1:13:35 Imagine making "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse" back-to-back, only to head into your next project *still* feeling like you don't know how to direct a film. What a guy.
Thank you for including “ Let the Right One In”. Not only one of the best vampire movies, also one of the best movies, period. Not one bad frame. Flawless acting. And sequences that would make DePalma blush.
For those just looking for some vampire movie recommendations here are the top 5 lists. CR: 5. Twilight 4. John Carpenter’s Vampires/30 Days of night 3. Only Lovers Left Alive 2. Near Dark 1. The Lost Boys Sean: 5. Martin 4. Dracula’s Daughter 3. Trouble every day 2. Bram Stroker’s Dracula 1. Fright Night Rob: 5. Blade 2 4. Cronos 3. Only Lovers Left Alive 2. Bram Stroker’s Dracula 1. Let the Right One In
Disappointed to see so many people say they didnt find it emotionally deep or interesting. I think theres alot more going on besides the craft. A level of depth these stories rarely have actually.
Well, talk about what you found emotionally deep. I personally could not care for what happened to any of the character, so I'm curious what connected for you
@@christinaasadourian777 dude, how do any of these vague themes elicit emotional responses. The most you could say is that these themes were alluded to by a few lines of dialogue, but they sure as hell weren’t explored with much depth.
@@christinaasadourian777 Yeah man, I saw the movie. Did you listen to the Eggers interview, I would counter? Eggers explicitly says that he didn’t discuss themes at all with the actors. The entire interview leaves the impression that he made the movie because he was in love with the technical aspects. Which is ok. It’s a beautifully crafted movie, and I like it for what it is. But saying that it is actually chock full of thoughtful themes is straight up dumb lol. And yes, I would agree that there is a scene where Lily Rose Depp has a prolonged freak out. I would not deny that is a scene that exists! Does it instill a strong emotional construct in the movie? Ummm… well that’s cool that you felt something, but I know that a vast majority of people would say they didn’t feel anything for these characters. And you can cut it out with the “denying female experiences” thing lol. Don’t pervert my critiques of execution into a moral condemnation, it’s ridiculous.
@@owenchristensen4877 Hmm straight up dumb, ok. I did watch the interview and have watched other ones as well...to their completion. Eggers has said that what compelled and justified a remake of this movie was to base it from the perspective of an oppressed character at the time...a women in the victorian period. What compelled him was learning a fact that women who had noctambulism/sleepwalking received specific stigma/misdiagnosed with hysteria/melancholy. While I agree with you that yes Eggers is very focused on the technical aspect, he also has cited in interviews that it is important to root the story in its historical context and as we know the political is personal. If you didn't find Depp's performance emotionally deep, you're entitled to your opinion but research has shown we tend to have an opinion and selectively stick to opinions/research/findings that reaffirm our POV - so keep doing that if you'd like or you can understand it's not so black and white and Eggers isn't some soulless director who's all about the technical aspect.
Absolutely agree on the fact that there is a connection between Nosferatu and Wes Anderson's cinema. I think it has to do with the shots and the camera movements. A lot of symmetrical scenes, frontal shots, or perfect profile shots. Then the camera moves horizontally, forwards or backwards, but always in a straight line. When it turns it does it in a mechanical way, 90 or 180 degrees, to change the point of view. The camera always moves in a contained way. That sense of control and containment is transmitted to the viewer. It conveys that everything is under control. That also happens in Wes Anderson's films, but he uses it as a comedy instrument. Thanks for the podcast, you guys are great!
Loved the Nosferatu. Such a technical masterpiece. Gotta say the real master here is Sean. Robert Eggers always tries to be as uninteresting and difficult as possible to the point that it felt like he was getting a tooth canal but props to Sean for keeping him engaged and getting us a great interview and making it look easy
@@nickb2716 @richiejrich As someone who watches basically Eggers interviews you can tell when he is burnt out. He is definitely more of an introvert and it comes out more I feel when he is tried. There are a lot of great interviews with him out there though.
I love Chris but I could not disagree more with the idea that we should be done with Dracula. I personally love the Dracula/Nosferatu character but, more than that, I love that we still have these stories that we can do iterations of over and over. I think that is how some of the greatest stories of all time were created (The Iliad, The Odyssey, myths and folklore in general, etc.). A lot of the iterations may not be very good but it's like refining metal to make it pure.
