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NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
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AndyDursin
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Paul MacLean
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Re: NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
Yay! Another old idea!
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AndyDursin
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Re: NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
Hey it was old when Herzog remade it too! 
I'm interested in seeing what he does with it. Or if it's just THE WITCH with a vampire (my guess!).
I'm interested in seeing what he does with it. Or if it's just THE WITCH with a vampire (my guess!).
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Re: NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
The Northman was my second-favorite movie of 2022. Whatever Eggers is doing, I'm interested.
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Paul MacLean
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Re: NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
You only saw two movies that year?Monterey Jack wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 9:40 pm The Northman was my second-favorite movie of 2022. Whatever Eggers is doing, I'm interested.
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AndyDursin
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Re: NOSFERATU from Robert Eggers - Christmas
6.5/10
Despite his patented "static" camera work, Eggers' movie is beautifully realized from a visual perspective and pretty much as expected story wise, but what's the deal with some people doing cartwheels over it? From a dramatic angle this movie grows increasingly tedious after a good start, with Lily Rose Depp generating nothing from a performance perspective. She screams and whines about the big scary guy with the moustache but I never felt for her or her plight (honestly I felt more from a miscast Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula). More over, unintentional comedy eventually shows up once Nicholas Hoult comes home and tries to get her from fantasizing about Nosferatu himself, a moustached villain who looks more like something out of Dudley Do-Right and talks...really...slowly...which makes the material a hard sell, since Bill Skarsgard's performance is sillier than it is sensual.
The shock sequences are mostly all sound and fury with the music pumped up -- it's not aggressively bad like Eggers' deadly LIGHTHOUSE but I didn't think this was even as effective as the Coppola take on this material, which at least had more filmmaking invention despite a mixed assortment of uneven performances.
Despite his patented "static" camera work, Eggers' movie is beautifully realized from a visual perspective and pretty much as expected story wise, but what's the deal with some people doing cartwheels over it? From a dramatic angle this movie grows increasingly tedious after a good start, with Lily Rose Depp generating nothing from a performance perspective. She screams and whines about the big scary guy with the moustache but I never felt for her or her plight (honestly I felt more from a miscast Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula). More over, unintentional comedy eventually shows up once Nicholas Hoult comes home and tries to get her from fantasizing about Nosferatu himself, a moustached villain who looks more like something out of Dudley Do-Right and talks...really...slowly...which makes the material a hard sell, since Bill Skarsgard's performance is sillier than it is sensual.
The shock sequences are mostly all sound and fury with the music pumped up -- it's not aggressively bad like Eggers' deadly LIGHTHOUSE but I didn't think this was even as effective as the Coppola take on this material, which at least had more filmmaking invention despite a mixed assortment of uneven performances.