BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA Movie Review (1992) Schlockmeisters
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This video is very good timing because Francis Ford Coppola's new movie Megalopolis comes out this year!
Is that movie actually going to be seen by the public? I heard they were having a hard time finding a distributor.
I need to watch this one again, have you seen Dracula Dead and loving it?
Little bits of it, long ago!
@@schlockmeisters618 After seeing this now, I get most of the jokes now where they got it from lol in Dead and Loving It
Cool flik.
Yes it is. I plan to watch it again soon.
I absolutely LOATHED this movie. I felt that it was so over the top, it comes across as more of a parody than Mel Brooks' Dead and Loving It. Which I also hated. Best Dracula parody is still Love at First Bite.
And this is the one time I thought Gary Oldman simply didn't come across all that well. He looks like a clown, especially in the early scenes, and seemed to me very uncertain in the role. In my opinion, Oldman is never really convincing as Dracula. Bela Lugosi is more iconic, and Christopher Lee is more monstrous, even when the movies around them aren't worthy. Not once is Oldman's Dracula truly threatening - he simply looks laughable when he tries. Especially when you compare his performance against Lugosi or Lee, who ALWAYS came across as genuine threats. What the heck they were doing with that "old man" hairdo in the beginning, I will never know. I will acknowledge that Oldman looks better once Dracula regains his youth, but I still couldn't take him seriously.
Clearly, this was intended to make Dracula a romantic threat, rather than a physical threat - and I blame Frank Langella's Dracula for THAT trend - but that is truly a stupid idea. And it didn't work very well at all because the Mina/Dracula relationship is no more believable than anything else.
And everyone complains about Keanu's accent, but in my opinion, Winona Ryder's isn't any better - and, truthfully, it's even less consistent. At least Keanu is in there trying.
Still, we've got a very young Monica Bellucci as one of Dracula's Brides, and this is one of the few Dracula films to actually include the character of Quincey Morris. They don't give him much to do, but he's there. So, progress?
On a side note, Fred Saberhagen wrote a series of novels focusing on a more sympathetic Dracula - the first of which is my favorite, The Dracula Tape, in which Dracula himself narrates his own story (remember, Stoker tells the story through everyone else's diary entries - we don't get Dracula's point of view at all). And, yes, Dracula Tape actually does focus on a romantic relationship between Dracula and Mina, but it's a hell of a lot better than Coppola's monstrosity! I almost want to see a film version someday. Seriously, if you haven't read Saberhagen's Dracula series, you should - because they are superb.
I've actually read about those books. And I am interested in them. I haven't been a regular reader in years. And I miss it!