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]"
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
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Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 5:40:55 am PDT #27828 of 30000
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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!
Typo Boy - Sep 29, 2014 7:54:03 pm PDT #27835 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
This discussion has to include "The Fearless Vampire Killers", even if the vampire Count is not Dracula.
quester - Sep 30, 2014 5:48:08 pm PDT #27836 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I also remember the Louis Jordan version, and liked it as well, but the Hammer films hit my swoon spot.
Sean K - Oct 02, 2014 4:05:14 pm PDT #27837 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have a blu ray player now, and I picked up the blu ray of Gravity.
Watching the behind-the-scenes docs on the making of the movie is absolutely mind-blowing (to get all ViralNova about it). Gravity is basically a photo-realistic computer animated feature, starring the voices of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Even to the extent that they're using actual footage of Bullock and Clooney, it's difficult to say that that's real footage in the end product, because it's really just one more object/texture that was mapped onto the CG animation.
And truly, no film has ever been manipulated at such a fine grain level, down to the score itself, which was actually created to move around the theater and follow action or sight line. While it still is fantastic in a home theater setting, not watching Gravity in an Atmos equipped theater is really doing it a disservice. You're missing almost 50% of the effect.
Also, while watching the behind-the-scenes material, you get to see a light-up globe they marked up with the path of the story, and I finally figured out why I lose track of it at the end -- I misjudged (just slightly) the trajectory of the Chinese station in relation to the camera angle and Stone in the Soyuz capsule. She comes down in Africa. Somewhere in the central part, I believe.