I'm sure it's been an exhausting press run, but a little bummed by Eggers' energy on this one. Especially because Sean is generally one of the more thoughtful interviewers and fans.
@@owenchristensen4877 @longtrento As someone who watches basically Eggers interviews you can tell when he is burnt out. He is definitely more of an introvert and it comes out more I feel when he is tried. There are a lot of great interviews with him out there though.
This movie fucked me up lol I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to make it through the whole thing lol it’s amazing though can’t wait to watch it again! Bill Skarsgård is incredible in this.
i love that robert eggers told sean, no themes, no covid 19, no womens oppression, no themes, cause personally my biggest hurtle with sean is that he's always grasping and create themes into scenes and movies where that clearly wasn't the intention, its not the worst thing ever, but i've heard on the pod sean have some wild takes that the directors never agree was part of their vision, doesn't mean its not there in the film at the end of the day even if completely unintentional, i just love eggers being like, Nope.
He's just doing his job as a critic and an analyst. He should be asking those questions. And there's also a tendency (you can even call it a wish), that when a movie resonates with you on a purely visual and aesthetic level, that you also want there to be an intellectual rationalization for why you like it. You want there to be substance underneath it - it can't just be "entertaining".
He’s said he will allow others more versed to make a social commentary on it, he’s not opposed to it. I’ve heard him saying yes he didn’t consider the time it would be released ie after a pandemic but in terms of women’s oppression, he doesn’t make feminist movies for the sake of making them but he’s absolutely interested in oppressed characters, specifically locating them to their historical context (whether it be in this movie or in the witch) and he’s even said he uses his movies to explore how the past can inform the present.
@@christinaasadourian777 @GimmeSomeAdventure My favorite example of this is when he was doing press for The Northman and he was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Marc tried to make him comment or draw parrels to Trump more than once and Eggers just brushed it aside lol. I am sure Eggers (like myself) is more left leaning but I love that he doesn't overflood his movies with modern politics or thinking.
So disappointed in Chris that he doesn’t like the movie that much and is (wrongly) describing it as shallow and vapid. This is one of the best films of the year and millions of times better than Den of Thieves or The Order or Ridley Scott or whatever recent thing Chris is raving about
I'm sad that the Showtime series version of Let The Right One In didn't get renewed. I was enjoying that show quite a bit, for all the reasons they mentioned the movie was so strong.
Eggers needs to adapt the Gotrek & Felix, black library novels, one is a dwarf slayer looking for his doom and the other is his human rememberer, Trollslayer (book1) would slap on the big screen
These are some bad top 5 vampire lists. I'm a traditionalist, I like my vampires to be real vampires and not walk around in the day time. My top 5 in no order: Lost Boys Let the Right One In (Swedish) Nosferatu (1924) Dracula (1979) Salem's Lot (1979)
cr complains about the lack of "emotionality"... a lot of the "auteur" directors would face the same critique. What "emotionality" can you find in most Nolan films? Tarantino films are way more about genre and other movies than they are about "characters we can connect to."
Bram Stoker's Dracula is the superior film but even so that movie is also a mess. This movie was OK. Most of what was repeated in this movie was done better by other adaptations and most of what was different left me scratching my head asking ".....why.." Also, Count Orlock looked like Benni from the 1999 Mummy movie.
I had to walk out of this movie - it was so boring. The people in the film sounded so pretentious also. Acting wasn’t good. Half the theater fell asleep about 45 minutes in.
