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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Cockney Mackem said:
This part of the vampire genre has been done a lot mind. It's the third version of Nosferatu specifically - I need to maybe give the 1979 version another go as I seem to be the only person who doesn't think it's a classic - not to mention a film they made about the original production that imagined if the main actor was really a vampire. Official adaptations of Dracula are legion, if you just count the main ones you've got the 1931 Lugosi, Hammer's with Christopher Lee, 1979 with Frank Langella, the Coppola one and all the various sequels, spin offs, versions of the story from other characters' point of view like Renfield and Van Helsing, even had a spoof with Leslie Neilson. Not to mention a lot of successful vampire films have taken it in all different directions like Near Dark or Blade. Did we need another version of the basic Dracula story?
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Have you seen Nosferatu yet mate? Be interested to see if you feel the same as I did.
 

Fetch Fletch said:
Have you seen Nosferatu yet mate? Be interested to see if you feel the same as I did.
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Not yet. I have this big unopened figurative box marked ROBERT EGGERS FILMS which I haven't opened yet, at some point I have to bite the bullet and watch them and find out if they're as good as I hope or I'm going to be massively disappointed. Schrodinger's Auteur, if you will
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Not yet. I have this big unopened figurative box marked ROBERT EGGERS FILMS which I haven't opened yet, at some point I have to bite the bullet and watch them and find out if they're as good as I hope or I'm going to be massively disappointed. Schrodinger's Auteur, if you will
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The Witch and The Lighthouse are superb . I was like you until last summer and just expected boring artsy farty.
 
Fetch Fletch said:
Really?
Some shocking acting in it but the production is through the roof
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Cockney Mackem said:
This part of the vampire genre has been done a lot mind.
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horror\vampire isnt really my bag (unless its danish), turns out i was thinking of the wrong films here... i'm gonna watch eggers version this weekend then i've lined up the 79 version next which i thought was the coppola one you'd refereed too, but that's herzog's one. googling more i see that "bram stokers dracula" from 1992 is the coppola version you mentioned... i've 'probably' seen it but have no memory of it, if i'm not max'd out by two versions i'll tag the 1992 film on and watch that too (gary oldman #ftw)
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suspect your comment is funnier than the film...
 
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errant said:
horror\vampire isnt really my bag (unless its danish), turns out i was thinking of the wrong films here... i'm gonna watch eggers version this weekend then i've lined up the 79 version next which i thought was the coppola one you'd refereed too, but that's herzog's one. googling more i see that "bram stokers dracula" from 1992 is the coppola version you mentioned... i've 'probably' seen it but have no memory of it, if i'm not max'd out by two versions i'll tag the 1992 film on and watch that too (gary oldman #ftw)

suspect your comment is funnier than the film...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula - try and imagine Keanu Reeves isn't actually there, then you'll love it.

Leslie Neilsen's Dracula - further proof that the further away you get from 1974 the more the quality of Mel Brooks films declines, dipping below "good" in 1987 and dipping below "acceptable" in 1992.

I liked what Kermode said recently, that another thing he liked about Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is it led to Kenneth Branagh's Bram Stoker's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
 
From Russia With Love. 8/10
Not sure I’ve fully seen this one before unless I saw it as a bairn without paying attention.
I thought it was superb. Easily the best Bond girl Daniela Bianchi. Maybe the best Bond film I’ve seen although I do enjoy the daft Roger Moore ones.
 
Just finished Aliens. Slow start but terrific action packed film once it got going. The old memory is going and as it's over a decade since I last watched this I'd forgotten a lot of it. Thinking of risking Alien 3 next though I remember it was widely panned - I've got a vague memory I didn't mind it. We'll see.
 
Son of Stan said:
Just finished Aliens. Slow start but terrific action packed film once it got going. The old memory is going and as it's over a decade since I last watched this I'd forgotten a lot of it. Thinking of risking Alien 3 next though I remember it was widely panned - I've got a vague memory I didn't mind it. We'll see.
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Watch the Assembly Cut of Alien 3
 
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