It is interesting to read his memoir though. He became a good person over time but in his youth defrauded people and even went to prison for it.

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula did win points with me for including scenes from the novel that most adaptations leave out: most notably a decent version of the ship-board chapter, and the climactic battle on the road outside the castle. But the lovers reincarnation thing was bullshit, and it took time away from the Lucy stuff…

Both. If you watch the first five minutes, you’ll get a sense of what the rest of the movie achieves. The narrative is absolutely a mess, and the American cast is really out of their league. But the people saying “it looks nice” are underselling how it keeps astonishing visuals on the screen almost continuously for…

That was an informative video, but he didn’t seem very angry.

Shout out to my favorite Vampire comedy: The Fearless Vampire killers.

I do not understand why people like this movie so much. Dracula is not a freakin’ love story (at least not as far as the Count is concerned). Also, justice for Jonathan. No adaptation has ever given him the due he deserves based on his role in the book.

Dang, that’s only making the lizard part of my brain dig in his heels that much harder. Because a lot of good friends, with tastes I respect, told me to watch Adventure Time and I just couldn’t. It looked awful to me, and the best writing and acting in the world couldn’t overcome that.

yeah that plan worked out just great for Richard Donner I wonder why most directors might be hesitant..

I want to like this but the animation style is so god awful that I can’t take more than a couple of minutes of it.

Unrelated Note! - Brosnahan is gonna be 35 when Superman: Legacy hits screens, and this makes no fucking sense. Why play up the “They’re young and it’s pre-almost everything! We’ll see them come into…

It was thoroughly un-Disney. And it was (at least briefly, IIRC) originally going to not just be “Alien Encounter” but Alien Encounter. Like, licensing the xenomorph from Fox (which they didn’t own at the time). That fell through, but the concept remained (and was pretty obvious to anyone who was paying attention). I…

No. It belongs to both. The reason Jay even made the, “girl’s girl,” dig was because Grande was showing up that their house, presenting herself as friend, was carrying the baby around and offering help, while she and Slater were already in an affair. Both Grande and Slater were being duplicitous and awful.  

Jay really hasn’t said much aside from the, “girl’s girl” dig, which is reflective of reports that Grande came out of nowhere, basically presented to be a new friend to her, who cared about her child and family, who she invited into her house, and was actually fucking her husband at that time. That’s an extra layer of…

One of my favorite Disney Parks adaptations are the “Disney Kingdoms” Comics they made with Marvel right after the Marvel acquisition. The Haunted Mansion one is probably the best adaptation of that ride, period.

It’s hard to say what his stance would have been, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he looked at it as keeping the rest of the crew employed and paid for a while longer while also not hiring scabs to write clues.

I just posted the same thing, much later and less eloquently! 

You’re leading me down the rabbit hole. So, yes, closing credits are getting longer in part because of post-credit scenes, where applicable, but also because more people are required to make a film today. Films in the 80s and 90s had the same basic scrolling credits across the board and lasted at least 4-5 min. Can’t…

I am a lapsed daytime soap fan—I just don’t think any of the remaining ones are any good at all (and really even when we still had my fave, All My Children, it’s last years mostly... weren’t great either.) There’s a variety of reasons for this—lower budgets, but also oddly as ratings continue to dwindle they’ve…

Well all of that is fair, all these info should have been part of the article if Kinja had done it’s work.

If you don’t want to talk about these issues because you live in a repressive homophobic country, I don’t think telling everybody else to not f*cking talk about your country will help with the change you seem to…

Considering the anti-gay laws on the books in Malaysia are colonial era laws put there by “good” British Christians I am not sure your point.