Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: World Dracula Day Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 07:00:55 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 127 Message-ID: References: <784230795.738410383.969226.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <865152017.738528406.707825.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <2067644534.738578156.750235.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 16:00:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c93165480a052258e62723602774e1d0"; logging-data="664279"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Acp6Cxd1ncED4HQYsSHS2qMZBcU/4WBk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:warmL/xKXUWnMbeiL44xq1nHd6A= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <2067644534.738578156.750235.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 6305 On 5/28/2024 2:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 5/27/2024 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> anim8rfsk wrote: >>>> May 26, in honor of the publication of the original novel. >>>> >>>> What will you watch to celebrate? >>>> >>>> I’ve got the Dan Curtis/Jack Palance version going right now with music >>>> from dark shadows. It’s a pretty good and a pretty faithful adaptation. >>>> >>>> Available on the Peacock, it’s a good copy in 16:9 with the ads front >>>> loaded so it runs uninterrupted. >>>> >>>> Next up, I found the excellent 1977 Louis Jourdon version on the gray. >>>> >>> >> >> Louis Jorudan played Dracula?!? Why am I only just now hearing about this? >> >>> Asking the DVR to show me movies with Dracula in the title return 120 hits! >>> >>> I tried to watch the animated Batman and Dracula, but it was far too poorly >>> made. >>> >>> Same notation for the 1992 Coppola version. >>> I hadn’t suffered through it since opening night in the theater. I was >>> laughing at the massive ineptitude and cringing at the parent intentional >>> stupidity. What a terrible terrible movie at every level. >>> >> >> I saw this in the theater back in 92 and at the time thought to myself >> this is not a good movie. But I was just a preteen and all the >> professional critics seemed to insist the movie was great. So I figured >> what do I know, it must be good. And over the years I've grown to not >> mind watching it. > > I tried and failed. It’s easily deserving of an MST3K or Riff tracks > version. I could watch it with the viewing accomplice where we could point > the screen and hold at the ineptitude. But there’s no way I could watch it > by myself and suffer in silence. > > >> >>> From the writing (“he went to face a hoard from which he might never >>> return!” Wait, what?) To the acting to the laughable costumes (red plastic >>> kabuki armor? Really?) To Mike Magnola’s idiot, giant penis castles. >>> >>> I remember being incensed at them, trying to sell it as a faithful version >>> and all the movie reviewers who are too stupid to read buying into it. Much >>> of it is stolen from the Jack Palance version and some from the Louis >>> Jordan version as well. >>> >> >> Never saw a Jack Palance version either. > > Worth it, especially if you are a fan of dark shadows. It plays very much > like a remake of house of dark shadows. > > I haven’t seen it in decades, but I recall the Jack Palance version of Dr. > Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be worth watching as well. > > >> >>> The one thing all these films have in common is that they get the year it >>> takes place wrong. >>> >>> Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein gave me both my black-and-white and >>> my Bela Lugosi as Dracula fixes. >>> >>> DRACULA, 2000 >>> “The first Dracula movie of the 21st-century! The first Dracula movie of >>> the new millennium!“ Screamed the advertisements! >>> >> >> Shout Factory just released a new blu-ray with a 2K restoration of the >> print. I haven't picked it up yet, but I plan on getting it in time for >> a Dracula movie marathon in the near future. > > Hopefully that’s the source I was watching. Only one of the reviews on > Amazon is for the shout factory version but it raves about it and says > there’s lots of bonus stuff as well. Supposedly this is a 4K transfer, but > it only seems to be available at 1080. > >> It's only on blu-ray. But Shout just loves to release blu-rays with new scans then a year or two after I buy it suddenly come out with a new 4K disc. I have been burned by them so many times! At this point I'm reluctant to buy blu-rays from them and just wait for the 4K disc. That being said, I have the old blu-ray and I know the picture quality on that is garbage. So if I want to watch it again, and I do, I'm probably going to break down and get their new blu-ray. >> >>> Idiots. >>> >>> I like this movie. And it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it in the correct >>> aspect ratio all the way through! They usually run just the titles >>> widescreen and then zoom in for the movie itself. >>> >>> And, Jennifer Esposito at her very hottest! >>> >>> The were an incredible number of mashup offered to me (Bonnie and Clyde >>> meet Dracula?) But none of them were free. >>> >> >> According to my great aunt either Clyde or I think members of Clyde's >> gang are distant relatives. I saw a picture of him dressed like a >> gangster straight out of a Hollywood movie. I really should read up on >> them at some point. > > No better place to start > > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117379/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk > > The reviews savage it, but the sex and nudity rating is “severe“ so it’s > got that going for it > > IMDb says it’s free on the Tubi > For some reason I was thinking this was an old movie from the 60s or 70s. Tubi? Ugh.