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Am now watching this movie for the nth time

posted 10 years ago by es_sj
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I love it, I think it was beautifully written and cast (except for Sarah Hyland, who seemed to want to be an imitation of Tai in Clueless, but you can't win them all). If I ever win the lottery, I'm putting some of it toward the sequel (gotta buy a place first).

It's so unfair that tripe like the Twilight movies is rolling over in profits while a clever, well-made movie with heart like this is passed over. A friend of mine has a theory that the most generic movies are the most popular, because people can map anything onto them like an almost-blank slate. I am beginning to think there might be something in it.

[–] FatalxKrystal 10 years ago

I think it was beautifully written

Beautiful? really?

It's so unfair that tripe like the Twilight movies is rolling over in profits

Twilight was the first of it's kind, just like The Fault in Our Stars is. So naturally, it was raking in the money (even if it was just so people could bash it) and helped the Vampire genre be popular again, too bad Vampire Academy's movie missed that by 4 years.

while a clever, well-made movie with heart like this is passed over.

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Clever? Having your heroine spew nothing but one-liners is clever? Well-made? all everything about it was horrible and there was absolutely no heart in this movie. Just a terrible parody and a waste of a possibly good book adaptation.

I would always rather be happy than dignified. 

[–] es_sj 10 years ago

Beautiful? really? (...)

Twilight was the first of it's kind, just like The Fault in Our Stars is. So naturally, it was raking in the money (even if it was just so people could bash it) and helped the Vampire genre be popular again, too bad Vampire Academy's movie missed that by 4 years.(...)

Clever? Having your heroine spew nothing but one-liners is clever? Well-made? all everything about it was horrible and there was absolutely no heart in this movie. Just a terrible parody and a waste of a possibly good book adaptation.

I didn't say beautiful; I said beautifully written. And made. As in fantastic adaptation of fantastic books, with heart and humor and action and which wasn't idiotic, dim-witted, without personality, brain, feeling, or heart, and ridiculously silly "action" scenes like the Twilight crap does.

Vampire Academy's "one-liners" are in the books, so yell at the author if you don't like them. VA clearly cared about its subject matter and its characters and had a plot, unlike the Twilight crap. No one in the Twilight movies has any heart, intelligence, personality, or anything going for them (unless their fans are hot for them, which is their own problem, not mine).

VA was not a terrible parody, it was a faithful rendering of the book -- and the book was something more than an emotionally-two-years-old-stunted attempt at a tweeny romance novel, unlike the Twilight crap.

I think my friend was right, that the Twilight movies are so popular because they are a nothing-template that anyone can map anything onto.

How about Vampires Suck, did you see that? [ Or are we completely at opposite ends of the spectrum don't agree on anything at all?] Now that was a great parody, I thought. Even a lot of Twilight fans liked that one.

[–] gloria_e_evans 10 years ago

You don't have a clue do you. Twilight is an Academy Award winner compared to this crap. The books are amazing but this movie was awful. The fact that fans all over the world stayed away in droves should tell you how awful this movie was. You sound silly praising this garbage while bashing another movie franchise that make billions worldwide. Twilight was garbage but at least that trash had dedicated fans that made those movies huge blockbusters. This movie was trash and it stunk it up real bad at the box office. You sound stupid comparing this movie to Twilight when this movie was way worst. You don't have a clue about even decent movies.

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[–] josephnatescott 9 years ago

"You don't have a clue do you." About your personal taste? I've seen Vampire Academy twice and I think it's solid entertainment in the same way that, for instance, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant was.

[–] davemerino 10 years ago

Wow. You'd think we live in Russia and only 1 opinion counts. Obviously, if you liked the twilight movies then you will probably not like this movie.

I hated the Twilight films, hated all that angst and turmoil and hair tucking and look at me / don't look at me crap that took up half the movies.

I liked the quirky campiness and quickness of this film. I really really liked it.

However, getting a bit of back story has helped me like it more. I honestly had never heard of this. I thought it was a parody film, spoofing Twilight, Buffy the Vamp Slayer, Lost Girl, Harry Potter, amongst others. I didn't know it was actually it's own YA books/story.