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Dingleberry Dickwad
2020-10-30 12:43:40 PM  
17 votes:
I won't argue with the top few spots, but they ranked Oldman's Dracula far too low on that list. And the person that wrote the list LIKED Keanu's Jonathan Harker? Yeah, someone is smoking crack.
 
youre killing independent george
2020-10-30 12:58:13 PM  
16 votes:

rummonkey: wiseolddude: #1 is correct.

It's hard to argue with Christopher Lee. Gary Oldman should have been one of the top five. The list sounds to me like the author was having a hard time trying to balance out different genres of Dracula portrayal in order to appear Fair. As much as I love Tricia Helfer, she should not have been a half a dozen spaces above the Gary Oldman portrayal of Dracula.


Yeah Gary Oldman carried that movie and is largely why I love it so much.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 1:03:10 PM  
11 votes:

youre killing independent george: rummonkey: wiseolddude: #1 is correct.

It's hard to argue with Christopher Lee. Gary Oldman should have been one of the top five. The list sounds to me like the author was having a hard time trying to balance out different genres of Dracula portrayal in order to appear Fair. As much as I love Tricia Helfer, she should not have been a half a dozen spaces above the Gary Oldman portrayal of Dracula.

Yeah Gary Oldman carried that movie and is largely why I love it so much.


Odd, I thought this is what carried the movie:
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egomann
2020-10-30 12:44:47 PM  
10 votes:
Love at First Bite is a better movie than it deserves to be, and George Hamilton deserves to be higher on this list.
 
Bslim [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 11:29:48 AM  
9 votes:
43. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Bullshiat list, he shouldn't even be ranked, he sucked so bad.
 
LesserEvil [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 5:42:46 PM  
8 votes:
If you are going off plot and naming non-Dracula vampires on the list, then it isn't complete without Colin Robinson near the top.

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Moroning [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 1:21:00 PM  
8 votes:
Who would ever put Sandler above Oldman on any list?
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 12:33:02 PM  
7 votes:
List fails without Vlad The Impaler.
 
Cagey B
2020-10-30 12:14:34 PM  
7 votes:
It's a crapshoot at one and two for Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, with Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski rounding out 3 and 4. An actually solid list.
 
hogans
2020-10-30 10:05:02 PM  
6 votes:

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Mad_Radhu [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 4:24:42 PM  
6 votes:
Dracula is nothing compared to the most fearsome vampire of them all:

What We Do in the Shadows | Colin Robinson: Energy Vampire | FX
Youtube szGmZAPsILQ
 
ArkPanda [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 1:19:48 PM  
6 votes:

Aezetyr: [Fark user image image 500x206]


That episode would have been terrible without the Spike and Xander bits.
 
kbronsito [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-30 3:10:05 PM  
5 votes:
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Fails w/o Gremlins 2 Dracula.
 
rummonkey
2020-10-30 12:56:07 PM  
5 votes:

wiseolddude: #1 is correct.


It's hard to argue with Christopher Lee. Gary Oldman should have been one of the top five. The list sounds to me like the author was having a hard time trying to balance out different genres of Dracula portrayal in order to appear Fair. As much as I love Tricia Helfer, she should not have been a half a dozen spaces above the Gary Oldman portrayal of Dracula.
 
snowblur [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 11:50:59 AM  
5 votes:
He's a Dracula!

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ReaverZ
2020-10-30 6:52:49 PM  
4 votes:
That was a fun list, just to see how many actors have played the character.

Dominic Percel !!! Hahahahaha, sometimes I forget he can do more than grunt and ask for more beer.

Lee is the scariest in my book because the man could actually have killed people easily.
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 5:15:15 PM  
4 votes:
This idiot has puppets ranked over pretty farking compelling human actors.

Gary Oldman should be ranked much, much higher, even with the butt/buns hairdo.

List also fails without Mr. Burns:

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cocozilla
2020-10-30 3:22:20 PM  
4 votes:
Just watched the Francis Ford Coppola version last night. Beautifully shot and operatically over the top, and Oldman was excellent. Not everyone's cup of blood...but quite good.

The Spanish Dracula is excellent, though Carlos Villarías is rather weak. The rest is far superior to the Lugosi version...and far sexier. .

Chris Lee is wildly over rated (even he knew that) and he could  have been replaced by a cardboard cutout most of the time. Dracula is a character...Lee plays him as a mute boogeyman. Hammers BRIDES OF DRACULA is a better film anyway.
 
groppet [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 12:58:20 PM  
4 votes:
But none of them sparkle.
 
wiseolddude
2020-10-30 12:40:02 PM  
4 votes:
#1 is correct.
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 12:13:05 PM  
4 votes:
Today's fun fact:  John Carradine played Herman Munster's boss, Mr. Gateman form the Funeral Parlour in several episodes of the Munsters (which I have rewatched for the first time in many years). He was perfect for this comico-serious role. He aced it. "Dramatic" actors, I always say, make the best comic actors because they have the high seriousness needed to sell absurdity and comic schtick. Witness Leslie Nielsen, brother of Canada's former Speaker of the House of Parliament, Eric Nielsen,

/ The name of the firm was Gateman, Goodbury, and Graves Funeral Home. John Carradine was Mr. Gateman.

