Greatest Supernatural Teen Tournament - Round 2: Edward Cullen (No. 2) vs. David (No. 7)
Vampires have a long, storied history in horror... and the key word here is horror, as in, bad people who do bad things. You know, scary. Something has happened to our vampires in the past decade, something rather disturbing -- the horror is gone! Replaced by romance! Vampires who don't kill!
So here, Dear Reader, is your chance to cast your vote for the past or the present (I don't really want to think of the future, the way things are going). In one corner, you have tradition -- David from The Lost Boys. David is suave and handsome. Ladies want him and men want to be him -- right up to the point where he tears out throats and bathes in human blood. And in the other corner, we've got Edward Cullen from Twilight. The leading man in the new category I've dubbed "Smoochie-Pants Vamps." You know, the romantic undead with morals and what-not.
So it comes down to this -- are you a traditionalist? Like your vampires evil and deadly? Or do you prefer the dreamboat vampire that passes you sweet notes in history class? David, are you ready? Edward, are you ready? Let's get it on!
Erm, you've never seen movies like "Dracula" (1979), "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Van Helsing"? Okay, so they're all Dracula movies, but they're ROMANTIC vampire movies. Sure, Edward's a good guy, but there's always been romantic vamp stories. You ever look in the chick lit section?
LaDracul: Ummm ... wasn't Dracula a bad guy? Didn't he kill people, drink their blood, etc? There's a difference between a desire to possess a person as an object (Dracula) and true love for each other as-is (Twilight). An incredible difference. Calling Dracula a romantic movie is the same thing as calling King Kong a handsome male lead. Is there love involved? Sort of. I've checked out the chick lit section -- the same story over and over again. I've seen Buffy, I'm good.
I'm guessing you don't spend too much time around women.
Maybe that's WHY he's an effective baddie. Because he lures you.
LaDracul Ah yes, the old standby pat answer -- if you don't agree with a woman, therefore, you don't know anything about women. I couldn't possibly just have a different opinion, right? Why are you making this a sexist discussion? I wasn't aware that only the female opinion mattered in this discussion. Silly me.
-sigh- Excuses, excuses.
There was a special which was made years before "Twilight" which examined why women were turned on by vamps. It has ALWAYS been that way.