Having never seen Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter before this Blu-ray screening, everything I'd heard about the film mentioned the fact that the writer Seth Grahame-Smith (Dark Shadows) and director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch, Wanted) made the wrong choice when they decided to unapologetically play this story straight. Still, it was a bold creative choice and I'll always be a fan of a movie that goes "all-in" than one that teeters in the middle and tries to be everything to everyone.
It was even apparent just from watching the trailer for the film that the stuff that landed on screen didn't quite mesh with its own almost-parodic title. And that there are just certain moments in history that, no matter the earnestness of intention, are too big and nation-defining to be able to successfully accentuate after the addition of vampires. As if to say that what Lincoln did, on his own as a Congressman and then as our 16th President, wasn't legendary enough for our own lore. That he actually had to physically get in there himself and, with the help of some wire work and bullet time, shove his axe down a bunch of vampire confederates' throats. Bottom line: This was just a hard story to pull off without making a revered man laughable.
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