Dracula Year Zero Rises at Universal

[TheVileOne]

Jeremy Jahns reviews Dracula Untold

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I love Lords of Shadow, but people who don't play games will have no idea what he is talking about.

Everyone thinks they can do a Marvel Cinematic Universe now. Its cute.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

So, when are they going to reboot Dracula?

 

[TheVileOne]

A female version next year called Draculetta starring Daffney Unger.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Sarah Van Helsing vs Draculetta. Who should play the Wolfwoman and Victoria Frankenstein's Monster?

 

[spider-neil]

Meh.

Doubt this will get a sequel.

 

[Rowsdower!]

If it does, will it be called Dracula Told?

 

[Lord]

Anyone able to tell if what it has made so far are good numbers?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Anyone able to tell if what it has made so far are good numbers?

http://deadline.com/2014/10/gone-girl-dracula-judge-alexander-box-office-848782/

 

[DarKush]

I just saw Dracula Untold. I enjoyed it. I wish it had been R-rated, but it still had quite a bit of action and violence in it, even if it wasn't as brutal as I would've liked for this film.

The end was just okay for me. I'm not sure how much I care to see a sequel. I loved the dragon armor Dracula wore. Not as much as the red armor from Bram Stoker's Dracula, but still pretty nice.

 

[MrMaooz]

23 million dollar opening weekend for this. I was expecting under 20 million.

 

[Donut]

I enjoyed it

 

[Lighthouse]

I remember when Alex Proyas was attached to direct this. I think while it might have not been great, he'd have made a better movie than this.

 

[Boom]

Well that was $10 and an hour and a half of my life I will never get back.

 

[Warhammer]

I wasn't expecting that ending...as unsurprising as it should have been.

 

[mclay18]

Anyone able to tell if what it has made so far are good numbers?

It's made $86 million internationally, against a reported $70 million budget. If the film posts okay holds, we're getting a sequel.

 

[Orb]

Enjoyed the film 6.5-7/10 I liked Luke Evans for the role and hope he gets to reprise this role.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yeah I really enjoyed Evans. He's underrated as Hell and brought a lot of pathos to the role. I'd love to see more of him, both as Vlad and in general. I've high hopes for him as the Crow (if the damned thing ever gets made!)

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It's made $86 million internationally, against a reported $70 million budget. If the film posts okay holds, we're getting a sequel.

Dracula collected $4 million on 351 screens, behind only last year’s Gravity. Of the movie’s domestic haul, 9 of the top 10 locations were IMAX screens. Universal reports a worldwide cume of $86 million+, momentum the studio will have to maintain word of mouth to offset its $195 million negative cost plus distribution expenses (the studio puts the total budget at $130 million). Universal and Legendary are likely to have a substantial write off. “I think we played less like a monster movie and more like an action adventure,” says Nikki Rocco, Universal’s head of distribution. “The movie paid attention to the folklore of Dracula, which is going to help us internationally.”

http://deadline.com/2014/10/gone-girl-dracula-judge-alexander-box-office-848782/

 

[EssayM]

I see this being like TIH in Marvel's movies. Loose continuity, may or may not recast the main character, but otherwise try to draw as little attention to it as possible. Get a good entry out to overshadow this one.

Hopefully the Mummy reboot is better than this one.

 

[Loki882]

I wouldn't recast. Evans was one of the better parts of this movie.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I ended up liking it. It was pretty dopey, and had some problems, but it entertained me and Luke Evans was an outstanding Dracula IMO. I hope they get to do a sequel and I hope this means Universal will do more with their monsters in the future.

 

[redhawk23]

I love Lords of Shadow, but people who don't play games will have no idea what he is talking about.

Everyone thinks they can do a Marvel Cinematic Universe now. Its cute.

Universal did the crossover film 60 years before the Avengers.

 

[KenK]

Universal did the crossover film 60 years before the Avengers.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! YUP! t:

 

[DA_Champion]

Dracula Untold is the worst movie I've seen this year, even worse than Amazing Spider Man 2.

 

[DA_Champion]

Dracula Untold (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 25%
IMDB: 5.9/10
Directed by: Gary Shore
Screenplay by Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless

One of the screenwriters for Dracula Untold has the name "Sharpless", and I find that fitting as this is the worst movie I've seen in 2014, the worst movie I've seen since Thor 2. It's dark, boring, stupid, and uninspired from beginning to end, an endless sequence of cliche plot points strung together from beginning to end, unseamlessly and typically irrationally. We have the son whose love for his father motivates him to be good, the loving beautiful wife who lives only to support her almighty heroic husband, the dumb religious people blinded by faith, the characters who fall of a ledge but are able to hang on with their two hands for a moment, the weapons created by the protagonist who became too dangerous, he innocent child who has a british accent only to seem more important, the racist caricatures of the enemy as greedy and dumb and misogynystic, et cetera.

A lot of scenes are recognisable from Man of Steel and Amazing Spider Man 2. Remember when Superman cries in agony after kiling Zod? Dracula cries out in agony in exactly the same way ... in several independent scenes. Reemember how Parker's web makes a hand to save Gwen after she falls but he fails? Dracula has that scene too, he reaches down to try and catch his wife and his hand stretches out, but he barely fails and he holds her as she dies.

This was... really bad. I'm in awe as to how something this awful can be made... even the camera movement was bad, throughout the first 20 minutes I felt like the camera was too close to the action, and I had trouble following and I was getting dizzy. There's also the casting failures that a lot of the actors look alike, so I don't remember who was who other than 4 or 5 characters, of whom I can only remember two names. But beyond that ... endless series of cliche.

Grade: F