I've always wanted to like this movie but it just never happens. I watch it every 5 years or so and am disappointed every time.

I really enjoyed the movie when it first came out and own the BD today. Even paid the $100 for the Criterion LD back in the day. I saw it with a friend in the theater and he was bitter at it being tagged "Bram Stokers Dracula" because of deviations from the book in his mind. Oh well, I enjoyed it. Except for Keanu, annoying portrayal but brilliant costumes and cinematography.

1) The hair changing color is directly taken from the book. 2) It's part of public consciousness, and has been for a couple thousand years, that your hair turns white from fright. Didn't need to be pointed out.

Same way I remember it.

Agreed. I remember walking out of the theater and commenting on how the American public was supporting an art film, without them realizing it.

Personally loved it the first time I saw it in the theater. I was a big Coppola fan and was really rooting for him after Godfather 3 (which I loved as well).

I think the reason I really admired the film was due to the use of physical & practical visual effects (such as the shadows, the cameras rigged upside down, scenes shot backwards), and not relying too much of on computer-generated effects.

I remember getting the $125 Criterion LD for $39? because the mismarked the CAV version for the CLV version!

Wow, lasergeektalk.

I remember when this hit theaters, I was in 6th grade. My parents forbade me from seeing it, but one of my friends went with his older brother and he told us about all the good stuff. The film became a legend in my mind until I was finally able to rent it on VHS without my parents knowing. I totally dug it, still do.

There were some nice boobies in this movie!

I bought the Criterion laserdisc for $49.99 and the special edition 2 disc CLV for $34.99. Good times those were.

I remember nothing but good reviews by the press.
Only Reeves got his usual reviews for his performance.
Only thing that stuck out in my mind was A. Hopkins performance.
I didn't like it. He played it too like campy.

That seems like a lot of money to spend on one movie and still call those "good times."

Enjoyable, visually stunning, good, not great. I saw it in theaters and dug it. Haven't seen it in a few years but I'll get around to it.

Winona and Keanu were BEYOND FUCKING AWFUL. Every scene they were in was ruined by their shitty performances.

Sadie Frost was beyond fucking hawt. As was Bellucci, natch.

The $50 Criterion was the CHEAP barebones version of the laserdisc. Criterion also has the $125 version which allowed for crystal clear individual still frames without a special player and had cool stuff like a scene-editing workshop which was pretty cool back in those days. One of my fave laserdiscs.

As for the movie, I'll admit I saw it mostly because I had a crush on Winona back then, but I really did end up enjoying it since it seemed so different as a movie with the sets, effects and general flow. Oldman was damn cool as Dracula and the score was so powerful, especially during the storm scene on the ship. Keanu's bad acting just added to the charm of the movie for me. And oh yeah, a lot of boobies didn't hurt it too much either.

That's why I was so excited when I found the $125 CAV version for $49.99. Never bothered on the CLV as I had too many versions of this movie already. I did really like the editing workshop. Makes me wonder why we never saw more of this.

Like what a better death scene?
GODFATHER 3 blows. Sophia was not the problem. Why she gets the bad press instead of the goof who played Michael's son. An opera singer what a great character.

How about we just blame FFC instead of anybody else? He buckled under Paramount and gave a crap job. And yet it still got nominated for Best Pic, just cuz it was Godfather.

OK so I just watched Coppola's version of Dracula for second time in like 10 years and enjoyed it. I have some questions though....

(crazy spoilers)

1)How was Dracula able to turn himself young again? Why didn't he do it from the beginning of the movie?

2)When Dracula turned into a wolf and attacked Lucy for the first time, there is a quick shot of what appears to be him "sexing" her up. Was he really fucking Lucy or did he just bite her?

3)Why was Johnathan so hell bent of escaping the Drac's castle? Why didn't he want to stay the full month?

4)Am I the only one that, if Johnathan's shoes, would have chosen to fuck all three of Drac's dames? I mean I had a raging boner during that scene. Why choose Mina when you can have three hot Vampire chicks lusting after you all night every night?

5)Let's assume Harker *did* decide to fuck the three brides....would that mean he'd of turned into a vampire also?

.....wow.

6) Was Keanu Reeves woefully miscast in this movie, or what? Perhaps I should correct that to "whoa-fully" miscast, dude.

Are you talking to me?

1) He was living in an isolated castle, and sort of started letting himself go. When he saw Winona Ryder's picture, he wanted to tap that ass, so he went all metrosexual.

2) He was fucking her.

3) Because Dracula was going to kill him.

4) Because the three vampire chicks were going to kill him.

5) They would have killed him.

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