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Bram Stoker's Dracula [Blu-ray]

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Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fiancée back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy. --Tom Keogh

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1.0 out of 5 stars tragedy Jun 19 2012
Format:DVD
One of the great tragedies of film making.
All the potential was there: Fantastice book; present day special effects technology, people like Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins; Coppola's talent... And a FANTASTIC sound track. The music over the end credits is worth the price alone.
How could anyone in their right minds have even thought of Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder on the same set as these people? I guess I don't understand the business but this is a terrible and regrettable lost opportunity to come up with a masterpiece. It's crap!!!
Check out the BBC version from the 70's with Louis Jordan if you want to see what the story is supposed to be like, and just try to imagine what Coppola's version could have been.
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3.0 out of 5 stars great, but not that great. Aug 11 2003
By Portia
Format:DVD
This film won a ton of technically oriented Oscars, and it's obvious why. The cinematography and special effects are mind-bending. Finally, we actually get to watch all the creepyness of the Dracula story without the campiness of seeing all the wires and smoke machines. This is Transylvania, not Stage 42. The costumes are lush, the atmosphere eerie.

Gary Oldman is repulsive and attractive at the same time, which is a remarkable feat of theatrics that any vampire would be proud of. Anthony Hopkins is excellent as usual, but seems to know, deep down, that he and Oldman are the only members of the cast taking this thing seriously.

Unfortunately, everything else undermines whatever good the creepily excellent special effects or Gary Oldman could have done. The plot veers bizarrely away from the original story, but instead of hightening the interest in the characters, it diminishes it.

You could care less about Lucy and Mina, who are both stupid and oversexed and don't seem to have motives for anything they do. Winona Ryder just doesn't do anything for me. (You spend a good deal of the film wondering why the heck she's with Keanu Reeves!)

The guy who plays Renfield is creepy and wonderful, but the movie doesn't really establish him like the book does, and if you don't know the book well, you're likely to become confused.

Oldman creates an amazingly sympathetic Dracula, despite all of these awful plot problems. The choice to make Mina a sort of reincarnation of his dead long-lost love was probably a bad one. It confuses the original issues and makes Dracula more of a Lloyd-Webber-Phantom-Adaptation-Character than anything else.

Keanu Reeves proves in this movie, more than in any other, just what a terrible actor he is. It's amazing that this guy, who has apparently no redeeming dramatic qualities, continues to remain popular. Everyone seems to agree that he stinks. Maybe we just like feeling superior to movie stars now and then. I, on the other hand, think that we could easily have foregone Reeves' insipid, bland, exhausting Jonathan Harker quite easily. And what kind of accent is he trying to DO, anyway? Does he actually think that's a BRITISH accent?!

So the plot (and Keanu) sucessfuly undermine this film altogether. Also, the way they adapted the book (so specifically stating that it is BRAM STOKER'S Dracula) is abridged to a fault. Instead of maintaining the integrity of a thorough adaptation by keeping the script, this watered-down version makes me long for a good script writer who had the guts to say "forget abridging something that's already good by itself. Let's just write something original and forget the book!" Unfortunately, in an attempt to follow Stoker's orginal work, this movie has destroyed it, and placed the poor author's name right there in the title for him to cringe at from beyond the grave.

It's lucky Bram Stoker didn't become a vampire, because I can think of quite a lot of people involved in this film who deserve to get bitten.

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5.0 out of 5 stars DVD Review of Bram Stoker's Dracula Jan 30 2012
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I received this DVD in excellent condition, it arrived well within the timeline estimated. I am entirely satisfied in every aspect. It's a super movie within top drawer special features.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Her prince is coming
When Francis Ford Coppola is good, he's very very good. When he's bad... he turns out something like "Bram Stoker's Dracula. Read more
Published on Jun 14 2008 by E. A Solinas
4.0 out of 5 stars colourful and stylish adaptation
i really enjoyed this movie.it is beautifully photographed,with great
camera work.i'm not sure how accurate it is to Bram Stoker's novel,but
it is very different from the... Read more
Published on Sep 17 2007 by falcon
4.0 out of 5 stars Fact, Fiction and My Inspiration.
1462, Transylvania, Vlad the Impaler leaves his wife to fight the Turks. Out of malice, The Turks send her a letter telling her that her husband is dead. Read more
Published on Aug 26 2007 by Nolene-Patricia Dougan
5.0 out of 5 stars bram stokers dracula
awesome movie for all those who are interested in vampires and sick of the lame ones this is a must have for any vampire lover.
Published on Dec 31 2004 by michele
5.0 out of 5 stars best Dracula Movie
Coppola did an amazing job on this film, drama fans will love it, horror fans will like it and advanture fans will love it, a truly visually amazing film.
Published on Nov 26 2004 by Deimos
4.0 out of 5 stars Bram's Stoker's best
You can't go wrong with Drakula, and this is the best translation to film of Bram Stoker's Masterpiece to date.
Published on July 16 2004 by Antonio Canas
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic telling of a classic tale
Francis Ford Coppola breathed new life in to the classic vampire story by Bram Stoker, keeping faith with much of the original novel while adding his own touches that made it an... Read more
Published on Jun 28 2004 by C. Ford
5.0 out of 5 stars The best vampire movie ever!
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse now) delivers the best vampire movie ever. "Dracula" has great performances from Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2004
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad.
Making a good vampire film seems like a rarity nowadays, perhaps because people are confused on what a vampire should be, apparantly the trend is to be oversexed and rich. Read more
Published on Jun 21 2004 by Isabella
5.0 out of 5 stars You have to see this!!
This is an awesome movie about the famous vampire Dracula. the good part is that it gives insight on the real legend behind this horror character, and it is not just a boring tale... Read more
Published on Jun 20 2004
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