I described the Langella Dracula as Dracula meets Wuthering Heights in a review I wrote for a school newpaper back in the day.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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quester - Sep 28, 2014 5:48:10 pm PDT #27821 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
beekaytee - Sep 28, 2014 5:55:15 pm PDT #27822 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The Langella Dracula is the one true...though I love some pretty bad versions too.
I have to say that I was shocked one year when I threw a huge Halloween party...like 40 people at once...I put that film on my iMac (that long ago) thinking it would just be in the background.
The entire assemblage ground to a halt, flopped on the floor and remained riveted until the last moment. Somehow I didn't think anyone would be interested.
Instead, some called it their favorite ever and others thanked me for introducing them to it!
Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2014 6:05:16 pm PDT #27823 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The film clip of Mina reminded me. Yes, that was the one true Dracula movie for me.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2014 6:35:29 pm PDT #27824 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Langella Dracula is the one true
The ridiculous laser-tastic love scenes lost that movie for me. They looked like a James Bond credit sequence.
Burrell - Sep 28, 2014 7:35:30 pm PDT #27825 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't really remember the movie itself, but I do remember liking Langella's Dracula.
Atropa - Sep 28, 2014 9:33:46 pm PDT #27826 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Did anyone besides me ever see the PBS Dracula, with Louis Jourdan as the Count? My personal favorite.
That's a great mini-series, and one of the most faithful to the novel.
For all the changes that the Langella version makes to the plot, it's one of the best versions for sumptuous gothic atmosphere and actually creepy bits. Lucy the vampire is delightfully ghoulish.
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.
The Eldergoth Cabal That Does Not Exist is going to send you a sternly worded letter. Please open a window for the bat messenger, and take down all wreaths of garlic.
Gris - Sep 29, 2014 3:36:35 am PDT #27827 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I saw Dracula Dead and Loving it.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 5:40:55 am PDT #27828 of 30000
brillig
Love at First Bite was fun, in a very '70s, disco way. "Without me, Transylvania will be as much fun as Bucharest--[gasps of horror!]--on a Monday night! [women scream and strong men faint]"
Strix - Sep 29, 2014 10:27:20 am PDT #27829 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Coppola's Dracula is just insane eye candy, for me. I like to look at it
Yep, eye candy, and nostalgia: I saw it alone in the Odeon Thatre in Leicester Square my semester in London. I was all like, "SUGARED popcorn? And beer in theatres? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?"
I finally got to see Edge of Tomorrow and it was super-fun!
Me, too!! I always have a quandry because I cannot stand Tom Cruise as a person; he is just...ugh, smug, and I GRRRR.
But I can't stop watching him in action movies! It's ridiculous. I'm like "FUCKING TOM CRUISE. But I HAVE TO WATCH THIS. Goddammit, it was fun. FUCK YOU TOM CRUISE."
It's completely illogical, I know.
Beverly - Sep 29, 2014 1:23:54 pm PDT #27830 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh yes, Love at First Bite! "Children of the night....Shut up!" Also, Once Bitten, with Lauren Hutton and Cleavon Little, as well as early Jim Carrey.
And of course, every Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Dracula movie ever made.
I loved the Langella, but the last time I watched it, it didn't hold up for me.
Fright Nights are fun, both the Sarandon and the Tennant versions.