Heh. @mallellis may have sold me on Dracula Untold.

I was predisposed to disapprove, but…

The premise of Dracula Untold is “What if Dracula was just a really good dad, you guys?” and that is more than enough premise for me. I am a very simple woman, and always have been, ever since I was a very simple child. I like movies set in vaguely medieval castle-towns. I like movies about guys who all they want to do is go back to their farms and wives a la Cincinnatus but dammit the world just won’t let them. I like movies about guys who impale a lot of people on pikes, and then there’s fog, and I like movies where enemies have to have a lot of meetings in each other’s war tents while drinking coffee and acting civilized, and Dracula Untold delivered. If you think that you are too good for a movie where a man turns into very many bats and then punches a lot of guys with his giant bat-fists, then I don’t know what you’re doing on this website or in my life. You’re not too good for it, I can assure you.

…there is a certain force to Mallory Ortberg’s arguments. Because I really and truly am not too good for this kind of movie. I shouldn’t even try to pretend otherwise.

Via

5 thoughts on “Heh. @mallellis may have sold me on Dracula Untold.”

    1. Thank you.
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      I was on the proverbial fence about it. (I was actually on the couch but .. nevermind)
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      Mew

      1. I am plug into a few movie critics and, while they tend to be politcally liberal, I tend to agree with them on movies and they mostly keep their personal politics out of their reviews.

  2. The description reminds me of some historical novels by a Kate Paulk, that you might be interested in.
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    Also her comic convention novels.

  3. I just got back from seeing the movie. It’s
    not a great movie but it is a good movie. It had stabbings and explosions and bats so I’m good to go. If I want deep I’ll go read Tolstoy.

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