Last week I wrote about the hard time I was having figuring out whether the new movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" was going to be a brilliant new idea or giant flop. In the weeks before the movie came out everyone was making fun of its absurd premise. But, people tend to make fun of things which are different, no matter how smart they may actually be. Then, as so often happens, right before the movie came out there was a big backlash to the backlash, as people felt guilty for being so dismissive of the project without actually having seen the movie yet. It also needed to be pointed out that the books had been a big success so there was a chance that announcing to the world that you thought the movie was going to bomb only to have it break some kind of box-office record was going to make you look downright foolish. Like I said at the time, they also should get some kind of credit for being different, not another generic romantic comedy we've all seen a dozen times. Well, after two weeks at the box office it appears we should have gone with our first instincts. "Vampire Hunter" cost $70 million to make and has only made about $30 million of that money back. I can only hope this signifies an end to the vampire craze, even if it isn't an end to the "historical figures who secretly fought monster genre". It appears there are countless directions they could be go...
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