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2 stars out of 5, in my humble opinion.
Oh dear, glad I didn't see in the cinema then.
episodes, which I watched yesterday. ( so a sort of long film). Great Sci-Fi
Story, very much in the old tradition of Quatermass.
Sad to say they stopped making Torchwood, Pity as it was a great show.
Dennis Weaver is terrific in it.
Same here. Lincoln is one of my best all-time movie, along with OHMSS and CR.
I have to dissagree. 2nd best movie I saw in 2015 right after Specter, of course.
You haven't watched Mad Max Fury Road yet? 2nd best movie I saw in 2015 right after Spectre. ;-)
Still enjoy this movie. :D
All I kept thinking of was James Bond in the old west. Makes me want to see somebody do a Spectre mashup of Craig in Cowboys and Aliens and Waltz in Django. :))
I plan on doing it sometime. :P I just need some good editing software.
Have to say least favourite of the original trilogy - and a glimpse of things to come. Ewoks ffs! And the awful tinkering at the end with putting CH face over the original actor, just hideous!
Wow, they really did that? I was pissed when they removed the human Jabba from the first film and replaced him with that monsterworm.
Mothra Vs. Godzilla : First meeting between two Toho monsters with their own movies. And what a battle that was.
Godzilla : King of the Monsters : the "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead" of the Godzilla franchise. Why the distributor felt the need to add an american actor and american-filmed scenes in a movie that stood so brillantly on its own, I'll never know. But most of the time, it works. One can believe that the reporter witnessed the events of the movie. On the other hand, the fact that he happened to be a friend of Serizawa, I find a bit hrd to believe.
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster: first apperance of the titular dragon, and the best battle between monsters so far.
Godzilla vs. Monster Zero :Godzilla's victory dance was a jump the shark moment if there ever was one. . Still entertaining, thugh.
Lady Snowblood : although quite good (and Meiko Kaji gives a performance on a par with her "Female Prisoner Scorpion"), I do prefer the manga, which has a lot more details added to it (and a lot more nudity ;)
The Pirates : Aardman Studios in great form. Lots to be enjoyed in that movie.
More recently, watched "The Battle of the Five Armies", in the extended edition, and loved it. Now to find the time to see the six movies back to back....
Agreed. Kirk Douglas finest as well.
Double agree. A superb piece of film-making.
The ending with the german girl (Kubrick's wife I believe) singing, gets me every time.
Here's a review of the film I posted several years ago. ;-)
And here's a film I watched the other day:
Dracula Untold (2014)
One of the big ironies involving Dracula is that while some maintain that the original Stoker novel is unfilmable, hardly any book has even been subjected to more adaptations in the past 90+ years than Dracula! In fact, ever since Universal began using elements from the novel - I should say the stage play based on the novel - for films such as Dracula's daughter, Son of Dracula and House of Dracula in the 30s and 40s, it became obvious that Hollywood was going to make Dracula bigger than Stoker had ever intended. Hammer put their own spin on Dracula; so did Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. Black Draculas, female Draculas, cartoon Draculas... all sorts of Dracula incarnations came to life. Marvel Comics brought Dracula to the world of Blade, the X-Men, ... DC Comics would allow Batman some alone-time with the fiercest of all vampires. Writers went looking for prequel, sequel and sidequel stories to Stoker's book everywhere, even in the realms of Sci-fi horror in space and straight-up porn.
One of the more recent angles that filmmakers have begun to explore is the "true" story of Vlad the Impaler, taking us back to the dark ages of the Turks versus whoever rather than to Transylvania. The television production Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula is one of those attempts at delaying the vampire stuff as long as possible in favour of a more historically correct (?) account of the man who would be Dracula. But do we really want to see that? Besides a few books and essays here and there on the origin of Dracula, what we really know about Vlad the Impaler in connection with Dracula is paper-thin and in fact it is largely believed that Stoker was merely inspired by the man but had no intentions of using the historical Vlad directly as a character. In the end, we want to see the vampire, not the political or military leader.
Gary Shore's Dracula Untold tries to do a bit of both. While it does start with a young and vital Vlad, the film quickly turns to darker places where Charles Dance as an old vampire gives Vlad an inhuman strength that will allow him to defeat his enemies in a spectacular rage. Traditional elements like silver, garlic and crosses are severely downplayed but overall there's enough vampire lore worked into the story to satisfy the purists.
Luke Evans isn't exactly the first name that comes to mind if anyone says Dracula, but he's quite serviceable opposite the film's biggest baddie, Dominic Cooper. Unfortunately they do a lot of talking in a film that's barely 90 minutes long. But when the action comes, I find Dracula Untold really paying off. The visuals can't compete with the more expensive blockbusters of the day but the stuff that Vlad does when he's in full 'bats' mode looks rather good. Also, Dracula Untold ends on a rather interesting note. It has been speculated that "some day" we might see a sequel to this film; if so, I hope said sequel picks up where the final scene of the film leaves us, and not in the Middle Ages.
As a Dracula fan I try to read and watch as much as I can concerning Dracula, knowing very well that a lot of what's available is neither worth the time nor the money. Dracula Untold, in that sense, felt like obligatory homework when I started watching the movie but grew on me in the short hour or so that spans the second and third act. It's far from a splendid movie but it gets a pass from this Dracula fan and that's saying something. ;-) Not sure YOU want to put your teeth into Dracula Untold but the blood is sweet enough, I promise.
Still, I'd prefer if movies didn't go back to the days of Vlad the Impaler. I find most of that stuff relatively uninteresting to be honest. Coppola did it well in his prologue but at least he kept it a prologue. I prefer to see Dracula as a man from a distant past who tries to infiltrate "modern" society, be it the late eighteen hundreds, present day or even the future. I enjoy Dracula more as a mysterious harbinger of death who has found immortality in ways unknown to us, rather than as a young and vulnerable man who is shown to pick up 'vampirism' from another, more ancient kind. The more we get revealed to us about Dracula's origin, the less awesome he becomes IMO. In fact, I'd rather not see the man behind the fangs but the devil in the man's body. When Gary Oldman's Dracula makes love to Mina in Bram Stoker's Dracula, I love the confusion of romance and a dark satanic crime about to happen. Dracula Untold, by contrast, takes me on the path of a man I must, according to the script, sympathise with - almost to the point where his vampirism is a blessing and not a curse. That very thing might have been original by the way, if it hadn't been for that recent Twilight vampires-can-be-nice BS taking a dump on the vampire genre. So again, Dracula Untold isn't bad but I don't need another one of these stories about Vlad the Impaler turning into Dracula. Much like I don't care about Bruce Wayne if we hardly ever (or never, thank you, Gotham the TV series) get to Batman, I don't really care about a film that keeps Dracula as an almost-there-but-not-yet concept during most of it.