"From Director Tim Burton"
Crap...
Crap...
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
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SmilingOtter
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"From Director Tim Burton"
Crap...
He's only producing it. Timur Bekmambetov is directing.
Whew! I can't imagine a Goth Abraham Lincoln. :lol
Looks like some cheesy fun. I'll have to check it out.
allosaur176
Sr Member
I found it to be fun and enjoyable :thumbsup
I enjoyed it. But it is your typical movie adaptation: Summarize the book in one paragraph and then fill in the gaps. I understand there are time constraints so some things had to be left out or combined together, but WTF was with the train at the end?
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eerie4
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noisetrigger
Member
One of the better movies I watched this year and a fun way to learn about American history (minus the vampires part LOL)
Zombie_61
Master Member
I thought it was doubly odd that the movie was so different from the book since the author of the book (Seth Grahame-Smith) also wrote the screenplay.
I think the main problem with adapting the book directly to a screenplay was that the book didn't really have a main villain (other than vampires in general, that is). It's almost as though Smith and director Timur Bekmambetov didn't trust audiences to figure out there wasn't a "mastermind" behind all of the vampires in America. Either that, or they couldn't figure out how to have a climactic ending without a main villain for Lincoln to defeat. Regardless, on it's own the movie is just okay; compared to the book, it's complete rubbish.
Its worth a watch. Some folks including myself were disappointed expecting it to be like the book which it is not
Definitely better than seeing it in the theater. I enjoyed seeing it there, but I'm to the point that I will be blown away if a movie stays true to a book.
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Finally watched this last night!!
I didn't like it.
This is one of those moments I wish I didn't read the book. The movie might have resonated better for me if I went in without the book on my mind. It was just so different from the book.
I had high hopes for it.
I didn't like it.
This is one of those moments I wish I didn't read the book. The movie might have resonated better for me if I went in without the book on my mind. It was just so different from the book.
I had high hopes for it.
This has happened to me with almost all movies of books that I have read. They are never as good, mainly because our imagination fills in blanks that the film needs to show you. Then they don't include or change things that were in the book, this happened with the last Harry Potter movie and as much as I liked it, I was also missed some of what they changed or left out.
That is why I made myself stay away from the Potter books. My wife read them all and tried to make me... But I just couldn't. I knew it would ruin the film experience.
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