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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Oralox on July 04, 2008, 02:56:10 PM
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Or no?
I just find it weird that drac would dress up in his Halloween costume again and even Julius dressing like he's from the 1800s.
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Drac will probably dress up like Jesse Katsopolis, Julius will have his standard brown coat. Maybe Drac will have a new and stylish haircut.
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Other than the motorcycles and drac's more stereotypcial hairdo in por, it is doubful they will modernized the game
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Maybe the characters will have modern outfits, like Soma and co had, Drac will probably look the same like always. Maybe they add some modern backgrounds like the cars in DoS.
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Maybe they'll give him sunglasses like Gary Oldman wears in Bram Stoker's
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In Reply To #5
Gary Oldman was a great Dracula =D
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Or no?
I just find it weird that drac would dress up in his Halloween costume again and even Julius dressing like he's from the 1800s.
I think it'd be cool if they gave vlad a huge gun in that one.
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In Reply To #6
I love that movie, one of my faves, as well as Van Helsing...
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The only Dracula movie I like so far is Nosferatu. And I have seen many.
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In Reply To #8
How on earth could you like that terrible movie? Van Helsing was garbage.
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In Reply To #1
If Aria of Sorrow is any indication, hell naw. There won't be any touch of urbanism that has defined the late 90s in sight. Instead, bellbottoms and highwaters... :|
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In Reply To #8
How on earth could you like that terrible movie?
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In Reply To #12
I really wanted to like it. I love the universal studios monsters to death, they are what got me into Castlevania. Van Helsing in theory was like a movie version of what the old Castlevania's did, but it was done so terribly that it almost offends me. I seriously still watch it from time to time trying to force myself to like it. But there is just to much wrong with it.
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I don't really like Van Helsing much.. It's okay, but not something to watch more than once. [I've watched it twice! NOOOOOOO. Kidding.]
It isn't too bad.
As for the 1992 Dracula film, it was pretty good.
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In Reply To #12
I really wanted to like it.
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In Reply To #14
Bram Stoker's Dracula is easily the greatest Dracula ever to be put onto film(Hopefully Castlevania will change that). It really is executed perfectly.
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In Reply To #16
Agree. Best vampire movie to date. Followed closely by Interview With The Vampire.
I enjoy watching Van Helsing for the visual style other than that its utter garbage.
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I don't know. I really like Gary Oldman and he certainly was cool as Drac, but I couldn't really take him serious. As for Bela Lugosi; he is really good, but... WAY TO SYMPATHETIC to be Drac. T_T
So the 1922 Nosferatu Dracula (I don't even know his name LOL) was the best in my opinion. He doesn't look anything like the Bram Stoker Dracula (bald, suit instead of cloak etc), but he certainly is creepy with his wide-opened eyes, his insanely-long fingers and his odd movements. I love the scenes when you only see his shadow.
Has anyone seen the newer version of Nosferatu? Was it good?
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How was Van Helsing bad? Ok, ok, it was unrealistic. F*CK REALISM!! WOULD YOU SERIOUSLY SAY SOMETHING IS BAD BECAUSE IT IS UNREALISTIC??!! Ok, yeah, it may have conflicted with the Stoker story, but who's to say that since that was there first, nobody else can make their own version, for the hell of it? Not only that, but both movies didn't even have the same Van Helsing! Bram Stoker= Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing= Gabriel Van Helsing, a relative to the first, of some sort. So really, you shouldn't bash it for those reasons. IMO, the graphics weren't very good. Mr. Hyde looked dreadful, though I like the inclusion of him, he's and old monster I forgot about for awhile.
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In Reply To #19
It was bad because it was written terribly. The director contradicts himself saying he is the arch anger gabriel, and related to Abraham? No. The acting was terrible. Dracula's babies looked ridiculous, and the plotline involving them was idiotic. Dracula has to be killed by a werewolf... ok, why? The director answered this with the "don't even worry about it" approach. I never said anything about realism. There is a reason this movie has a 16% on rotten tomatoes. It was just stupid. Frankenstein was a fricken opera singer for crying out loud "I waaaaant tooo LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!" "Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?!" I almost choked when he said that. It is filled with stupid moments, like when the Velarius girl stops to comment on how pretty the moon is, your brother will be fucking damned if you don't save him in like 10 minutes, don't stop to look at the fucking moon! The director also takes credit for making up the idea of Dracula turning into a giant bat like monster, we all know that is bs.
