Just got back from the kinoplex.
Offensively average film, no reason it should exist.
"I'll defeat dracula cuz the world is racist" would be tolerable if the lead actor was good, he's not. This film needed Denzel Washington or someone in it.
The worst part by far is there's an empowered female mary sue who has zero character development.
The only thing that could have saved it were extravagant, iconic and flamboyant shots of dracula and they aren't there.
It sucked, don't bother.
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What's sad is that you don't even need to see a trailer to know that these are the plot points for any movie made after 2015
How does it stack up to the rest of the series? Do they attempt to tie it to Renfield or Dracula Untold in any way?
It ends with Dr Blacula or whatever his name survives and is in London saying he'll hunt dracula down to the end of the earth. So it sets itself up for a sequel that will not happen. No ties to other films.
It's like a long episode of "The Terror" except it's dracula instead of the tuunbaq. It's not horrible, it just makes you wonder why they didn't make something else.
I didn't watch Renfield so I'll place it below that and Scorpion King. Also if you offered me the option to watch the film, or this webm from BSD, I'd choose the webm.
That cannot be true, that's an awful ending.
I knew they wouldn’t kill the nig. How about the kids and broad?
It seems all those anons were wrong about the ending kek
That's my worst case scenario for the movie really. the very first ending that came to my mind when I saw the trailer.
Bram Stoker must be rolling over in his grave after seeing what they have done to his work.
>So it sets itself up for a sequel that will not happen. No ties to other films.
Why is Universal still doing this? How many Dark Universe attempts are there already? 5?
What's the point of releasing standalone films setting up sequels and never doing sequels they teased?
At some point they'll accidentally strike gold with some character or phrase that gets memed popularity, justifying a sequel, and normies will autowatch it.
Sony Pictures beat them to it
Would you believe, if I told you Universal is ran by rich idiots?
>Appeal to woke critics
>Not even the woke critics like it
origin of this movie is epic
>one dude saw demeter scale model scene in coppolas dracula
>decided to film a movie based on this event and 3-4 pages fro the book
>worked on this for 12 years because nobody wanted to film something so autistic
>finally reached morons from universal
>plz giv 100m for muh dracula boat movie
>universal desperate for monster movies hits agreed
>Why would a dracula movie sell, homosexual?
>Because three dracula movies just did sell, sir.
>Oh, ok. Have some money and wagies.
the budget hasn't been released, and there's no way it's 100m. it's just a rumour from some shitty website.
The Dark Universe is a cinematic universe composed entirely of movies meant to be the start of the Dark Universe.
how do films from the 90s look better than films today?
Coppola's Dracula doesn't look like most movies.
They weren’t made by diversity hires
FFC's Dracula is maybe the best looking movie in history, for several reasons.
One is the use of practical effects and also the use of almost all in camera tricks that exists as well as lighting techniques are a homage to the silent film era. All executed by professionals with decades of experience and a life long passion towards the craft. Compare that to a crew of diversity hires and nepobabies.
Shame about the script and the cast.
>How does it stack up to the rest of the series? Do they attempt to tie it to Renfield or Dracula Untold in any way?
Producers do not confirm but also do not deny. This movie may as well act as origin story of monster hunters agency.
Why would you take one chapter out of the Dracula book about a bunch of sailors being killed one by one on a boat ride between Transylvania and England and turn it into a story about racism and female empowerment?
It would have been at least watchable if the film was made 20 years ago like originally intended
because producers are fricking moronic and the audience screenings are always just for some bottom of the barrel normie morons barely reaching triple digit IQ put together.
It will make money because people are actually tasteless and stupid.
A good movie wouldn't make money, because there are less people with taste and the ability to think critically than the large unwashed masses of amerimutts.
Why did Coppola decide to throw in a shitty love story and cast the girl from Heathers? That's just how these things go.
producer: i wanna make a dracula film, pick a script!
director: i found one which explores a fresh new angle...
producer: i want this movie done by next month, the mafia don't like waiting
why even watch it in the first place OP? don't pay for this crap
>Look up cast lit
>Main character is a pompous looking monkey high on his own victimhood
>Surprised the film is about muh racism and he survives of course because we wuz medicine maynes
american vampire films are moronic films made for moronic americans
At least they learned from Renfield and actually put Dracula in the title. I tried explaining this movie to my mum (i.e. you know the chapter where he's on the ship and murders everyone) and she's like what? I dunno what it is this year with making movies about obscure tidbits of the original story and of course the UK title makes no allusion to Dracula which is marketing suicide.
dark universe bros... this doesn't look good for us...
