Gary Oldman played the venerable Count Dracula in that one. Anthony Hopkins was Van Helsing, Keanu Reeves was Jonathan Harker and Winona Ryder (I think) was Mina Harker/Murray. Carey Elwes was there too but I forgot who he played
I liked the trailer for this, it looks like a fun movie. The shots of Cage at the end remind me of Christopher Lee.
The Wolfman remake was decent, it was a bit boring but watching him go on a rampage was kinda cool, and i loved the practical and special fx. I also liked The Mummy remake as an Indiana Jones-esque adventure romp. Brendan Frasier was great.
Just noticed you got the Mummy movies mixed up. I like the Brendan Fraser one. Heck, planning on watching it soon. It's not really horror, but it's a really solid adventure flick that nails that pulpy age of discovery feel crossed with some spooks like Indiana Jones had. Feels a little bit like riding the Jungle Cruise as a kid. It's the Tom Cruise Mummy that was just... not good. They tried to make an action film but it didn't have the heart to make it work and it made Tom Cruise out as some kind of god. Still have my doubts about Renfield because it just doesn't look like the direction I can see working, genre shift notwithstanding. Thanks to Brendan, I do have to concede that it's possible to take a classic monster and make it work outside of horror and with more bombastic stuff. It's just a hard sell. And I still want another good Dracula horror movie because I'm a glutton for them.
The Tom Cruise Mummy sucked so much cause it was directed by Alex Kurtzman destroyer of many franchises.
After the latest trailer, I kinda feel I do not need to watch this. I can guess almost the entire story now from the clips shown. They spoiled way too much with this trailer, such as how Dracula kills the support group and how Renfield will turn against him with the cop lady (and I assume kill him at the end). Sure will be enjoyable to watch Nick Cage ham it up, but I'll rather watch a review of this. And he killed that one so well, it killed all of the planned Dark Universe nonsense. I found that one utterly boring, especially the reveal about Antony Hopkins, and the super bad rampage in the city where the wolf-man jumps around like he is in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in super unconvincing ways. Also, sorry to say that but I feel it is time to dust off those rose-tinted glasses and abandon the crappy monkey face werewolf designs and go for the proper anthropomorph version, with a snout. Back before obviously make-up techniques were not as advanced as today, but after Dog Soldiers (which was all practical effects) there is really no excuse to use that design again. I never really looked at those wolf-men and thought they were werewolves, they resemble cavemen more.
I just saw it. Loved it. Way way over the top gore. Almost cartoonish. Explosions of blood. Cage is great. Not too over the top, but does ham it up. I give it a 9/10. It might settle more at an 8 later, but right now I had fun and a good time.
Cage almost always gives it 100% even when cast in movies with awful scripts. Cause he was in some really bad stinkers with his financial issues for several years. But even in the bad movies he was always the best part.
It was pretty good. I was expecting it to be a full-blown comedy, but Cage was a very convincing manipulative bastard. The guy who played Renfield was fantastic, the bullet time wasn't too intrusive, and everything wrapped up nicely enough. I liked it, I almost never say that about vampire movies, but this wasn't focused on vamps. It was focused on Renfield. It's the second vamp movie I'd willingly watch more then once.
Yea kind of a novelty these days a film or show being what it’s advertised as. Nice not to find u-turns and subversions.
