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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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Audrey Rose: Is she or isn't she?

Advantages: Very watchable, interesting storyline, quite scary in parts
Disadvantages: Rather dated, a little stilted acting here & there

...Michael Small ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Audrey Rose was adapted from Frank De Felitta's novel of the same name, and released as a film in 1977. The scene is New York, and the Templetons seem like a happy, fairly well-heeled family, who live in a hotel which overlooks Central Park. Bill Templeton loves his wife and daughter, but is a rather stressed-out individual who works hard and long hours for an advertising agency. Janice Templeton ...
...reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who was killed in a car crash some years previously, and Elliot says he wants no more than to just be a part of Ivy's life. I won't say any more about the way the storyline progresses, other than it is a rather tense, and in parts quite scary buildup towards a stunning and quite unexpected ending. I can't exactly remember when I first saw Audrey Rose; I believe it could have been on TV, possibly in ...

CelticSoulSister 06.12.2009 · Read full review
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I! AM! BEOWULF!

Advantages: Anthony Hopkins
Disadvantages: CGI.

...but I digress... Beowulf uses a technique wherein CGI is pasted over and mixed in with live action footage. Original, yet massively over-ambitious. The graphics werent generally well-received, as the public has come to associate CGI characters with childrens' movies. Not to mention that CGI itself is only in its adolescent state. However, it could not have acheived its impressibe battle scenes without the technique, the most memorable being the one ...
...conveniently placed objects and furniture obscuring Beowulf's genitalia in a highly comedic fashion. The film has, to all intents and purposes stuck to the text, with its landscapes mirroring perfectly, the imagery of the book. I was surprised to see excessive bloodletting in this film, as it is not what I have come to associate with CGI-based movies. Nonetheless, there is plenty of it. Although in terms of entertainment, the level of gore pales ...

Mutalisk 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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a comedy scary movie

Advantages: full comedy
Disadvantages: i dont know

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The Mummy Returns!

Advantages: action/adventure
Disadvantages: non

The Mummy Returns The Mummy Returns is a good action adventure movie and a good follow up from the first movie! General information Running: 131 minutes Category: action/avonture Year: 2001 Director: Stephen Sommers Language: Engels Country: United States Actors: Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell Rachel Weiz as Evelyn Carnahan John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep The story The Mummy Returns It’s almost 10 ...
...defeated the mummy Imhotep and now they got an eight year old son called Alex. But at the same time a cult has summoned Imhotep from his dead and his plan is to conquer the world by defeating the Scorpion king. The Scorpion King lived thousands of years ago and was conquering the world with his army. Only when he and his army came into the desert they died of thirst, with only the Scorpion king alive. He called to the God of the underworld, Anubis, ...

JL132 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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