Escape to the Movies: Dracula Untold - AB Negative

[Razorback0z]

One of the most scary monsters of my childhood (Im 48) has been reduced to a clothes hook for posing tweens. I mean Twilight was basically a set of fashion endorsements with a poor story trying to connect the ads.

I doubt I would bother to watch anything with the word Vampire in it again, lest I be exposed to another series of lame posing moments posing as entertainment.

 

[prpshrt]

I feel like people took this movie too seriously. I went in with zero expectations and had a blast. They should have given this like maybe 6.5/7 out of ten. People are being way too harsh on this.

 

[XDSkyFreak]

So ... how long until holywood realizes you can't make a vampire action movie PG-13? In fact, how long untill that bullshit rating vanishes? Fucks sake, make it R and you will get more revenue in the long run from the movie actually beeing a hit with older audiences who will also probably buy the DVD and/or get their friends to watch. But no, let's make a bland, generic uninteresting PG-13 ...

You know, I remember beeing a teenager and I remember finding all manner of creative ways to sneak into the cinema and buy DVDs to watch R movies, because they were blody and full of fun action and my adolscent mind loved the exces. I'm preety sure teenagers today do the same ... it's the nature of the age. So all this tamed down bloodless PG-13 crap is actually failing to connect with it's suposed target audience ... nice.

 

[Triaed]

I think this movie could have had the chops if a minor but very important change was made. See, what bothers me is this:Vlad the Impaler was already a vicious, blood-thirsty killer; this aspect of the historical figure was not explored and expanded.

In the movie they made Vlad into a monster because he turned into a vampire. It would have been infinitely more interesting to see him turn into a vampire because he already was a monster to begin with. That he tried to save his land is an irrelevant setting, the character-driven narrative of my scenario is more interesting to me.

I don't see how that would be interesting. Bad guy is a bad guy from the start and remains a bad guy throughout the film isn't in any way interesting or original, it's exactly the same as the vast majority of bad guys in all media. In fact, this film is actually one of the more original ones around. Having the hero tempted with something bad that will help them save the day isn't exactly uncommon, but usually they either get saved at the last minute or make a heroic sacrifice so that either way they remain the hero. Having the hero actually fall to temptation and become a genuine bad guy is really quite unusual.

That's not to say this film does it well of course, but it's a story arc that has a lot more potential to be interesting than yet another "bad guy is bad guy" or "hero is hero" story.

Good point! Especially about the movie's execution of either "hero" approach.

Although I have to point out that there are plenty of stories where the hero succumbs to temptation, they are usually followed by redemption. So my opinion remains unchanged, I would have preferred to have seen Vlad become a vampire because he was already rotten inside, not the other way around.

I guess this only proves that different people have different opinions

 

[willgreg123]

I know you don't like using the term "it looks like a video game" for movies but... that opening clip made me think I was watching the trailer for the new Batman Arkham Asylum game. Seriously, all that's missing is a prompt for the "Y" key.