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[sour_idealist]

OHMYGOSH YOU GUYS YOU GUYS! There is an actual movie called Lesbian Vampire Killers! Let's see, is this an enjoyable over-the-top and silly story about a couple of female vampire villain protagonists in love? That could be fun, I wanna see that. OOOH! Is it a story about a couple of Buffy-ish totally badass and awesome girls who fall in love as they fight off the forces of evil and defend the world and are all kinds of TOTALLY AWESOME?! Because I need that story in my life SO BADLY! EE EE EE!

...Or it could be a story about the boring slacker dudes killing those ultra-sexxxaaay, eeeeviiiiiiilll (but sexxaaay) (but baaaaaad, wroooong, eeeeviiiil) lesbian vampires. A whole townful of them. Who have been cursed into lesbian vampirehood, at that (because that sexy, sexy lesbianism is TOTALLY something that happens as a result of an eeeeviiiil curse, dudes! Girls don't wanna screw each other instead of you, even if it is soooo hooot to watch!)

@#$%! @#$%^! @#$%^&*!

GRRRRRRRRR.

[Disclaimer: I am working off the TvTropes page, but it would take some really spectacular writing to remove these implications from a story with a premise of "evil vampire queen curses a male hero's town so that all of its women will be lesbian vampires, and then slacker guys arrive at that town." This cover (NSF[most]W) makes me really doubt they even tried, although the world is full of surprises. And it could never be as great as the other concepts.]

Comments

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

I was deeply disappointed as well. Stupid misleading title.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Oughta be a law. (Okay, no there shouldn't, because the legal system has more important things to worry about. But there should be some kind of ethics.

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

Kind of reminds me of the punchline to the song "Purple People Eater". (In case you're not familiar, it turns out it's not a purple eater of people but an eater of purple people.)

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

It must be a very starved creature. Can it subsist on other purple foodstuffs?

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

I don't think it says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdNJi97Iu4&feature=fvst

Y'know, maybe I'll draw Lesbian Killers Of Vampires at some point ...

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

I approve of this idea! Especially if they're carrying a ridiculous number of weapons; swords, guns, knives, stakes, garlic, water guns of holy water, whatever else. I mean, that's my mental image, but everyone has their own.

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

Talking of unfortunate implications in fiction, you may be interested by this (the comic's discussing the implications, it doesn't have them itself): http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=4

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

That is interesting, and a point. I am saddened by the "nerdy guys have no experience with women," though. Do we not exist (again) or is it meant to be a comment on misogynist geeks who end up without female contact because they're all "bitch make me a sandwich"? (Which I'd like to think is an unfair stereotype, but... yeah, I've run into it. They see it as a joke.)

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

Given that the comic has its fair share of nerdy female characters, I think it's a commentary on the "misogynist geek" thing. The guys who actually star in the comic are reasonably non-misogynist geeks, though (resident sophisticated lech Seth aside).

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Okay, I see. I hope so. *sigh* So much would be solved by girls feeling safe geeking out with guys. Damn all cootie-notions in childhood, because I suspect that may be where it all starts.

[wake-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that the movie was stupid and filled with Unfortunate Implications.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

So I was right to predict the sexxxxaaayyy, eeeevilll women cursed into lesbianism after I heard the premise? Talk about wasting a title.

[wake-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, the title is very misleading.

Maybe they thought Killers of Lesbian Vampires didn't have the same ring to it...?

The only thing I can say about the fail of the movie is: People can be real idiots sometimes.