Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Vampire Appreciation Thread #3 - Page 7

**Cryostar** · 10-24-2008, 04:32 AM

Hrm, how to best describe it....here's a decent def from freedictionairy.com

Having deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style (in this case, we're looking for the artificial qualities to produce humor).

Repost from the news thread:
Apple - Trailers - UNDERWORLD - Rise of the Lycans

**BehrItAll** · 10-25-2008, 07:20 PM

2 a: something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing b: a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture

And I learned something new about the word from Camp (style) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the mid-1970s, the term was defined as "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."[1] American writer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" emphasised artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess as key elements.

I never knew that. Interesting.

**Cryostar** · 10-26-2008, 12:09 PM

Quite so. Much better definition, by the by.

Did you watch the Underworld trailer. It's in quicktime, I know how much you Mac lovers like your quicktime.

**White Noise** · 10-26-2008, 02:03 PM

Thanks for the definition. I get it now.

**BehrItAll** · 10-26-2008, 06:04 PM

You're welcome

Jerry, I did watch it

yay for Quicktime

I asked a bunch of questions about it on the SW OT.
I don't know about Underworld mythology.

**Cryostar** · 10-27-2008, 04:54 AM

Oh, an underworld newbie....you should really get the first movie. it can be quite compelling, and it's got kate beckinsale in it.

**BehrItAll** · 10-28-2008, 07:05 PM

Next time I go to Blockbuster I'll rent the first one. How many are there?

**Cryostar** · 10-29-2008, 04:32 AM

2, though the second isn't quite as good as the first. Knowing you, though, you'll probably like the second more, it deals more with the relationship between Selene and Michael (people you'll meet in the first one).

sum1 · 10-29-2008, 10:50 AM

The second is a total travesty. Absolute crap. And the first one was so good.

**BehrItAll** · 10-29-2008, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Cryostar (View Post)

2, though the second isn't quite as good as the first. Knowing you, though, you'll probably like the second more, it deals more with the relationship between Selene and Michael (people you'll meet in the first one).

We shall test how well you know me when I see them and report back

dukesmom · 10-30-2008, 11:39 PM

Anne Rice goes from vampires to Jesus biographer - Yahoo! News

**White Noise** · 10-31-2008, 12:54 AM

^^ That was an odd switch. But I bet her comments are intriguing.

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The second is a total travesty. Absolute crap. And the first one was so good.

The first movie was a masterpiece. The second wasn't very good. But I still enjoyed it. It played on the romance part of it more than the story.

**Cryostar** · 10-31-2008, 05:05 AM

I played on the upclose shots of Kate.

That's about all that mattered to me. William was too easily defeated, the other primal Lycaens were too easily defeated, and Marcus was a wuss. They need to make a 3rd, just to fix the other one.

Ok Steph, we're waiting.

Dukesmom......sigh. You know, i was never a big fan of Anne, but to see her do such a 180 on everything....well, i can only say that I hope she's content with herself, cuz it seems really odd.

**BehrItAll** · 10-31-2008, 11:46 AM

What a turn around. I never read any of Anne Rice's novels but I loved her son's, Christopher, novel A Density of Souls.

OMG, I was watching a sneak peek scene of Twilight on youtube. It is so silly and I couldn't help but get excited to see it for real. It was filmed in a theater in Italy and everyone is screaming and laughing in the audience so the sound stinks.

Is Underworld based off a comic book/graphic novel?

Anyone going as a vampire for Halloween?

sum1 · 10-31-2008, 12:25 PM

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Dukesmom......sigh. You know, i was never a big fan of Anne, but to see her do such a 180 on everything....well, i can only say that I hope she's content with herself, cuz it seems really odd.

I've never thought well of her anyway.