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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.
Coppola's Dracula
I read that as "Chocula's" Dracula. Who is a damn fine vampire in his own right.
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.
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!
Jonathan Harker's Bogus Journey
That's wonderful.
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.)
Time Code? I think that's the name of it. Duncan Jones second movie.
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."
All those bats Luke Evans' Dracula turns into should be careful they don't get staked on splinters flying back into the closet door he exploded about a decade ago.
Did anyone besides me ever see the PBS Dracula, with Louis Jourdan as the Count? My personal favorite.