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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 849732" data-attributes="member: 812">Being at least as stupid as the next guy, and generally about twice as ignorant, I don't usually get involved "aren't people stupid" discussions, but the Bram Stoker/Anne Rice one reminded me of something the director of "Dracula 2000" said in an interview.Now, D2000 is not by any stretch of the imagination the worst film it could possibly have been. Frankly, it's not even as bad as it arguably SHOULD have been, with a title like that. It's not great, but it has a sense of humour, some clever bits in the fight scenes, a couple of solid performances and a genuinely new idea about everybody's favourite Transylvanian. Which makes him, er, Jewish, but never mind.Thing is, I didn't get the impression when I watched the film that it was made by morons. Rather, it feels like it was made by reasonably intelligent people with some talent, not a lot of money and maybe not quite as much attention to detail as the film really needed. But anyways. I digress.So on the DVD there's the obligatory "behind-the-scenes" "featurette" (whoever came up with that word needs to be locked in a room with Martha Stewart reading Ayn Rand novels) with all the breathless hoo-hah about how visionary they all are and such (I want my first DVD's "featurette" to feature my wife and sitting in our PJ's saying things like, "Nah, we didn't have any vision. Universal offered us 2 million so once that was gone we realised we had to shoot something to give them, so we made something up and... hey, are there any more Twinkies?"). And so the director comes on and he's babbling, I mean, just outright babbling about nipple piercing and goth clubs and he says, "And so I realised, you know, that really, this has become a huge cultural phenomenon."He's talking about Dracula. He thinks Dracula has become a huge cultural phenomenon. Really. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> What could have tipped him off, I wonder? Maybe the fact that a novel written 150 years ago remains popular today? Or perhaps there's the endless run of movies about this character? Plastic fangs for Hallowe'en? Honestly.Dracula's a huge cultural phenomenon. Go tell your friends.</blockquote>

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