Before the film screening on Wednesday, I have never seen Vampire Hunter D. When it comes to supernatural creatures, I’m more of a werewolf type person. So, I didn’t really know what to expect from a Vampire movie. Growing up, I only saw few shows with vampires. Usually the Vampires I know of are from cartoons, such as, Scooby Doo, Disney Channel, etc. Since I have witness these productions, I knew the basic of vampires. They had supernatural abilities, they hate garlic, they can’t stand sunlight, crosses, they didn’t have reflections, and some can turn into bats. All of these facts are typical vampires. However, their biggest feature is sucking blood. I know this is well known to everyone, but in a lot of vampire movies, each uses blood sucking in a variety of ways. When some vampires suck you blood, you might become hypnotized, some people die, some lose their energy, and others turn into vampire them elves. Although I knew a huge amount about vampires, I still didn’t know what to expect from Vampire Hunter D. As I entered the screening and the movie started playing, I was really into it. There were many aspects of the movies that I liked about the movie. The conflict and fighting scene were okay, but as the movie progress I started to feel my eyes get heavy. Eventually I fell asleep towards the end of the movie.
Vampire Hunter D wasn’t a horrible movie, but it just got boring and tiresome near the ending. Everything just seemed too predictable and cliché us. After watching the movie for about a good hour, I already figured out what was going to happen and how the movie was going to play out. When I go see movies, I expect them to pick my brain as I try to figure out what is going on. Although, there were a few things I did like about the movie.
On thing that kept me entertain for awhile was Vampire Hunter D himself, I really appreciated his personality. He had the whole I’m a loner type personality. Typically characters with this type of personality stay in danger and can never find time to relax, or truly enjoy their life. Also, I liked that he was a dhampir, because it showed how he really had conflicts within himself. He personally chose to be a hero, but his vampire half shows its ugly head sometimes. This shows how in order to defeat evil; you must have a little evil in yourself. This really captured my attention.
On the other hand, I didn’t like the westernization setting of the movie. To me, this made the movie really dull and ridiculous. Not only did they live in a western world, but they also had futuristic characteristics. For example, their horses and guns were all mechanicalized. This was unacctrative to me because I like everything to connect with one another.
In addition, this movie was very decent for the first time. I probably will never watch it again, even if it’s to see the last 15 or 20 minutes I missed at the screening.
Your take on the film is what I think is the general consensus Everything was pretty ridiculous, but that's for us, in our time period which is post Y2K. This movie was made in the 1990's, and a good bit of popular series and movies were set in Western settings, with futuristic guns and technology. An example would be Trigun. That's a very popular series, and it was because of the creativity and amount of fantasy. Today's series seem to do with conspiracies, time travel, and dimensional rifts. It's all cool now, but later on it'll be played out, just like Western settings and futuristic technology.
ReplyDeleteI would not consider Vampire hunter D to be a prime example of a good vampire movie. There are a bunch of movies out that show a really interesting side of vampires. Unfortunately the movies they put out today are very generic and unappealing to people that have even the slightest bit of intelligence. Hopefully the “twilight” generation will move on so we can begin to enjoy true vampire movies once again. I tried to fall asleep when we watched Botchan, but the seats in the classroom were to uncomfortable to me. I agree with the point that you made about the western setting of the movie. It was like this movie stole aspects from every cliché vampire story and combined it to make a terrible movie. They even threw one of the most famous vampires into the mix(Dracula) to add to the terribly boring story. This movie really did not do much for me either.
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