DHBirr Wrote:Oh, now that's clottin' beautiful....LOL! Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it, DH.
Even though Howard Tayler's review inclined me against the story it's clearly set within.
Edit: I don't know if it's coincidence or what, but the reference above to Starship's "We Built This City" filled me with the desire to listen to that song again ... and, as it happened, the YouTube video I watched has a scene where the statue of President Lincoln in the Memorial comes to life to sing along with the chorus. I found it hilarious considering I'd just been reading your take on AL:VH.
I'm reading the novel right now; borrowed it from the local public library. Not as exciting as the movie (I've only seen the previews on YouTube) seems to be, but given Hollywood's drive to make things more enjoyable for a movie audience, it makes sense.
Still, the battle scenes in the previews were beautiful to watch. Whoever choreographed those scenes really knew their business.
It actually inspired me to do an add-on to Phoenix From the Ashes (the fanfiction story whose universe Doug visits in Loon and the Ladies from Avalon) where the right honourable gentleman from the State of Illinois would actually live on (but not as a vampire as he does in the book) past his "death" in 1865 at the hands of John Wilkes Booth…and would discover a plot by certain vampire groups to try to drive the Avalonians off Earth, fearing that interbreeding between Terran and Avalonian would make a vampire's traditional food too poisonous to consume (the mesonium in the regenerative enzymes that are in an Avalonian's blood would move to convert the vampire back to normal human, thus killing them if they had outlived a normal human lifespan). This plot would involve the use of a dark witch to act as a living sacrifice to bring a being that could destroy the Avalonians — and by extension other undesirables — wholesale.
But the summoning ritual would go wrong thanks to a whole alliance of people.
And I just might bring in a certain living eating machine just to lighten things up. *wink*
"Gon!"
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"