Half in the Bag: Trash Dracula Look Like Boat
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Mike and Jay finally went outside in the bitter Wisconsin winter to go to a movie theater, where they proceeded to have popcorn chewed right behind their heads for 90 minutes by an oblivious caveman who never learned to chew with his mouth shut.
They also saw Nosferatu.
I'm so glad Mike lived long enough to see the remake
I heard Mr Plinkett was at the midnight premiere of the original.
@@recneps1230I heard Mr plinkett auditioned for nosferatu but they didn’t want to scare people that much.
I heard a fart. That's because I live with Mr Plinkett.
@@bishopthecat2277 Yeah, they gave him the premier tickets as recompense for not making it in the film.
@@recneps1230 Nosferatu was originally called " Plinkett-ula" but they couldn't secure the rights.
Watched it in theaters. Thought near the end that Orlock was breathing heavily in every scene... even scenes he wasn't in. Turns out some old guy behind me was asleep and snoring loudly. Terrifying.
Ok, I really LOLed at this
Oh my god we had a guy fall asleep in our showing too and his snores sounded exactly like orlock breathing!
This happened to me as well, but the guy was in the same row and three seats from me.
Eggers actually hires those old guys for every showing. It's part of his vision.
😂😂
You guys won't believe this but i was actually in the Marcus theater at the same showing as Mike and Jay. It made me so nervous all i could do was munch on my popcorn! Can't wait to see their review of the movie!
Edit: Oh.
Holy shit that's gold. 😂
Its funny because they mentioned a guy loudly eating popcorn! Funny! You're funny!
It’s okay I was the guy that laughed.
Just approach them next time but don't be weird. I talk to metal band members before and after shows, they're just people like us. Go ahead and meet the people you like otherwise you'll regret it so much afterwards.
@@deengew your sarcasm is too loud for my popcorn!
“I would watch this in a movie theatre” is the highest praise anyone can give a movie now
mike wouldn't like sitting by me in a theater since I gulp really loudly every few minutes or seconds since I get nervous being surrounded as I have social anxiety and so I gulp even more because I think people are getting annoyed by hearing me gulp so that makes me more nervous and makes me gulp even more .
By the way Werner Herzog's version of this movie is still the best one by far .
Stupid streaming services
I'm feeling like distributors have caught on to this sentiment, hence all the IMAX reruns over the past few years
I would ONLY watch this in a theatre. It needs a massive screen and 100% focus.
"Who is your favourite vampire?"
"The one from Sesame Street"
"He doesnt count.."
"Oh I assure you, he does."
I saw someone say his name was "Count du Ten" and was severely disappointed that wasn't true.
+1 Dad Joke
You magnificent bastard.
One chuckle! 😂 Ha! Ha! Ha!
Two chuckles! 😂😂 Ha! Ha! Ha!
Will Smith: "Yo, what are we? Vampires in some kinda Dracula movie?"
I like how Count Orlok makes Thomas sign a document in another language so he can take his bride. I wish the 2nd half of the film was Thomas taking a vampire to court over a contract dispute.
Thomas! You gotta go to Night Court!
This is totally something that would happen in "What We Do In The Shadows". They would sue Orlok's ass and win.
@@LadyTylerBioRodriguez haha night court, because he's a vampire, haha
@@LightningRaven42
Orlok: I have the powers of darkness at my command.
Thomas: Well, my friend has ten high priced lawyers.
@@slightrebellionoffmadisonOrlok: I will drain their souls of life!
Thomas: They drain your bank account.
Orlok:......shit ....👿
I'm almost positive they meant "Trash Dracula looks like *Borat".
ohhhhhh THIS!
Even more accurately, "Trash. Dracula looks like Borat."
Trash Dracula looks like Bart
Borat also crossed the ocean to try to get himself "a wife." Also, intro was filmed in a Romani village in Romania.
@@kozzArt And they sued him for defamation and fraud I think.
