Vampires = Money

[Poomanchu745]

So apparently with the crazy ass success of Twilight everyone in Hollywood is trying to pump out as many random vampire movies as possible. I have not seen any and probably wont as they will most likely be garbage. I can't help but think that vampires which were usually only liked by a niche population are being dragged through the ringer just to make people some money. So how will this change the future of vampire movies if they are just seen as a cash cow?

 

[Dark Knifer]

Like everything else. They will get spammed for a while then die off to be replaced by the pansied up version of some other bullshit. Exactly like zombies.

Pretty much this...sigh...It's sad because it's true.

 

[Earthmonger]

I've not watched television since the 90s, so I have no idea what Twilight is. I do know it's popular among the braindead monkeys though, since I keep hearing it mentioned everywhere.

TV sucks.

 

[CarbonEagle]

I've not watched television since the 90s, so I have no idea what Twilight is. I do know it's popular among the braindead monkeys though, since I keep hearing it mentioned everywhere.

TV sucks.

To explain its a series of books about some girl falling in love with a vampire... except they're not vampires, they're wimpires cause they sparkle in sunlight and act like prettyboys.
Pretty much its a romance novel for teenage girls. Dunno what all the hype is all about... the first movie was terrible. Fanboyism I suppose

 

[lenneth]

Its just a trend, something came along, did very well and most people have no idea why so they just make copies of it rather than surpass it...kinda reminds me of when the Wii first came out in a way

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I've not watched television since the 90s, so I have no idea what Twilight is. I do know it's popular among the braindead monkeys though, since I keep hearing it mentioned everywhere.

TV sucks.

To explain its a series of books about some girl falling in love with a vampire... except they're not vampires, they're wimpires cause they sparkle in sunlight and act like prettyboys.
Pretty much its a romance novel for teenage girls. Dunno what all the hype is all about... the first movie was terrible. Fanboyism I suppose

You could probably replace the vampires with pokemon and the story would remain pretty much unchanged, except it would be more awesome...

 

[Jark212]

I saw this Swedish Vampire movie that was really cute in a terrifying way...
It's Called "Let the Right One In"
Go Rent it now!!!

 

[Disaster Button]

I dunno but I hate it. Also came out right before The Vampire's Assistant which makes that look like its jumping on the band wagon, although it was probably going to be an awful movie anyway.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

For the foreseeable future, if you like vampires you are going to have to go out of your way to make it clear you don't mean the Twilight-inspired bullcrap versions, which will be everywhere because success - no matter how baffling and completely undeserved - breeds imitation.

I saw this Swedish Vampire movie that was really cute in a terrifying way...
It's Called "Let the Right One In"
Go Rent it now!!!

Quoted for truth - if you like vampires and horror movies you owe it to yourself to watch this.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

NO.

Vampires being an advertisment feature is NOTHING NEW.

Before I knew what Twilight was, I wanted to go see it on the basis of 'Oooh, it's got vampires in!'.

You completely missed the point - of course films that had vampires in them used "we have vampires in our movie!" as a selling point, the distinction is they were aimed at fans of Vampires. The various properties the success of Twilight has inspired are not - they are aimed at fans of Twilight, and as a rule those tend to be people who didn't care about vampires prior to watching Twilight (it may have tricked people who already liked vampires into watching it of course, but they were not the target audience). Ergo we're in for a deluge of cinematic abortions looking to cash in with the "ooh sparkly!" crowd.

That's what's new: Vampires are now a selling point to people who don't in fact like vampires at all, they just think they do because of Twilight's sissy sparkly ones.

Or put another way, imagine someone taking a sub-genre like the Saw films (torture porn) and creating a light-hearted musical comedy version that barely resembles the purported source material, which then becomes inexplicably popular with a brand new demographic who previously wouldn't even get near a 'torture porn' film - suddenly Hollywood is churning out all sorts of copies of that extremely inauthentic version to capitalize on the commercial success. How well do you think the new "popularity" of the genre would sit with the fans of actual 'torture porn'?