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I was loving the movie until...

posted 10 years ago by john-m-holt
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...exactly the 1 hour mark when he is over looking the land with his wife saying "They are almost here. Dawn will be breaking soon, and with it the loss of my powers."

OKAY, so you see with you echo vision that they are LITERALLY LIKE 50 miles away with DAWN ALMOST HERE AND YOU SIT THERE TALKING TO YOUR WIFE? You can travel that distance in a blink of an EYE almost and slaughter them all without having to worry about a damn thing!

Now, first I wanna make clear when "Problems" with the story like this come up, I always never complain. You know like the people who complain about the LOTR movies, and why didn't Gandalf just fly the eagles with the ring in the envelope and drop it into mount doom? Well, I care less about that. I never complain, but with this movie it's like...

Here is an analogy: "OH NO THE BURGLAR IS ABOUT TO KILL MY BABY SON RIGHT INFRONT OF ME!! OH NO!!! *looks over to her right and sees the telephone, and loaded gun* OH NO WHAT DO I DO!! (4 seconds later) *picks up the phone to call the police while he stabs the baby to death*. It's like.. Really? The Phone?

Same thing here. Only difference is HE IS THE GUN, and the DAWN OF THE THIRD DAY is the Phone. Yeah, lets wait till there's no choice. Good job, you deserve your fate.

[–] alveolate 10 years ago

and then it was followed by vlad being unable to catch his falling wife from the tower. he zipped back across the battlefield in 2 winks, and then he is stuck in slow-mo trying to reach his wife as she falls.

that and all the boring parts of the film... gosh. i was hoping for an awesome back story for dracula (he is a folk hero in romania after all), maybe some gut-wrenching struggle... instead what i got was 90mins of darkness, barely visible CGI action, unexplained powers, and paper-thin plot. disappointing.

[–] LuccaBrasi 10 years ago

You hit it.I actually enjoyed the movie for what it was,but they could've done so much better with a Dracula back story that was actually frightening and involved battles with the Turks that were done really well.
I know it was never going to happen in this film but the best battle scene imo ever to be put on film was the Battle of Gaugamela in Alexander and though i didn't care much for the rest of the movie,that battle was done brilliantly and actually had a large amount of historical accuracy in it which Dracula Untold might've had with a better director.
As it is 'DU' was just a Tweeny type movie with shades of Harry Potter,the new *beep* Clash of the Titans and Twilight in it.
As I said though - Sort of entertaining if you just take it as a pop-bubblegum Dracula film.

Lucca Brasi sleeps with the fishes!!!

[–] SixRavenX 10 years ago

Agreed. He was able to cover vast distances in the blink of an eye, yet he couldn't catch his falling wife even tho he was right there and she was only falling down from a cliff. Once she hit terminal velocity he should have been able to overtake her with ease.

I also thought it was lame when he as up in the tower fighting the army down below with the bats he called. It looked like a dance routine and was rather silly.

[–] LuccaBrasi 10 years ago

It's a movie about Vampires man.Sop being so damn technical.

Lucca Brasi sleeps with the fishes!!!

[–] !!!deleted!!! (4524359) 8 years ago

Even easier before she hit terminal velocity.

[–] O-Face 8 years ago

That's because his powers were fading.

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 10 years ago

I was loving the movie until.......he decided to make his own "Army of Darkness".......and then kill'em.

[–] Little_Sparrow25 10 years ago

They were going to kill his son, and not only that, but had declared war on the human race. Vlad had no intention on conquering humans or destroying them all because of what he had become - All he wanted to do was save his people and stop the bloodshed, he didn't want to cause anymore. So yes, he created his own little vampire army believing that they would follow him and do as he did, only to have them turn around and go crazy with the idea of power; he did the right thing.

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[–] hemsfrog 10 years ago

john-m, I just got to that part of the movie and came on here to see if it stood out to anyone else. I also like it for what it is, but that scene stood out as really, really stupid/bad. I just thought, why not sip down there and do something. Stop wasting time with you wife. You obviously aren't going to just wait until you lose all your powers, and all of your hope/chance.

[–] fortunejohnks 9 years ago

Gandalf was trying to get to the eagles, but fell with Balrog. You can hear him say: Fly, you fools! right before he falls. He didn't tell about the plan because he didn't want the enemy to know about it and would prepare. (The enemy has many spies)

[–] john-m-holt 9 years ago

I know this face of the movie. I have watched it many times, and have read the books. Gandalf when coming back from the dead could have still summoned eagles, found frodo and continued with the plan saving us 8 more hours of film. However, those movies were more enjoyable because they were done right. Besides the annoying fact Gandalf never went beast mode with his magical powers...

[–] MydnightRose 9 years ago

A part from notnbring able yo catch his wife, inhatrd how she fell so fat onto rocks yet therr isn't a scratch on her.
Plus I couldn't stand the wife, maybe because she was generic or maybe because she was blonde and I kept screaming what the he!! Is Transylvania Barbie doing in this movie!

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[–] iamtherobotman 9 years ago

One part which really got my goat was when the Monk "outed" him as a Vampire and the towns folk then burned the building he was in. He comes out raging at them "you think you're alive because you can fight?......". Then his Mrs comes over to him and states "this isn't you". I might be taking things the wrong way here but the very people he's been trying to save have just tried to burn him ALIVE and he's not entitled to be even slightly annoyed at this fact? He's just meant to come out and be like "Sorry guys, i should've told you i was a vampire from the start. I deserved that attempted cremation" Naw!! He was well within his rights to have come out of there and slaughtered the lot of them but all he done was yell at them a little and he's in the wrong!!

[–] chilone 9 years ago

Lol. I thought that too at first but he picked up that piece of wood or whatever it and it looked like he WAS about to slaughter them. I think that's what his wife was talking about.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

[–] wolfbynyt 9 years ago

For the people saying 'he could move so fast but when he tried to catch his wife blah blah' I could just as easily point out that it was quite clearly established in that scene he was only half-transformed into 'bat mode' in order to catch her. Perhaps he was not able to move as quickly because of this half transformation. Sometimes you just have to reason through a nitpick.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

[–] raf-33 9 years ago

Or just not nitpick, it's bubblegum fun, I don't recall a disclaimer at the start of the movie informing me of how Vlad III was known to regularly flit around his nation as a swarm of bats.

He exhausted himself killing just 1,000 people, he knew that was peanuts to Mehmet and so he was only buying time over those 3 days to give his people a fighting chance. That's what I took from it, otherwise why waste a day marching to a monastery high in the mountains if not to give your archers a chance far away from the reach of a cannon?

Y'all should spend more time with your eyes on the screen and not looking at the dog trying to eat popcorn.

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[–] yomama117 9 years ago

Ok folks, his mobility form is a cloud of bats. Obviously they're supernatural bats but they're bats nonetheless. Bats aren't the Flash. Yes he has enhanced speed but that doesn't mean he covers fifty miles "in the blink of an eye". There is something wrong with the scene mentioned, but it's not "why didn't he teleport to the Turks and slaughter them", but rather the fact that the Turks are said to be "almost here" when that conversation takes place and we see them in the distance yet by the time of the Batnado they're right outside the gates, Helm's Deep style. So it's the Turks who ported, not Vlad.

Same thing with catching his wife. He's a cloud of bats, not peregrine falcons. Bats don't dive all that well.

There are lots of things he could've done better. Like skip the pilgrimage altogether and immediately go slaughter the Sultan and all his top people. But then there'd be no movie, or more specifically no Dracula movie. The point is he loses his humanity. I think they had the right idea with making that a tragedy, and even how they went about it, even if some specifics didn't work out.