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Outdoor shots were always of poorer quality in those days. ALLO ALLO is where I learned that for the first time when I was a young lad.
She's by far the best Mina and closest to the book imo. In fact the production has the best Harker too, maybe the closest atmosphere and narrative to the book as well. The casting is overall excellent, except sadly and tragically for Dracula himself and Van Helsing.
Just out of interest what was wrong with Louis Jourdan's performance as Dracula would you say, @Ludovico? He's one of my favourite actors but maybe you feel he was miscast here?
He's a great actor, just not for Dracula. Too elegant, too suave. The Dracula of the novel is often feral, he's very much a warlord turned vampire and I don't see this in Jourdan. I know Lee was probably tired to play the Count at this time, but imagine him in the role, in the BBC production, with the look he had in the Jesus Franco version (albeit wearing Jourdan's outfit). Finlay was equally miscast as Van Helsing, although I can't think of an actor who could have played him. An aged Albert Finney or Brian Blessed perhaps? Paul Scofield?
I think Lee would've done this film regardless. It'd probably be my favorite adaptation with Lee made up as Stoker decribed. I don't mind Finlay as Van Helsing, but I do prefer most others.
One more rant: I ordered another copy of this COUNT DRACULA online... at a reasonable price. Then the seller refunded me promptly as the DVD had been lost.
UUGHH!
Depeche Mode is one of my favorite bands. I love their first 8 albums, particularly Some Great Reward through Songs of Faith and Devotion. Tons of great tracks I listen to all the time. It was pretty exciting to see them recently announce a new album + tour happening next year.
I’m not a big concert guy. Only been to a handful in my life even though I love a lot of music. I was hopeful for a possible opportunity to see DM, even though it would have entailed a long drive and probably lots of pains to make it happen. But when I saw the ticket prices, it was just an instant not-happening thing. I could barely believe how much even bad seats are going for. A lot of fans like me are working class, not rich people, and though among the most passionate, these things are just not justifiable for us to be able to support financially.
The economy sucks right now. Not being able to get to see a favorite band in concert is the least of the issues, though it does stand out to me how sad it is that it’s getting harder and harder for the average American to even consume entertainment now; people like me can’t be part of the action anymore when it gets this wild. Making ends meet is the main priority, and most of all I’m just hoping I’ll always be able to afford food and basic bills. The future is scarily bleak with money…
I know that the biggest concert arrangers here have been bought up by huge foreign capital funds over the last couple of years, and so this is what happens. I suspect it s the same most other places.
That sucks, no pun intended.
Maybe, but for such production, probably the closest we had from the novel (and even the shoddy fx and the low budget feel of some settings actually strengthen it), I would have rather had an actor much closer to the Dracula of the novel, in physique and demeanour. Nowadays I'd cast Jason Isaacs or Ralph Fiennes, I think they'd both be great.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63155169.amp
Indonesia football disaster: Six face criminal charges over stadium crush
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63168464.amp
... which is nothing compared to a certain country with more than one weapon per person. So the gold medal to mass shootings cannot go to Thailand but remains in the hands of another developing country.
A pile full of activities!
I see people skipping that all the time if there are no other cars around, as if pedestrians and cyclist have no interest in wether the cars around them are making a turn.
True too. Pedestrians -- and I am one for most of my trajectory -- are often ignored as well.
Once unpacked it looked alright, and assembling the base of the table was no trouble. When mounting the base to the tabletop however, everything went wrong. The base was mounted to a square metal plate which was to be placed into a corresponding square spot cut into the board of the table. It was a little bit of an awkward fit, but like when assembling the base, I expected that fastening the screws with the hex key would make the base go into place. I didn't take many turns with the hex key – the table base only halfway fastened at this point – until I hard a minor cracking sort of sound which is easy to mistake for the base setting into place. Having paid for an expensive piece of furniture, I took no chances and unscrewed the base. To my shock and horror the inner board which the veneer is applied to had cracked, making a bulge which now makes it impossible to mount the base! In other words, the table is useless, and didn't even make it through careful assembly…
I now have to email the webshop I ordered the table from, and see if I can return the damn table and get a refund. If not, I've paid for a pricy piece of furniture (from a well-known designer brand mind) which will only end up being thrown away at the local recycling station.
I fully agree. Same here. Not that it's really critical (I mean: no long queues) out in the country where I live, but it's a definite nuisance.
Had something similar happen. We even went with solid wood (Sheesham, not mahogany ^^) to have a higher chance of not having problems with the material and when it arrived the tabletop was warped, because the logistics company had stored and transported it on it's side and not flat. After corresponding with the manufacturer, we decided to keep the table and accept a big rebate instead of a replacement, because they would obviously throw the whole table away and we didn't want that. And now we have a slightly sloped dining table on which you have to kind of have to know where to place plates to not have them wobble when cutting something... Only slightly annoying, but still annoying.
God how upset I am
Last year I got an x box one x
Which I assumed was an x box series x
I plopped down 100 bucks on Gotham knights deluxe edition
Put it in the console only for me to see nope the game doesn’t work
Sigh I in all honesty I don’t blame Amanda for getting me the wrong console I blame myself for not doing the right research
Oh well at least have the game for whenever I buy the console
And at least the other three games that will be x box series x exclusives
Project 007
Splinter cell
Indianna jones and the search for a good follow up to emperors tomb
Are all slow in development
@NickTwentyTwo :))
Xbox is Microsoft's Playstation. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo make the primary video game consoles; Xbox is just Microsoft's series of consoles.
I've watched some professional Tetris competitions and it is intense as hell.
And my experience with moving characters is stuck with Leisure Suit Larry, I'm afraid.