Apparently, The Day The Earth Stood Still has been remade and will hit theaters in December. I'm not often fond of remakes, since I've found the majority of them to be inferior to the originals that they are based on. I might give this one the benefit of the doubt, even though it stars Keanu Reeves (sorry, but I'm not that fond of his acting abilities). The trailer makes the movie look a little promising, but then trailers often do:

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*eyes community layout while logged out* You know, this whole 'ads on accounts that are basic' thing is really annoying. I am not making a community a paid account just so it won't have hideous ads on it to logged out folks or visitors, but this is just irritating. LJ could at least do something so that the display of ads isn't so horrid, especially since they decided to plaster all basic accounts with them. Meh.

I made the community true_blood_fic because a series like this needs lots and lots of fan fiction. I'm hoping folks will post some good stuff there. I know it's probably wishful thinking, but I'd really love to see some Tara/Sookie for some reason. I'll settle for the more conventional stuff, though.

Admittedly, I am a sucker for a vampire story, well a good one, anyway, and True Blood seems like it's going to deliver. The new HBO series is an adaptation of a series of books called the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. It focuses on a Louisiana town after vampires have come out in the open due to the creation of a synthetic blood product (Tru Blood) that meets their needs. A world where vampires have become part of everyday life and the response of humans to that is an interesting one to me, so I'm getting taken in by this series. It also helps that it has heaping doses of both horror and sexiness, I suppose.

I was able to obtain the series of novels in ebook format to my delight. I'm making my way through the first of them. I like it. It's been awhile since I've read any vampire books, to be honest. So many of them seem to be copies of better works, so I sort of lost interest in them over time. Harris seems to be tackling the concept of a world with vampires in a bit of a different way, so I'm enjoying the book so far.

According to ye olde Wikipedia, True Blood is going to be a season of 12 episodes. I'm hoping that it goes on a bit longer than that since there hasn't been a good vampire series on TV for a long while. And who can't love a show where the opening theme is its own bit of sexiness, eh?

I've seen this one going around LJ, so I figured that I'd post my own. Here are my top seven pairings for the fandoms I fiend on the most:

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