Escapade Premieres: We're an American Band (Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter)

[mresundance]

We're An American Band by mresundance
Song and Artist: "We're An American Band" by The Grand Funk Railroad
Fandom: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012 movie)
Length: 03:04
Summary: "We'll help you party it down." Ensemble + shameless recruiter vid + BENJAMIN WALKER BEING A SEXYPANTS HOT DAMN.
Contains/Warnings: Vidder chooses not to disclose.
Betas: In alphabetical order: bessyboo, echan, ladymajavader, platinumvampyr. Thank you darlings for helping me to make this vid better. :D
Crossposts: Tumblr

Premiered at Escapade Con 2013.

Anonymous comments are enabled!

Permanent link (right-click save): 60 MB avi (xvid)

https://vimeo.com/55076708

Password: stovepipehat

And Blip.tv, because Youtube is being stupid: http://blip.tv/mresundance/we-re-an-american-band-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-6539132

Lyrics

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
A feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight

Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said: "Come on dudes, let's get it on!"
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band (whooo)
We're an American band (whooo)
We're an American band (whooo)

Notes

This vid started because Facebook.

A friend was commenting on how awful Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Friend of friend said something snarky like "what you do expect from the dude who did Wanted?" Silly me, I had to (somewhat sarcastically) stick up for Wanted. I mean, what is there to actually hate about Wanted? That movie is just ridiculous amounts of eye candy, so who fucking cares how good it actually was?

Oh no. Friend of friend went on to insult my taste in movies, because heaven forbid I ever watch something just for the eye candy. Obviously only morons do that.

I usually don't take personal attacks on the internet personally; sadly those are a dime a dozen these days. But I so incensed by the snobbery of the whole stupid thing that I went and watched Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter simply so I could draw my own conclusions.

And guess what audience? I fell in love with the movie.

Is it cheesy? Oh god yes. It is terrible? Yeah, pretty much. Does it pay lip service to issues with race and racism and slavery? YEP YEP YEP.

But my president gets to kill the fuck out of evil vampires. If that doesn't stir my usually latent patriotic heartstrings a bit -- just a teenie tiny bit -- well.

Since then I have successfully gotten a least half a dozen reluctant viewers to watch the film. By the end they pretty much all wanted to hump Benjamin Walker just as much as I did.

In conclusion: fuck snobbery, enjoy the hell out of guitar riffs and flying axes and Benjamin Walker being a sexy-pants vampire slaying president.

Comments

[settiai]

Just so you know, the permanent download link isn't working. You have an extra ".com" in there. ;-)

[mresundance]

Heeeh, thanks oh mighty webmistress and host.

[settiai]

*bows*

You've started a trend, by the way. There are, like, five of you hosting websites with me now.

[mresundance]

That would be because you are awesome and the bestest webhost I've ever had. No-one else ever checked my weirdo linkage problems. If that's not dedication . . . :P

[settiai]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's still not working. :-P

It looks like you have an extra space after the last / that's causing the problem.

[mresundance]

OH MY GOD I don't think that was the problem there wasn't an extra space? I actually don't know what it was, but I copied and pasted some link codes from other vids onto this one and it works now.

Thanks. :)

[settiai]

It was definitely showing up as having an extra space for me when I hovered over it, and it worked when I copied and pasted the link without it. So... who knows?

It's definitely working now, though. :-P

[mresundance]

Maybe I am just a blond dude who can't read. :P

[way2busymom]

This was delightful & very entertaining!

[mresundance]

Thanks! :) Glad you enjoyed!

[revolutionaryjo]

Hee! I'm so happy that there's an Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter vid in existence and even more so that it is this good. Love it!

[mresundance]

LOL, that will be the first and perhaps only time I see a comment like that for this film. Ergo I will draw little hearts around it.

Thank you kindly. Happy you enjoyed it so much! :3

[revolutionaryjo]

Pfft. Anyone who doesn't love this film doesn't love joy. Or hot dudes. Their loss!

[mresundance]

They are basically just soulless, humorless, slave nomming vampires. SO THERE.

[kuwdora]

going to pimp this vid so much when I'm done writing my con report. it played really really well in a con setting. ♥

will come back with more squee when I have energy. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[mresundance]

Heeeeeh, thank you. I look forward to the pimpage! :D Go sleep and recharge that squee energy.

[elipie]

This was amaaaaaaaazing and went over super well at Escapade! Not only was it hilarious, but the musicality and transitions were seriously just stunning.

[mresundance]

Thank you thank you. So glad you enjoyed and that it went over well. The movie is hilarious though. I just added some guitar riffs to the cheesy over the top goodness that already exists. :)

[jetpack_monkey]

YOU! YOOOOOOOOU!

YOU YOU YOU YOU YOU!

OMG YOU!

*flails at you* This is so effing good. The motion and the cutting and the MUSIC. OMG.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.

[mresundance]

YOU.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.

*FLAILS BACK*

Thank you very much. Your flailing just makes me giggle.

[mithborien]

Hah, that was awesome and has certainly moved the movie has certainly moved up my to watch list!

I don't get why people trash on ridiculous movies. They do exactly what they set out to do which is be entertaining!

[mresundance]

Ridiculous movies are like ridiculous books. You enjoy the hell out of them, but they also let you appreciate the really really really good books and movies a wee bit more.

Thank you. Yes, go watch the movie and revel in it's over the top cheesy GLORY. I actually didn't show some of the most over the top bits of the film.

[rekindle956]

Real cool vid! Thank you.

[mresundance]

Heh, thanks for watching and commenting!

[stewardess]

Three quick observations:
1. WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME DOMINIC COOPER WAS IN THIS! What an entrance you gave him.
2. This is a blast visually and rhythmically.
3. The ending is perfection, and drew its own burst of applause.

[mresundance]

1. Hahaaha, sometimes I feel bad about making him Freddie King, because how could he possibly be that badass, but that's okay just for those 30 seconds he can be Freddie King.
2. Thank you thank you. :)
3. Yay! Thanks again. I aimed to blissfully entertain with this one.

Thanks again for stopping by to comment and I am glad you enjoyed the vid.

[charloween]

Love it! I especially liked your choice of final clip. And also all the axe action.

My office-mate just finished his PhD on representations of US presidents; we watched this together in theatres. Fuck snobbery! He still hasn't watched FDR: American Badass yet, though, so I don't know if his research is truly complete.

(It's also fun that Lincoln pretty much works as a sequel to ALVH, because there's minimal timeline crossover.)

[mresundance]

OMG FDR: AMERICAN BADASS IS A REAL THING THAT EXISTS AND NOW I MUST WATCH IT.

Thank you! :D Glad you enjoyed.

[charloween]

Did you see how it has Kevin Sorbo as Lincoln and Paul Ben-Victor as Mussolini? Part of me doesn't want to watch it (though I have a copy), just in case it doesn't meet expectations. (And why are Lincoln and Mussolini in the same movie?)

[tearful_eye]

ahaha omg this is epic. SLAY THOSE VAMPIRES ABE \o/
i will definitely have to watch this movie now because it looks ridiculous amounts of fun ... this vid is amazing!

[mresundance]

Hehehe, thank you. :) The movie is pretty ridiculously fun.

[starlady]

That was a great vid. The song choice, editing, everything was great. Ineed to watch the movie, methinks.

[mresundance]

Thank you very much! Yes, yes, watch the movie! :D