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docsilence said:
So I saw Van Helsing was leaving Netflix on the 30th and realized I never actually saw it start to finish. I honestly cannot tell if it was supposed to be a comedy or if it devolved into a comedy or if something happened to the script in translation. I mean it was fun, but it felt like a movie confused by ITSELF.
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Ugh. I went into that movie SO excited. The sets and costumes in the previews looked amazing, and I was SO thrilled to have the classic Universal Monsters all in a film together again for the first time in decades. I went into that theater with the enthusiasm of a ten year old, and left with the jaded, cynical attitude of a 30 year veteran police detective.
docsilence said:
Almost every other role felt like a waste of talent and then Dracula is like "did the director cast his cousin?" How did they cast someone with so little charisma as the sexiest monster in literary history?
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Seriously...there have been some bad Dracula portrayals throughout the history of cinema, but this one....how do you make him SO boring?
AceofKnaves said:
Oof. That Van Helsing movie hurt my feelings. That should have been my favorite movie of all time, but it’s really only notable for having one of thee absolutely worst Draculas of all time.
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Yeah, and people who know my taste always ask me if I've seen it, and are shocked when I tell them I rate it about the same as I do Batman & Robin. I struggle to think of a Dracula who is worse...I mean even Adam Sandler did a better job, and that is really saying something!
 
TheGillMan said:
I struggle to think of a Dracula who is worse.
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There is one:
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AceofKnaves said:
There is one:
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Oh man! That is one Dracula movie I have skipped in my various viewings, mainly because it has SUCH a reputation for being terrible. Part of me wants to watch it out of sheer curiosity and humor, but I just haven't been able to muster the strength to subject my nerves to such a travesty.
 
Oh man, is that Dracula vs. Frankenstein? I still have to see that.

I just went to a 35mm horror event over the weekend - Superstition, House by the Cemetery, City of the Living Dead, and Evil Dead '81. I'd seen the Fulci ones on 35 before, but I finally got to check the first Evil Dead off my theater bucket list, which was great. I've seen II and AoD on 35mm before, it's nice to have that sense of completion there.
 
Watched The 'Burbs for the first time tonight. It's a good fit for the atmospheric fantasy we were discussing in the Movie News and Discussion thread. It's never scary, but it does strike those Halloween chords.

For a silly/cute '80s movie, the Tom Hanks monologue at the end is shockingly relevant to this day.
 
Got around to watching 28 Years Later yesterday as my treadmill watch. I can see why people were saying it doesn't feel like a complete film, but I felt like it was a very simple story ("boy wants to help mom") as the skeletal backbone for an exploration of what happens when mankind abandons mankind to a horrific fate. It's the first zombie movie that got tears out of me that I can remember. Fiennes casually steals every moment he's on screen with a kind of gentle kindness that does not belong in that world, but also is the type of person who can survive in it, because he knows the value of things, and he knows that things are both eternal and cannot last. It's really a film about how people are people, and they'll still be people at the end of the world, doing what we do in our fallible ways.

And Danny Boyle does that thing that he does visually that triggers some deeper part of my brain toward unease and panic in a lot of the scenes. Not jump scares, just a layering of sonic and visual dissonance that sets my teeth on edge and makes my fight or flight instinct kick in.
 
Today we introduced the girls to the magic of E.T. My 8 year old wasn't interested when I told her about it but when we paused it to put on jammies with 20 min left, she rushed right back. It got pretty intense for them when the scientists came to the house, had to fast forward a bit, but they were into it.

Personally, it's been a while since I've seen it. Form the moment those 80s kids mounted those bikes and all the way to the end, it was all feels.
 
akajomiha said:
Finally got around to watching the new Naked Gun. It was fun and oddly prescient for how absurd it was.
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My wife and I watched it, I think last week. We both grew up watching the originals, so we had to check it out. Yeah, we both liked it a lot. It was exactly as funny and stupid as it should have been. One of those movies that you knew exactly what they were going for, you knew what to expect, and it delivered on both.
 
joshsquash729 said:
Wasn't expecting to like the new Naked Gun as much as I did. Worried that all the best jokes were saved for the trailer (and even then, after seeing it once, the laughs kinda wore off), but I was glad to be proven wrong. I love me some absurdist humor, so that snowman bit in the middle really got me.
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I think the biggest issue with absurdist humor in general is that it wears off quickly. I don't think MOST of those types of movies hold up over repeated viewings. I know some people get super upset with me about this; but I really don't think any Monty Python skits or films hold up to more than two viewings before they just stop being funny. No different from how a thriller mostly stops being thrilling when you've seen it before and know what's going to happen.
 
Damien said:
I think the biggest issue with absurdist humor in general is that it wears off quickly. I don't think MOST of those types of movies hold up over repeated viewings. I know some people get super upset with me about this; but I really don't think any Monty Python skits or films hold up to more than two viewings before they just stop being funny. No different from how a thriller mostly stops being thrilling when you've seen it before and know what's going to happen.
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I don't disagree, per se. For me, it depends how often I watch something and why I watch it. Especially in regards to humor- the delivery is just as important as the joke itself, so if I love the delivery, it can still get me, or if it's been a while since I watched it last. Or if I show it to a friend who hasn't seen it, I can feed off their energy. Others, like a lot of Monty Python stuff, I agree- it stops being "funny" at a point, but I can more often than not still appreciate it for what it is, and it still makes me happy. Non-humor things too; can't tell you how many times I've fooled myself into thinking I've seen it all with Ledger's Joker performance, only to throw on The Dark Knight and be wowed by his performance all over again. Mindset plays a big part too, I think; a bad day often equates to a less enjoyable viewing experience, and vice versa.

Then again, with my ADHD, I'm just quite easily pleased in general. Some things never get old. 😅
 
joshsquash729 said:
Then again, with my ADHD, I'm just quite easily pleased in general. Some things never get old. 😅
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I also have ADHD, but I think that is a bit different. I can watch the same movie over and over again. That's a sensory and dopamine thing. But they don't have the same impact after the first (or sometimes second/third) viewing. Now it's more like comfort food. You're not eating it for the new taste, you're eating it because you know you like it.
As a teen, I watched Happy Gilmore like a dozen or more times. But I don't think I ever laughed at it the way I did the first and maybe second time. After that I still enjoy it, but it's different.
 
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