I spent last night adding a bunch of movies I would kind of like to own to my queue in the hopes that they’ll be among the up to ten that Netflix will be sending for me to keep. Fingers crossed. 

Man…getting a dvd with two battlestar episodes on it, then watching them real quick so I could drop them in the corner box with late pickup so I could get another dvd with two episodes in two days rather than three…why did this model decline again?

I resubscribed to the DVD services this past May when I heard it was ending. I had last subscribed 6 years previously. While their movie library did now  resemble a run down video store on its last legs, it still had enough 2000s era dodgy horror movies that nobody will probably ever bother re-releasing streaming or…

Reed Hastings founded Netflix August 1997 which was just a few months after DVD players were available for purchase in the US. You can’t say he wasn’t a visionary. 

This obviously wasn’t made by an actual vampire movie aficionado. At least it was better than the “Worst 25" list, which should’ve been called “Worst 25 vampire movies of the last 2 decades and with a decent budget”. The omission of the one appearing in my avatar, oh glorious Zandor Vorkov, was a crime. 

I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula in theaters in 1992 and I didn’t think it was a bad as the critics said, but I don’t think it’s #1. I’d put Let The Right One In at #1 because the movie is heartbreakingly beautiful and the book was equally great.

Your memory is correct. It has plenty of things to recommend it, especially Gary Oldman and some ingenious visual work by Coppola, but overall it doesn’t work and has a distractingly terrible performance by Keanu Reeves. And even if one is in the minority and likes the film, I can’t see any reason to put it #1 except…

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.

The big criticism I remember at the time was the casting, mostly Keanu but partly Ryder. It felt a little incongruous to have these two hot young stars trying to fit into the movie’s pretty out there (and definitely self-indulgent) style, especially alongside Oldman and Hopkins, who threw themselves into that style…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula was in no way better than Let the Right One In, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Shadow of the Vampire, or Interview with the Vampire. It’s certainly not as terrible as critics of the day made it out to be, but I feel confident saying it’s not even close to the greatest vampire movie of all time.

It’s been 30 years, so my memory could easily be at fault, but I remember Bram Stoker’s Dracula being critically panned on release as a self-indulgent mess. Was the consensus wrong back then, or does it just look better now after decades of mostly conformist, safe filmmaking?

Phew ... I was beginning to think Newhart had been ignored as I slid through these. 

“This may very well be the stupidest person on the face of the Earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.”

“Many of them also involve removing their socks and shoes...”

I think this was only the second movie in the past 20 years I’ve given a one star rating to.

The way I look at that, though, is you have to know when you’re going to die to accurately calculate “mid-life.”  If a 22 year-old gets hit by a bus, he would’ve had to have a mid-life crisis when he was 11.

Oh, there was plenty of negative reaction to Basterds, too.

Also, despite what the review says, I'm not in this movie.

I'd like to take a dip in Lake Bell.

Sometimes it depresses me
thinking that no one will ever make a film this good again. But then I console myself with the fact that I'm first.