I like vampire movies. Good ones, bad ones, smelly ones, doesn’t matter. I know most that are made are crap. Again, it doesn’t matter. I just like them. I don’t mind if they are cliche to the point that they fear crosses and don’t have reflections or if they are modernized to humanize/dehumanize them. I do get annoyed though when a lot of effort is made to create vampire society, humanistic in nature, and then the writers/directors/whatever feel it necessary to leave completely ridiculous cliches in.
The movie “Daybreakers” offers one of the best examples of this. An entire society, complete with corporate corruption, conspiracy, etc. The premis of the movie could easily have been that mankind was infected with a virus that made everyone allergic to water and they therefore cannot eat most foods or go out in the rain. It isn’t, they are vampires. Fine, no worries there. As I said, I like vampire movies. Why though, after establishing the ‘realistic’ reason for vampires to exist, do they not have reflections? What is the point of that? The sun reacts with them, fine, I can buy that. However, after all the effort put into the film on behalf of making it a potential alternate reality why do something as stupid as making it so they cast no reflection? I can see them. That means they reflect light. The virus is unlikely to have made all light reflected off them polarized and at the same time somehow mutated all mirrors to also be polarized, but at the opposite angle.
So yes, this is a stupid thing to get my tail in a knot over on a thursday afternoon, but there it is.