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Honestly, I think the trailer may have turned some people off. It is very action based, almost putting it into the "stupid action" genre. Lincoln dangling off the side of a train as it races around a corner? Taking one swipe with an ax and taking down an entire tree? People remember the Battleships of earlier this summer and groan.

I want to see the film because I want to be entertained by the story. I wonder if they had given us a different trailer if this would have had a bigger opening.

Bruce Hall: A movie called Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter should be the funniest thing you've ever seen. But the last time I watched the trailer in a theater the crowd emitted the closest thing to a collective scoff I've ever heard (at least until we got to the the trailer for the "bike messenger saves the world" picture). Here was somber, Gothic imagery as self reverent as that for the last Underworld movie. And it also had Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, who it is said was born in a log cabin in Kentucky, sounding every bit the Harvard man as he busts out the Matrix style karate moves on...vampires...for some reason.

And it's called "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Regardless of the quality of the movie, this one didn't sell itself well. And when you've got a cornball premise like this one, you need to sell it well. Like the way you'd sell a movie about Andrew Jackson as a homicidal maniac, or Teddy Roosevelt as a wild eyed adrenaline junkie who wrestled bears and laughed when people shot him in the chest. Too realistic? Well speaking of Harvard men, how about one where the Kennedy brothers destroy Zombie Nixon by transforming into a sixty foot mechanical Joe Senior?

Felix Quinonez: I don't think I'm going to see this movie. I'm going to be echoing some people but I found it really odd at how seriously they were taking this movie. With a title like that I was hoping for some campy fun but the trailers seemed to be going in a different direction. I was really put off by that and it seems that I wasn't the only one. I think they kind of dropped the ball with this one and its opening is a bit disappointing.

Shalimar Sahota: Some people have no idea that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is actually based on a book. Forget viewing ads, or glancing at the poster, those people had made their mind up from the plain and simple mash up title, taking it as a stupid idea for a film. I've actually been wanting to watch this ever since I first heard about it, and unlike most on here I quite like the serious stance the trailers took. While general things have gotten in the way, the one thing preventing me from viewing the film is that none of the cinemas in my city are showing this film in 2D. I refuse to pay extra to view a post 3D conversion, and if that means I end up missing out on watching this on the big screen, then so be it.

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