Vomit

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2012)

I only went to this gastrointestinal challenge of a movie so I could comment.
Having watched Avatar, Prometheus and now this stinking pile of dross my concerns about western society, let alone movie making, are becoming serious.
I am a New Zealander who spent a lot of time in the USA and has done the rounds of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg etc, and has a profound interest in the Civil War and its origins and outcomes. This is history, and maybe apart from an error of judgment or two at Gettysburg, the South may have carried the day, but they did not. Lincoln seized the moment to realign Union strategy with his famous speech.The rest is history.
What is this retarded nonsense about him being a vampire hunter? The vampire genre has been cooked to a cinder. There is only one vampire flick worth looking at, Dracula (?1993) with Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Keannu Reeves and Winnona Ryder, and even that is flawed but is close to the original Bram Stoker novel.
This movie is just putrid rubbish. If people want to watch such mindless escapism then let them do a pure work of ridiculous fiction like Austin Powers: Vampire Killer or Waynes Vampire World. Are we going to have Barack Obama: Secret Zombie, next? Goodness gracious.
And I won't go on about how Peter Jackson and NZ made Lord of the Rings, but hopefully we will through the Hobbit bring back true movie making to Wellywood.
As a postcript, I learned today from a cousin in Virginia some interesting information. He tells me 17 Turnbull's served with the CSA but another one (Major Thomas Turnbull) was in charge of the lead battery in the Union line that faced Picketts Charge at Gettysburg. His battery killed one cousin on the CSA side. I am told that this is the only known incident at Gettysburg of family killing family. He was forever outcast from the rest of the family. Makes me even more wild about this insult of a movie.