Comments on: Trailer for Tim Burton's "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"

By: adamnvillani

adamnvillani — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:43:00 +0000

Okay, everybody’s jumped on the Tim Burton misattribution, but I also feel compelled to point out that Sean O’Neal writes for the AV Club, not its sister publication The Onion.

By: thekinginyellow

thekinginyellow — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:01:00 +0000

burton directed beetlejuice; he didn’t write it. actually, he doesn’t really seem to write much of anything. nightmare before christmas was only based on an idea he had and he didn’t even write or direct it either.

By: thekinginyellow

thekinginyellow — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:57:00 +0000

tim burton produced NOT tim burton written and NOT tim burton directed.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Hearing about the book didn’t move me one way or another, but I do likes me this trailer.

Isn’t the J.C. voice-over from the same track that was used in the fast-zombie Dawn of the Dead?

By: MetalPorkchop

MetalPorkchop — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:19:00 +0000

That’s the problem with majority of movie goers, they only know mainstream, which usually blows, and because people keep seeing bad movies, Hollywood keeps making bad movies and recycling stories to death. There are less and less small local theatres which play foreign as well as old films, because there are less and less people going to see them. I will probably see this eventually, but only because it involves Timur Bekmambetov, plus I like a certain kind of vampire movies, though I don’t know if this will be one of those. I’m still hoping Dusk Watch will happen.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:58:00 +0000

That one would be more a suspension of belief, now would it?

By: Mitchell Powers

Mitchell Powers — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:43:00 +0000

Bekmambetov and Burton! Future is now!

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:55:00 +0000

Great shitty movie IMO!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:54:00 +0000

The power of Christ impales you!

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:35:00 +0000

“without obliterating suspension of disbelief” The way they did with Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter, you mean?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:07:00 +0000

There was a ‘Dusk Watch’ planned, but it fell out of existence.

By: AlanStrangis

AlanStrangis — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:14:00 +0000

Agreed on all accounts. I’m glad Burton is merely the producer, and I hope he didn’t have a lot of influence over Bekmanbetov’s style (which seems much more suitable for this material).

I’ll never forgive Burton for his absolutely horrible Apes ‘reimagining’.

By: Linley Lee

Linley Lee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:03:00 +0000

If Rufus Sewell is in it, I am in

By: twency

twency — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:39:00 +0000

Watching the trailer, my disbelief became unsuspended when I saw the Washington Monument apparently complete in Abe Lincoln’s time.

By: Alex Kerney

Alex Kerney — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:35:00 +0000

Was he ever planning on going further in the series?

The stories in the first book can largely get someone involved on their own, but later in the books you need more of the back story.

Unfortunately I don’t think that the series has the momentum to get 8 or so movies made for it and enough people to watch all 8 like Harry Potter in order to follow the story (at least without butchering some of the stories).

By: Rusty Stardust

Rusty Stardust — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:24:00 +0000

I’m sorry, but you’re so wrong it’s crazy. Burton’s Batman was a ‘rancid pile of shit’?!! That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s a brilliant film that redefined the comic book movie. You wouldn’t have Batman Begins without Burton’s Batman. Nicholson and Keaton have more personality in their little fingers than Bale or Ledger have in their entire careers. Please don’t discuss things you have no idea about.

By: Bizket Jones

Bizket Jones — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:47:00 +0000

I watch this trailer while wearing my Woot t-shirt depicting Abe Lincoln fighting three bears.

I *am* the target audience for this movie and I can’t wait for it to hit my local dodeca-plex

By: Bizket Jones

Bizket Jones — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:42:00 +0000

From what I understand, the reason that he hasn’t made he next movie is because he doesn’t want to work for a ‘Russian’ production company ever again.

I say ‘Russian’ not because that is his choice of word, but due to my ignorance of what to refer to the area that I only ever remember as being the U.S.S.R.

By: Sean Closson

Sean Closson — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:10:00 +0000

It’s not a Tim Burton movie, he is only a producer, which really just means he is providing the money and the contacts for the people actually doing the work. They are advertising it with his name on it because Timur Bekmambetov isn’t that big in America yet and no-one will pay as much to go and see it if it’s advertised as Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

In truth, it’s kind of a risky property for a movie studio to push and I can see why they want the bigger name attached to it. It’s the same sort of shit they pulled with Nightmare Before Christmas, which was really Henry Selick and the talented animators and artists working with him. The only thing that Burton really contributed there was some basic concept art.

Also, am I the only one who hates Tim Burton’s artwork? I look at it and feel that his stuff is a cruder version of the genius stuff that was being put out by Edward Gorey.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:30:00 +0000

I hate to admit this, but I kind of want to see this.

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:27:00 +0000

Since I posted that comment, I have an obnoxious Tea Party ad in the margin telling me how to avoid Obama’s Army of Snoops and Asset-Grabbers! WTF? It’s teh conspiracies!!1!

By: pundog

pundog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Totally. Though you can’t always blame the filmmaker for projects languishing in development hell… usually that’s the studio’s fault. (Though I’m not sure in this case.)

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:25:00 +0000

How come Abe Lincoln sounds like Johnny Cash?

By: pundog

pundog — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:24:00 +0000

What? The MPAA is the trade association that gives movies their ratings (PG, R, etc.) and lobbies Congress for stuff. They have nothing to do with actual filmmakers.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:11:00 +0000

I didn’t see the second one but I thought the Batman film with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson was quite good (but then I’m not a comic book reader or fan). And it isn’t as good as the original Superman film, which is my favorite superhero film.

But, I liked it more than any of the recent superhero films (or the 90′s superhero films), not that they’re all terrible (I liked Watchmen and, of course, the Nolan-directed Batman films).

I agree with your point overall, though – Burton’s best films are the ones that are his original stories, and many of the other films he’s done I think are awful.

By: TimmoWarner

TimmoWarner — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000

I would have gone with “Mashers up.”

By: DevinC

DevinC — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:03:00 +0000

The problem is that very often awesome concepts are often marred by poor execution. We get wonderfully vivid concepts that are smudged and drained of colour by the popcorn-industrial complex, who are looking for a blockbuster with universal appeal rather than a niche market like geeks.

(That said, I can think of a few counterexamples: Hot Fuzz, for example.)

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:56:00 +0000

It looks like fun. To hell with maintaining suspension of disbelief, it’s a vampire movie! And Honest Abe kicking undead ass? I’m there!

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:39:00 +0000

spoiler: Nathan Bedford Forrest makes a cameo as the wolf-man (ok ok… for those under the age of 17… “Lycan” (…Colorado!))

By: crummett

crummett — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Only if you hit them with the Awesome Axe of Lincoln.