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The best Christmas movie ever made is Miracle on 34th Street (the original version, black and white, with Natalie Wood as the little girl).
(and just realized I didn't have to double post: sorry!)
That ain't controversial, that's an accurate statement about an undervalued actor.
The safety dance if I remember right.
greatest game that will never be released.
It was like Harry bloody Brown.
Look at the reasons. Tax, tax and again tax. Let's scrap it.
Why should those who kill the most mammoths be punished for high achievement and creating a wealth of dead frozen beast bodies no one else will ever be able to use, thus depriving the rest of the community from access to sustenance?
I think Pacino (ever so slightly) was the better actor, but Cazale one-upped him every time they shared the screen in Godfather II; especially in the living room scene. Fredo slumped across the chair, a broken man after Michael disowns him is a haunting shot.
And here's another one: Coppola's Dracula is not only one of his worst movies, but one of the stupidest, most arrogant adaptations of the novel and Coppola understood zilch about the source material.
However the soundtrack is brilliant and so is Gary Oldman, he was major creepy.
Oldman rocks in the film, both as old Dracula and as the younger Prince Vlad. I'm also a fan of the film's cinematography and indeed, as Mark pointed out, Wojciech Kilar's score is just fabulous IMO. There are some pretty pretentious moments in the film, I agree, and I will always prefer Universal's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi to it.
Oh, rather like Charles Gray's Blofeld in DAF, then?
What about the BBC version of Dracula starring none other than Louis Jourdan in the lead role.
That's not one of my favourites, also.
Sadly, I've never seen it. I suppose it's available on DVD, then? I heard it was meant to be good. It meant that Louis Jourdan had played a villain in Columbo (Paul Gerard), had played Dracula and had played a Bond villain in Octopussy. Quite a triple record for one (brilliant) actor.
How does Max Schreck strike you then, I have both Nosferatu movies but find I am more drawn to the B/W silent one even if the Kinski version is filmed for parts in the Netherlands. And Kinski was always a bit of an oddball and scary character in most of his movies so his work in Nosferatu was not such a stretch for him. ;)
Brilliant @Dimi.
Although this is more appropriate:
:D
I probably shouldn't admit this, but I haven't watched the original 1922 Nosferatu.
My favourite Dracula is, and shall always be, Lugosi, though in truth I also like Oldman.
Say, how about Frank Langella? He was adequate IMO, but then so was Jordan. I quite like Christopher Lee as Dracula. I have seen others in the part too, including Udo Kier in that weird Penthouse version.
It is an okay adaptation, closer to the book but nothing outstanding. There are also questionable changes. Jourdan I thought was not a good Dracula: he was a good villain, but he was not Dracula, who is supposed to be feral and quickly lose his veneer of civility. Like too many of them, Jourdan's Dracula talks too much. He has the wrong look too. The best so far, in terms of both appearance and presence, is Christopher Lee.
If they ever want to make a true great AND faithful adaptation of the novel, I'd suggest Mark Gatiss as scriptwriter and maybe even director. I have seen his work on M.R. James's The Tractate Middoth tonight and he knows his horror stuff.
Nothing to be ashamed of, as we all have films we'd get killed for not having seen by peers. The important thing is that you want to see it.
You sure are lucky the Illuminati can't resist dropping little hints and don't mind you yakking about their evil plots online. Do you think Cubby Broccoli was involved with the Illuminati? He'd almost have to be to get that kind of insider knowledge for SPECTRE, wouldn't you say (this goes for MGW and Barbara and Quantum by extension, of course).
What are you on mate, are you an alien? :p