I don't really remember the movie itself, but I do remember liking Langella's Dracula.
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'Ariel'
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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!
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.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 2:50:42 pm PDT #27831 of 30000
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beekaytee - Sep 29, 2014 2:50:53 pm PDT #27832 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Stepping forward with trembling lip...I say loud and proud...I love Dracula 2000!
"Never, ever fuck with an antiques dealer!"
Vampire:"Sorry, Sport, I'm an atheist."
Johnny Lee Miller: "God loves you anyway."
stab to the eye
Plus, people being flipped up on backboards instead of spending money on cgi.
What's not to love?
quester - Sep 29, 2014 3:51:07 pm PDT #27833 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
And of course, every Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Dracula movie ever made.
After Bela Lugosi, these are mine!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2014 7:17:21 pm PDT #27834 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Stepping forward with trembling lip...I say loud and proud...I love Dracula 2000!
I really liked that movie up to the point where Dracula gets out of the coffin. If it had continued as a heist film with Christopher Plummer as a crazy old antiquities dealer trying to get his property back from the thieves, it would have been great!