vampire academy is a garbage movie 

A huge difference from the book is Lyssa suffers from serious depression and ptsd and her power doesn’t randomly cause cuts on her arm but rather she self harms as a way to deal with the pain. The books weren’t just “brooding” they were actually pretty dark at times. It would’ve made a really good tv show or Netflix show. But as a big fan of the books the movie was one of the worst adaptations I’ve ever seen.

Twilight: *I’m the most hated vampire movie of all time* Vampire academy: *am I a joke to you*

The books were so good. There was no reason for the movie to be such a big poop

Dying while listening to a song about dying, that's the way to go.

Is it bad that I WHEEZED at the car crash scene

The main character was so bland. She was like every main character of a wattpad book. With no flaws or anything that makes her interesting

We follow the Percy Jackson rule with this one. WHAT MOVIE, THERE WAS NEVER A VAMPIRE ACADEMY MOVIE

Yo but can we talk about how they gave the moroi British accents despite the fact that they’re all American and raised alongside the American accented dhampirs

"Rose has an crush on Dmitri but they can't date because he's an elderly man"... Aaaand subscribe.

Off topic: You have the most soothing voice ever. Better than ASMR.

I feel like this would've done better if this were a TV show instead of a movie

shes 17 and hes 24 i remember they did a whole scene where he was talking about it how do i remember this from this awful film

This movie is terrible, but it’s still my shit. I can admit when I have terrible taste

So sad to admit the sweet sassy molassy is a book accurate line...

"Six books is a lot for someone who can't stop reading a series until it's done" LMAO the gag is it's actually 12 books with 6 more on the way. Vampire Academy; Bloodlines; Untitled 3rd Spinoff Series.... ETA: As far as I knew Richelle had announced another spinoff is upcoming but I guess I was mistaken because now I can't find the announcement again, but she has said she's considered writing another series or continuation so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

I must shamefully admit I still loved vampire academy 😭😭

I've read the title and I just wanted to say how DARE you. like you have a point but how DARE you

"The zodiac killer" JULIA

How does someone who makes the brilliance that’s heathers- even become associated with this?! How even- how even- I just- everyone get out

I recommend reading the books. They were so much better. Just know, that there was a spinoff series that also had six books. Happy reading!

The vampire academy books deserved better than this

I don't know if I can watch this. :( I like this movie unironically other than the weird actor they hired for the love interest. The books were soooo good

“His parents are *evil* so people think he’s *evil* and what’d ya know he’s love interest” ....Draco Malfoy?

the books do kinda slap esspecially the spin off

“Blood, blood connects us all. No more bad blood.” L O U D C H E E R I N G

Lmao Dimitri is like 24 in the book, if I'm not wrong and he's described as tall and lanky but strong, and basically she uses the word godlike a lot and this dude from the movie is old and short and just no 🤮

the amount good books ruined by garbage movies is enough to last me a lifetime of twister fries

Vampire Academy: "WoW vAmPiRe mOviEs aRe rEaLLy cLiChE aM i RiTe iM sO sELf aWaRe" Also Vampire Academy: *includes literally every single vampire movie cliche and is a dumpster fire*

the book series was the only one i'd ever read to completion, and it made me cry like a baby back bitch. i hated that there was such a huge, creepy age gap between the two characters because their romance was so well done.

Dang it looks like it had the bones for a decent movie but did it in the most annoying way possible

I've never seen the Vampire Academy, but just these clips have me feeling like every character was horribly miscast lol

yesss I HATED the movie. VA is one of my favourite YA series of all time and I was so excited for the movie, only to realize that those working on the movie had no respect for the books or the fanbase. you wanna make a fun teen comedy? dope! write your own and don't wreck something that was actually really freaking awesome the way it was.

Vampire Academy was my favorite YA book series and I was obsessed with it throughout my teen years and I was so excited when a movie was announced and oh so very disappointed when it came out :( P.S I just realized it's been 9 years since I read the first few books and now I feel old

In the books Dimitri is like 23 and Rose is 18.

So you’re telling me that there are two vampire ladies and one has devoted themself to protecting the other and they ran away together and they’re NOT in love?!? Absolutely absurd can’t believe it

13:38 So... Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets?

I’m glad other people also couldn’t tell Zoey Deutch and Haley Lu Richardson apart

Please read the all the books Julia, I know you'll love them. They're YA masterpieces

Make a PODCASTTTTT I wanna hear u talk for hours

Was I the only one who was never into vampires growing up (except for My Babysitter's a Vampire)

I LOVED the Vampire Academy books when I was younger but they turned it into such a horrible film... It was so childish and the actress who played Lissa just was... not good. The narration from Rose is so cheesy and unlikeable and gives major Mean Girls 2 flashbacks. They didn’t explain many of the vampiric universe terms very well. Rose and Lissa had zero chemistry. I didn’t even finish the movie tbh. What bothered me most was the fact that the actor who played Dmitri was and looked WAY TOO OLD to play him. Dmitri was like 21 in the books. The actor who played him didn’t even look remotely attractive, young, or dreamy like he’s described in the books. The fact that he looks so old compared to Rose makes their relationship so unrealistic, gross, and uncomfortable. It’s such a shame they did the books so dirty. Okay, rant over.