Simply the best gothic horror film of all time a perfect reimagining terrifying creepy grotesquely erotic & Dazzlingly magnanimous in the script plot protagonist antagonist characters art direction photography the story itself everything, by Robert Eggers genius when it comes to the subject of folk horror worldwide
Rob M has a slick but superficial way of speaking, just not very insightful and adds little to discussions. He’s the one frequent BP guest I don’t care for
I have to say, both this review and, more important, the Eggers interview really dampened my expectations going into this movie now. I now have the distinct impression that Chris Columbus ghost directed this movie. The mention of jump scares and the fact that Eggers says in the interview that Columbus was basically looking over his shoulder the whole time are both major red flags. I was ready for a Nosferatu movie from the director of The Northman. The same movie from the guy who did Home Alone? Not so much. And here's my top 5, ordered by year of release: 5) The Last Man on Earth - Just for the fact it's still the most faithful adaptation of the Matheson novel after two more subsequent attempts - one of the great vampire novels. 4) The Night Stalker - Greatest TV movie ever and pioneered the "supernatural procedural", which later become popularized by The X Files. 3) The Lost Boys - Agree with CR: This movie is infinitely rewatchable. 2) Bram Stoker's Dracula - Still the best Bram Stoker adaptation. 1) Blade - Still the best Marvel movie. The opening club scene is still one of the best intros to a main character ever made.
Chris kinda gets it. its about capitalism. from the plot, to the fact this franchise only exists because they couldnt get the rights to Dracula. but why do they have to sound so clueless with all these long words? You're not that smart guys. This is why we lost the election
this movie didnt capture me at all. i found it very bland, very slow, and the characters dull. eggers has an eye for visuals but his pacing is just not good. this movie was 2 hours and felt like 3.
@ this is the lamest type of comment. someone doesnt like a film you do so you talk about watching marvel films. grow up buddy not everyone has to love the films you like.
@@berrettaman28 oh my bad! I didn’t realize you had the attention span of a goldfish, and the memory of Jason Bourne! A thousand pardons, I don’t mean to punch down.
Thank god rob mahoney is here to save this podcast. An actual fan of film. Not the other two that are clearly just bored with film. It’s not fun anymore. It’s a job. And that sucks. I would truly love to hear a podcast from folks like this about how they look at things differently. They aren’t fans anymore. They are critics. They are taste makers for film. And that’s just a different thing than going to watch movies because you love movies. So it was good that we had someone on here that is just a film fan and not someone that feels like they need to impress or influence people. It makes for a very unauthentic listen when they just say the words critics have to say about movies. Which is that always remember nothing is great or perfect and it’s more fun to not like something or not pick than it is to love or like something. And ringer is just the champion of this. Thank you rob for at times sticking up for a fan of film unlike the other two who have genuinely lost touch of what it’s like to watch movies as a fan. Can’t wait to get beat up for this comment. And that’s fine. Just my opinion.
They loved Red Room, Anora, The Brutalist. Some of the crew loved The Complete Unknown, Here, Juror#2 etc. Sorry I guess that their taste doesn't align with yours and that they weren't blown away by a film that rehashes the story of three fantastic classics.
@@bebaguette766 these folks don’t love movies. I’m sorry. They do it as a job sure. But there’s no love here anymore. I think I just have a hard time explaining what is that rubs me the wrong way about the ringer. And there are great people on the ringer that are still just fans of film and tv. And to me that’s what the ringer was. It was a less stuffy place where fans talked about film. Not saying they have to love everything or even like everything. It’s just the way they talk about it. It’s soulless. You can probably clip together every review they have ever done and it sounds very very similar outside of Chris Ryan’s horrible jokes. It’s just boring at this point. And may be that’s a larger criticism on the industry as a whole. I don’t know. I just think these guys act like they are the cool guys at the movie review table. When in reality they are cheating on them with Alan sepinwal and the rest of the critics that have relentless the fun out of watching movies. I know sepinwal is a tv critic but I saw this as an opportunity to mention him as just the worst of the worst critics. Haha.
“What’s Orlok’s Favorite Big East Team?”
“PROVIDENCE!”
CR 🐐
The one we’ve been waiting all year for.
N It cooked
Finally!
seeing a dude with a mike perry icon was the last thing i expected for the top comment in a nosferatu comment section
1:13:35 Imagine making "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse" back-to-back, only to head into your next project *still* feeling like you don't know how to direct a film. What a guy.
Thank you for including “ Let the Right One In”. Not only one of the best vampire movies, also one of the best movies, period. Not one bad frame. Flawless acting. And sequences that would make DePalma blush.
Just saw this movie and honestly it’s been a while since I walked out of a theatre stunned by what I just saw. 10/10
Love seeing Rob on big picture
rob is an excellent movie critic, he needs to be on more
For those just looking for some vampire movie recommendations here are the top 5 lists.
