Crack!Fic: The Movie

[awanderingbard]

I watched this incredibly bad movie on TV last night, one of those ones that are so bad they're sort of good. It starred Arnold Vosloo, JR Bourne (hi Martouf!), Steve Bacic (hi Camulus!) and a few other, obviously Canadian actors. It was called Odysseus and The Island of the Mists and was, ostensibly, the story of the Odyssey, but not really. The dialogue was awful. It was old school 'let us talk like the Greeks did' crap with a lot of 'as Zeus as my witness' and 'to arms!'. It was so bad, when one of the characters was volunteering to stay back and get killed, I actually laughed out loud.

Also, I'm fairly sure there were no vampires in the Odyssey. I mean, I'm not any great Homer scholar or anything, but I think I would remember vampires.

Comments

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

This is what I'm saying! With all the actual badassery going on in The Odyssey, why make up something that didn't happen?

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

I can only assume its because the writers know the audience already knows about vampires*...whereas in things like Supernatural, they literally have to spell out that the Fates are Greek gods.

that and society seems to be in a "vampires are cool - as heroes or villains" phase still.

* = at least Mr. Butcher was inventive when it came to his vampires (the inner tube skin, among other details). too many writers are lazy and just put "there are vampires."