This movie pleasantly surprised me when I was watching it in the cinema. My take on your query if the spirit lied would be: yes, it did. I agree the lead actress was phenomenal. I would say her performance was on the level of the performance of the lead actress in First Omen. That movie was also surprisingly good.
Het is wel echt een betere ervaring om een recensie te zien van iemand die ook Nederlands is 😂 Goeie film, maar ik heb er wel veel om zitten lachen hoe stereotypisch ze het Nederlandse koppel hebben gemaakt 😂 Volgens mij kan Fedja echt wel beter Engels dan dit hahaha
@@koelkastridder3388 Dat denk ik ook ja, het was nu lekker aangedikt! Maar hij heeft wel ballen dat hij zo'n rol aanneemt. (Z'n vrouw ook trouwens.) Dat gaat je vast niet in de koude kleren zitten... en meerdere nederlandse acteurs hebben nee gezegd.😅
I love your reaction to this movie, dear!!! 👏👏👏👏❤️ Like you, I think this is the film adaptation that comes closest to the novel, and also like you, I have mixed feelings about the romance between Dracula and Mina, because I love the novel, (I've read it many times in my life) and that element of the story wasn't present in it. In the book Dracula is a monster, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. His power over these women is pure hypnosis, like a reptile that will paralyze its prey with fear before killing it. I'm still waiting for someone to do a more EXACT version of the book. Maybe someday. All my best to you, dear! You're very beautiful! ✌️❤️
9:00.......One of the things I really like about this version is that it includes Quincy Morris. I'm not sure if any other version has had that character in it.
@@MtcRead Last night I watched the BBC adaptation of Dracula from 1977, with Louis Jourdan as Dracula. It's very good and very close to the book in many ways. It combines Arthur Holmwood and Quincy Morris into one character, Quincy P. Holmwood , and British actor Frank Finlay plays an excellent Van Helsing. It's now one of my new favorite adaptations of the story.
Interesting insights! I am from the U.S. and have watched this film several times, but my understanding very much benefits from the Dutch perspective. :) Little details like the house not being a typical Dutch design, but of course their foreign visitors wouldn't know the difference necessarily (nor did I, lol). Like you said, the final act is so unrelentingly bleak that I can't really recommend it to anyone, so I just look for online discourse. Something I noticed on my latest viewing was how direct and truly unambiguous the Dutch couple's communication is. One example is earlier on in the film when Patrick says that he is a doctor, he immediately follows it up with "No, really." But this is a colloquialism (at least in my region), and both "yes" and "no" are often used in a way to affirm what is being said. So much meaning relies on context, but even then I often ask people to clarify. How much more confusing for non-native English communicators!! 😅
I would feel guilty recommending this to anyone...😅 So I too am very happy we can discuss these kind of films on this platform. I'm always very interested in intercultural communication, gestures, etc. So you elaborating on this is very welcome!
We are often shocked/surprised/disappointed/disgusted by the Danish couple passivity, but we are watching a fictional story on a TV screen. We are all seeing ourselves as heroes when watching a movie. In real life when we look all around us without much hassle we will find plenty of examples of behaviour like this: willingness to suffer undeserved consequences rather than standing up for oneself in fear of breaking a some sort of a code. Perhaps we are even guilty of it ourselves. The movie just pushes it to the extreme - but such cases also do happen in real life. Not only to individuals but also to societies.
Frankly I'm here for your voice. I find it simultaneously soothing and alluring. I also enjoy your reactions though this, for a number of reasons, is not my favourite Dracula film. I find Gary Oldman's scenery chewing performance and the presence of so many 'stars' rather distracting , but I am not overly evangelical about my favourite ,so you must revel in your favourite and enjoy it to the maximum. For the record my favourite is the Werner Herzog Nosferatu (closely followed by the Murnau Nosferatu). It has some extraordinary set-pieces and a distracted feel that makes it seem like everyone is in a dream. Some think it bad acting but I find it genuinely unreal, if that makes any sense at all. Anyway... Thanks for the reaction. I enjoyed it.
Thanks! I have seen the Murnau Nosferatu, but the Werner Herzog one escaped me. So that one is going on the list. I do wonder how the new version is going to turn out. (The one with Willem Dafoe - again-)
The car was stuck, The fact that he went for help and she remained passive just underlines their overall dependence on external help. They did not even try to help themselves on their own, by pushing the car out of the ditch.
I agree I absolutely got lost in this movie but I read the book first it came out shortly before the movie I loved it and was so happy when I found out the movie was coming so glad you reacted to this masterpiece and I hope you continue. I hope you react to Penny Dreadful an amazing show it last three seasons and its amazing from beginning to the end an all star cast, take care, my friend.
Apparently, according to the director, the movie is a commentary on Danish people's kindness & how people exploit it. The Dutch couple tested them in literally everything throughout the movie, even to get out of this situation. But it was that courtesy from the Danish couple that led them to come back and to their horrific fate!!!!
the danish director actually said that he wanted the movie to show how much we are willing to endure and please everyone else, instead of listening to our gut feeling
Yes! I also looked up a couple of interviews with the director after I saw this movie, because I was really curious. Apparently he also set out to make the scariest Danish movie ever. In my humble opinion he succeeded!
@@MtcRead they say its not scary enough and its a too lengthily movie. and mostly they are frustrated that the parents don't do anything/enough, especially with their daughter. and also the not happy ending. But that is exactly why it works so good in my opinion. I haven't seen the new remake yet, but I know they changed the ending and some other stuff and the movie/film reviewers from Denmark who has reviewed the new one, say that they recommend the danish one much more
8:43 Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey, Hugh Bonneville, there. Also, 11:37 Carson, Butler of Downton Abbey, Jim Carter, on De Niro's right. I'm surprised at how many Downton Abbey alumni are in Frankenstein adaptations, like Dan Stevens as Henry Clerval in the 2004 miniseries, or Jessica Brown Findlay in Victor Frankenstein with McAvoy and Radcliffe.
See, I didn't even know Dan Stevens when I saw the mini-series! I even still have the box-set at home... So fun to re-watch these old movies and suddenly recognize actors that I was not familiar with back then.
Back when I first saw this movie I had no idea who this actor was. I just saw the characters. Now when I re-watch them, and I'm like; I know every single one of these actors.😄
The point, as you said in horror, is "for evil to win, all good men need do is nothing." The satirical point is the constant diplomacy in the face of obvious madness!
Ugh girl this amount of editing is definitely my humor, and i am crying just watching those lol, keep reacting please!! I would recco anything. Anyways this movie is definitely disturbing, and just make you feel so bad for them, watching them suffer... and we’re getting an American remake which is unnecessary? This is already good on its own. I recco some horror stuff: As Above So Below, The Sacrament, Delivery: The Beast Within, Incident In A Ghostland, Martyrs, You’re Next, the whole V/H/S franchise. That's all for now, i hope you come back girl!!
Thank you for being yourself. Your quiet wit is great. I laughed I cried 😂 I subscribed. Refreshing to watch along without the "creator" acting like an idiot and being loud for clicks....
You clearly haven't watched Hammer Horror's Curse of Frankenstein. Peter Cushing's Frankenstein was so evil, with his designs on creating life ranging from grave robbing to straight up murdering the professor for his brain. He even has an affair with Justine behind Elizabeth's back and then has his monster, played by Christopher Lee, kill Justine when she blackmails him to marry her instead when she becomes pregnant.
19:11 ''What do you work with then?'' ''I don't work. I've never worked. I don't believe in working.'' Prolly the only thing in this movie that I agree with from the things he has said 😂
