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Originally Posted by rico
Sweet, I'll have to check it out! Sounds like something I could dig.
Francis Ford Coppola, right? One of my favorite movies of all time is Apocalypse Now...and of course, I love The Godfather trilogy. I'll be checking this out! Thanks for the recommendation!
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Yes, Coppola. I don't watch vampire TV shows really (mostly because my wife/kids have no interest in any of it), but Coppola seems to me to have completely revived / resuscitated Dracula in a way. By 1992, the only Dracula stuff that had been out there for a LONG time was terrible/campy crap. This movie isn't that. Not at all.
And from there (not sure how long afterwards), vampire stuff really started taking off. Obviously, the Anne Rice books had been big hits, but for the theater -- nada.
The Interview with a Vampire movie came out a few years later, and from there it was game on, with Buffy and Twilight and all the rest.
Anyway, one more tip -- if you like Oldman in Dracula, and haven't seen it yet, DEFINITELY go watch Leon: The Professional, next. He's great as a dirty DEA agent, and Natalie Portman (in her first movie) and Jean Reno are also great.