"what do you know about pain?" - me when my mom won't give me chicken nugget

"blood written messages and dead cats on doorways" is this chamber of secrets i-

Years later and I still don't remember what vampire academy is even about

the sex scene was so cringy my friend and i still quote it to this day, some five years after we've seen the movie

omg yall its that girl from mako mermaids

When this movie was out my friend made me watch it & when it was over I was like "..... so can you tell me Why" & she was like "I Swear the books were better"

So pretty funny mythos thingy here: Traditionally in Balkans folklore, from which Dhampir are drawn, Dhampir are the descendents of a vampire having children with a human. You would think this might make them aligned with the vampires, enemies of humanity or whatever, but it's actually the opposite. In the Balkans lore, Dhampir are Vampire-Hunters, and pass their hunting traditions down from father-to-son. They're the source of inspiration for the character "Vampire Hunter D" and are pretty cool. Making a female Dhampir into a guardian character is interesting because it flips both the conventions about them on their head: that traditionally only male Dhampir inherit powers and that they use those powers to kill vampires. As for the Moroi/Strigoi thing, I'm not a big fan of "technically human but evil race" fantasy shit. It's creepy and always leads to eugenics arguments amongst fans.

THE ZODIAC KILLER OMFG 💀

The thing about ian - spoiler - if I'm not mistaken he literally dies in like - the 2nd book and occasionally pops up as this weird - ghost of Christmas past apparition if I remember correctly. He is literally plot useless

Rose is 17 in the book, Dimitri is supposed to be 24. And yes, a majority of the conflict in the book revolves around him being her teacher. It's gross. And he's not even the only 24 year old she hooks up with. She hooks up with a drunk Moroi prince with a reputation for taking advantage of young Dhampir girls. She literally tries to change him.

Dead cats and bloody messages on walls. So basically, they ripped off Harry Potter?

I remember watching this in school when the twilight fad had died out so I initially cringed at the title "Vampire Academy"..... After we finished watching it, though, since it leaves in a cliffhanger, we googled to see if there was a sequel & were disappointed to find out it had been a flop in theaters. I remember thinking that if ONLY they had given the movie a less cringy title than "vampire academy" it wouldn't had flopped. It was common sense, after Twilight everybody was embarrassed to even admit they liked vampires, they should have been less conspicuous about it....

Would you ever trash teen books? I’m still waiting for an “Uglies” series.

“She isn’t really a major *stake* for the movie...” I’m sorry I had to...

"No real stake in the larger story" the most underrated pun

Be assured, everyone, that the books are a thousand times better than the sorry excuse for a movie.

So Jace from Shadowhunters and Nolan from Perfectionists were in Vampire Academy? Small world.

I understand the Kingdom Hearts chronology better than I can comprehend a mere second of this movie.