// What a guy! Apart from firing Herman several times, of course. But he always relented because of Lily's advocacy or a sense of humour and fair play. Classic TV boss. Also, he like Lily's cooking despite knowing what he is eating (in one example, he praises her Iguana). Mr. Gateman fun fact:  he is an old-fashioned man who loves the same corny music as the Munsters, but hates jazz and other modern music (from about 1890).

/// Mind you, there are lots of people who think iguana is good eating so it is plausible. Tastes like chicken. Or maybe frog's legs. About the only thing that doesn't taste like chicken is lamb, duck, goose and beef. The dark red meats.
 
Mooammar Al-Cowddafi
2020-10-30 10:39:15 PM  
3 votes:
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Crewmannumber6
2020-10-30 8:05:34 PM  
3 votes:
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Crewmannumber6
2020-10-30 8:00:45 PM  
3 votes:

Aezetyr: [Fark user image image 500x206]


Buffy showed up on Amazon Prime this week so I started another rewatch

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Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-30 3:16:10 PM  
3 votes:

StoPPeRmobile: For the luck 10,000 today.
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler
Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a sailor but he's
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler
Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a
Whaler could have been a Tailor,
He turned out to be Norman Mailer
Whoaaoo
He stepped back and he smoked a joint
Twenty thousand peasants had to get the point
Mommy was a hamster,
Daddy was a jailer
Real tough childhood for such a farking failure
[chorus]
He's so glad he's Vlad
When he was a boy, they sent him to the Turks
But you know they didn't like him because all the Turks were jerks
When Vlad returned home his wrath for his ancient foe had spurned
But the ancient art of impalement was something that the boy had learned
Oh, how he learned
He learned, they burned and burned and burned
Rotisseries of corpses turned
He's so glad, oh he's so glad he's Vlad


Farkied for GWAR 🤘
 
UberSmyth
2020-10-30 2:49:30 PM  
3 votes:
While I wouldn't exactly call Gary Oldman's Dracula the best Dracula (my favourite Dracula movie, though), he is certainly better than half those listed higher than him.

Claes Bang's Dracula, for instance, was what made me stop watching the 2020 series. He's awful. Who thought it would be scary, entertaining or interesting to make Dracula act like James Bond?

/the baby was pretty stupid, too
 
Alien Robot
2020-10-31 12:21:36 AM  
2 votes:
Which Dracula Film is Most Faithful to the Book?
Youtube q9D74m628gQ


This is worth the time spent to watch.
 
WilderKWight [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 11:26:31 PM  
2 votes:
Yes, Christopher Lee, but not the way he played Dracula in the Hammer films (which I love) but the way he played him in Jess Franco's Count Dracula...

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cefm [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 7:39:26 PM  
2 votes:
There can be only one
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Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-30 3:17:42 PM  
2 votes:
I didn't read the list but I'm going to go with Leslie Neilsen.
 
Chinesenookiefactory [BareFark]
2020-10-30 2:52:53 PM  
2 votes:

Dingleberry Dickwad: I won't argue with the top few spots, but they ranked Oldman's Dracula far too low on that list. And the person that wrote the list LIKED Keanu's Jonathan Harker? Yeah, someone is smoking crack.


I've always found it odd how it seems like British actors have no problem with American accents but American actors struggle with British accents. Keanu Reeves' accent was horrible.
 
Aezetyr [BareFark]
2020-10-30 2:21:04 PM  
2 votes:

ArkPanda: Aezetyr: [Fark user image image 500x206]

That episode would have been terrible without the Spike and Xander bits.


I'll add Buffy in pink leather pants as a bonus. Yowzah

I love the show to death, it's still top 5 for me all time, and yeah this was not the strongest opening. But it did give us good foreshadowing. I maintain that season 5 is peak Buffy. 

Moroning: Aezetyr: [Fark user image 500x206] [View Full Size image _x_]

That Dracula need some face punching for his bad acting.


Fun fact: the actor was in a Dracula origin story (Vlad the Impaler, etc.) not long after this episode aired.
 
StoPPeRmobile
2020-10-30 1:29:05 PM  
2 votes:

Cagey B: It's a crapshoot at one and two for Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, with Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski rounding out 3 and 4. An actually solid list.


For the luck 10,000 today.
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler
Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a sailor but he's
Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler
Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a
Whaler could have been a Tailor,
He turned out to be Norman Mailer
Whoaaoo
He stepped back and he smoked a joint
Twenty thousand peasants had to get the point
Mommy was a hamster,
Daddy was a jailer
Real tough childhood for such a farking failure
[chorus]
He's so glad he's Vlad
When he was a boy, they sent him to the Turks
But you know they didn't like him because all the Turks were jerks
When Vlad returned home his wrath for his ancient foe had spurned
But the ancient art of impalement was something that the boy had learned
Oh, how he learned
He learned, they burned and burned and burned
Rotisseries of corpses turned
He's so glad, oh he's so glad he's Vlad
 
Your_Huckleberry
2020-10-31 8:16:43 PM  
1 vote:
Duncan Reiger from Monster Squad is criminally low on this list.
 
mechgreg
2020-10-31 1:41:46 PM  
1 vote:
Nice to see Sandler on the list. Not only is Hotel Transylvania one of his best movies but I would also say that the Johnny/Mavis relationship is the best (at least most logical) vampire/human relationship in any movie or show. Most make no sense or worse are super creepy.
 
shabu
2020-10-31 11:02:06 AM  
1 vote:
Jack Palance was the scariest. You could imagine him dismembering you with his bare hands. You could imagine him as Vlad leading a cavalry into an all out slaughter. His menace was palpable. The others seemed sneaky, but Jack and Gary seemed like they didn't care if you found their secret.
 
