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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.
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?
And of course, every Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Dracula movie ever made.
After Bela Lugosi, these are mine!
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!
This discussion has to include "The Fearless Vampire Killers", even if the vampire Count is not Dracula.
I also remember the Louis Jordan version, and liked it as well, but the Hammer films hit my swoon spot.
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.
I need to get Gravity on blu-ray, then. I loved that movie. I saw it in IMax and I'm glad I did.
It's so gorgeous on blu ray.