This my long rambling rant... you have been warned. Lol *SPOILERS* I’m a grown woman and I loved the book series; both TVA and Bloodlines. I was excited for the movie, but held back some expectations due it being a movie and the trailers didn’t do much to soothe my doubts. After watching the movie with one of my friends who loved the book series, we both felt like we watched a train wreck; where you don’t want to watch anymore, but need to keep watching. The only thing the movie got 99% perfect, was Dimitri. The 1% was the ending when Dimitri was okay with one kiss with Rose; completely against his character because he was so adamant about the age difference being wrong while she’s in school, despite his attraction to her. Acting wise, it was good. Script wise, it was a mess and took a lot away from the world building and characters. For example, the school never had uniforms. I felt this was the author’s way of showing the different characters’ personality traits and their home lives. Lissa was royalty, but liked wearing clothes from Target because she wasn’t that much into her entitled wealth. Mia was poor, but wanted to be seen as a wealthy girl; Lissa and Rose were quick to notice her knockoff high quality brands, which shows Mia obsession with being popular. Rose’s personality is sort of spot on, but the movie sadly traded her trust issues in exchange for plot convenience; when she tells Natalie about her crush on Dimitri. This was something that Rose wouldn’t even tell Lissa because she feels that her person life is second to Lissa’s. Then there’s the ending. Rose kills Strigoi Natalie. This never happened in the books because she wasn’t ready mentally to kill someone she knew who turned evil. It was important to her development. I get the movie thought it was a good idea because it shows how awesome Rose is, but it rushes her skills. Rose was egotistical and was just tapped into through that by the end of the book. So rushed. Plus, it takes away the significance of the marks on her neck that she earned in the second book. The production crew wanted a second movie, they should have stuck with Rose not killing Natalie from the books to make her first Strigoi kill more earned and significant Lissa speech at the end of the movie, yah, that was hard to sit through. Can’t remember what she did in the books, but I know it wasn’t anything like that. For the movie, if Lissa was going to interrupt the Queen, she would have done it more gracefully and not sarcastically. I feel like this movie just took the fun from the books and amplified so much that it came off too strong and unnecessary. For the climax parts of the third act, it was okay. I just didn’t like how Daddy Dashkov was able to pull off everything; though to be fair, it was only with one thing which was Rose admitting she had a crush on Dimitri. It took away from how cunning and clever Dashkov was. He could tell there was an attraction between Rose and Dimitri just by carefully paying attention to them; which is why Rose is more shocked by what he tells her about the charmed necklace and how it worked better than planned because of Dimitri’s attraction. In the movie it just comes off as stale because of Rose’s confession. Okay, my long rant is over. I could complain more, but meh. Once I fix my computer, I’m prolly going to put the audiobooks for TVA and Bloodlines on my phone to listen to while walking. Lol. It’s a good series. If you listen to the audiobooks, the first two narrators are okay (1-3). But book 4 is narrated by Emily Shaffer and she’s pretty good; also continues to narrate the rest of the series, including Bloodlines.

Been known that. A lot of the shows dealing with Vampires/Werewolves follow the same cringe cliches. It actually killed the genre.

Eyyyy you should do The Host, another Stephanie Meyer book turned movie

Vampire academy is Not Like Other Gir... supernatural teen movies

I remember reading the director had a cut that producers didn't want to go with. He was so sad people didn't get to see his vision of the story. So, I don't blame the director, the writer, or the cast, only the producers.

The relationship is also creepy in the book, but nonetheless this is one of my favorite bad movies 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m in a bad mood and ready for an angry rant. Let’s do this 🍿

the best example I can think of for supernatural self awareness in recent films is for sure zombieland, because it genuinely works for the movie and doesn't go so far that it ends up sounding lije a fanfic come to life (ie what they did to vampire academy). also not @ zoey's one note dumb blonde character from double tap somehow having more depth than her character in this movie fsjdkhk

Love that you just called Cameron’s character Ian the whole time. Also spoilers he dies in the second book because he was trying to save rose or prove something to her I don’t remember exactly. I just remember the death scenes

Man, I loved these books so much and this movie did them so dirty...

I remember being hooked on this series and the spinoff and feeling so disappointed that they didn't put any effort into the movie. I don't remember if the books are actually good or if I just liked it because I was new to YA books, but I do know that I liked the spinoff (Bloodlines) better and thought it was more mature and the relationship (Adrian and Sydney) was a more grownup romance with a more nuanced conflict. I'd have to reread them and see if I have a different opinion, but this is what I remember thinking. Plus, I thought Dimitri/Rose and Lisa/Christian ships were so boring and I really didn't care about it. I remember thinking Rose and Dimitri's relationship was kinda...questionable to the point where I couldn't really get behind it. Christian was kind of interesting but at the end, I didn't really care or feel any spark. Rose and Lisa, on the other hand, had a great relationship and I loved seeing that develop. That, I think is what makes the series worth reading. Not really the romance. If you want a good romance, read Bloodlines. If you want a good friendship, try Vampire Academy!

really wish someone would adapt it into a tv series like they did for shadowhunters - vampire academy could do SO WELL with more time to develop it further with a showrunner who respects the story

*omg its Zacks girlfriend from suite life on deck*

Rose & Dimitri are one of my favourite book couples. He is suppose to be super sexy but not realise it. This guy is just meh

Danila Kozlovsky (one of the main guys) is a REALLY big figure and a REALLY popular and scandalous actor in Russia. He has as many fans as he has haters. His films are sponsored by government, both in which he is an actor and a director. So, yeah, the cast is pretty big. But Kozlovsky espesially is a very controversial person, taking part in projects with shady creation process...

I haven’t read these books since middle school, but as far as I can remember, Rosa ends up with Dimitri in the sequels?? Which at the time I thought was hot, but now it’s definitely weird because it’s definitely meant to be read as a student-teacher relationship.

oh my god, I was a huge fan of the books when they were coming out, and I was SO pissed about the movie. you were right about the tone thing- it's much more serious and angsty, especially as the series goes on. the books do make more sense, but from what i remember (which honestly isn't much) it was always pretty overwhelming and there were like 5 different plots happening at the same time. i basically rage quit around the 4th or 5th book because it was just going in a direction i didn't like. but that being said, yeah, i would say this series was a better one than most vampire/supernatural ya books at the time. but i was also like 13/14 when i read them, so.

