{"id":256,"date":"2004-05-12T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/5\/of_skin_and_teeth.html"},"modified":"2004-05-12T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T09:53:00","slug":"of_skin_and_teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/12\/of_skin_and_teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"of skin and teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it may be true that I can be a bit of a cultural\/intellectual snob (what do you mean<\/i>, you’ve never read any Algren<\/a>? How can anyone not<\/i> have seen Dead Man<\/a>?), but i’m not ashamed to admit that i am completely psyched to see Troy<\/a>. And it’s not about Homer. Sure, I own a copy of the Iliad<\/a>. Sure, I think it’s a damned good read. But I’m not going to pretend that’s the draw here. I just can’t think of a better way to spend a couple of hours than staring at hot, half-naked boys in skirts with good cinematography. Well, ok, I can think of a few<\/i> better ways. But not many<\/i>. I’ve got to say I’m happy, though, that the infamously difficult-to-please David Denby<\/a> had (mostly) only good things to say about it, and the Times<\/a> didn’t come up with anything particularly bad, either.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I don’t know if I can bring myself to shell out $9 to see Van Helsing<\/a>. Despite my deep and abiding love for vampire flicks of virtually<\/a> all<\/a> conceivable<\/a> kinds<\/a>, I have in recent years realized that there are such things as vamp flicks so bad they’re not<\/a> even<\/a> funny<\/a>. And this<\/a> really looks like one of them. Maybe that’s because it’s strayed outside the vampire genre proper and expanded to werewolves and frankensteins and suchlike things. Lord knows Underworld<\/a> was awful, and that was the last vamp\/werewolf one-two punch I can think of. But Buffy<\/a> did the crossover\/multi-monster thing too, and at least for a while there it was still really, really good. No, I think my problem with a lot of the newer stuff is that it’s just got no sense of humor. I mean, the best line in Near Dark is still and will always be the best line in a vamp movie, ever: “Hey, remember when we set that fire in Chicago? [uproarious laughter]”<\/p>\n

They just don’t make ’em like they used to, I guess. Maybe I’ll have to have a good old fashioned vamp film festival to console myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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