Just wanted to say that I watched B/S Dracula again for the first time in about a year. That movie always takes me to another place. Love it!!

...but as much as I used to love this film, I can't watch it any more, I just can't! Every damn time Keanu Reeves opens his mouth the whole thing turns into a primary school play, it just collapses around him, the life gets sucked right out of it. That Dick-Van-Dyke accent of his is so bad it has made the rest of the film totally unwatchable, and it kills me because there's so much in it to love.

(It feels so GOOD to get that off my chest...feel free to start throwing things now!)

I just fast-forward through the bits I don't like, which makes the film a hell of alot shorter for me, but hey at least I still get to watch it. I guess Keanu is a big dork in it, but I don't let that ruin the whole film.

Very glad I am, cause I can assure you being alone here in the forum for a while was not the ideal moment ;-)
Hope that others come back soon

he was at that time a little boy playing around and being happy with the fact that he was surrounded by all these actors.
In the movie I look at him as something peculiar, as something that does not really match, but I've been able to accept it in a way (after 75 times of seeing it, one just has too ;-)
The best thing he did was the scream he made when Dracula offers a baby to his vampire ladies, that was perfect !
Elisabeta

Hi Elisabeta!! Nice to have ones attendance appreciated!
Yes I suppose he did get his evil laugh perfect. I'm always impressed with the way his voice sounds when he is the old Dracula (with the fury hands!), when I first watched it I had no idea that he was playing the young and old Dracula. And even now it still facinates me. I'm no doubt boring whoever is reading this, but I'm passionate about this movie, god damn it!! I love a good love story, especially with a bit of evil, and when the evil one gets the girl...

I'm also sending out a BIG WAKE UP!!!! to everyone else out there who hasn't been visting and posting of late.

That scream is featured as a sample in the BSD Pinball machine in my living-room ;-) As are lots of quotes from the movie. (most heard "You are safe with me", when you let a ball slip through and you get a chance to re-play it ;-) )

Fair point gang... yeah, the scream was pretty good. I remember Francis Ford Coppola admitting that he'd cast Keanu Reeves to appeal to his teenage fans, which always seemed odd, particularly in England where it was rated eighteen (if memory serves) and those fans were too young to legally see it!

A magazine at the time aimed at twelve-year-old girls actually gave away sheets of free Dracula stickers, which I wish I'd kept instead of sticking all over my bedside lamp. Why were they marketing this film at twelve year olds??

I always quietly recast Jonathan Harker in my head whenever I think of Dracula...usually with Ian Hart, which I think would have been rather delicious.

Has anybody read Richard E Grant's film diaries, by the way? The section on Dracula is really interesting.

Yeah. We all know his accent left "a lot to be desired," to put it nicely, but I never thought he was a bad actor. He played the part he was supposed to play. A stiff, uptight, inexperienced "clark." Let's face it. Every other word of Ryder's sounded American. It was as if she all of the sudden forgot she was supposed to be speaking with an accent. Since, I'm American, it didn't bother me as much. At least not as much as the hat scene that when the doc handed the "sat-on" hat back to the Texan. It must have miraculously floated out of Tex's hands under doc's arse while he was unaware. That and in the bed scene you can tell how they cut the shots to make it look like he was sucking her blood when the Big Boys came in to "stake" him. It just annoys me, but I still watch every bit of it. Everything else was just so great to me, the score and the fact that none of the effects were computer generated. The set was outstanding. I'm not sure all of the costumes were "exactly" to period either, but since it was just an interpretation of it, I liked it. No. I'd have to say, "I LOVED it!" But then, I'm a big FCC fan, as well. Apocolypse Now was alway my fav FCC movie, until BSD.

My God, I do go on.

I suppose when you watch a movie so many times whats wrong with it suddenly becomes so much more apparent. I watched it with my younger sister once which completely ruined it for me. She made jokes through the whole thing and picked out really funny points, and I didn't want to change the way I felt about it. I didn't want it to be any kind of comedy (for me). boo hoo.....