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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2019 17:45:14 GMT -5
I'm stunned you saw that before Dracula! What can I say? I grew up in the era of Mystery Science Theater 3000. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2019 8:11:15 GMT -5
DRACULA 1931
I watched this movie at my friend's place who had a 65 inch plasma and it's designed to watch movies in Black and White and we watched this movie along with our girlfriends and enjoyed this classic horror movie that made in the early 30's. It was a masterpiece of one Bela Lugosi that portrayed the Count.
Mirror Scene
Best Scene
Creatures of the Night
We watched these three scenes about 3-4 times last night and they are the most memorable scenes in Dracula and that defined Bela's legacy as the Prince of Darkness. I got chills down my spines of that "Creatures" scene along with the two other scenes as well the Mirror scene is a must see scene and that alone really made this movie special.
It took us about nearly 3 hours to watch a 75 minutes movie because we took our time to enjoy it and treasured it. Edward Van Sloan who played Van Helsing was amazing and he and Bela made perfect chemistry and executed their lines right on the spot. Both David Manners (John Harker) and Dwight Frye (Renfield) were masters of their respective roles.
We all felt that these four actors: Lugosi, Van Sloan, Frye, and Helen Chandler as Mina did their roles so well that this movie will stands for the test of time and I believe that this movie will be still be talked about in 20, 30, and even 50 years from now because it is that good of a film. I really enjoyed watching it last night and can't believe that its took us three hours to watch a 75 minutes movie.
Bela rules as Dracula in style, grace, and prestige.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 10, 2019 19:02:54 GMT -5
The Addams Family  2019, MGM I've been a fan of the Addams Family since I was little, the mix of humor and slight horror was always a big hit for me so I was pumped to see that it was getting a new film especially as the character designs looked like they came right out of the original strips. And while I did love that look in action, and there were some great jokes(both visual and sarcastic one liners) the pacing was incredibly uneven. Part of me wonders if this would have been better served as a series of shorts rather than great character moments and gags strung together along a trite "we are better for our differences" coming of age story.
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Post by berkley on Oct 10, 2019 21:56:20 GMT -5
Watched John Carpenter's The Thing the night before last. I'd say it isn't really a remake of the 1951 movie, but just another, very different movie based on the same John W. Campbell story. It's actually much closer to the source material than the earlier film, though it still changes a lot of stuff. My first time seeing it, surprisingly for someone my age who is into this kind of stuff, and of course I thought it was really good. Hard to believe that more years have passed between it and our present time of 2019 than between the 1951 movie and it, because, while recognisably a relic of the 80s, it still looks and feels pretty modern. Of course the colour helps, but the acting and general atmosphere feel much closer to today than 1951 does to 1982.
Of course this feeling could be largely a byproduct of me happening to have grown up when I did, turning 20 in the early 80s. Come to think of it, I wish my earlier self had seen this at the theatre when it came out, because I'm sure that young person would have enjoyed it even more than this old one did watching it on tv the other night.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 10, 2019 22:17:44 GMT -5
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hobgoblins
A super low budget RIP-off of Gremlins, this one was so bad that Mike and the robots actually walked out of the theater in the middle of the film. Truly truly awful!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 5:31:23 GMT -5
Dracula A.D. 1972
It's a Hammer (Distributed by Warner Bros. Picture) Films Productions that I stayed up and watched this movie on TCM and this is by far the worst Dracula movie that I ever seen in my life. It was the first time that I seen it. After halfway through this movie; I stopped watching it period and took a nap instead. I'm not going to update my (on page 1) tally at all. This movie is worst Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee pairing of all time.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2019 7:40:26 GMT -5
Dracula A.D. 1972 It's a Hammer (Distributed by Warner Bros. Picture) Films Productions that I stayed up and watched this movie on TCM and this is by far the worst Dracula movie that I ever seen in my life. It was the first time that I seen it. After halfway through this movie; I stopped watching it period and took a nap instead. I'm not going to update my (on page 1) tally at all. This movie is worst Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee pairing of all time. I always found this one kind of fun, tacky as the concept was. Scars of Dracula is the only one from the Hammer series I just plain can't enjoy. Heck, I even like Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2019 7:42:05 GMT -5