CR:
5. Twilight
4. John Carpenter’s Vampires/30 Days of night
3. Only Lovers Left Alive
2. Near Dark
1. The Lost Boys
Sean:
5. Martin
4. Dracula’s Daughter
3. Trouble every day
2. Bram Stroker’s Dracula
1. Fright Night
Rob:
5. Blade 2
4. Cronos
3. Only Lovers Left Alive
2. Bram Stroker’s Dracula
1. Let the Right One In
Disappointed to see so many people say they didnt find it emotionally deep or interesting. I think theres alot more going on besides the craft. A level of depth these stories rarely have actually.
Well, talk about what you found emotionally deep. I personally could not care for what happened to any of the character, so I'm curious what connected for you
Ok, so what about it was so moving to you then lol
@@christinaasadourian777 dude, how do any of these vague themes elicit emotional responses. The most you could say is that these themes were alluded to by a few lines of dialogue, but they sure as hell weren’t explored with much depth.
@@christinaasadourian777 Yeah man, I saw the movie. Did you listen to the Eggers interview, I would counter? Eggers explicitly says that he didn’t discuss themes at all with the actors. The entire interview leaves the impression that he made the movie because he was in love with the technical aspects. Which is ok. It’s a beautifully crafted movie, and I like it for what it is. But saying that it is actually chock full of thoughtful themes is straight up dumb lol.
And yes, I would agree that there is a scene where Lily Rose Depp has a prolonged freak out. I would not deny that is a scene that exists! Does it instill a strong emotional construct in the movie? Ummm… well that’s cool that you felt something, but I know that a vast majority of people would say they didn’t feel anything for these characters.
And you can cut it out with the “denying female experiences” thing lol. Don’t pervert my critiques of execution into a moral condemnation, it’s ridiculous.
@@owenchristensen4877 Hmm straight up dumb, ok. I did watch the interview and have watched other ones as well...to their completion. Eggers has said that what compelled and justified a remake of this movie was to base it from the perspective of an oppressed character at the time...a women in the victorian period. What compelled him was learning a fact that women who had noctambulism/sleepwalking received specific stigma/misdiagnosed with hysteria/melancholy. While I agree with you that yes Eggers is very focused on the technical aspect, he also has cited in interviews that it is important to root the story in its historical context and as we know the political is personal. If you didn't find Depp's performance emotionally deep, you're entitled to your opinion but research has shown we tend to have an opinion and selectively stick to opinions/research/findings that reaffirm our POV - so keep doing that if you'd like or you can understand it's not so black and white and Eggers isn't some soulless director who's all about the technical aspect.
Nosferatu 2024 is a film for today. Is a story about the type of person who can afford to buy a house
Eggers favorite recent watch is The Substance. Nice.
im a big fan of the orlok voice, i hope it sticks around lol
Absolutely agree on the fact that there is a connection between Nosferatu and Wes Anderson's cinema. I think it has to do with the shots and the camera movements. A lot of symmetrical scenes, frontal shots, or perfect profile shots. Then the camera moves horizontally, forwards or backwards, but always in a straight line. When it turns it does it in a mechanical way, 90 or 180 degrees, to change the point of view. The camera always moves in a contained way. That sense of control and containment is transmitted to the viewer. It conveys that everything is under control. That also happens in Wes Anderson's films, but he uses it as a comedy instrument. Thanks for the podcast, you guys are great!
What We Do In The Shadows by Taika Waititi is one of my all time favorites. Hilarious take on the genre.
This was a really good episode. I like when they discuss a genre as well.
Doom Metal Wes Anderson is why CR is CR and the rest of us wish we could be like CR.
Props to Sean for giving Fright Night some love. Roddy McDowall and Chris Sarandon are amazing in it.
My personal top 5:
Let The Right One In (Nordic version), Only Lovers Left Alive, Interview With A Vampire, The Lost Boys, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
THE EPISODE IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR FOR 🎉🎉🎉🎉
this thumbnail makes you two look like you're in love
They are! It's beautiful ❤
Great episode!
