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- From: thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance)
- Subject: I Went to _Dracula_ and it Wasn't Very Good
- Message-ID: <thaaang.721982812@cwis>
- Keywords: WINONA!!! (but nothing else of interest)
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:46:52 GMT
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- Spoilers. Not that there's anything to ruin...
-
- Went to see it tonight. This is one of those rare movies I really
- got excited about, because it took Winona (definitely one of my
- favorite actors) and put her in a role unlike any other she'd
- done before. I was hoping she'd prove herself wonderful, and show
- that her range went beyond the wry troubled teen type. She was
- really good, and I was very glad.
- But the rest of the movie really sucked eggs. I've been reading
- the original version, and have been enjoying it immensely, but it's
- been destroyed by whoeverthefuckdirectedit. It didn't go anywhere;
- it was just a confusing mix of sex, period stuff, and comedy. No
- blend, and (what really surprised me) no suspense or horror. And
- the romance between Mina and Dracula was a really cheap ripoff of
- Anne Rice. Bleah, bleah, bleah.
- Liked Dracula's hair in the beginning, though, and the youthful
- Dracula (with those really twee blue sunglasses), the American
- suitor (who I just *knew* would be offed), and the sanitarium
- suitor (goatee! Whee!) were all cute.
- Keanu was really sad (Look! I have an accent and can pretend to
- be dignified! Yay!!!), and it was really tacky to make Lucy a
- slut from the start and to make the female vamps such sluts
- from hell (though their emergence from the bed was really cool)
- was to beat people over then head with the sexual overtones
- just a tad too much (and the bare breasts everywhere were just
- not right. Vampires aren't sexy for their killer bods, and
- they're not to appear human, and to show them with funparts is
- to make them appear a lot more common than they are). And they
- made Dracula a *fool*; how could he have survived for 400 years
- if he kept accidentally making supernatural things happen? Part
- of the creepiness of the story is the supernatural existing in
- a purely modern world, and you'd think from watching the humans
- just accept all this illogic happening that Industry was just a
- diversion from voodoo. Really really bad.
-
- In short, go if you admire Winona (and who doesn't?), but don't
- go if you're an admirer of the original work.
-
- --
- John Dorrance * Sexyfunky Motherfuckerdiva * thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
- I bet if you threw that ass into the air
- It'd turn into sunshine!
-