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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.
Back in 1979 there was a series called Cliffhangers, with three separate stories being told in serial format. One of the series was a Dracula story, with the Count teaching a night class at a local college. It was cheesy and wonderful, and they did a lot with his age-old loneliness. Michael Nouri made a wonderful Dracula.
I don't think I've seen a single Dracula movie. I own Nosferatu, if that counts, but have somehow missed all of the actual Draculas. Bela Lugosi and forward.
I've read the book, though.
Did anyone besides me ever see the PBS Dracula, with Louis Jourdan as the Count? My personal favorite.
I have this on DVD because I heard great things about it but haven't gotten around to watching it yet (and not sure where it's buried in the boxes of DVDs I haven't sorted yet - ahem).
Oh yes! That one followed the book fairly closely, didn't it?
The Langella version had the creepiest depiction of one of Dracula's victims (Mina rather than Lucy, and Van Helsing's daughter to boot) that I can recall: [link]
It also had that great scene where Dracula fled from a confrontation with Van Helsing by jumping out a window and becoming a wolf in mid-leap: [link]
The Langella version had the creepiest depiction of one of Dracula's victims (Mina rather than Lucy, and Van Helsing's daughter to boot) that I can recall
Oh yes, muttering to her father and coming at him looking utterly foul. Deeply disturbing. And they had Lucy as Seward's daughter, I believe. I like those changes, quite honestly. I never quite got the why of all Lucy's suitors in the original. Which, to be fair, they kept in the Coppola version.