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Movie Review: Dracula Untold

Posted in Reviews! with tags , , , , on 10/10/2014 by Taylor Holt

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Stars: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks, Charles Dance

Rated PG-13 for for intense sequences of warfare, vampire attacks, disturbing images, and some sensuality, Running time 92 minutes, Action/Fantasy/Drama

Compare to: Beowulf (2007), Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

If there’s one major leap forward the screenwriters of 300 took for their fellow writers, it was rewriting history as an epic fantasy, free from constraints of the truth and backed by creative liberties. “Hey, this isn’t a documentary!” Then again, that’s what Bram Stoker did originally anyway, so I guess this isn’t that new.

Dracula Untold is an hour and a half of weaving in an out of cliches like a stone skipping on water. Sure, it’s only scratching the surface of what it pretends to be, but when you’re skipping stones, you’re doing just that; not plunging the depths. Continue reading →

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Vampires, Werewolves, Superpowers.

Posted in Whatever with tags , , , on 10/02/2012 by Taylor Holt

I sometimes think it’d be awesome to be a vampire. This isn’t a common occurrence because I’ve got things to do like socialize and keep my girlfriend, but the thought, or a similar one, crosses my mind from time to time. It wouldn’t be too bad to be immortal. If you mean in the Highlander sense, there are almost no downsides to never dying, but if we keep in line with mostly vampires, you’ve got to constantly feed on other people. I find it a little bizarre and frankly annoying when hypothetical situations like this pop up and the person I’m talking to wants to give the impression that they would have no problem murdering other people. Shut up, yes you would. Continue reading →

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