Loved the Nosferatu. Such a technical masterpiece. Gotta say the real master here is Sean. Robert Eggers always tries to be as uninteresting and difficult as possible to the point that it felt like he was getting a tooth canal but props to Sean for keeping him engaged and getting us a great interview and making it look easy
in his defense, he's probably doing multiple interviews a day at this point
@@nickb2716 @richiejrich As someone who watches basically Eggers interviews you can tell when he is burnt out. He is definitely more of an introvert and it comes out more I feel when he is tried. There are a lot of great interviews with him out there though.
Sean going up a notch for listing Trouble Every Day.
It’s one of the best films of the year and is a great modern interpretation of Dracula character
Sean OG Fright Night, you rock!! That pick totally threw me a curve. And CR paying off like a hot slot with 30 Days of Night.
I too felt that it was visually stunning and yet not emotionally attached and hollow in spots. still great
1:09:43 What was that noise?😂
Good Eggers interview!
I love Chris but I could not disagree more with the idea that we should be done with Dracula. I personally love the Dracula/Nosferatu character but, more than that, I love that we still have these stories that we can do iterations of over and over. I think that is how some of the greatest stories of all time were created (The Iliad, The Odyssey, myths and folklore in general, etc.). A lot of the iterations may not be very good but it's like refining metal to make it pure.
Masterpiece
I agree with the review of this movie here 💯
I'm sure it's been an exhausting press run, but a little bummed by Eggers' energy on this one. Especially because Sean is generally one of the more thoughtful interviewers and fans.
Yeah Eggers might be one of the least interesting director interviewees I’ve ever seen lol
@@owenchristensen4877 @longtrento As someone who watches basically Eggers interviews you can tell when he is burnt out. He is definitely more of an introvert and it comes out more I feel when he is tried. There are a lot of great interviews with him out there though.
Chris is so real for listing Twilight
Eggers when asked a very straightforward question: “ummmm I uhhhhh… hmmmm yeah I mean- well… sure.”
I love “30 days of night.”!
Awesome an very unique vampire movie where so much isn’t answered an their is so much mystery
Fright Night, Let The Right One In, Near Dark, 30 Days Of Night, Bram Stokers Dracula.
This movie fucked me up lol I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to make it through the whole thing lol it’s amazing though can’t wait to watch it again! Bill Skarsgård is incredible in this.
What wonders Chris Ryan could bring to the role of Count Orlok. Remake the remake!
you guys rock!
PLEASE DO THE TWILIGHT REWATCHABLES
My favorites shift around a lot, but check out Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries and Leif Jonker's Darkness: The Vampire Version.
Leaving Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust off the list is criminal
Great movie
i love that robert eggers told sean, no themes, no covid 19, no womens oppression, no themes, cause personally my biggest hurtle with sean is that he's always grasping and create themes into scenes and movies where that clearly wasn't the intention, its not the worst thing ever, but i've heard on the pod sean have some wild takes that the directors never agree was part of their vision, doesn't mean its not there in the film at the end of the day even if completely unintentional, i just love eggers being like, Nope.
He's just doing his job as a critic and an analyst. He should be asking those questions.
And there's also a tendency (you can even call it a wish), that when a movie resonates with you on a purely visual and aesthetic level, that you also want there to be an intellectual rationalization for why you like it. You want there to be substance underneath it - it can't just be "entertaining".
He’s said he will allow others more versed to make a social commentary on it, he’s not opposed to it. I’ve heard him saying yes he didn’t consider the time it would be released ie after a pandemic but in terms of women’s oppression, he doesn’t make feminist movies for the sake of making them but he’s absolutely interested in oppressed characters, specifically locating them to their historical context (whether it be in this movie or in the witch) and he’s even said he uses his movies to explore how the past can inform the present.
@@christinaasadourian777 @GimmeSomeAdventure My favorite example of this is when he was doing press for The Northman and he was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Marc tried to make him comment or draw parrels to Trump more than once and Eggers just brushed it aside lol. I am sure Eggers (like myself) is more left leaning but I love that he doesn't overflood his movies with modern politics or thinking.
is Robert Eggers a cycling guy? Looking at the "maap" sweatshirt
just followed him on Strava :D
Top 5 Vampire moves:
1. Dracula (1992)
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. The Lost Boys
4. 30 Days of Night
5. Fright Night (1985)
30 Days of Night is extremely underrated. It was a movie that was sorely needed at the time when Sparkly vampires were about to take over.
