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...and make them suck :(

Watching the original Dracula on AMC right now, but thinking of the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" version, which I hated.

That movie may have been "Dracula" but it wasn't "Bram Stoker's". As written, Dracula was meant to be evil, not romantic.

Add in that Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing should have been great, but the direction turned the character into a slightly psychotic goofball.

Waste of a decent cast, overall, and did damage to a classic story.

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I think Van Helsing was an attempt to make an English version of "Vampire Hunter D" and they seized on Van Helsing as their monster fighter.

The idea of van Helsing as a crusading enemy of evil isn't necessarily a bad one, but it was pretty poorly executed.

They'd have done better just to acquire the rights to VHD and make a straight English version of it.

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I hate just about anything that has any association with Tim Burton or David Lynch.

I actually liked the concept of the new Mummy movies (making him scarier than a guy wrapped in bandages hobbling around at a speed that wouldn't catch a grandmother using a walker) but what made me unhappy was that they turned it into an action movie, not a horror movie.

(same guy did Van Helsing)

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