1/ U.S' 16th President was a Vampire Hunter.
2/ Jews built the Pyramid.
3/ Mary Todd was hot.
4/ Vampires could walk under sunlight and become invisible.
5/ Civil War was a war against Vampires.
6/ People who expect a movie titled "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to somehow adhere to any logical narrative should get outside more. And BTW, there are no absolute rules for what constitutes popular culture vampirism, so griping about that stuff is just as ludicrous.
shareI agree HerrSupahz
shareI can accept any vampire accept those glittery fairies from Twilight.
sharethere are no absolute rules for what constitutes popular culture vampirism, so griping about that stuff is just as ludicrous
Facts? Of fiction? Sure. Per Bram Stoker rules, since they are the most clearly explained:
From Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Van Helsing describes the rules of Dracula:
Doesn't actually need blood to live, but it will make him stronger and younger-looking
Doesn't eat regular food
No shadow
No reflection in mirror
"has the strength of many of his hand"
can become a wolf, a bat, or "come on moonlight rays as elemental dust", or he can become mist, but the "mist is limited, and it can only be round himself". However, if "he be not at the place whither he is bound ( i.e. "his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed"), he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset."
Can become small ( i.e. can "slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door" )
"can, when once he find his way, come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with fire"
can see in the dark
can't enter a place unless invited
becomes powerless in daylight (but doesn't necessarily die or burst into flames)
"can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide"
in the presence of garlic or a crucifix, "he take his place far off and silent with respect"
he is confined to his coffin if the branch of a wild rose is placed on
can be killed be a wooden stake, decapitation, or a shot from a "sacred bullet"
13) Some days vampires outrun horses and some days they they just run like regular Joes.
14) Vampires kick ass when you can see them, but when they go stealth mode you kill them like flies.
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15) vampires grow stronger with age, so if you are the oldest vamp you get to beat everyone else up...unless punches you with a watch made of silver.
16) the punishment for being a vampire hunter and losing in battle is to be turned into a vampire by the vampire huntee after you are forced to watch someone close to you die.
17)after failing to spin his axe in any sort of effective manner and showing obvious disuse and rustiness of his vampire hunting practice, Abe Lincoln can easily take out dozens of the main vampires best men
18)After beating dozens of said top vampire, abe lincoln will easily be taken down by a female vampire by sitting on him
19) After besting Abe Lincoln, said female vampire will easily be taken out with a necklace shot out of a gun do to a foolish and foolhardy headlong rush towards Abe's Wife
lol. I'm only going to add this because you aren't the first person to post a comment about the fact that he couldn't get up after she sat on him. I think Vadoma and Adam were supposed to have god-like strength because of their age. The rest of the vamps are easily dispatched because they are not very old by comparison.
shareI learned you can jump not only from horse to horse in a stampede but also from rail car to rail car on a train falling from its burning trestle.
I learned you can't stab a fellow vampire while outside, he has an invisible force field, but all rules are off if you're inside a wooden box car.
I still enjoyed this movie, for all it's nonsense - it was fun and the CGI was pretty terrific.
"I jumped off a roof for you"
I learned that the Battle of Gettysburg was won by silver when the North killed the evil Southern Vampires by forks!
seriously, how can you not like this movie! I loved it! Abraham was a Bad Ass!
Axes are SUPER slippery and very hard to hold onto, so the best thing to do is keep spinning it around and from hand to hand.
If you tell someone you are a Vampire killer, she'll laugh and think you quite funny, but after she reads in your diary that you really ARE a Vampire killer, she'll accuse you of lying to her.
Goblin Cannonball: I hit something! Yes?!? No?!?
*I learned that you can get horses to run through a solid wall.
*I learned that rules for vampires are never the same in any movie.
*I learned that the confederate army was as crazy as I always thought.
Mary Todd wasn't a diminutive frumpy shrew as otherwise depicted but a first class hot darlin'!
If you were born in the south you got a lot of 'splainin' to do.
Slave owners were not men, conscious of their impropriety yet still willing to commit atrocious acts for the sake of profit, but vampires and demons who are naturally evil. That lets somebody off the hook, donnit?
On the other hand, Southerns, known as religious and civilized people who worked harder than any other group of Americans at making a living in a predominantly agrarian community, and who carry the shame of slavery even though only a very tiny (and typically very wealthy) percentage participated, were not in fact broken and defeated humans who's world was destroyed by Northern swindlers who became rich from their losses, but animalistic monsters who deserved whatever treatment they got.
2/ Jews built the Pyramid.
I also thought that was common knowledge! ;o)
shareActually that isn't correct. The pyramids were built by paid workers doing 3 month shifts. They were treated quite well.
Mind you, historical accuracy in a movie about a vampire hunting president isn't all that important.
I've read the same stuff. But that Jews built the pyramids makes a better story.
shareThat was the film with Charlton Heston, right?
shareHi Peter. I like points 2 and 3 the best. I learned that:
1. The 1875 Specie Payment Resumption Act (restoration of the gold and silver standard), was really a response to the silver shortage created by Lincoln. Was he really fighting vampires, or conspiring with blood-sucking speculators to create an artificial silver shortage?
2. Harriet Tubman was still leading the Underground Railroad, at the age of 43.
3. In the extra about making the film, they talk of balancing true history with total fantasy. One guy gives away the store, when he talks of events maybe 150 or maybe 200 years ago. If you want to match the film against true history, which creates a wonderful tension, is it too much trouble to Google up some dates.
2. From the short feature (The Great Calamity); Edgar Allen Poe meets with Lincoln to warn him of illegal vampire aliens in the U.S., and the imminence of a civil war. It's a great idea, and they could have met, but jeez guys, the meeting is set in 1879, 15 years after the end of the civil war and Lincoln's assassination, and a full 30 years after Poe's death.
That is like FDR warning JFK, in 2013, about an attack on the twin towers.
I learned that an alarming number of people complain about lack of logic in a movie where Abraham Lincoln is a vampire hunter.
I also learned black people require no training, they are born cool vampire fighters, true story.