Man this movie was so great except for the one fact it is a modern SJW propaganda film. there was no such thing as black doctor in 1800s at least not a western medicine black doctor only voodoo witch doctors from the jungle. Takes you out of the time piece reminds u are watching a modern trash film...
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technically plausible my ass, that brother who is the main character always suggesting the correct thing while the other white characters were acting retarded. classic liberal bullshit. there was no affirmative action back then, no black doctors...
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movie did have a lot of cool vampire scenes. Proper homage to Nosferatu. Dracula was scary as hell. Shame they ruined it with woke pandering
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yeah I would probably avoid it just because of that
shareWow, I didn't realize that this was a documentary instead of a Z-level work of entertainment.
shareI am not entertained by forced diversity bullshit...
shareIt's actually a pretty well-made film by a talented director. I suspect you did not actually watch it.
shareAdmittedly, I have not watched it.
shareIt's done by the same guy who did Troll Hunter, if you ever saw that one. I saw Last Voyage in the theater and my feeling was that they made about the best movie they could with the premise of Dracula-on-a-ship.
shareI haven't seen "Troll Hunter" but "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" was pretty good.
shareI watched Demeter this weekend. It was ok but the script was a mess and the movie wasn't particulary scary. Direction and acting was good enough, I suppose.
Were they trying to set up Dracula as Jack the Ripper at the end? Jack the Ripper was active around 1888 and this movie was set in 1897 (9 years later). It reminds me of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo
I'm the first person to decry woke nonsense, but I think calling this movie "SJW propaganda" is hyperbolic. On a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 3 on the SJW scale.
First off, there WERE black doctors in the 1800s. You can research the history for yourself. Second, while him being a black doctor is mentioned with incredulity a couple of times in the film, and he gives a little speech about it (thus earning it its three on the SJW scale), that's not much of a focus of the movie.
I thought it was a well-made and interesting movie that elevates the material from B-movie nonsense to an actual thoughtful and sometimes poignant piece of horror entertainment.
he is the main character, he is the main focus of the whole film
shareYes, but his blackness is not the main focus.
shareHis skin color is not the main focus of the film.
It's not on the actors or filmmakers if all you see is race when you watch a movie.
Every time that brother appears on screen it takes you out of the dracoinian 1800s time period and into 2023 sjw woketard land of today. Ruins the illusion of Dracula being real and makes the whole thing less entertaining
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It is my view that we should look at the film as a whole before proclaiming it "woke garbage," not just be laser-focused on one aspect of the story. There was a lot more to the narrative.
shareit is hard to focus on the narrative when ur getting nothing but shots of an 1800s "genius" black doctor schooling dumbass "whiteys" the whole film. It was such a good movie, I enjoyed so many of the horrific vampire shots. It was just tainted by 2023 black supremacy woke bogus. If only they could re-edit the film without the sjw themes it would be something truly magical. The black doctor takes me out of the 1800s draconian setting and reminds me about the modern sjw world we live in. The whole point of a movie like this is to capture a time of the past and make you forget about the troubles and tribulations of modern day
shareI really didn't see it that way. I thought the doctor wanted his respect, like any man, but I don't really think that the other characters were demeaned.
I guess the way I see it is that you have "woke movies," like Get Out, Dear White People and that Charlie's Angels reboot from a few years ago. And then you have movies that are mostly fine but may have a small woke element. I put Last Voyage in the latter category. The first kind are intolerable, but with the second I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bath water.
I thought Last Voyage was, overall, a pretty good movie and the lead character (and actor) was likable enough.
Yeah he was likable enough. But it was annoying seeing all the white characters act retarded the whole film and have the afromurican be the only reasonable one. Ur right it isn't totally woke, belongs in the second category, but still taints the solidness of this otherwise enjoyable film
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yeah it wasn't the actors fault, he was fine. It just the setting of 1800s, he doesn't fit. Old movies didn't try so hard to put blacks into roles they don't historically belong in, and for that reason they are more enjoyable to me then all the pc sjw nonsense being produced today
If it ain't white (christian, male, republican), it ain't right. You types can't see past your own anger and bigotry.
shareits the 1800s in a story that take place on a boat going from Romania to London. Having a black doctors takes you out of the time they are creating. The who point of a movie is to make you forget you are watching a movie
shareAnd as long as there's someone of color in the lead, you can't focus. Sounds like you got your head hit a little too hard on 1/6. I bet it irked you to see that "black guy" surviving with the little white girl. They could've run off together had she not burned up. To think that's what came here to post. Nothing about the plot, the story, or even the cinematography. Just about the color of someone's skin, in a plausible situation.
shareplausible doesnt mean probable, and it isn't plausible...
sharethere was no such thing as black doctor in 1800s at least not a western medicine black doctor only voodoo witch doctors from the jungle.You seem quite confident of your ignorance and racism. James McCune Smith was the first African to earn a medical degree (University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland). He died November 17, 1865. The movie takes place in the 1890's. share
No only were there no black doctors in the 1800s, but neither were vampires around either. This movie was a mess
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