NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/vampyres/1476

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Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
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From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:14:53 MST
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|> Why are people so pathetic?  And this is not meant to criticize anyone
|> personally or to say that FFC's Dracula was the best movie of all time or
|> anything.  But it seems like it's the trendy thing to do to anticipate this
|> movie as if it were the Second Coming, and then to say it was the worst piece
|> of trash ever after seeing it.  Kind of like when it becomes trendy to
|> criticize trendiness.  Or when people want to look "different" so they pierce
|> various body parts, dye their hair various colors, and wear MC's with
|> white-out all over them, so they all end up looking the same!  Which is not to
|> say that such a look is not appealing, either... it's just that it seems like
|> it's becoming "cool" to criticize the film, to be like, "Well, I'm a REAL
|> vampire fanatic, so of course it couldn't live up to MY expectations" kind of
|> thing.  I happened to adore the movie, some people might not, whatever.  But
|> I'm sure tyhis bulletin could be put to much better use than WHINING about
|> it!!!

Based on the fact that many of the critics has supported their
beliefs, some in great detail (and having seen the movie I know they
are correct), failure of the movie goes way beyond just a kind of
wanting to agree with everyone by criticizing it.

Movie sucked.
            - Jeff