Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Van Helsing is older than the eternal vampire...

Argento's Dracula

     Holy shit, somehow I got me a Rutger Hauer movie! Unfortunately, it's also a terrible attempt to retell Bram Stoker's best known novel.

So let's dig in...

     Also billed as “Dracula 3D” and “Argento's Dracula 3D” because one title is never enough. It hammers out the basic story without adding much of anything other than a terribly awkward sex scene in the first 5 minutes and Rutger Hauer. However, not even he shows up till over an hour in. Otherwise, it's trying to tell me a story I really don't care about, involving people I don't care about, and doing it as slow as possible. When Rutger shows up, as Van Helsing no less, we're already bored and sick of this silly movie. His presences was completely unnecessary and hardly believable. The action scenes are not meant for man now in his 70s! Yes, as of this writing, he's 71 hell-damn years old! That means when they filmed this, he was 68. NO, he's not an action star anymore. Split Second was a long time ago, Rut! You can't do those things anymore!

     At least the boobs were nice, but completely pointless. I have internet, therefore I have porn. Movie boobs do nothing for me. And I'm not even going into how useless the 3d probably was. This must have just been a quick paycheck for Rutger. Go see Omega Doom instead.


One out of place scene:


     At some point, a giant mantis shows up and kills the father of Drac's newest concubine. Upon inspection, the mantis was....uh....Dracula? Really? Earlier in the movie he entered a room as a swarm of flies, so yeah...totally believable and in sync with the rest of the story. Yep.


Wednesday: This movie has bawls...

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