Comments on: Movie review: Dracula (1931)

By: Odette

Odette — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:49:06 +0000

The first shirt here seems appropriate for this post.

By: Odette

Odette — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:10:57 +0000

Ooh, Much Ado. Much love for Branagh and Thompson in Much Ado. And besides their awesomeness, I think it also helps that the character Keanu plays is supposed to be a little bit ridiculous and sort of on a different wave than everyone else. Most of the characters think they're in a romantic comedy and he thinks he's in a revenge tragedy. You know what else this Dracula made me think of? Singing in the Rain, for no other reason than that the one was made only a few years after the other is set. So that's my mental image of early Hollywood. Still, it was nifty to see the performance of the "original" film Drac. Renfield and Van Helsing are also well worth watching, and the other characters can generally be ignored.

By: Tae

Tae — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:06:41 +0000

I have yet to have seen this version of Dracula. Actually I haven’t seen many Dracula movies and the ones I remember (Leslie Nelson’s “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”) weren’t exactly on the same level. Vampires have been such a romantic cliche for our lifetime that it turned me off. And the other one I recall is the bloated one from the 90’s that had Keanu Reeves as Harker. Reeves always stands out so badly in period pieces. The only time he wasn’t really offensive to me was in Much Ado About Nothing (and that simply might’ve been the crackling chemistry between Branagh and Thompson that I didn’t really care about anyone else).

As to the 30’s movie conventions, the annoying aspects of Mina’s character was probably something of a staple during the time frame. Just like, as much fun as those old sci-fi movies are, the female characters in them range from annoying to insulting too often.