noiseredux October horror film spooktacular 2012

[dsheinem]

Just saw Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time. What a beautiful mess. I'm hard pressed to think of another horror film with so many amazing scenes (everything with Hopkins and with Waits was OMG awesome) that also suffers from such storytelling problems. Still, it looks fantastic and In the final balance I quite liked it. Most of the England-based scenes are excellent and the acting is generally sharp, but there seems to be too many ideas, too many editing problems, and likely too many egos at work. I'm not shocked this was FFC's first post Godfather 3 film...

How do you feel about Keanu Reeves's attempt at a british accent?

noticed how I qualified the acting as "generally" sharp?

[dsheinem]

Just saw Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time. What a beautiful mess.

finally... another we can agree on.

I bet we agree on more than you think.

[Michi]

What a beautiful mess.

Yes. Yes, indeed.

[dsheinem]

and now for some comic relief:

[Michi]

and now for some comic relief:

Adorable.

[noiseredux]

that kid's got great taste in music.

[Luke]

What a beautiful mess.

Did you just rip off my CLOUD ATLAS review?

[dsheinem]

What a beautiful mess.

Did you just rip off my CLOUD ATLAS review?

I'm pretty sure that's a standard expression...

[BurningDoom]

Just saw Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time. What a beautiful mess. I'm hard pressed to think of another horror film with so many amazing scenes (everything with Hopkins and with Waits was OMG awesome) that also suffers from such storytelling problems. Still, it looks fantastic and In the final balance I quite liked it. Most of the England-based scenes are excellent and the acting is generally sharp, but there seems to be too many ideas, too many editing problems, and likely too many egos at work. I'm not shocked this was FFC's first post Godfather 3 film...

That red, muscular looking armor at the beginning of the movie is mostly what I remember from seeing that movie as a little kid. I remember thinking it looked really cool. Does still look cool? Or was that just my flawed little kid mentality?

[Michi]

That red, muscular looking armor at the beginning of the movie is mostly what I remember from seeing that movie as a little kid. I remember thinking it looked really cool. Does still look cool? Or was that just my flawed little kid mentality?

I always thought of that armor as creepy, myself. No doubt though, that it is a very striking image. Along with that, the other two images that stand out clearest in my mind are Oldman's hairdo near the begining of the film and then him walking around in that gray suite.



Admittedly, that last one isn't necessarily memorable, in fact it's down right plain, but for some reason it sticks out for me.