How did Abe become a superhuman?
No amount of training can allow you to chop through a tree in one swing! And how did William also get super powers?
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MovieChat Forums > Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) Discussion > How did Abe become a superhuman?
This is a movie that has vampires with supernatural powers but Abe Lincoln chopping down a skinny tree in one swing (which isn't true anyway since we see him take several swings at it before that) is where it seems implausible to you?
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
This is a movie that has vampires with supernatural powers but Abe Lincoln chopping down a skinny tree in one swing (which isn't true anyway since we see him take several swings at it before that) is where it seems implausible to you?
It's not just that it's implausible, its ridiculous.
It took about 5 mins screen time for Abraham to become an axe wielding vampire killer which started from a swing, no wait, as you say, several swings at a tree.
Just because there's an even bigger implausible circumstance, doesn't make another less implausible.
Agree w/ OP, his little training session takes you out a bit, as he's obviously incompetent. share
The OP said he chopped it in one swing. He didn't.
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
Really he did. He knocked off the bark with 3 or 4 swings then hit the trunk so hard that the tree physically shattered. I'd say that is one swing, but then I'm not pedantic and petty like some.
I think Henry tried to explain it as channeling your hate, or truth as he called it. Clearly it's implausible, but at least they tried to justify it with explanation. The same way I suppose happens when you hear about a dad lifting a car off of their child, they just exaggerated that concept by a few magnitudes.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov
Vampires' abilities have no (scientific) definition as they don't exist and every author can make up own stats for their story.
The watcher can take the presented only as a given fact and not question it... due to a lack of comparable vampires in real life.
Humans on the other hand...
I'm a human and I do know some other humans and I tell you none can do that and take that.
Action movies commonly have already a much exaggerated image of what a human (hero or villain) can bear and do. Lack of proper injuries and deaths, pain etc. Super human strength without a reason is rather rare though.
This movie topped that for both and that's what made it even more ridiculous than what you see in normal action flicks...
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Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!
I'd really like to know the secrets of Henry's fast-track vampire-killer program.🐭
sharePerhaps Lincoln was one of a handful of male slayers, and Henry was his watcher.
I wondered that myself. I saw him twirling the axe, training in the dark so he can fight the vampires when they become invisible. The how did he do that part was when Abe was doing his best interpretion of "Jesus walking on water" on those horses. So is that something everybody could do?? I think not
shareTrees back in the 1800s were not as sturdy as the trees of today. The quality of the wood is much higher today
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