HDC Looks Back...

[_____V_____]

Moving on...

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

[hammerfan]

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?
I saw it in the theatre when it came out.

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
I remember hearing how bad Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were.

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?
I had to agree about Reeves and Ryder. I did like Gary Oldman's portrayal, and Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing.

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?
I own it, so multiple.

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
None that I can think of.

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Moving on...

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?
DVD a few years ago

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
I heard a lot of negative things about it

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?
If it wasn't for Oldmans portrayal I probably wouldn't have liked it. still not my favorite portrayal though. I'm just a big fan of Gary Oldman

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?
Just once

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
Not really

Answers in bold

[Straker]

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?

Not sure, probably watched it a few years after release on VHS....

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

Mostly remember the heavy (and deserved) criticism of Keanu Reeves

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?

This is the movie that made me fall in love with camp, over blown cinema... I really hadn't seen anything as ridiculous or equally amazing as this movie before. Every colour, detail, action and line is delivered with total excess. I guess it would be wrong of me to ignore the women in this movie too. I'm sure I would have been around 14 or so when I first watched this movie and pretty much every woman in it is insanely sexy.

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?

Lots.... probably still watch it around once every couple of years or so.

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

Really just love this movie so much.... Over acted, over produced, over saturated colour and lighting, impossibly camp and ridiculous dialogue. Total invasion of the senses that really shouldn't work but I loved it on first viewing and still love it now. Everything a vampire (campire?) movie should be and then some....

Really enjoyed Cary Elwes' performance as Holmwood too.... But I am a huge fan of the Holmwood, Seward and Morris characters in general.

Most over acted line of the movie? There's the bastard! Courtesy of Keanu...

[fortunato]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Moving on...

1. VHS

2. No, I was pretty young.

3. I was maybe seven or eight when I first saw it, and I just thought it was really cool. Since then, I think it's a great take on the material, except for some poor casting choices, maybe.

4. A couple.

5. Not really. I think it's a great vision, but it's never really done much for me otherwise.

[_____V_____]

Anyone else wishes to share their experience with Bram Stoker's Dracula?

[Kandarian Demon]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?

On TV... sometime in the mid 90s, I think.

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

Not much... I'm sure I must have read a few reviews.

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?

I thought Gary Oldman did a fantastic job. Visually I thought it was a beautiful movie. I enjoyed watching it, but thought it was a bit too romantic/sugary.

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?

Probably 3-4 times.

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

Oh yes... watching the movie with friends, having a bit too much to drink, turning into the depressed drunk, and destroying my own tough tomboy image by crying because I felt so bad for poor Dracula :D :D

[MichaelMyers]

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?

On TV.

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

No, just heard it was a solid adaptation.

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?

The experience went really well. I thought this was a top-notch rendition of Dracula and think it is an underrated horror flick

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?

Between 10-15 times.

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

Spent many an hour playing the superb pinball companion to this film.

[realdealblues]

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?
VHS

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?
Not really, just who was in the cast.

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?
Oldman did a good job, but I continue to watch it because of Anthony Hopkins.

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?
Probably 50 times.

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?
I watch it with my dad a lot and we always bust out laughing when they are sitting at dinner and Mina asks, "How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain?"

Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Yeah, she was in great pain. Then we cut off her head, and drove a stake through her heart, and burned it, and then she found peace.

Still our favorite part in the whole movie.

[metternich1815]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Moving on...

1 - Do you remember when you first watched it? Theater, VHS or DVD?

2 - Did you get any feedback (from friends or media) prior to watching it?

3 - How was your first viewing experience? Did you like Gary Oldman's take on the Count?

4 - How many times have you re-watched it since?

5 - Any special memories associated with it, that you wish to share?

1. I first watched this on a dvd that, I believe, my Dad had bought for me. Me, my Mom, and my Dad all watched it together. This was probably nine or ten years ago (I was probably nine or ten), I am not entirely sure (It could have been fewer years than that, I am only giving my best guess). The first time I watched it I did not really like it a lot because I was so used to Dracula (1931), which I loved and watched a lot when I was a kid. After the first couple of times, I started to like it and now it is one of my favorite films.

2. I had not heard anything good or bad about it. Although, it was featured in a horror movie documentary I watched a lot called Monster Mania.

3. I described my first viewing experience in number one. Today, I really enjoy the film. I love how close it is to the book, which I have read. I thought all the performances were great, especially Oldman's and Hopkin's (Hopkin's as Van Helsing was probably my favorite character in the film). Plus, the film has a really good score. I am actually really surprised that a number of people do not like it because I like it so much now.

4. I have probably watched this, no exaggeration, 100-150+ times since. In fact, this film used to be the film I would watch when I was ready for bed (I have always had to sleep with the TV on and I would often put in a movie as well).

5. I have a number of special memories with it, which I have described above.