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Post by GhostRider5289 on Aug 18, 2015 20:36:08 GMT -5
Yeah I got nothing. I grew up watching the classic Universal Monster movies and I honestly don't know what to make of this one. McAvoy looks like he'll make a pretty good Frankenstein but the rest...don't know what to say.
And is this supposed to tie into Dracula Untold since they're rebooting all those movies into a shared universe? You know cause that's the thing to do these days. I read that there's potentially going to be a sequel to Untold so that's cool I guess. It reminded me of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow which I had a lot of fun with. That and Luke Evans kicked some serious ass as Dracula.
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Post by okcomputer on Aug 20, 2015 22:59:50 GMT -5
I got kind of a Van Helsing vibe from that trailer. Looks pretty stupid.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Aug 21, 2015 0:12:13 GMT -5
Oh shit that's what it reminded me of! I couldn't put my finger on it but you're so right. I'll probably watch it though. I'm always up for a Frankenstein movie. I even watched I, Frankenstein not too long ago. I don't recommend doing that.
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Post by razkazz on Aug 21, 2015 11:57:01 GMT -5
It doesn't look like there's much story to it. The trailer was just slight variations of the same dialogue repeated over and over. I want to like it and I want some good horror action this fall but I'm not very optimistic. I expected Frankenstein's monster to be more of the focus since they're going Avengers style with the Universal Monsters. But I guess Dr. Frankenstein will be teaming up with Dracula eventually instead? You've got me curious about Dracula Untold even though I thought it looked bland. I'll at least check that out this halloween season.
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Post by S. Griffin on Aug 21, 2015 12:46:33 GMT -5
Is that one part with the woman mispronouncing his name supposed to be a play on the gag from Young Frankenstein? If it is, she's not saying it right.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Aug 21, 2015 13:15:28 GMT -5
You know I was wondering that too. It doesn't look like there's much story to it. The trailer was just slight variations of the same dialogue repeated over and over. I want to like it and I want some good horror action this fall but I'm not very optimistic. I expected Frankenstein's monster to be more of the focus since they're going Avengers style with the Universal Monsters. But I guess Dr. Frankenstein will be teaming up with Dracula eventually instead? You've got me curious about Dracula Untold even though I thought it looked bland. I'll at least check that out this halloween season. Make no mistake it's not the end all be all of Dracula films or anyting but it had some cool action and Dracula's powers were awesome. Plus like I said Luke Evans was a badass Dracula.
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Post by okcomputer on Aug 21, 2015 13:28:19 GMT -5
I've never had any interest in Dracula Begins or whatever that movie is called. The trend of "classic movie villain isn't really evil, just misunderstood" is pointless. They did it with Dracula, Maleficent (that movie was so boring I quit less than halfway through), that Captain Hook movie that's coming out, and probably others I've forgotten about.
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Post by frinspar on Aug 21, 2015 13:51:42 GMT -5
No one is really bad. And everyone gets a trophy! It's what we are now.
The Dracula movie looked boring, dumb and terrible. This looks like they want to capture the sarcastic banter of Holmes and Watson in the RDJ movies, and throw in a monster.
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Post by okcomputer on Aug 21, 2015 14:32:29 GMT -5
No one is really bad. And everyone gets a trophy! It's what we are now. The Dracula movie looked boring, dumb and terrible. This looks like they want to capture the sarcastic banter of Holmes and Watson in the RDJ movies, and throw in a monster. I hadn't connected it to that bigger societal shift, but you're right, it's kinda similar. And I don't really have a problem with attempts to understand the roots of evil in the real world, just leave it out of Dracula movies.
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Post by frinspar on Aug 21, 2015 16:18:25 GMT -5
I expect that soon Bill Cosby, James Holmes and Josh Duggar will become vaunted heroes behind some stupid fucking reason or another.
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Post by razkazz on Aug 21, 2015 23:48:37 GMT -5
Is that one part with the woman mispronouncing his name supposed to be a play on the gag from Young Frankenstein? If it is, she's not saying it right. I thought the same thing, and it's a decent idea, but the delivery in the trailer didn't make whether it was a joke or not clear enough.
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Post by S. Griffin on Aug 22, 2015 10:05:23 GMT -5
The problem is her pronunciation. She says Frankenshteen, when Gene Wilder said Fronkensteen. If it's an allusion to the joke from Mel Brooks movie, they should have paid more attention to the way it was said in the movie. If the film makers didn't have Young Frankenstein in mind, then...well, then it's still really fucking hacky. Could have been a pretty good joke.
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Post by NecroDragon on Aug 24, 2015 1:48:55 GMT -5
^ Agreed.
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