Vlad III Dracula. His life is begging for a faithful film treatment. On top of that it'd be nice for people to see how complicated he really was, and maybe fill people in on the fact that he wasn't just a bloodthirsty maniac. His story is practically Shakespearean, but it's true.

The lightsaber design is cool, and the general vibe of the new helmet is interesting, but good god, can we stop with the overly-complicated body armor designs? It's making nearly all armor in sci-fi art look exactly the same. Adding lots of bulk and lines and plates and textures for no reason doesn't make it look cool…

Or perhaps something oldish?

It'd be worth it just to see how they handle the giant helmet.

So we'll just call anything Gothic now won't we?

When did a bunch of arbitrary lines, panels, and bulk add up to "streamlined" anyway? This keeps showing up in sci-fi armor designs and it's really annoying. It's not streamlined, it's overly complicated for the sake of appearing practical, except it doesn't even really do that. They've been doing it to Batman for a…

Sounds like something that would have been great in a Dracula prequel. It's practically the Demeter story in real life.

This one always spooked me. More people need to see this.

You don't punch a baby in the head to demonstrate how soft and fragile its skull is, or shoot yourself in the head just to demonstrate how dangerous guns are, so what sense does it make to prove Sony's security sucks by breaching it? This whole idea of "We did it to show that we could" is just a load of BS. Just…

Let's not forget that Burton didn't direct Nightmare Before Christmas and was, according to the actual director Henry Selick, probably only there for about eight days over the two year shoot. James and the Giant Peach is even less of a Burton film than that one is, having even less involvement.

I found it rather boring, the production design focusing too much on glamor as opposed to period accuracy or, god forbid, a sense of dread or gloom or horror, and the cast, while made up of competent actors for the most part, was wretched with the roles they were given and the ways that the characters were so utterly…

Of course the short run-time is a big flaw with that film, but that's not the thing a lot of people focused on in their hatred of it. They latched onto it as some kind of Dracula-in-name-only clusterfuck that's entirely disassociated from either Stoker's novel or the historical Vlad III Dracula, even though it would…

Anyone who has such negative comments to make about it probably shouldn't be part of this discussion.

But it was barely a re-imagining at all. Every character was butchered. No one resembled their fictitious counterparts. As a result, the entire plot was mangled. As a result of that, the important themes of the original work were completely tossed aside.

If we're going to talk about putting brand names on things that are completely unrelated, we need to mention that horrible NBC Dracula series. Dracula Untold had more to do with its source material than people think it did, while NBC's Dracula not only had nothing to do with the source material, it seemingly had…

I'm sorry but the image you posted is a terrible example of this "practical" craze. There's a weird tendency with Batman to a) make his outfit look far too much like high-tech armor than it should and b) simply resort to mashing a bunch of jagged pieces together of varying shades of black and grey with varying…

Am I the only one who finds "good white people" condescending? It seems like "white people" on its own is meant to have some negative connotation, to which "good white people" is an exception. I don't know, maybe I'm being unfair, or just reading it wrong. After all, I'm sure you meant well.

You're not the only one, but you know how it goes.

As long as we're talking about TNBA redesigns, let's not forget the best one out of the whole lot: Scarecrow. On top of the awesome new design they gave him, they cast a new voice actor: Jeffrey Combs, aka Herbert West, Re-Animator. I mean...

Except Jason has always had a tragic backstory. Heck, he's had a tragic backstory since he was actually the focal point of the series to begin with. All they have to do is show it with the pathos and drama they always hinted at but never had the balls to get into.