Mike was too distracted by popcorn munching to notice what old boy Friedrich was doing in that mausoleum
Right? Like XD
Poor guy can't do more than one thing at a time
Imagine walking into a creepy castle in the 1800’s and hearing Rich Evans laugh
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Scarier than the entirety of Nosferatu
My bowels would drop not from being scared but from eating so many laxatives, to avoid the masochistic black spines.
That would be comforting
Comment of the year, it's early january but i'll call it now.
I don't chew popcorn at the movies. I simply let it melt in my mouth. Then, I gently inhale the unmeltable parts until I asphyxiate.
@@RealMikeLitoris Ironically, that’s exactly how Gustav Skarsgard created the breathing for Orlok.
Thank you for being considerate
😂
You're doing the lords work son.
@@hendrongBill Skarsgard
Im the chief gangstalker sending in stoners to every one of mikes cinema experiences. Someones gotta do it
You do good work
We all envy your work ethic
What's your popcorn budget for 2025?
Mission accomplished sir o7
Thank you for your service.
I'm glad Mike saw The Lighthouse because it's basically what would happen if him and Rich got stuck working in a lighthouse
I need someone to write that fanfic
that’s painfully accurate and i’d love to see an edit of The Lighthouse with Mike and Rich.
I was hoping he would start whining about loud crunching when he pulled out his typewritten notes on lighthouse
I did laugh when they signed the contract in the castle and Orlok croaks out "GOOD. NOW WE ARRE NEEIIGHBOORRRS.."
Same. I laughed too when the doctor deadpans "Now why would you do a thing like that?" to the Renfield character biting the rat's head off.
@ another winner! I think laughing at Lily's convulsions doesn't make much sense, but there are definitely some laugh lines in this thing.
And with all the straight-on shots of characters in the center of the frame talking directly to camera, I bet there's a trailer edit you could put together that would make it look like a Wes Anderson movie
@@samueldrake6138 haha I laughed when I saw how small the kids caskets were haha
I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE PRINCE OF RATS
@@samueldrake6138 I laughed at those parts because I was really enjoying the over the top acting. It took me out of it and my brain went into actor-critic mode and i was having a good time watching her send it haha
I'm from Romania and this movie actually hired Romanian actors in the Orlok's castle scenes and it was actually very respectful to Romanian culture. It's nice to hear the Romanian language being spoken by natives
Love to hear that. And frankly, I'm not surprised Eggers would do that.
That’s wonderful-one of the things l’ve always liked about “Dracula”(1992) is that Gary Oldman and other actors in the film speak Romanian in a number of scenes.
Thank you for sharing this information. What were the characters saying in Romanian?
@@BarryHart-xo1oy Ar-geeeshhh 🤣
I also liked that Mike said 'Romani' after saying 'Gypsies' a few times, most people probably already know but it's a pejorative term, so I'm glad he clarified
Of all the weird little details, my favorite was probably how Orlok would suck in massive breaths of air just to make his voice work. He wasn't doing it because he needed to breathe.
That makes sense! I didn’t put that together.
Wow, how clever - I never would’ve thought of this
I'm sorry but when Willem's character said “I have seen things in this world that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb!" I couldn't help but chuckle. It's such a good line.
Were you in my screening?? I heard that chuckle!
Everyone in my theatre (15ish people, not many) laughed at that line. And a fair few chuckled at Orlok's naked cock. So I think it's fair to have a couple laughs during a scary flick
It's a good line, but Isaac Newton is called "The Last Babylonian" by certain scholars because he was into Alchemy, turning lead into gold, astrological correspondences, you name it. Isaac probably would have been OK with a vampire.
i think that one and a few of his other lines were supposed to be a bit funny/ a respite
Willem Defoe was terrible. He's a caricature and midwits eat it up.
"Haha, he said before the COCK crows, twice"
“Nobody has sex with a corpse this whole movie”
Um… Aaron Taylor Johnson’s character would like a word lol
To be fair, I didn't catch that's what had happened until my second viewing.
