Dracula made a film?
Far out.
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I watched The Conversation in the cinema recently which I enjoyed (and also answered why there was digital artefaction in the audio at the start quite late in the film!) and watched One From the Heart which looked amazing (Tom Waits’ soundtrack was not great however. Fortunately I’d already given away the vinyl to someone who would appreciate it more than I would).
And I want to watch Apocalypse Now again. My memory is he does everything you shouldn’t do which is why it was worth watching. I plan to watch the longest one I can.
I only watched the Godfather movies after I’d seen the Sopranos which was probably wrong but that’s how it happened.
I guess I mean that I will probably watch this in the cinema as I like film a lot. Enough that interesting failures are worth it.
My memory of Dracula is that it was absolutely terrible but a colleague who loves American 70s movies tells me it is amazing, like laughable, but still amazing.
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“MegaFlopolis” - Rex Reed
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I actually unironically love it… even Keanu’s wooden acting and bad British accent… 
Especially Keanu’s wooden acting and bad British accent…
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It actually works well in the context of that movie, which is based on the idea that Keanu’s fiancé was nearly charmed into leaving him for an undead ghoul…
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God he’s so young there!
I know, I felt like a total philistine when I watched the Sopranos. I often feel there are huge gaps in my knowledge of culture and everyone else understands loads that I don’t.
It’s true, so it’s not an unreasonable feeling.
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I always got Scorsese gangster vibes from Sopranos more than Godfather vibes.
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I mean, the undead ghoul tidied up pretty nice at least… He’s got great top hat game going on there…
vs…
Okay… when I searched for the Keanu image, I saw this…
I fucking hate the internet and everything now. Why do people got to make fake shit like this. Fucking fucketing fucks… 
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I just get into my little pop culture ruts and miss so much…
That was especially true in academia…
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That will be more of my ignorance!
I think I eventually copped that and that the constant reference to the Godfather III (I think? “Just when I thought I was out, they dragged me back in again”) was a running in joke. Like the fact that it was said by a non-actor imitating the original and he was, get it, playing the right hand man of a mob boss from Jersey, when in real life he was the right hand man of The Boss. From New Jersey!
Oh the laughs. But yes, I don’t know most of Scorcese’s films either and I recognise that he is great but I don’t really like him that much.
Apart from Casino. I saw that recently enough and I really fucking hated that bombastic shit. I watched Alain Delon in Melville’s le Samouraï to get the taste out of my brain.
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Hey, given the choice between a stiff, straight-laced real estate attorney and a dapper steampunk cosplayer who is good with dogs and has his own castle it’s hard to blame a romantic young woman for being drawn to the latter…
I also just love how informative that Yahoo excerpt is, just repeating “Is this real or fake?” question no fewer than four goddamn times in the space of five sentences… 
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I actually enjoyed Silence… It might be my favorite by him?
But otherwise, he’s fine… his movies are fine.
Far too many people see Taxi Driver as aspirational, tho. He’s the bad guy, guys!
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I have been instructed to watch that. I absolutely will soon. Though I feel it’s one I might only like in the cinema?
I don’t like Taxi Driver. Never did. Don’t think I was politically prescient I just don’t like it when I saw it and was of an age to be sucked in. I think that’s part of why when I saw the hype around Joker I had a big loud “nope” ringing in my head.
I find de Niro annoying too.
But look Scorsese really is brilliant. I can appreciate the craft that makes a film like After Hours without really enjoying the film. I can watch a half hour video on a 30second shot by de Palma and be glad he exists without actually really enjoying his movies either. All those 70s American directors are amazing. I think I liked Hal Ashby the most because I never heard of him and only gradually pieced together that I loved his films. I saw them by accident whereas everyone said you must watch Scorsese or Coppola. I think I watched Being There because of the Deodato, saw Harold and Maude late on a Sunday night and just got sucked in etc.
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This is going to get interesting.
Hours after it was released, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “gunning for the haters” with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works. That’s because reports like this one from Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri showed that critic quotes in the trailer lambasting films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now were fabricated.
ETA; Yep…the trailer linked above isn’t on youtube any more.
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Or at least a bad guy. Arguably less bad than the guys drugging and sex-trafficking a 12-year-old, but that hardly makes him a hero.
Lots of folks still missing the point in similar ways with more recent characters like Walter White from Breaking Bad, even though “bad” is right there in the title.
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I like the old school effects too.
At the time the thing I least liked was Dracula’s armor design. It just rubbed me the wrong way. But I’ve grown to like it.
Evidently they pull the trailer because those critic quotes were fake. 
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Such a weird way to sell the movie anyway. Basically boasting “the critics are going to hate this movie but you should see it anyway because what the hell do they know.”
I will say that even if the movie turns out to be a hot mess I’m still glad that there are still people in Hollywood who are willing to make a big-budget film that isn’t a sequel or a remake or an adaptation of a best-selling novel or comic any other established IP.
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