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Summary: The Best Dracula Movie I've Ever Seen!
Review: Francis Ford Coppola does an excellent job retelling the Dracula tale using actual history blended with legend. Gary Oldman is excellent as the Count. Oldman's portrayal of the Count as a tortured man longing for the lost love of his life acutally had me feel sorry for the man. When he observes the portrait of Mina(Winona Ryder) and remembers his lost bride it is truly an awesome scene. Oldman's Count can also be bloodthirsty as well! Sir Anthony Hopkins as Professor Van Helsing is very fun to watch. To say that Van Helsing is a little nuts is an understatement! The music is also classic and it really sets the mood during the entire film. Winona Ryder as Mina playing a woman torn between the Count and her intended husband(Kneau Reeves) is well done. The most awesome scene is when the Count receives Mina's letter saying that she'll never see him again. You can feel the heartache and pain in the Count and also feel his anger. Awesome! A must see for the true Dracula fan!
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Summary: 16:9 HDTV/480p DVD/5.1 sound = SUPERBIT DRACULA !!!
Review: This review is about "SUPERBIT COLLECTION" an outstanding Home Theatre version of Bram Stokers Dracula, a Francis Ford Coppola film.Columbia Pictures has raised the bar on DVD video and sound quality with the new "SUPERBIT" series movies. This feature improves the picture by doubling the bit rate digital transfer. Simply, twice the picture quality of existing DVD transfers. Also the sound has been enhanced equally in performance. NOTE: GOODS NEWS - All this can be enjoyed on existing DVD players with noticeable improvements. BAD NEWS - Its not really bad news its really the "BOTTOM LINE NEWS" - the "SUPERBIT COLLECTION IS FOR YOU IF" you have; a Home Theatre, HDTV WideScreen (Enhanced 16:9)w/Component Video, Progressive Scan DVD (480p) w/Component Video & DTS or 5.1 Sound environment. IF you have this then the "SUPERBIT COLLECTION" Dracula explodes of the screen!!!!!! Summary: SUPERBIT Dracula directed by Francis Ford Copplola is a very beautiful photographed eerie love story. With a story line more to the tragedy of Dracula (brillantly played by Gary Oldman)than the viciousness of vampires. The detailed scenes & colors explode off the screen with this "SUPERBIT" version film. The 5.1 sound is crystal clear and adds immensely to the eeriness of this dark gothic horror film. This SUPERBIT detailed film makes for an unbelievable visual experience. Coppola does a grand job providing us with an unsusual twist in the story of Dracula. This is the best "SUPERBIT" transfer so far in the Columbia Pictures Collection. Just remember, "SUPERBIT" was developed to give the Home Theatre owner a new improved DVD experience and they have done this with "Bram Stokers, Dracula". Enjoy.
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Summary: Did I just here Dracula burp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Excuse yourself Dracula did you just burp. Have you been drinking some soda? I thought you drink blood not Dr.Pepper. Please tell me that I wasn't the only one to here Dracula burp in the scene when him and Mina Harker(Winona Ryder) were in the bed together. He was just about to explain to Mina what he really was. And I was all into it then I heard him burp and I said what the hell was that?! The movie was really verses being really scary. Keanu Reeves what can you say about him he is boring as hell, but the scenes with him and Winona kissing were great.
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Summary: Not in tune with the novel at all . . . but excellent
Review: Gary Oldman turned in yet another outstanding performance as Dracula. Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, and the rest of the cast were perfect in their respective roles to make this one of the best Dracula films ever. Unfortunately, the movie does not stick to Bram Stoker's novel. As I read the novel, I expected it to be somewhere along the lines of Francis Ford Coppola's movie and nothing could be further from the truth. In Stoker's novel, Dracula was not a Christian warrior, nor was there an Elisabeta. Most of all, Mina had absolutely no attraction to the Count whatsoever. In fact she took the lead in destroying Dracula. BUT despite this I do love this movie for the visual effects and the way the story unfolds - it sweeps you off your feet and makes you want to watch it many times.
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Summary: Somewhat negative, somewhat positive...
Review: Dracula. The original version, not any of Anne Rice's fancy ones, nor any of John Carpenter's creepy ones. Just the original that started all of them- Bram Stoker's noble and ancient Dracula. Based on the famous novel of Stoker's, it tells of Dracula's sorrow of his bride that died long ago, and how he is determined to have another woman named Mina as his and only his- despite the fact she is loved by another man, her fiance, who is played by Keanu Reeves- and this man is far than willing to let her go. And Anthony Hopkins, played as Van Helsing, a pure madman in this film that gives the film a twist of humor, will assist Keanu in protecting Mina from the seductive grasp of Count Dracula (although indeed he's only cute when he's in his young mode!)
