What's Up With All The Vampires?

When I was a young teenager, most of the movies I enjoyed seeing starred adults. Anything that had the Governator or Stallone blowing things up was a must for me to see. Occasionally, an action/drama film would come out that starred teenagers and was targeted at teenagers. Sure there were plenty of John Hughes' films to hit the market. And most were funny and enjoyable. But I'm talking about Red Dawn and one of my all time favorites, The Lost Boys.

There were a few other main stream vampire movies at the time, but nothing like an action flick starring the Coreys. That movie was great. There was a love interest between Jami Gertz and Jason Patric. The slapstick was provided by the Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander (had to look that one up on imdb.com) as the Frog brothers. Plus a great cameo by Barnard Hughes as the grandfather. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires." The movie had everything a kid wanted to see.

And then, vampires faded away. Sure there was Buffy and Angel, but nothing like this crap now. Being an adult and having to see the all the little girls and effeminate boys go crazy over Harry Potter was bad enough. These vampires are 10x worse.  TV is covered with them. Movies come out every couple of months with more vampires. It's ridiculous.

And the worst part is that the vampires are the good guys. Let's actually think about this. They sleep all day and then go out at night to assault (sometimes in a sexual manner) young women. Instead of calling the cops and a press conference, the women fall in love with these guys.  Since they're nocturnal, apparently this causes them to be party animals. They go out in packs and reek havoc for fun. If this is the modern hero, why was Ben Rothlisberger so vilified? Maybe if he would have put in a pair of fake fangs, the Steelers would have 4 million young girls as fans.

Anyway, I say let's get rid of the sexy vampires and get back to the business of blowing up Russians and terrorists and cop shows with a Ferrari.