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Dracula (2020)
Utterly ridiculous after a great first episode
Seriously, I'm still trying do understand what happened here.
First episode was shockingly good, with all the new twists and liberties taken with the source material. So promising, so dark, I dare say even with a flair of Christopher Lee's Dracula at times.
Second episode on it was just as shocking, only in the worst possible way. So ridiculously inconsistent it seems even surreal someone would not notice all the plot holes and mistakes (deliberate?)
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Dracula emerges from a 123 years nap under the sea knowing what a camera and a gun are and how to operate them.
Characters are completely shallow, though Dracula and Agatha have their moment.
Dracula is arrested and is given a tablet (wifi is none other his very name in a ridiculous company that uses his very name for a WiFi password (what the...). He also has a lawyer for over 123 years (with such ridiculous arguments to set him free).
In the first episode when he kills his bride she just lies there blessing, whereas when Lucy, as a vampire, is killed she explodes in ashes.
All this sh#t for you to know Dracula had a kink for a nun (who apparently wasn't as virtuous as she so heatedly states nun's are in episode 1).
Dracula can turn into bats, wolves, mist, you name it, but is confined in a glass cell?
Such a waste of time. Apparently no one has beaten Coppola's yet, or Bram Stoker himself, since it appears to me they try to make something even better than the novel, but guys, please give up. Can't you understand nothing will ever EVER beat the original?
I give 3 starts only because episode one was really surprising and good.
The Night Sitter (2018)
This was horrible, but...
Ok!!! So, I watched this movie knowing it was gonna be bad. Well.... it is!!! No disappointments there.
Terrible acting, bad direction, horribly goofy cuts, one of the worse plots I've seen. Nothing makes sense. I get it they got some inspiration on Suspiria (the three mothers and some use of saturated colors - badly though) and Hocus Pocus and has an 80s B horror movie feel to it.
This was a masterpiece of crap but... I kinda found it actually a bit enjoyable. Maybe it's because I was drinking while watching it (this is the only way someone can actually enjoy this sh#t).
Don't be fooled though. This is as bad as it sounds. I give it a 3 stars just because it did not disappoint me and because I've been through worse (I mean it, everything's possible and yes, there is worse than this out there)!
Carrie (2013)
Good movie, though I expected more...
I'm a huge fan of Carrie's. She was my hero when I was bullied in childhood and most of my adolescence by school mates. I must've seen the original a thousand times and read the book up to 7 times when younger. When I got to know that a new, more faithful to the book remake was being filmed, my expectations were as high as they could be. Wow, would I really see what she did to the town?
The movie just debuted here in Brazil and, after months of anxiety I have to say the movie was good, but... oh boy, I expected so much more.
As opposed to Piper Laurie's more comical and theatrical Margareth, Moore's portrayal is simply scary and more psychologically dramatic and disturbing. Moretz's Carrie is astonishing. Carrie is simply alive, but perhaps a little less shy then Spacek's Carrie. The acting was terrific, no doubt about that. THUMBS UP!
One thing I thought as soon as the movie ended was how fresh Peirce made this remake. Carrie steps in the 21st century and it becomes her. The students really look like teenagers (because they actually are, which was not the case with De Palma's - Spacek was 30!!!) and you can really feel what they feel. There is a youth in it, which there was not in De Palma's version. You can get inside the movie and understand everyone's motives and drives. Raw, young, deep and very life like.
About the plot per se, lots of expectations were seeded with the promo material, but some of them did not come to life. The 1st trailer shows Carrie in the midst of the town in flames. That never happened. They didn't show the destruction that takes place, but made us think they would by what was shown in the trailers. Very reduced here.
"You will know her name" I thought they were relating that to the fact that in the book, people would know telepathically Carrie's name while she passed them by, creating the whole havoc. Never shown either. They even said "Flex like Carrie". Every time she used TK, the word "flex" came to her mind in the book. Though not good, 2002's version shows more destruction. Carrie's anger was so much lessened in the movies.
Overall, it's a good movie but, I don't agree with the media saying it's more faithful to the book. It's more De Palma's Carrie then Stephen King's Carrie.