I wanted to love this movie. I was super pumped for this movie. But it was the biggest let down ever.
Quick question, how old are you? I'm not trying to be mean, just curious.
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In Reply To #20
Uh... I'm 15. Why the hell do want to know?
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In Reply To #21
No offense, but there are plenty of terrible movies i love because I saw them when i was younger. So I figured you were pretty young, and I was right. I don't think your stupid, or a little kid. I just figured you probably watched it as a kid and liked it.
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In Reply To #22
No, I watched it last night. :P
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In Reply To #23
Then I guess you just have strange taste. =( To each his own I guess.
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In Reply To #24
Yes, I have very strange taste. In everything. Actually, my tastes often contradict each other. :P
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Drac in 1999 will look like Gary Oldman or that pimp version of him as prince drac?
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If anything else we hope that Iga starts to reconize that modernization would be a good change if there where to be an up comming 1992 game. Julius should have an outfit very close in smiliarty to Constintine, just a suit. Dracula looks pretty good with his usual look with the flowing robes and such but for a modern version he would have a red suit with a black undershirt,tie, and long trenchcoat.
By far if anything else a Castlevania game or movie above the year 1990 should be based off of Constintine (I love that movie, closest to Castlevania style I have seen in a long time).
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I'm hoping that Dracula will resemble his "Mathias" look.
Yoolius will probably look like Juiced but with brown hair & New York-styled clothing ;D
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Y'know I was thinkin' and it would be kickass if drac was like heatguy and oculdturn his arms into giant machine guns or other matter like Frankie in Por, that would be really kickass and make fighting him with a whip really fun.
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In Reply To #27
I really liked Constantine too very good movie. Kinda does have a CV vibe now that I think about it.
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it shouldn't be modernized but I think they will add some guns in there anyway.
but we certainly don't want CV 1999 to end up like Operation Darkness, although that theme was cool for that game alone. ;D
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as long as it doesn't follow a fad like cotm that felt like konami was combining yu-gi-oh with castlevania being that card games were popular at the time
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In Reply To #32
I loved the DSS system. It wasn't like yugioh at all. If you through down in a card match with Dracula that would be one thing. But just because yugioh is dumb doesn't mean you can't do magical cards in a cool way.
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In Reply To #33
What!? Yugo rulezz!!! D:
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Van Helsing (I know we've moved on from that) was reasonable, apart from the horrible wide-eyed rasp effect that they put on Dracula when he was about to bite Anna. I though Dracula and his Brides turning into those bat monsters was quite good, though.
The 1992 film was also good, but on repeated viewings you start to notice it suffers from mediocre accents, erratic characterisation (was Van Helsing intelligent, insane, or noble?), and Keanu Reeves.
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The 1992 film was also good, but on repeated viewings you start to notice it suffers from (...) and Keanu Reeves.
LOL.
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(was Van Helsing intelligent, insane, or noble?)
Have you read the book? That was 100% what Stoker was going for.
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In Reply To #37
Right. Well, I must say, he is the coolest character in the whole book.
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Have you read the book? That was 100% what Stoker was going for.
No, I haven't (not in its entirety, from cover to cover). Fair enough.
Reeves wasn't THAT bad, but when you compare him to the Jonathan Harkers seen in the BBC's 1977 adaptation and in 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre, you do at times feel he missed the point somewhat. Or rather, he only hit the point by accident - he looks so uncomfortable in that role, it comes across as Harker's awkwardness and fear in Dracula's castle.
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lol what if you play CV 1999 and find out that van helsing was
a vampire all along hoping to take over the demon castle for himself?
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Julius should look like the former CVDF user, Insanitist. (If any of you veterans of the forum remember the photo of him with a whip, sunglasses, and black coat.)
:P