Oh god, you know I didn’t even realize that’s what he did when I saw this in the theater. I thought he just kissed her as he was dying.
I had sex with a corpse while watching this movie, and nobody noticed
Theaters are doomed
Man I had my jaw dropped when I saw that while watching it in a theatre. Lmao
Pretty crazy that they missed this, it's not exactly subtle
When they said Dracula looks like a boat, maybe they were traumatized from seeing his dinghy.
lol good one
He was also after that dirty oar the whole film
It is now official: Dracula was uncircumcised.
@@WG55And they blame people for laughing? Sorry, the pig in a blanket look is funny, Mike.
didn't want him to sing love me tender
Mike has fond memories of seeing the original in theaters he’s probably very excited for the remake
The original? Mike was alive in 1922?
@@HowdyDuty4 Yes, that is the joke OP is making
I saw it in a theatre in the early 80s as part of a double bill with the Herzog version . . .
But, yes, OP was insinuating Mike saw it 95 years ago.
@@HowdyDuty4Yeah he read the original Dracula right when it came out as well
Like he said he hadnt seen it since he first watched it in film school, which I assume is the mid-late 1920s
The opening made me hungry for popcorn. I paused and made popcorn. Then I ate popcorn loudly and watched the review. The circle is now complete.
One of my favourite cinema-going experiences was a girl who got fed up by a loud couple that must have been under the impression that we all came to see and hear them talking. This girl tells the couple several times to keep it down, and they get combative. She then goes on to report them to the staff, including they had brought in McDonald's. They were swiftly kicked out. I've never felt so inspired
She is like me! We will save your movie viewing experience. Im an ex usher, so I cant stand people that talk etc.
I'm a firm believer the only way to bring back quietness in movie theatres is to normalize telling people to shut up. Everyone is thinking it but nobody says it.
I went to a christmas viewing of The Grinch. There was a family on the other side of the theatre who could not keep quiet: on their phones, getting out of their seats and fidgeting, talking to one another all the way through.
I totally lost my cool and told them off. The parents _finally_ decided to control their children as a result.
I just don't understand people who spend good money to go to the movie theatre and then don't even watch the film and disrupt everyone else's enjoyment.
That wasn't a girl; it's Mike in a wig.
@@sameaston9587 That's actually Rich Evan's sister. They use her as a body double for Mike during any stunts on half in the bag.
"If we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists." I love that line.
I think that Count Orlock's desire to live in a "modern" world was really more about living where people have forgotten how to kill him, essentially, lol. He wanted to be free to do as he will without worrying about an angry horde of Romani townsfolk finding his casket and putting an (iron!) stake in his chest! 🧛♂
Yeah exactly. I felt like this was clear but a lot of people seem to miss it. The whole film is a critique of the sanctimonious naivety of modern rationality.
Glad someone recognized that part of the dialogue in the movie
@@johna4371yea we have not become so enlightened as much as blinded by the gaseous light of science. In order to confront evil we must first know it. When we discover it in ourselves we must crucify it. Great stuff and very based
as Regis says at the end of Blood and Wine Witcher 3 video game about moving to Nilfgaard "Nilfgaardians are a modern society, nobody there believes in vampires anymore"
I thought he just wanted more people to eat. Pretty simple.
There's a specific transition in the movie that I thought was legitimately funny where Ellen is horrifically convulsing and then it immediately hard cuts to the men just calmly pondering the situation in another room. Seemed like intentional comedic timing to me and I loved it.
Is it when willem dafoes character has just been trying to talk to the nosferatu demon through the girl and then it cuts to him taking a big old drag from his pipe, i chuckled at that like damn i would need a fat drag of a doobie after that too😂😂
I swear there was like 20 intentionally funny moments in it
Isn’t that the one where willem dafoe lights his pipe on the Christmas tree candle lmao
Also the "she has too much blood" lines, realistic, but also funny and the "put her in a corset, that will calm her womb", and "I will give her more ether". Every line in that scene was both realistic to the time and location and funny AF.
