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Overblown and gothic fun

Advantages: Brilliant performance by Gary Oldman
Disadvantages: Terrible performance by Keanu Reeves

Bram Stoker would have been amazed if he knew that the stories his mother told him while he was sick in bed, would grow into one of the biggest myths and moneyspinners of the 20th century. Coppola's film is a gothic, sumptuous and rather overblown version of the novel. As for 'faithful' - I don't remember a bit where Lucy runs through the garden wearing a red curtain only to be shagged senseless by a bison. Or the bit at the beginning where Vlad ...
...- faithful to the book my arse! Never mind. Gary Oldman is fabulous as Dracula - sexy, anguished, and with an accent you can't place but somehow it sounds ancient, steeped in grandeur and blood. He's quite stunning in the role and you do feel for him. (Not like the book at all really where the Count doesn't actually appear that much and when he does, he's a red-eyed stinky breathed monster). Dracula comes back to England because he sees a picture ...

Janeyboo 07.05.2008 · Read full review
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Alien 3 (Special Edition)

Advantages: Character development, Sigourney Weaver
Disadvantages: Bad CGI, repetitive action scenes, plot holes

...as much troubled production as Alien 3. Director David Fincher was brought into the project late into its development; there were numerous creative differences in scriptwriting; not to mention all the pressure of living up to the successes of the two near-perfect blockbusters that preceded it. Fincher reportably disowned the film before editing even began. Deep in hyper sleep, Ripley, Newt, and Hicks, crash land in their escape pod after an onboard ...
...her, and everyone else, an alien somehow had gotten onto her ship and is now deciding to wreck havoc inside the planet's maximum security prison. With no weapons or functional technology, Ripley's pessimism is understandable when she states "We're fucked". The problems come mainly from Alien 3's poor writing. Many fans were immediately disgruntled when they heard Hicks was going to be killed off, after been such an influential character in Aliens, ...

andycarrington 10.02.2009 · Read full review
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You would be 'Braindead' not to

Advantages: OTT gore, Humour
Disadvantages: Lionel's annoying voice (not the accent)

Think of the name Peter Jackson, you would assosciate him with massive blockbuster films such as The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy and King-Kong. However in 1992, the same Peter Jackson, made a not so epic, low budget, very dated zombie film. Not to his dis-credit he did an excellent job. The story follows an infection brought to New Zealand, with the carrier being a Sumatran Rat-Monkey. Which then bites Lionel's mother and so the chain continues, ...
...is quite different. Lionel's mother was very upper class, before she got bitten that was, and she has a reputation to keep up. It couldn't have happened at a worse time for her. The very next day she had a meeting with someone who was very important, the leader of the New Zealand version of the W.I. The comedy starts just before dinner as she puts her make-up on and her skin starts to peel off, whilst she pretends there is nothing wrong, like a ...

lustba 13.11.2007 · Read full review
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King and his cat Aliens

Advantages: Playing spot the cameo
Disadvantages: Poorly explained plot

...Werewolf In London) and obviously Stephen King doing some really awful acting as the graveyard attendant. Alice Krige looks lovely apart from the scenes where she has the cat face or is in full alien make-up. Even with the opening titles it's never really explained very well exactly what Sleepwalkers are or where they come from. From the title sequence I assume they are catlike bipeds who live by extracting life-force from humans. I assume they live ...
...I haven't read the book but I assume its suffering the standard fate of a Stephen King book turned into a movie which is to say they totally screwed it up which is what normally happens when Hollywood meets Mr Kings work. (this review also apears on dooyoo) ...

atytyut2434 22.02.2009 · Read full review
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Pike isn't a name, its a fish!

Advantages: Feel-good and light hearted.
Disadvantages: Not for the hardcore TV series fans.

Okay, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie is definately not for everyone. If you're a fan of the series & love Sarah Michelle Gellar as the vampire-slaying, butt-kicking Buffy, then this is probably not your cup of tea. The Buffy TV series is a whole lot more gothic, more serious, and has a rockier soundtrack. The movie on the other hand is pretty light hearted, and girly. In a word, i'd say this movie is cheesy. But that doesn't mean its bad. If ...
...people would probably say they prefer the series. Its just a case of taste, really. The movie seems more of a late 80's film, what with the fashion and soundtrack. The whole thing is not taken too seriously, and a lot of the vampires are pretty slapstick. I think it's a brilliant, feel good film, if you disregard the series for an hour and a half! ...

xElectroxGirlx 12.10.2007 · Read full review
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