[Rising Dead Man]

I'm looking forward to The Cabin in the Woods. It's coming sooooon!!!

That's where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter lived, right?

In a log one yes. I wonder how that turned him into a badass?

[NeverMore]

Ummm... that was pre toilet paper. Wouldn't that make you grouchy?

[Rising Dead Man]

And going in a smelly outhouse and a smelly chamber pot.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Anyone who lived on a farm back in those days had to be tough and strong, just so they could get through their daily chores. This was before tractors, before cars, before a lot of the agricultural equipment thar farmers use to plant and harvest. All that work was done with hand tools from sun up to sun down. That would make anyone as strong as an ox. Even the women, back then, routinely carried 200 pound loads of grain or what ever on their backs at harvest time, and often it was the woman who actualy pulled the plow while the man stood on it so it would dig into the ground.

Farming is still a rather tough and rugged life, but in the 19th century, it was very labor intensive physicaly.

[VanHelsingStandIn]

I'm waiting for the next book. Truman Capote: Zombie Slayer!

[NeverMore]

I heard today there's a new book coming out, gonna be called 'Monika Lewinski: President Slayer'.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Narf Narf, NeverMore. I could say something, but not on this wholesome and family friendly web site.

Trueman Capote????? He IS a zomby. Ever see the movie about him?? He's like that character on "Laverne & Shirley" Squiggly, I think his name was. For all it's worth he was a GREAT writer. I read "In Cold Blood" twice when I was in college and both times I couldn't put it down.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Truman Capote was quite a character. Oddly, though you'd never believe it of him, I read that he did actually beat a guy up once, outside a restaurant, when he was young.

I didn't know until a few months ago that he was a neighbor of Harper Lee's, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. He was the model for the little boy in that novel that Scout hangs out with, not her brother, of course, but the other little boy.

I believe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who won the Oscar for portraying Capote in the movie about him a few years ago. I didn't see the movie, but I saw scenes of it and was stunned by how well Hoffman had captured that eccentric character.

[Pumpkin56]

Truman Capote was quite a character. Oddly, though you'd never believe it of him, I read that he did actually beat a guy up once, outside a restaurant, when he was young.

I didn't know until a few months ago that he was a neighbor of Harper Lee's, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. He was the model for the little boy in that novel that Scout hangs out with, not her brother, of course, but the other little boy.

I believe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who won the Oscar for portraying Capote in the movie about him a few years ago. I didn't see the movie, but I saw scenes of it and was stunned by how well Hoffman had captured that eccentric character.

DILL!!! I love To Kill A Mockingbird

I think Catherine Keener played Harper Lee in that movie that you're referring to.