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The first time I watched this film, I was utterly blown away by Barrymore's acting. Somehow though, I enjoy this one less upon repeated viewings. Still a good film, but not as outstanding as I remembered. I think I need to put myself in the historical context of 1920 to get the most out of it. If you compare both Barrymore's acting and the general production values of this film with anything else that had been produced up to that point, it's utterly groundbreaking.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 11, 2019 7:50:35 GMT -5
Watched John Carpenter's The Thing the night before last. I'd say it isn't really a remake of the 1951 movie, but just another, very different movie based on the same John W. Campbell story. It's actually much closer to the source material than the earlier film, though it still changes a lot of stuff. My first time seeing it, surprisingly for someone my age who is into this kind of stuff, and of course I thought it was really good. Hard to believe that more years have passed between it and our present time of 2019 than between the 1951 movie and it, because, while recognisably a relic of the 80s, it still looks and feels pretty modern. Of course the colour helps, but the acting and general atmosphere feel much closer to today than 1951 does to 1982. Of course this feeling could be largely a byproduct of me happening to have grown up when I did, turning 20 in the early 80s. Come to think of it, I wish my earlier self had seen this at the theatre when it came out, because I'm sure that young person would have enjoyed it even more than this old one did watching it on tv the other night. I've seen it twice on the big screen now, once at a midnight showing at the Coolidge Theater in Boston a few years back on Halloween and last year at a drive in. It's great on the small screen but ten times better on the big screen and an audience. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 9:10:30 GMT -5
Dracula A.D. 1972 It's a Hammer (Distributed by Warner Bros. Picture) Films Productions that I stayed up and watched this movie on TCM and this is by far the worst Dracula movie that I ever seen in my life. It was the first time that I seen it. After halfway through this movie; I stopped watching it period and took a nap instead. I'm not going to update my (on page 1) tally at all. This movie is worst Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee pairing of all time. I always found this one kind of fun, tacky as the concept was. Scars of Dracula is the only one from the Hammer series I just plain can't enjoy. Heck, I even like Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. You and I both can agree that the Scars of Dracula that I don't relate to. I haven't seen the Legion of the Seven Golden Vampires neither. Matter of facts, I don't know anything about it. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 9:13:25 GMT -5
thwhtguardian ... John Carpenter's The Thing is not made for TV viewing, better on the big screen and an audience to boot.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2019 11:36:41 GMT -5
I haven't seen the Legion of the Seven Golden Vampires neither. Matter of facts, I don't know anything about it. It's the final film set in Hammer's Dracula continuity. No Dracula, no Christopher Lee, but Peter Cushing is back, working with kung fu masters to fight kung fu vampires in China. It's so ridiculous, and yet tremendous fun! |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2019 11:39:33 GMT -5
The Devil Bat (1940)
There isn't all that much worth discussing about this poverty row film. The acting is surprisingly good, but the story itself is absurd, as a chemist who believes he was wronged uses a new shaving cream to mark his victims for death by the fangs of a giant bat he has created through radiation. What I do love about this film is how much time it gives Bela to monologue, as well as play different facades as both a kindly inventor and a man torn apart by a yearning for revenge.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 11, 2019 12:25:25 GMT -5
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Barely a horror film, really. It's a serial starring a mad scientist committing crimes, but he IS a mad scientist, it IS Bela Lugosi, and he builds a creepy robot and turns himself invisible, so there's a horror element or two thrown in there. I keep trying to like this one, as I like classic movie serials and I LOVE Bela, but this one just doesn't do much for me. I own the full serial but have given up on trying to watch it, settling for the briefer version cut together for feature film release. Nearly done with it now as I type this, but the fact that I'm typing this WHILE watching tells you how much I'm not enjoying it. Oh well. It all sounds so good on paper.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 12:38:59 GMT -5
I haven't seen the Legion of the Seven Golden Vampires neither. Matter of facts, I don't know anything about it. It's the final film set in Hammer's Dracula continuity. No Dracula, no Christopher Lee, but Peter Cushing is back, working with kung fu masters to fight kung fu vampires in China. It's so ridiculous, and yet tremendous fun! Worth checking out, and thanks for the short description here. |
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