As always, the painstakingly incredible production design and cinematography in an Eggers movie: 10/10
Dr. Von Franz’s bedside manner especially compared to Hopkins as Helsing: 9/10
This being the first Orlock/Dracula I’ve seen with a mustache even though I believe that’s actually a description somewhere in the novel: 8/10
This third Nosferatu and nth Dracula adaptation having little new to bring besides making the sexuality ridiculously literal: 4/10
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Has some good action and showed some potential to be better in the first two thirds or so. But by the end I felt like a clown for thinking this might not be exactly what it is.
Lucilla is brought back just to make her life more full of misery and have her blamed for shit that’s not really her fault, but at least the hero’s dead wife has a name this time lol.
Denzel is the only real character…
Saw this on the big screen recently, hoping I might finally see in it what everyone else does. I probably enjoyed myself watching it more than ever before, but I still don't feel like rating it any higher.
I’ve always found it annoying that this movie unnecessarily goes so far to make Ripley look good by surrounding her with such obnoxiously cavalier and ineffectual people. But the main disappointment for me as such a fan of Alien is how this…
I wasn’t prepared for this to turn into gay history Forrest Gump in the latter half and definitely preferred the early episodes’ exploration of McCarthyism from a perspective I’ve honestly never seen before in media. But the epic scope of this love story makes it all the more poetic when the last episode circles back around to that era and recontextualizes everything we’ve seen of the relationship. Hawk and Tim are great characters who never quite fit any cliche, played more impressively by Bomer and Bailey than I expected. It’s all enough to make me not mind how on-the-nose the whole thing gets occasionally.