Also the hard cut to the angelic children! That was definitely meant to get a laugh IMO
You can tell how much they liked a horror movie by how mad they are about the common annoyances of horror audiences
Same thing happened with the last great horror masterpiece (Hereditary). A lot of genre audiences are kinda dim and/or wanting something unserious from their movie.
Definitely a touch of the tism at play too. I get it. I'm in the same boat.
Trash Dracula Looks Like Boat was the alternate title for The Voyage of The Demeter
I heard the other finalist for the title of Event Horizon was "shippy boo scare"
😂😅😊
It was supposed to say Borat
This made me laugh way too hard 😂
Trash Dracula looks like boat is the sequel to Top Hat Monkey Goes West.
Eggers was so impressed with Keanu Reeves' performance in Dracula, he decided to go full English accent for Nosferatu.
They do actually rely how Orlock becomes a vampire, buts its a quick explanation. During the church scene where Nicholas Holt is getting healed one of the nuns explains he was a "dark sorcerer" and was so evil the devil preserved his body forever. Not a big point, but just really cool how Eggers is a devil for the details
Been having a bad couple days. “Some kind of.. Dracula?” Made me instantly laugh and cheered me up. It never gets old.
Hilarious
I laughed out loud in line at tim hortons
it was very brave of mike to open this episode sharing his neurodivergent experiences
It’s called misophonia. I have it too.
Misophonia triggers!
It's not neurodivergence - it's neurodecay
@@Thanatos2k Neurodecay is my favorite black metal band. Their seminal album "Mikeaholica" got me through many a vomit-soaked night.
It's not neuro divergence though, it's manners and being properly brought up. You don't eat with your mouth open, it's disgusting, vile and rude.
If Jay loves it, you know it's going to be weird and pervy
The way it should be.
Nosferatu: the original sex pest
We know we can trust him
It's a Tim Burton movie turned up a notch
As someone who did not see the older versions and therefore had no direct comparison, the plague still felt very present in this movie, and not at all like it was in the background to focus on characters: You have the rats as well as talk of a plague on the boat, then it arrives and the whole shipyard is immediately infested by rats, then you get a scene where the hospital is overfilled, as well as multiple shot in the streets with people laying on the ground presumably dead with rats everywhere. The wife gets bit by rats, the coffin carrying scene is one that stayed in my mind even if you only see a side view from an alley. And when they get to the counts nest, the whole floor is covered in rats in a way that I have only seen in the video game "A plague tale" before. So what I am saying is that even if in a direct comparison there's less show of the plague than in older versions it did feel very much like the main theme of the counts arrival.
I remember being shocked at how empty the streets were near the end of the movie compared to the thriving and crowded life they had on Thomas s walk to work
It was a bit understated compared to Herzog’s version and what else was going on during the movie at that time. I would have personally liked to see a few more establishing shots showing boarded up houses, piles of caskets or burning the dead etc… to really sell the magnitude of it on the general city
The Outsider took a trip from Dunwall to 1800s Germany for a fun getaway. Summon rats everywhere.
I got heavy dishonored vibes from all the plague rats eating people.
Agreed. Also ATJ’s character was showing symptoms of the plague when he returned to his family’s tomb.
This was my worst theater experience. We had someone who clapped at random points throughout the film, people talking and staring at their phones on full brightness. The only thing that outweighed that was the group of five nerds dressed as steampunk vampires wearing tophats sitting in front of me.
Please tell me they at least took off the hats during the screening...
@ They got up and left several times during the movie, but they were kind enough to take their little top hats off when they did. They didn’t obstruct anything when they sat down thankfully lol.
