I follow you. And I recommend to you the new Swedish vampire flick Let The Right One In. Forgive my ignorance, whose music is featured in this?

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Seconded on the movie recommendation.

I like True Blood, but I recognize that it's in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way. I'll watch pretty much anything vampy.

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so much potential, so much FAIL. How can you screw up *vampires*?

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Well, apparently they've stuck pretty close to the source material, which by all accounts is badly written trash. I've been watching this because, like watching a train wreck, I just can't seem to look away.

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A friend of mine and I develooped a theory about that: The more fascinating a supernatural being is in concept, the less watchable of a movie/tv show it makes. For instance vampires, while the most interesting of the supernatural beings, makes for some lousy movies. But zombies on the other hand, dead, limping, mindless... boring, movies = awesome

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I was amused by this article claiming that zombie and vampire movie counts cycle with the party in power, because zombies are a narrative for the uprising proletariat while vampires represent the aristocracy. Apparently he thinks we'll see a lot more vampire movies under an Obama administration.

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One word: *sparkle*

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this comment makes me question your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

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i gotta give them props for the whole pentacostals=strippers bit tho. to put it in dogma terms, the holy spirit is just another way to get filled.

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Am I the only one who likes this show? I don't really understand why everyone hates it.

And, I always skip past the title sequence.

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No, you are not alone. True Blood is awesome. The books are awesome. People who trash it should either produce something as good, or at least as successful, or should STFU...

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That's a pretty brutal standard to live by.

Someone recently showed me a charming video called "Freaxxx" by a small musical collective who I believe call themselves Brokencyde. Now by some accounts this video might actually be violating the Geneva Convention... but I guess I can't say anything else since I'm not in possession of the requisite Range Rovers and bitchaz to construct my own video.

Maybe we can all come together and hate Twilight instead. I mean it doesn't even have knockers, right?

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I've enjoyed the show a great deal. I think the trashiness is just the outermost layer. Like Joss Whedon's work, True Blood almost begs people to dismiss it as pulpy genre.

I have no interest in vampires outside these two shows (although I did enjoy Let The Right One In) - they're just another vehicle for storytelling, as far as I'm concerned. I turned my nose up at Buffy for ages before I finally got into it. Back then, vampires were a little too cheesy and implausible to be frightening or interesting to me - I was much more of a sci-fi fan.

I'm not sure where all the hating is coming from, either. Maybe it's an easy target?

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yeah if only they'd based it on a better trashy vampire novel. Though I guess with most of the rest its all really porn porn multiple orgy with vampire werewovles and fairies porn. So they also suck. Twilight which I liked clearly had the movie offer, which looks AWFUL.

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True Blood Main Title Sequence Client: HBO URL: http://www.d-kitchen.com/project.php?p=128 DK Credits: Creative Directors: Matt Mulder, Rama Allen. Live Action Direction: Rama Allen, Morgan Henry, Matthew Mulder, Matt Clark, Tevor Fife; Designers: Rama Allen, Shawn Fedorchuck, Ryan Gagnier, Matthew Mulder, Camm Rowland, Ryan Rothermel, Jacques Broquard; Compositor: Ryan Gagnier; Editor: Shawn Fedorchuck; Producers: Morgan Henry, Kipp Christiansen, Keir Moreano; ECD Paul Mattheaus; EP: Mark Bayshore

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