Skyking Skyking Do Not Answer
2020-10-31 7:17:11 AM  
1 vote:
List fails without Count Chocula.

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Dave The Slushy
2020-10-30 11:54:36 PM  
1 vote:
Gods that "Dracula" on Buffy was a shiatty disappointment. Was sort of hoping a vamp that vaguely looked like Gary Oldman with a thick Eastern European accent would show up, unceremoniously slice him in half, dust him, turn to Buffy and say "Hello, you must be Miss Summers. I am Vladislav the Third, Voivode of Wallachia, second son of Vlad Dracul. It's a pleasure to meet you."
 
WilderKWight [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 11:34:12 PM  
1 vote:
Christopher Lee in COUNT DRACULA (1970)
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TheManofPA
2020-10-30 9:38:57 PM  
1 vote:
Pitt has a general education course in the Slavic department called Vampire: Blood and Empire. Took it years ago and I think still offered. Covers regional history along with the various themes across vampire movies. Fun class and instructor when I had it, though decent amount of papers due.

When in doubt, the answer is repressed security.
 
AAAAGGGGHHHH
2020-10-30 8:52:00 PM  
1 vote:
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scalpod
2020-10-30 8:07:54 PM  
1 vote:
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Bslim [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 5:56:55 PM  
1 vote:

Mad_Radhu: Dracula is nothing compared to the most fearsome vampire of them all:

[YouTube video: What We Do in the Shadows | Colin Robinson: Energy Vampire | FX]


This.
 
Colour_out_of_Space
2020-10-30 5:32:43 PM  
1 vote:

Chinesenookiefactory: Dingleberry Dickwad: I won't argue with the top few spots, but they ranked Oldman's Dracula far too low on that list. And the person that wrote the list LIKED Keanu's Jonathan Harker? Yeah, someone is smoking crack.

I've always found it odd how it seems like British actors have no problem with American accents but American actors struggle with British accents. Keanu Reeves' accent was horrible.


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xalres
2020-10-30 5:22:35 PM  
1 vote:
Good to see Graham McTavish get some love for Castlevania. He did barely controlled rage while simultaneously really farking over all of this shiat really well.
 
Myk-House of El [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 4:34:00 PM  
1 vote:
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groppet [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 4:29:59 PM  
1 vote:
DC farkers from the 80s will remember this one.
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ViolentEastCoastCity [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-30 4:23:06 PM  
1 vote:
I keep meaning to watch the one 70s Dracula iteration that features a nude Joanna Lumley.  I'm not even sure why it's on my list of things to do.  Best not to question these things.
 
Wasn't Looking at his Neck
2020-10-30 3:50:58 PM  
1 vote:
Didn't see this Dracula on there, and wish to motion for invalidation:

Dracula vs. Kung Fu
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kbronsito [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-10-30 3:33:54 PM  
1 vote:

cocozilla: Just watched the Francis Ford Coppola version last night. Beautifully shot and operatically over the top, and Oldman was excellent. Not everyone's cup of blood...but quite good.

The Spanish Dracula is excellent, though Carlos Villarías is rather weak. The rest is far superior to the Lugosi version...and far sexier. .

Chris Lee is wildly over rated (even he knew that) and he could  have been replaced by a cardboard cutout most of the time. Dracula is a character...Lee plays him as a mute boogeyman. Hammers BRIDES OF DRACULA is a better film anyway.


Saw the 1959 Mummy last nite with Christopher Lee. Can't say that I liked it that much. The pacing was off because of a bunch of flashbacks. A couple were needed for the story. But there were a couple extra ones that just didn't work.
 
FarkingChas
2020-10-30 2:42:14 PM  
1 vote:
I had no idea there were so many. Glad to see Frank Langella ranked high. I loved his version. Not so much for Frank but for the look of the movie.
 
NeoCortex42 [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 1:22:10 PM  
1 vote:
Not even listed?
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Judd Hirsch was an amazing(ly bad) Dracula.
 
Moroning [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 1:22:03 PM  
1 vote:

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That Dracula need some face punching for his bad acting.
 
Calypsocookie [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 11:42:35 AM  
1 vote:
Not Dracula but he'll always be the top um... Blood sucker... for me
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AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-10-30 11:35:56 AM  
1 vote:
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Cake Hunter [TotalFark]
2020-10-30 11:34:16 AM  
1 vote:
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