Yell at people to get off their phone, it embarrasses them and they usually stop - don’t tolerate it
Look, we had just come from our weekly vampire meeting to discuss vampire business and hadn't taken off our vampire business hats. I am sorry if that offended you!!!111onetyeleven
Cool, you were sat behind the RLM crew? Did you get any pictures with Richard Evans while he was non-contagious (that's why he was allowed out that day)?
Description of Dracula from Bram Stoker's book, "The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy mustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips."
HMM! ADVENTURE TIME has a vampire that gets this right.
Are we dealing with some kind of Dracula? I thought we were dealing with Nosferatu?
Eggers wrote the movie based on both Nesferatu and Dracula @@mattg7485
@@mattg7485 some kind of mustachioed monster
It would cool to a depiction of a slight overbited Dracula
Awkward Corpse Sex is the name of my Cannibal Corpse all Ukulele cover band
Someone must enter the Milwaukee Metal Festival as Awkward Corpse Sex.
I would love to hear decency defied on Ukulele.
Better than a Cannibal Corpse All Urkle cover band, I'll tell ya that boy howdy
@@sheepsclothingmediaa band of Steven Urkels but the lead singer is Stephán Urkél?
My god I haven’t watched this channel in a decade and NOTHING has changed. Perfect.
Old man yells at popcorn.
Popcorn kinda looks like clouds. It all makes sense. It's all connected. THE NUMBERS! WHAT DO THEY MEAN??!!
Gen X describing their sensory perception issues is kinda funny
Sounds like a more interesting movie plot than Nosferatu
Mike and Jay are finally reviewing The Batman (2022). Glad to see it!
Trash Dracula Looks Like A Bat
Boatman
It's like poetry. It rhymes.
I saw “Trash Dracula Looks Like Boat” open for Bowie back in ‘87…
they had an impressive mime routine
I walked Bob Dylan onto stage in 1975, who tf are you!!??
A girl sitting next to me laughed out loud and yelled "Awkwaaaaaaard!" at the ending.
I don't even live in an english speaking country. Americanization and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Because they've been indoctrinated to think its the proper way to behave. Its the only thing they know. They've grown up in a post 9/11 world so outright opposition isn't illegal but it can bring you unwanted attention.
I love the Irish, just came out of a packed theatre in Dublin and it was *dead* silent until the credits rolled. They just love and respect the movie theatre experience here
@@crappyposts3477 couldn’t agree more, haven’t experienced half of the bullshit in cinemas that I hear about from people from other countries
@@crappyposts3477 Same in Italy, I've never experienced something ungodly annoying in a movie theater here
@@luiginastro8831I used to live in Italy and I hated the cinema experience. Unless you go to like a Arthouse/Niche, there’s always something wrong happening. I remeber when Lockdown ended it just got worse in cinemas. They treat them like social events which is weird
Although we aren't given an origin for Orlok in this film, there are moments where he speaks a reconstructed form of Dacian, a language that went extinct in the 6th century AD.
We kind of do, though. The Mother Superior in the Eastern Orthodox monastery that saves Thomas tells him that Orlok is a member of the Solomonari, which is the group that achieves mastery over the magics of the Scholomance. There are only 10 to have ever achieved it. She also mentions that his body lives but his soul belongs to the Devil.
I saw Nosferatu on Christmas Day in the afternoon and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the vast majority of the theater was older people; the kind that you just knew had watched the original on some old projector as a kid. It was a unique crowd.
That reminds me, I think this movie technically qualifies as a Christmas movie. Willem Dafoe lighting his (beautiful) pipe from a Christmas candle was a cute little bit.
Went to see this in the theater. Knew it was gonna be a classic when this guy came in dressed like Coppola’s Dracula. Top hat, trench coat, the works
Do they let people in trenchcoats into theaters after Joker 2 already?
That was Coppola's Dracula...
