Abe Lincoln Hates Those Vampires

I have got a LOAD of movies for the 2010s, and I decided to start with Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2012). I have already watched this back a year or so ago on Cinemax. The movie is full of CGI. I'm a practical effects guy. I wasn't a total hater of this movie. I didn't dislike it, but this movie is HIGHLY dependent on CGI for its monsters and large scale set pieces. I guess I just love seeing carnage done right. I get it, though. Why risk lives when the computer can do it for you? Early in the film, Abe's pal, a vampire who hunts vampires due to what the bloodsuckers did to him in the past (including turning him), takes the young Mr. Lincoln's nemesis (the despicable employer of Abe's father who took his mother's life through the vampire bite) and throws him up a wooden building as boards break away and splinter off with the moon big and bright. It is so CGI'd, it doesn't look the least bit realistic. And that matters to a horror fan like me. I love the moon part, though. So I will be hitting specific points throughout the night regarding this film, kind of highlighting what I thought worked well for me and didn't. The way the film starts out, with a little black boy being whipped by some scumbag for no apparent reason other than he's a nasty brute with plentiful racism spurning him on, seems like an obvious and rather too easy method to jumpstart the vampire feud. The vampires are established as slave owners; easy bait for us to root passionately against them. It is interesting that this was right there when Abe was getting plenty of attention. Spielberg's Lincoln and Killing Lincoln were right there when this one was out. This film was maybe a flop because it was so far-fetched, yet the presentation does its damnedest to try and fit the vampires in Honest Abe's life. Quite an alternative to Spielberg's epic.