Ann Rice trolls Twilight

[Halfcentaur]

I think Cruise as a person is bat%&*#@&* crazy, but I've frequently been impressed by his acting as well, and don't allow his real life persona to color my opinions. I also think he did a fine job as Lestat, but it's hard to imagine him playing the real Lestat not being slanted by Louis' depictions in Interview. I think he was better than Townsend's Lestat.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I kind of figure that the "Twilight" books are this era's version of the ancient "Romance Comics for Girls" that they used to publish.

What I find amusing about the whole business is that people--fans and authors-- seem to think they "own" the idea of vampires. Which makes it funny when they fight about "how vampires should be", as if they weren't just squabbling over something that's a) ridiculous and b) been done to death decades ago.

Heck, I'm going to write my own vampire story just to piss everyone off. The vampires will be very gross because their biology is that they have no internal organs or bones or muscles--everything inside the skin is liquid blood, and they move about by controlling the blood telekinetically to animate their bag of flesh. This makes them essentially blobs of dead rotting skin, filled to bursting, and liable to ripping. They only drink blood to replace what they lose through constantly leaking it from their orifices. And they drink from their victim's eyesockets only. Despite all this, the sexy teenagers find them irrestibly sexy because when you have sex with these bloodbag vampires, you get a really wicked high that lasts for days and don't even mind about the eyesocket thing or the uncontrollable anal leakage of blood. Oh and daylight doesn't hurt these vampires, it just makes them shoot blood from their orifices with the intensity of a high-pressure fire hose. No harm, though, they'll just hook up with a sexy teenager with big eyesockets and replace it.

 

[Vortigern99]

Coming soon to a theater near you:

TragicMonkey's EYESOCKET BLOODBAG.

Rated PG-13.

 

[ZirconBlue]

I thought Cruise played Lestat with intelligence and a sinister playfulness that did the character from the novel justice.

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In Interview with the Vampire he stretched his acting skills to the limit and acquitted himself nicely.

I agree. I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan, but I thought his performance in Interview with the Vampire was really good. Much better than I expected from him, really.

 

[not_so_new]

I agree. I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan, but I thought his performance in Interview with the Vampire was really good. Much better than I expected from him, really.

I don't like the guy as a person much but I think he gets a bad wrap as an actor, he is much better than people give him credit for.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I haven't seen Breaking Dawn yet (Twilight) but I checked out the sound track and it sucks. And I love the other sound tracks. Too bad, I was looking forward to another good CD.

 

[Emerson Street]

Coincidently I was hitting the random button at Cracked and this popped up, this being Cracked there is some swearing in the article, so NSFW and all that

 

[Mudcat]

This...

I was really truly beginning to think I was treating the Twilight 'Saga' (I'm sorry, but since when does gratuitous crap count as a saga?) unfairly especially since I never actually read it or seen any of the movies. And than I read that review/summary listed above...

And I take back every last bad thing I ever said about Rowling's works. Sure, she's a derivative fourth rate hack but even on her worst day she's a thousand times to the infinite power better writer than Meyers could ever dream of being of her best day.

 

[Skepticemea]

I thought Cruise played Lestat with intelligence and a sinister playfulness that did the character from the novel justice. Rice was positively glowing in her review of his performance; she thoroughly and lovingly revoked her earlier misgivings.

If one is going to claim now, 17 years later, that the studio put her up to it seems to challenge the evident sincerity of that published piece, and to question her freedom as an author to express her opinion in print. Such a claim needs support before I'm willing to accept it.

These days it seems that dislike of Cruise as a person colors the perception of his acting ability. Personally I've never been anything but impressed with his performances, even if I think his religion is absurd and some of his off-screen behavior is questionable. In Interview with the Vampire he stretched his acting skills to the limit and acquitted himself nicely.

He has two "faces", smug and holding his breath until the big vein in his head stands out. The latter covers anger, fear, shame, surprise, smelling vinegar and looking at Rene Zellwegger (the last two are interchangeable for most people, I'll admit).