I'm highly critical of occult films, especially of the vampiric category- but this film actually met my personal satisfaction. Sure, parts of the film were sprinkled with artistic dust from Hollywood- but what book doesn't get this treatment when formed into a novel? The goal is just not to pour too much of the artistic dust on, and I, in my own opinion, think Hollywood did a pretty good job of this in Dracula. I do think all the nudity was ridiculous though; I mean, it makes the movie seem trashy, when truly it is a great and beautiful novel. I think they should have cut that stuff out, or at least have toned it down a bit.
But all in all, I did enjoy the film, and thought Gary Oldman was the absolute perfect vision of Dracula.
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Summary: still entertaining
Review: ugh, as everyone said what da hell does this have to do with Bram Stroker?
Anyway, I thought it was pretty entertaining. Gary Oldman was awesome.
I just didn't see Winona rider as Mina at all, kinda ruined my experience because of that (not to say that I don't like her in other movies, I just don't imagine her as mina) Mina was suppised to be a strong woman who is extremly supportive of her husband whose life she nurses back for certain death. In the movie not only she is a weakling, she is actually in love with Dracula? The use of Absinthe and the sexuality really took the movie away from the book, although I didn't mind it. I would give the movie 4 stars if it wasn't for the fact that I read the book prior to watching it and felt that the story line was too tainted with.
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Summary: Crap--read the book, people!
Review: This film is so far off the book it can barely be called the same thing, and how they managed to incorporate the author's name in the title is beyond me. Keanu Reeves is laughable trying to mimic a posh British accent, and the high amount of sex thrown in at any slow point (none of which occurs in the story) is enough to put you off entirely. The performances are pablum, and even Anthony Hopkins, who has saved other movies in his time, could not pull this one out of the dung pile for me or anyone I know. All I can say is thank God Coppola did The Godfather, because without that, where would he be with films like this? There are much better Draculas out there, notably the original, silent German film Nosferatu, which actually FOLLOWS THE BOOK, a concept apparently lost on the makers of this film.
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Summary: A VISUAL TREAT, A DRAMATIC LETDOWN
Review: I am somewhat perplexed by all the wonderful reviews for this movie, especially since "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is nothing of the sort. For all that director Francis Ford Coppola made this film out to be a loyal adaptation of Stoker's classic, it radically alters the source novel and is no more faithful to the spirit of the book than it is the letter. Turning Dracula into a vampirized Romeo is a bad joke, and the love affair between the Count and the all-too-willing Mina turns Stoker's gothic nightmare inside-out. And where did this version of Van Helsing come from? Gone is Stoker's scholar-crusader, replaced by a scene-chewing clown who badly needs some rehab. More's the pity because Anthony Hopkins is a great actor, and indeed the all-star cast of Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, et al, could have really shone with better material. The film is justifiably praised for its outstanding cinematography and the special effects are likewise excellent, so that the picture is good eye-candy if nothing else--and indeed, there is nothing else. Naturally, Coppola exaggerates the story's sexual component, which is typical of a post-Hammer vampire film but adds nothing of value to the plot--unless you count all the bare-chested damsels in distress, none of whom seem to know how to keep their clothes on. To top it off, the ending is a hurried anti-climax which closes with Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire," a totally out of place pop song barely a notch above "Lust For a Vampire's" infamous "Strange Love." If only they had actually adapted the novel. They didn't, and the result is a visually appealing but otherwise frustrating and sometimes insulting movie. Sorry, but if you want to see Dracula brought to life your best bets are still the Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee versions. This one just doesn't have the bite.
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Summary: BRAM STOKER's Dracula???
Review: Yeah, I was excited about this movie, because I love the book. I can't believe that they actually called this Bram Stoker's Dracula, because this is nothing like the book. Of course the settings are basically the same and they throw in some quotes from the book (half the time they are used in a completely different context though), but this business about Dracula and Mina being in love is complete crap (nothing even close to this happens in the book). It wouldn't be so bad if somehow this enhanced the story. It doesn't, it completely destroys it; and if that wasn't bad enough, this added aspect of the movie really becomes the entire point of the movie.
Yeah, I'm not a complete purist either; if the love thing even made it remotely entertaining, I think it would be forgiveable; but it doesn't. Also, the acting really is pretty terrible on all acounts.
It still get's three stars only because there are several scenes that are pretty cool to look at, but that's about it. If you really want Dracula, read the book.
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Summary: Near Perfection
Review: Simply a masterpiece.
Every scene on this movie is a work of art . Performances are excellent, no words are good enough to describe Oldman's work.
A must for anyone carrying a heart.
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