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- From: douellet@beach.csulb.edu (Daniel Ouellette)
- Subject: Re: Dracula Criticism
- Message-ID: <Bxz9FK.6w7@beach.csulb.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- References: <18NOV92.17391311@vax.clarku.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:14:08 GMT
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- In article <18NOV92.17391311@vax.clarku.edu> rgoldberg@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >it's becoming "cool" to criticize the film, to be like, "Well, I'm a REAL
- >vampire fanatic, so of course it couldn't live up to MY expectations" kind of
- >thing. I happened to adore the movie, some people might not, whatever. But
- >I'm sure tyhis bulletin could be put to much better use than WHINING about
- >it!!!
-
- I think you have it wrong. It's not because I'm such a "REAL" vampire
- fanatic that I thought there was no way the film could live up to my
- expectations. I expected a lot from this movie for several reasons. First of
- all it was billed as 'Brom Stoker's DRACULA' the first movie to be true to
- the original novel. I loved the original book by Stoker, and anybody who is
- planning on making a movie that is true to the book has a lot of expectaions
- to live up to. Secondly, my roommate worked on the film (only for a day) and
- told me about how spectacular the sets and costuming were. My roomate knows
- my tastes and told me that I would definitely be impressed (as he was) about
- the whole production. That brought my expectaion level even higher. Then when
- I find out that Copolla is directing, that brings it to an even higher level.
- I mean, you tend to expect a lot from the director who brought you Apocolypse
- Now and The Godfather. So yes, I had very high expectaions, but after seening
- the movie said that I was quite dissappointed with it. I said that some of the
- dissappointment may have come from over-expectaions of the movie, but then I
- also continued to give the reasons _why_ I thought there were other flaws with
- the movie. Furthermore, I went to see it on opening night (in Hollywood) and
- did not have previous viewers telling me their views of the movie. I made
- my decisions on my own and was not following your 'trend' to bash the movie. I
- had made most of my decisions by the time the credits rolled at the end of the
- movie. I guess what it comes down to is that you have your own opinions and
- I have mine...
- -Daniel
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