The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

For shame, Chuk, for not Worfing that post.

I laughed pretty hard at "is that the one with Scott Bakula."

I'm pretty embarrassed by how many of those I knew, but it was heavily weighted towards TNG and DS9 (aka good Star Trek).

"so many sex pests!"

fucking lol. This movie sounds terrible.

Their story of Mike and Rich being extras and Mike hiving to ride an amusement show ride for hours until feeling sick, reminded me of something from a friend from years ago.

My friend did work as an extra when he could, a local theme park had build a new rollercoaster. He spent all day there filming with a bunch of people riding it multiple times. Two pretty young girls who were sitting in the front seats got sick and had to get out at the end of the run, walk off a short distance and throw up. Everyone else was sitting in the rollercoaster, had to look away and 'Oh God that's gross!' kinda stuff. This was only early in the day too. Then they had to keep riding the thing again and again, he said the whole day was terrible.

A few weeks later and the ad comes on TV. Over 50% of the ad was those 2 girls riding in the front seats. Slow-mo kinda shots of them screaming and long hair flying. Due to the way the filming was done, cameras had been attached to the nose of the coaster for the first several runs, filming the girls. Then during a break the cameras were removed and the coaster was run again and again with nothing on its nose to look clean, and film it from multiple positions from the ground. With everyone riding it again and again. But the ad was mostly those 2 girls in the front seats. He was angry.

A lot of people consider that a bad movje, I can't imagine why. Oldman is so, so good. For sure the best Dracula, and one of the best vampire movies period.

Of course I haven't seen it in like 20 years, this may be an Event Horizon situation where I revisit and find out yet again that younger me liked a lot of dumb things.

Review was really positive; it was mostly the acting of the younger actors that they sort of complained about, but everything else was great.

They're mostly right. Keanu and Rider are miscast in an otherwise really interesting and well made movie.

Fucking RLM. Now I want to go back and watch it.

I remember liking it when I was young, so much so that I tried reading the book. Could never get through it though as reading letters and shit was just super boring. Plus the book was incredibly long.

been a while since I saw it. and I got to tell you. I had totally forgotten the "mina was the reincarnation of his lost love" thing was made up for the movie. That shit is like core to the mythos now. EVERY Dracula story has that as part of it nowadays.