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Re: Draculas, Ranked

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Post by fhdkweig »

Magi604 wrote: post #5

Does anyone know where the line "and STAY dead!" came from? I was told it was from the first Dracula movie from 1931, but I downloaded the movie and could not find it there. This has been bugging me for a while so figured I'd try if someone here knows (tried other sources of info, even downloaded the original movie with no luck).

A similar line appears in The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, a 1979 children's comedy short.

"It's one of those days I wish I was dead, and stayed dead"

https://youtu.be/5YTfHHWlsDU?t=1338

Re: Draculas, Ranked

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Post by ilikecakeandpie »

oweiler wrote: post #8
danielvaughn wrote: post #6

I'm not sure if it counts, but my favorite vampir-esque movie/show/whatever was Midnight Mass. It was such an interesting take on the core ideas.

That show was absolutely perfect, not a single second I would do differently.

I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.

Re: Draculas, Ranked

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Post by jackothy »

oweiler wrote: post #8
danielvaughn wrote: post #6

I'm not sure if it counts, but my favorite vampir-esque movie/show/whatever was Midnight Mass. It was such an interesting take on the core ideas.

That show was absolutely perfect, not a single second I would do differently.

I agree with GP that the show has an extremely interesting take on the core ideas, but I think the execution falters slightly, especially in the last couple of episodes. The characters started doing some fairly silly things, and I also don't like that they gave up completely on the science-investigation angle they had going. They had some interesting players set up against one another with the infighting among the vampires, and then the sheriff, and the main woman character, but then in the end they basically wasted it all by relying almost entirely on the vampires screwing up massively for no reason in order to end the story. Not to mention the fact that surely there must have still been a couple of things left here and there for the vampires to hide from the sun behind.

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Post by danielvaughn »

ilikecakeandpie wrote: post #14
oweiler wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That show was absolutely perfect, not a single second I would do differently.

I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.

This was my only real gripe with it. I love a good monologue, but I actually found myself fast-forwarding through the one halfway through (where they talk about death). It honestly felt like they just kept going around in circles.

So yeah I definitely get it, and I wish the writer would have edited himself a bit more.

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