So disappointed in Chris that he doesn’t like the movie that much and is (wrongly) describing it as shallow and vapid. This is one of the best films of the year and millions of times better than Den of Thieves or The Order or Ridley Scott or whatever recent thing Chris is raving about
Lost Boys forever
How anyone could get the impression that the family in the VVitch are Catholic is beyond me.
Perhaps a bit of Sean's own upbringing bias peeking through combined some Conclave hangover.
I'm sad that the Showtime series version of Let The Right One In didn't get renewed. I was enjoying that show quite a bit, for all the reasons they mentioned the movie was so strong.
No mention of Van Helsing?!
Hes in bram strokers Dracula not Nosferatu
The Hunger
48:41 hahahaha excellent form
good lord Rob was drunk as a skunk in his interview
Obsessed with Chris putting Twilight on his list
Eggers needs to adapt the Gotrek & Felix, black library novels, one is a dwarf slayer looking for his doom and the other is his human rememberer, Trollslayer (book1) would slap on the big screen
24:47 how could Sean forget about Vladislav The Poker?!
When the count is in the shadows in the beginning he kinda looked like dr. Robotnik (not a criticism)
It's Dracula Dead And Loving It art decorated by an ambitious goth kid.
No love for Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu from 1979?
the best Vampire movie is “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” 2014
Robert entering 🐐 territory if he keeps cranking out heaters.
My mom named me after Caleb from Near Dark
Twilight Saga films were the best vampire movies
the sounds of him drinking blood were great. sounds like someone gorging on a 50 gallon drum of water
no one had Interview With The Vampire on their list? 😔😔😔
No Nosferatu? Murnau's or Herzog's?
The opening sequence of a movie is definitely a spoiler so
Gonzaga
Twilight rewatchables!!!
I regret to say that the last 30 min did not in fact “rip”
I love CR voting for Twilight
1:09:43
Not enough people talking about this
These are some bad top 5 vampire lists. I'm a traditionalist, I like my vampires to be real vampires and not walk around in the day time.
My top 5 in no order:
Lost Boys
Let the Right One In (Swedish)
Nosferatu (1924)
Dracula (1979)
Salem's Lot (1979)
cr complains about the lack of "emotionality"... a lot of the "auteur" directors would face the same critique. What "emotionality" can you find in most Nolan films? Tarantino films are way more about genre and other movies than they are about "characters we can connect to."
wtf never seen what bobby wagner looks like before, not what i pictured.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula is the superior film but even so that movie is also a mess. This movie was OK. Most of what was repeated in this movie was done better by other adaptations and most of what was different left me scratching my head asking ".....why.."
Also, Count Orlock looked like Benni from the 1999 Mummy movie.
Nosferatu is a gooner
Only other mustachioed vampire I can think of is Blacula.
I had to walk out of this movie - it was so boring. The people in the film sounded so pretentious also. Acting wasn’t good. Half the theater fell asleep about 45 minutes in.
It's a movie about how not properly getting over your toxic ex will literally kill you.
Wtf, no Thirst on anyones list?
Simply the best gothic horror film of all time a perfect reimagining terrifying creepy grotesquely erotic &
Dazzlingly magnanimous in the script plot protagonist antagonist characters art direction photography the story itself everything, by Robert Eggers genius when it comes to the subject of folk horror worldwide
Learn some punctuation, I was nearly flattened by this run-on, freight train of a sentence.
@JCDenton95 this has to be some sort of odd, subtle parody you're going for lol
5. John Carpenter's Vampires
4. Abigail
3. Let Me In
2. Blade
1. 30 Days of Night
With ShoutOuts to DayBreakers & Doctor Sleep (if Soul Suckers count)
Do yourself a favor and watch “ Let the Right One In”. Let Me In is solid, but the original is absolutely flawless.
@cpcg Will do! Good looks mann
I am the only one who thinks the Bram The Stroker's vampire movie is LAUGHABLY BAD?!? Keanu has kind of Bill & Ted with faux British accent vibes...