"Blood messages on walls and a dead cat", Me quietly having flashbacks from reading Chamber of Secrets.

This movie may suck, but do you know what doesn't?! A Halloween Upload from Julia!🎃👻 #happyhalloween 😊

I honestly like this movie lol, but that said I'm just a fan of the books so I guess I'm only happy Richelle Mead got her cash and the cast looked pretty great for the characters they were portraying. That said they did mess up the tone (the first book is very sarcastic but not outright comedic) and is more of a mystery, and ended up making a kind of dumb popcorn movie instead of the epic adaptation it could've had. THAT SAID the soundtrack for this movie fucking SLAPS and playing Rats by Rainy Milo at the end was an iconic choice

I don't remember the movie that much but I do know the books were great. Adrian will forever be Best Boy!! I never shipped him with Rose or anything, he was just overall a great character that deserved better and I was super happy he was the focus in the spin-off series. I absolutely loved him there! Yall should really read the books though

this movie was such an insult to the book, it genuinely hurt me

why are you dragomirs such drags is quite possibly the most intellectual quote to come from any movie ever

Vampire academy could’ve been great. I love the books. But I think they didn’t do it justice with with the script and promotions

I almost saw this movie on a double date in high school. I ended up canceling the date and I’m kinda glad I didn’t see it

Vampire Academy was a bop. Fight Me.

Live fast, die young Bad girls do it well *car crash* Had me cryiiinngggg Edit: Tommy Wiseau saying I did not hit her over some girl getting thrown made howl

This movie will forever be one of the biggest disappointments of my life. The books did an amazing job of setting up great magic systems, political systems, and social systems, and staying true to them. Rose and Dimitri were one of the greatest and most epic love stories of my entire childhood. Lissa gave me hope for recovery as someone still actively struggling with self harm. Even the spinoff series was well written, intelligent, and unafraid of confronting harsh and difficult realities. To take all that ^ and get THIS MOVIE??????? My disappointment and anger are endless.

why is your voice so relaxing omg

no matter how trashy this movie is, ITS AN EXCEPTION TO THE TRASH LIST IN MY HEART :(

I really loved the books in high school and I was really excited for the movie (though I was not happy that Ben Barnes was not cast as Dimitri). But this is trash, i hated the tone and it made scoff 😓

LMFAO I worked on this film for 2 months as a specialist action artist (similar to a stunt performer but less trained and skilled). One thing I can tell you is that Zoey Deutsch is a freaking nightmare, she was so so mean. The stunt performers found her so rude to train, she even got her stunt double removed from the production for being too "fat". She refused to eat on set and almost fainted during training. She's the only actress I've ever worked with that's truly mean. To this day I can't watch films she's in. Sarah Hyland was lovely though, she was the biggest star on set but was so humble and kind.

In the novels, Dimitri is seven years older than her. I believe Rosemarie is 17 and he is 24.

The only reason that I like this movie is because it reminds me of the wonderful book series😂

I love, love, *love* the Vampire Academy bookseries. I know it’s mostly nostalgia, since it was one of my first book series (Ender’s Game, Beautiful Creatures, Vampire Academy are the 3 major book series that I read first) and holds many of my fondest memories of middle school. I was so pissed it was adapted so badly because it gave me such perspective and curiosity, I’ve never really felt that from any other books because it was one of my first ones.

as someone who read the entire series and enjoyed it, you hit the nail on the had on the problems I had with the movie. it was so clearly made by people who didn't respect the genre or its audience. it was dumbed down to painful levels and the tone they tried to go for didn't really suit the material. btw, while I enjoyed Vampire Academy, the spin-off series, Bloodlines, was a lot more interesting imo, and it's one of my all time favorites.

My brain read the suck at school as they school as suck, twice, and I'm really tired.

hello i'm two years late but this was one of my favourite books series and i just knew it wasn't going to do well. one of the worst things that happened was the fact that they white-washed rose. Canonically, Rose is half white and half turkish, as well as being short and curvy. its an important part of her character- the moroi sexualize and devalue her further because of this, especially when comparing her to Lissa. She constantly struggles with her want to let loose and party, and other people's low expectations and slut shaming in the first few books, and how she learns to deal with it comes hand in hand with her growth as a character.

You made this sound so much more complicated than it actually is 😂😂

“They’re brothers, by the way.” I learned something today.

Okay, my 8th grade self loved the books specifically because how it was very darkly romantic. I kinda was a bit over the target audience when the movie came out, but I remember watching the trailer and seriously being so pissed about it. If you read the books and then watched the trailer you'd realize how crazy abrupt the contrast is. *Despicable*