Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Bram Stoker's Dracula, 2010-08-30
Great movie, lots of suspense, good story line, and good acting on the part of everyone in the movie. Anthony Hopkins is always excellent.

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Awful, 2010-08-24
This plodding movie makes a dog's breakfast out of the original book. Either FFC should have ventured to tell his own Dracula story, or he should have stuck with the book, but what he does here is mess up the plot so badly that anyone who has read the original book cannot help but chuckle. He also completely contrives a relationship between Dracula and Mina (not in the book) and makes everything very sexual (esp. Lucy). Do we have to see her nipples every chance FFC gets? Keanu Reeves is awful too. It's a bad product..... br /

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Old Gold Strikes!, 2010-08-15
Thought I'd take a moment to share my experience of this re-packaged DVD entitled "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by F.F. Coppola. First of all, if you've been sitting on a fence about getting a DVD copy of this film, this is the ONE to buy! br / I remember passing this up in the theater and watching about the first 30 minutes on TBS and thinking "Glad I didn't pay money to see that . . ." Now I've been slowly building a collection of DVD's seeings how vhs tape has been declared obsolete and just started getting some classic horror flicks together like Frankenstein, Wolfie, and the gang but one of my big deals is that I'll usually skip a DVD if it does not include Special Features like how they made the movie and this is the first standard DVD of this flick that includes that and MUCH more. br / Not sure if these features were pre-existing or put together for this release, but they clearly explain how these types of old monster movies were originally constructed and specifically this one. Once I watched those and then the movie(or visa versa)I had a totally new found respect for this film(in widescreen of course)! br / The transfer is flawless and a real treat. The movie is just over 2hrs 07min but goes much quicker without the commercials and bad editing! It may be a tad pricey for a '92 film but, if you really love classic horror movies AND how they made 'em, this is actually worth the money! I'll be watching this every Halloween along with repackaged versions of Frankie and the Wolfman from now on, thank you.

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A dark epic!, 2010-07-30
br / br /In the medieval ages of Transylvania, Captain Vlad (Gary Oldman) was a Christian knight who defended God's church until he found out his former love (Winoa Ryder) died until he renounces his faith to come back as a servant of Satan called Dracula where he will bring death and vampirism to Europe. Years later in 1897, London lawyer Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) heads to Transylvania to do paperwork for Count Dracula that is until he becomes his prisoner especially for the sexy minions. Dracula travels to London in search for fresh blood until he sees a lovely woman who happens to be Jonathan's fiancee Mina (Wiyona Ryder) who resembles his old love. Once he bites Mina's lovely friend Lucy (Sadie Frost) she becomes damned and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) must try to track down the prince of darkness. br / br /A faithful and unique adaptation of Bram Stoker's timeless novel is one of the better Dracula movies even though both "Dracula (1931)" and "Nosferatu (1922)" with "Horror of Dracula" are the best Dracula movies ever this is good in it's own right as is 1973's version, 1979's version and 1970's Jess Franco's version. The film co-stars Cary Elwes, Richard Grant, Bill Campbell and Tom Waits with Monica Bellucci this version is hypnotic, stylish and exciting. The film does get gory at times and has some sleaze but i gotta say that director Francis Ford Coppola grew up with the story as he gave his devotion to it. Though i still think Reeves is kind of miscasted as Jonathan but the rest of the cast is solid as this is a poetic adaptation that appeals to vampire film fanatics. br / br /This Blu-Ray offers the movie in a sharper and better looking version than ever with perfect sound with great extras like featurettes, a introduction by Mr. Coppola and commentary by him, deleted scenes plus teaser and trailers to this movie.

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A Farce, 2010-07-26
Coppola gets back to his B-movie, soft-porn roots. This movie is absurd in every respect. Nevermind that it's a bastardazation of Bram Stoker's work; the real problems of this film are in the execution. The horrible acting, the campy sets, the Rocky Horror/ MTV costumes, the forced dialoge, the disjointed scenes, the random meaningless occurances... the whole thing comes across as parody! Throw in a few one-liners and this could be passed off as a Mel Brooks movie. Ugh!