Dracula as a LOVE story? Pfff...

Rating: 1/10 (11 August 2008)

If a book is adapted to the screen, it should at least somewhat follow the plot and spirit. Coppola's Dracula does not. I don't deny that Gary Oldman acted well, but come on... He's playing Dracula, not one of Ann Rice's vampires. Not a pathetic anemic pretty boy. Not a hero. Not something that deserves the least bit of sympathy. But an evil, revolting, murderous MONSTER that must be destroyed. Because that's what Dracula is.
The book is about the band of friends that stood up to the despicable evil being that Dracula was. Coppola's movie is about a romance between Dracula and Mina. It was such an insult to call this movie "Bram Stoker's" when it was so far from Stoker's vision of Dracula as an ultimate creature of evil.
It doesn't even stand on it's own as a film. Over-sexed, over-acted... what a joke. Skip this movie and watch NOSFERATU (the best film adaptation of Dracula out there, and a masterpiece all in it's own right too.)