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Anyone notice the inaccuracies?

posted 12 years ago by deatman9
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This movie was entertaining but if you really look into it its complete crap. Everything in it makes no sense. first it shows the vampires with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth but when they suck someones blood it only has the two pointy ones?

They make silver musket rounds to destory the vamps....They were not using muskets they were using repeater rifles which could not have been modified this way. He sticks a silver ball in a revolver and shoots it....how does it shoot...where is the charge comming from? This would only would with musket loaders. many many problems with this film

[–] b530 12 years ago

Also, Mary Todd was fat in real life and 9 years younger than Abraham but they made her look just as old when they aged.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 12 years ago

In other words, you're educated enough to know something about guns, and you'd like us all to know that, but you're dumb enough to not be able to grasp that a film like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter isn't a documentary about guns.

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[–] Soodinum 12 years ago

Really? In a movie entitle Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer, you didn't decide to shift brain gears and let whatever happens, happen?

Once you allow the premise (given in the title), the rest is exactly 'sweating the small stuff.'

Please do not make negative comments about a film YOU NEVER SAW. It makes you look stupid.

[–] ActionLover 12 years ago

Well said, Stowers.

[–] seanj-268-227482 12 years ago

It's a movie? And yes? It's fiction. LOL COME ON.

[–] deatman9 12 years ago

Wow the stupidity of the internet amazes me sometimes. Alright people let me break this down very slowly for all of you and make sure you have your helmets on..I really dont want you hurt.

Yes I understand the movie is fiction and it has vampires but that is not the point. The basic idea of the movie can be about anything and I will accept it however it is the small stuff in the movie that will drive me nuts for instance.

If a movie was about zombies I would be fine with that however if in the movie they stated that the earth was flat, people wore shoes on their hands and the sky was purple I would be outraged. So before you open your mouths and make yourselves sound so stupid and ignorant make sure you think about what you say.

[–] seanj-268-227482 12 years ago

right on man!

[–] Iron_Gland 11 years ago

What you aren't grasping is that this is fiction. In a fictional story, the historical, scientific, and mathematical facts can be exaggerated greatly to help advance the plot. In the fictional universe that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter takes place in, apparently you can shove a silver ball in a revolver and shoot it. It happened, deal with it. There are things in reality I don't like or agree with, the same can be said about fiction.

[–] kb01 12 years ago

He sticks a silver ball in a revolver and shoots it....how does it shoot...where is the charge comming from? This would only would with musket loaders.

I don't remember that scene exactly but if it was a Colt Army M1860 (the most common revolver of the era), it was a cap-and-ball revolver. It fires a .44 cal lead ball.

It's silly to nitpick these kinds of movies. In a world where silver bullets work (I'm still not sure if they're supposed to be silver core or just FMJ), I don't see why they can't work in revolvers or even be a cartridged round.

[–] rac19141 12 years ago

Ask a musket owner. This movie disappointed me. The mood of the whole film was ruined. I actually stopped watching it and walked out after that scene.

[–] raf-33 9 years ago

If you place a ball bearing in the barrel of a loaded repeater or revolver it will fire both it's own round and the ball bearing with it, that should be completely obvious.

That is how Brandon Lee died, someone loaded a blank round in to a revolver which had previously fired a squib round, and the squib had not exited the barrel nor been accounted for. The blank round consisting of a full charge with no bullet and the squib having been a bullet fired by a tiny charge combined together to make a functioning round that killed Brandon when it was fired at him.

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[–] sized-2 9 years ago

It's a movie about Abraham Lincoln killing vampires. Give me a freakin break.

[–] HenryCW 8 years ago

This is what I've just found in the "Goofs" section of IMDb for this film:

In "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," Lincoln is seen slaying vampires. There is no historical evidence that Lincoln ever slew a vampire, let alone the many depicted in the film.

The IMDb administrator who allowed this to be put in must have a nice sense of humor.

[–] lezardormeurgeant 8 years ago

We can open the movie with :
"From the Unpublished Arcane History Memoirs Of Charles Fort"
& let movie watchers go look  for the book in
"The Necronomicon Library" of Miskatonic University.