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Christmas Horror Marathon #21 Dracula Untold (2014) The origin story of how a Transylvanian ruler, Vlad III, became known as Vlad the Impaler and finally Dracula. I've read Bram Stoker's novel of Dracula countless times over the years. I was quite infatuated by it as a kid and constantly read and reread an illustrated book from M&S that i was given one Christmas Day along with a similar publication of Frankenstein. I saved this film to watch Christmas week as i really wanted to like it and felt sure i would. Alas Dracula Untold is a CGI mess. Battle scenes are poorly edited and no excitement or tension is ever apparent. I did like Luke Evans as Vlad / Dracula. He fit the part quite well and had the look of a battle hardened leader of men rather than the smooth, sinister vampire seen in every other Dracula movie. 'Tis such a pity Evans was let down by a poor script and such an over reliance on computer effects that any acting performances soon got lost in the blur of green screen. It's also a film that lacks horror, or indeed danger of any kind. Vampire films should not be this anaemic. Clearly Dracula Untold was seen as a way of rebooting the Dracula legend to the big screen and an attempt to create an origin story that would give Marvel and DC a run for their money. The final scene suggests any possible sequel would be set in present day London and is actually a delightful prologue and the best part of the film. It might yet happen as the film earned three times it's $70m production budget. As it stands, Dracula Untold is a film that should get the blood pumping but instead just sucks the life out of you. |
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Percy's Progress (1974) When the worlds water supply is contaminated and makes men impotent, Percy, the worlds first penis transplant patient, fresh from a year at sea drinking nothing but champagne, suddenly warrants the attention of the British government and every amorous young woman in the world. This British sex comedy co-written by Harry H Corbett, who also has a major role as the Harold Wilson like British prime minister, is a bit of a riot. It's certainly funny and has many laugh out loud lines. In fact the dialogue is funnier than the situations. The film has a cast to die for as far as British cinema is concerned. As well as Corbett we also are treated to turns from Judy Geeson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Madeline Smith, Alan Lake, Carol Hawkins, TP McKenna, Barry Humphreys, Anthony Andrews, James Booth, Bernard Lee, Ronald Fraser, Julie Ege, Jenny Hanley and Vincent Price. Not to mention Leigh Lawson as the well endowed Percy. Whilst the film occasionally seems to play out as a series of sketches it works and it's a joy doing a who's who? of saucy Brit cinema of the 70's. Seriously,following this, Dracula Untold didn't stand a chance. |
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Well wolfen has something going for it as I keep coming back. I suppose since strictly speaking the creatures are not werewolves as such that I may have been a little unfair, though given it came out 1981, the same year as American Werwwolf and the Howling that its not coincidence this got greenlit. I personally have always found the other two films more consistently entertaining, however there's enough there in the film that keeps drawing me back.
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What Films Have You Seen Recently? ImageUploadedByTapatalk1451333595.889444.jpg My third viewing and it just gets better every time. I've not enjoyed a film so much in decades. It gets everything right that the prequels got wrong. As mentioned before fantastic practical effects, real locations no green screen crap and characters that you care for some thing that I can't say about the prequels, even main characters like obi wan, anakin and padme I just didn't care for, not here even after one movie, you care about the new characters introduced. Every scene with Han and Chewie is comic gold 10/10 Well I'm going to keep in the Star Wars mode and rewatch the original trilogy again Last edited by trebor8273; 28th December 2015 at 07:24 PM. |
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We've just finished (over the last 2 days) re-watching the original trilogy, albeit the "George Lucas Shits on your Childhood" editions because we watched the original versions last time. It really doesn't matter how many times I watch them, they're still absolute classics. I think I'd rank the new one 2nd after Empire, and that's after just one viewing (so far)
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