A friend of mine once described the Coppola Dracula as "the Three Stooges and Van Helsing meet Dracula." I enjoy the pretty, and I'm happy to have it on the tv in the background while I'm focusing on something else. But it's not my platonic ideal of a Dracula movie. I'm not sure I've seen that yet. Has anyone heard anything about Dracula Untold? It seems like it might be interesting or it might take itself so seriously that I'll be stifling giggles throughout. It's hard for me to tell from the trailer.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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Calli - Sep 28, 2014 8:28:35 am PDT #27803 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Amy - Sep 28, 2014 9:05:18 am PDT #27804 of 30000
Because books.
When I was about 13, the Frank Langella Dracula came pretty close to my ideal. Not so much anymore, though.
Coppola's Dracula is just insane eye candy, for me. I like to look at it, and it's almost better with the sound off (although I did like a lot of the music used).
Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2014 9:20:36 am PDT #27805 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
When I was about 13, the Frank Langella Dracula came pretty close to my ideal. Not so much anymore, though.
That was me, too. Although now I remember nothing at all about the movie except the picture of Langella slounging in a fancy chair that was on my bedroom wall for a while.
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2014 9:26:38 am PDT #27806 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Coppola's Dracula
I read that as "Chocula's" Dracula. Who is a damn fine vampire in his own right.
Burrell - Sep 28, 2014 10:04:04 am PDT #27807 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
A friend of mine once described the Coppola Dracula as "the Three Stooges and Van Helsing meet Dracula."
One of my professors in grad school called it Jonathan Harker's Bogus Journey and that's how I've thought of it ever since.
Speaking of, I hear Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is on Netflix. I think it's time for a rewatch.
Atropa - Sep 28, 2014 10:08:10 am PDT #27808 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
When I was about 13, the Frank Langella Dracula came pretty close to my ideal. Not so much anymore, though.
It's still a fun watch for me, once I turn off the part of my brain that knows the plot of the original novel.
Has anyone heard anything about Dracula Untold?
That it will probably require me to take a flask into the theatre. It looks ridiculously awful. Fist! Of! Bats!
-t - Sep 28, 2014 10:10:25 am PDT #27809 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jonathan Harker's Bogus Journey
That's wonderful.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2014 11:16:40 am PDT #27810 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I finally got to see Edge of Tomorrow and it was super-fun! I'd love to put it together with Groundhog Day and a third movie yet to be determined for a marathon some day.
(Is there a movie with this format in another genre? I can only think of other sci-fi movies - Primer, Twelve Monkeys, etc. And neither of those is really an exact match.)
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2014 12:42:00 pm PDT #27811 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Time Code? I think that's the name of it. Duncan Jones second movie.
Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2014 1:26:57 pm PDT #27812 of 30000
brillig
Watched my Winter Soldier DVD. Boy, Bucky really is King of the Woobies, isn't he. Those big brown eyes and that lower lip.
With the addition of "If this man doesn't get a hug pretty damned soon, hundreds will die."