Rob M has a slick but superficial way of speaking, just not very insightful and adds little to discussions. He’s the one frequent BP guest I don’t care for
I have to say, both this review and, more important, the Eggers interview really dampened my expectations going into this movie now.
I now have the distinct impression that Chris Columbus ghost directed this movie. The mention of jump scares and the fact that Eggers says in the interview that Columbus was basically looking over his shoulder the whole time are both major red flags.
I was ready for a Nosferatu movie from the director of The Northman. The same movie from the guy who did Home Alone? Not so much.
And here's my top 5, ordered by year of release:
5) The Last Man on Earth - Just for the fact it's still the most faithful adaptation of the Matheson novel after two more subsequent attempts - one of the great vampire novels.
4) The Night Stalker - Greatest TV movie ever and pioneered the "supernatural procedural", which later become popularized by The X Files.
3) The Lost Boys - Agree with CR: This movie is infinitely rewatchable.
2) Bram Stoker's Dracula - Still the best Bram Stoker adaptation.
1) Blade - Still the best Marvel movie. The opening club scene is still one of the best intros to a main character ever made.
Rest assured, this is an Eggers movie not a Chris Columbus one. It's apparent that this is the same guy who directed The Witch
that's a weird impression to get
We’ve had an amazing run without Amanda, crazy 😮
Chris kinda gets it. its about capitalism. from the plot, to the fact this franchise only exists because they couldnt get the rights to Dracula.
but why do they have to sound so clueless with all these long words? You're not that smart guys. This is why we lost the election
this movie didnt capture me at all. i found it very bland, very slow, and the characters dull. eggers has an eye for visuals but his pacing is just not good. this movie was 2 hours and felt like 3.
Go watch marvel slop. Maybe that’s more your speed!!
@ this is the lamest type of comment. someone doesnt like a film you do so you talk about watching marvel films. grow up buddy not everyone has to love the films you like.
@@berrettaman28 oh my bad! I didn’t realize you had the attention span of a goldfish, and the memory of Jason Bourne! A thousand pardons, I don’t mean to punch down.
Its not "after covid" - we are STILL IN COVID.
Thank god rob mahoney is here to save this podcast. An actual fan of film. Not the other two that are clearly just bored with film. It’s not fun anymore. It’s a job. And that sucks. I would truly love to hear a podcast from folks like this about how they look at things differently. They aren’t fans anymore. They are critics. They are taste makers for film. And that’s just a different thing than going to watch movies because you love movies. So it was good that we had someone on here that is just a film fan and not someone that feels like they need to impress or influence people. It makes for a very unauthentic listen when they just say the words critics have to say about movies. Which is that always remember nothing is great or perfect and it’s more fun to not like something or not pick than it is to love or like something. And ringer is just the champion of this. Thank you rob for at times sticking up for a fan of film unlike the other two who have genuinely lost touch of what it’s like to watch movies as a fan. Can’t wait to get beat up for this comment. And that’s fine. Just my opinion.
they over hype anora way too much
They loved Red Room, Anora, The Brutalist. Some of the crew loved The Complete Unknown, Here, Juror#2 etc.
Sorry I guess that their taste doesn't align with yours and that they weren't blown away by a film that rehashes the story of three fantastic classics.
@@bebaguette766 these folks don’t love movies. I’m sorry. They do it as a job sure. But there’s no love here anymore. I think I just have a hard time explaining what is that rubs me the wrong way about the ringer. And there are great people on the ringer that are still just fans of film and tv. And to me that’s what the ringer was. It was a less stuffy place where fans talked about film. Not saying they have to love everything or even like everything. It’s just the way they talk about it. It’s soulless. You can probably clip together every review they have ever done and it sounds very very similar outside of Chris Ryan’s horrible jokes. It’s just boring at this point. And may be that’s a larger criticism on the industry as a whole. I don’t know. I just think these guys act like they are the cool guys at the movie review table. When in reality they are cheating on them with Alan sepinwal and the rest of the critics that have relentless the fun out of watching movies. I know sepinwal is a tv critic but I saw this as an opportunity to mention him as just the worst of the worst critics. Haha.
I left when three grown men said they liked the twilight movies...
the bald guy has no clue about this film and Eggers