>"I'll defeat dracula cuz the world is racist" would be tolerable
Obvious bait but at least you aren't shilling.
>watch trailer
>10 seconds in
Do the Mary Sue, the kids and the nig die?
mary sue and dr blacula defeat dracula, but mary sue dies because she was bit by drac so burns up in the sun. kid dies, dr blacula survies
yeah lol, the ending essentially retcons dracula.
clarification: well I say defeat but mean restrain so they can get off the boat, but dracula also gets off and makes it to london
>vampire movie
>it sucked
>The Demeter arrives to port empty
>ackshually Doc Black survived
lol
not sure how it goes in the film but now I'm just imagining that one guy who ties himself to the steering wheel while going insane and suddenly Dr. N. Egro pops out and goes "I survived too lol"
And then he takes his wallet.
Thank frick they didn’t go with just “voyage of the demeter” like they started with. They even put Dracula on the poster. Smart. You might actually want people to be interested in your horror movie and not think it’s a fricking Boats disaster movie.
This was the exact thing that killed Renfield. People see that title and they think "ergh, sounds like a posh twat period piece film" and you've already lost about half you audience then and there.
>Nicolas Cage's DRACULA!: Renfield
This isn’t a bad idea. We cringe at the marketing but it’s asses in seats that make or break movies. If you can’t communicate what your movie is, especially when it’s a niche audience like the horror audience, you can kill the box office.
I know we’d all like it if they could keep reveals secret and you went into this somehow being surprised it’s actually a Dracula film like it was clearly written, but that’s fantasy world shit. Maybe a big name like Stephen King could get away with being coy about what the fricking story is supposed to be, the rest better print SCARY VAMPIRE BOO somewhere on the cover.
I mean they should have just made a Dracula film with Nicolas Cage in it and left the Renfield part alone.
The best part was undoubtedly Cage’s homage to Lugosi. If they’re gonna fund weird niche movies like this I’d want a straight up b/w Dracula with Cage. An audience of DOZENS would love it.
>it sucked
heh
damn, i miss the times when nigs got killed first in a movie
name 5 horror movies where this happens
The Mummy from their fricking moronic universe
LMAO at reviews
>steaming pile of ship
>dracula horror is lost at sea
What the frick?
How Does 'The Last Voyage of the Demeter' Set Up a Sequel?
Javier Botet as Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Image via Universal
Now in the city, Clemens is at a bar where he asks for directions to a place where he knows Dracula spends the daytime in hiding. However, as it is night, he fears it would be too dangerous to go after him right now. Wouldn’t you know it, Dracula is also there at the bar? He knocks on the ground with his cane, literally echoing a recurring element from the film where characters would bang on the ship to communicate, and rattles Clemens to his core. When he subsequently gathers himself, he chases after his target but he is unable to catch him. This rather silly ending seems to imply that there is a desire for a sequel in which we explore what it would be like to try to hunt for Dracula in London. There is little else to it other than that, proving to be one of the oddest conclusions to a film this year. Only time will tell how seriously we are meant to take this tease.
Hey OP can you confirm this? How does Dracula look like when he's in London? Still cgi ghoul?
>cgi ghoul
that's just how british people look
Is this real? Damn, I really wanted it to be good
How long is this part in the book?
Probably one page. The book is an epistolary novel and no main character was on that ship, so it was not fleshed out.
one chapter, including a newspaper article and the journal of one of the crew
nobody survived in the book
That’s it? And they made a movie about it ?
Yep. Don't underestimate Universal studio stupidity. It's not just movies. They are literally building multimilion theme park based on new takes on classic monsters.
If they were smarter they actually just to a tv show instead of a movie
bleh
why do they spend a bajillion dollars making trash like this. They must know it sucks just by the script. Would it kill them to make a kino dracula we haven't had one in ages
It's funny how Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is slowly becoming a better movie in hindsight
Shame. That's one of my favorite parts of the book. Could've been really good. They forced a woman into it?