Path: ...!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: Mon, 27 May 2024 13:34:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 80 Message-ID: References: <784230795.738410383.969226.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <865152017.738528406.707825.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: Mon, 27 May 2024 22:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1a194732d77c7d5d013065420027fab8"; logging-data="230176"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IcNVjr/MwC6+vFK1mdXD6YlLxyOXbnMQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:iSFW9vgmND3SvSbZx35EPVvV7S8= In-Reply-To: <865152017.738528406.707825.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4250 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. > 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. > 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. > 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.