Not another vampire movie!!!!!

[NickAdams]

I can't remember to have ever seen a Swedish movie, let alone about vampires. It must be surely different, I figure.

Well that's something we are going to have to fix. I'm going to give you a name, just one name: Ingmar Bergman.

Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Persona
Cries and Whispers

There you are, now GO to your local video rental store and SEE them.

You can watch at least four of those films on youtube. I just found Hour of the Wolf on youtube and I'm going to watch it tonight. They're all great; I would go with Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light or The Seventh Seal, but only because I favor Gunnar Björnstrand over the other Bergman regulars ... I never hung a poster on my wall as a teen, but if I had seen Persona in my youth, there would have been a poster of Bibi Andersson on my wall.

[manolia]

I can't remember to have ever seen a Swedish movie, let alone about vampires. It must be surely different, I figure.

I second Daniel's recommendations Max! You should watch some sweedish cinema

[optimisticnad]

I'm totally with u, it's annoying and it SEEMS like generations are getting dumber - but they're not, we just have higher expectations now. Also, I think when you get to our age you forget what it's like being young. I remember drooling over Dicaprio when I was 12 and having all his goodies so I can't frown on teenage girls and this whole Pattinson thing. They're young. Pretty soon they'll by cynical and miserable (!) like us and all the beauty and colour they see in things will be gone. Let em be!

[Dinkleberry2010]

Like them or not, vampires are here to stay. They've been around in print for almost two hundred years, and on film for almost a hundred.

[Maximilianus]

Well that's something we are going to have to fix. I'm going to give you a name, just one name: Ingmar Bergman.

Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Persona
Cries and Whispers

There you are, now GO to your local video rental store and SEE them.

By your command, sir!

You can watch at least four of those films on youtube. I just found Hour of the Wolf on youtube and I'm going to watch it tonight. They're all great; I would go with Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light or The Seventh Seal, but only because I favor Gunnar Björnstrand over the other Bergman regulars ... I never hung a poster on my wall as a teen, but if I had seen Persona in my youth, there would have been a poster of Bibi Andersson on my wall.

I second Daniel's recommendations Max! You should watch some sweedish cinema

Wow, so many eager recommendations will put me to work!

I'm totally with u, it's annoying and it SEEMS like generations are getting dumber - but they're not, we just have higher expectations now. Also, I think when you get to our age you forget what it's like being young. I remember drooling over Dicaprio when I was 12 and having all his goodies so I can't frown on teenage girls and this whole Pattinson thing. They're young. Pretty soon they'll by cynical and miserable (!) like us and all the beauty and colour they see in things will be gone. Let em be!

That's true. When I was a teenager I was drooling over whatever, and now I perceive all that "whatever" without any beauty or colour at all. I figure I have finally made my way through the cynicism and misery of adulthood

[DanielBenoit]

I'm totally with u, it's annoying and it SEEMS like generations are getting dumber - but they're not, we just have higher expectations now. Also, I think when you get to our age you forget what it's like being young. I remember drooling over Dicaprio when I was 12 and having all his goodies so I can't frown on teenage girls and this whole Pattinson thing. They're young. Pretty soon they'll by cynical and miserable (!) like us and all the beauty and colour they see in things will be gone. Let em be!

Yeah, I suppose their joyus optimism seems a bit naive for those of us who are old (only speaking for myself of course ).

And you know, when you mentioned "higher expectations" it brought something back up to me, because this has been on my mind for a while: The reason why so many of the classic old films, as well as the New Hollywood ones of the 60's and 70's seem so superior to the ones made today because each generation (take the Baby Boomers) which had grown up watching Bonnie and Clyde, 2001: A Space Odyssey and To Kill a Mockingbird look upon the films of today with much less admiration due to their nostaliga. The truth is; nostaliga is doomed to prevent any appretiation of the present. In time, The Lord of the Rings will be regarded as a popular classic epic, just as Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia or Metropolis. City of God will be remembered as a great crime film, just as Charlize Theoren's performance in Monster will be regarded as legendary. It's just so hard to judge now because today's films haven't been given their time. Let Twilight be popular and then forgotten.

[Maximilianus]

^ - What an interesting analysis Dan! I'm very much of the same opinion. If such opinion is true, then my nostalgia must be near to nothingness, because I really love and appreciate most of what today's being done. In fact, I can't quite conceive a life worth living without my modern movie industry

[JuniperWoolf]

I don't think that people are getting dumber, there's always been some pretty silly stuff out there. My mom used to like Milli Vanilli.

I don't get why people are so into vampires. I like werewolves myself, why aren't they more popular? Tearing stuff up, losing control, I love it. If you've ever read that Swamp Thing with the housewife who turns into a werewolf, you'll get why I'm so into them. They're very female.