They'd never have a non eating section because they make the majority of money from the snacks lol
For a random mall AMC in Jersey, my theater was super respectful and dead silent. Was a proud new jersian. I’m the only one who laughed when Orloc said “now we are neighbors”
That whole scene was simultaneously extremely tense and hilarious
Regarding the moustache, my partner is Hungarian and when we came out of the cinema she said Orlock looked like an old fashioned Hungarian or Romanian man so it was clearly accurate to the region.
As Jay says it is also accurate to the original novel. Likely for the same reason
I think Eggers said that was the point.
He looked like Vlad Tepes a/k/a Vlad the Impaler, the Wallachian ruler in the Middle Ages who was given the title of “Dracula” (“little dragon” - his dad was known as “Dracul” - “dragon”)
@@gregbors8364jeez like we all haven’t known that since we were all kids .
Thanks Mr wizard.
@@cicolasnage5684
OP said the same thing with less info. Why you getting on that guy?
I was grateful to have watched this movie in a full theater where everyone behaved. Some teens giggled at the naked guy running down the street but I also thought that was funny.
I mean some deliveries by defoe were also quite funny, I recall some people laughing and/or chuckling when he whipped out the bottle of liquor and said "Schnoaps?". But maybe it was his pronunciation, we watched it in a german movie theater.
@@Aubimedx The scene with the pigeon got a pretty rowdy laugh from my audience, not the actual pigeon decapitation, the warden asking “why the hell did you do that man?” afterwards. Straight up chortling.
@@Aubimedx I forget exactly what happened but I think there was a scene where they were deciding if a corpse was really dead or not and I vaguely recall Dafoe whipping out a dagger and wanting to just immediately stab it. Also funny to me was Orlock “cheerfully” asking “Are we neighbors?” after signing the deed
@@ThriftGestapo yeah, this movie had many scenes that felt comedic at the right moment, just like the lighthouse did. I cant really subscribe to mikes and jays point of it feeling disrespectful or whatever that audiences laugh here. at least for scenes with this specific intent, not in scenes where lady has funny face.
@@Aubimedx I for one couldn't help myself when Orlok started speaking. It sounded like children trying to sound evil when playing a monster. God bless Bill, it must have taken a huge effort to pull that sound off but the moment I heard the voice, the movie stopped being serious for me.
That and the breathing. There's an undead creature telepathically communicating with a woman hundreds of miles away. Do we really need the whole breathing mechanic? Sounded too funny too as well.
I absolutely loved it. I’ve also seen “Dracula, Dead and Loving It” and I had to stifle my laughter during a few parallel scenes 😂
I love that movie!
"She's alive?"
"She's Nosferatu."
"She's Italian?!"
The first scene with Dafoe, he sounded a little like Mel Brooks in "dead and loving it" and my GF immediately grabbed my arm and started chuckling
"I have been to many stakings and you have to know where to stand. Location, location, location..."
@@cornbredx "Oh my god! There's so much blood!"
"She just ate!"
Im always appreciative that RLM keeps refilling my Endless Trash bucket
What is a Boat? A miserable little pile of Draculas!
A trash pile of Draculas, even.
But enough talk... HAVE AT YOU!!
You steal men's sails...and make them your slaves!
Rich Evans: Die monster! You don’t belong in this world!
Count Plinkett: It was not by my hand I was once again given flesh. I was brought here by RLM fanboys who wished to pay me tribute!
Rich Evans: Tribute!? You steal hookers’ souls, and make them your slaves!
Plinkett: Perhaps the same could be said of all UA-camrs…
These guys aren't gamers, you're just wasting your time.
Finally. my favourite hacks review Trash Dracula Looks Like Boat! For a minute there, I thought they were going to talk about that 'Nosferatu' garbage for forty minutes!
I know that lovecraftian movies have been made and the lighthouse is kinda, but I’d love an eggers king in yellow, or shadow over innsmouth, he really gets how to depict madness and this movie was close to being a cosmic horror, maybe not original but definitely something worth watching.
I can actually picture a sort of anthology film by Eggers adapting King in Yellow! Nice pull dude!
Need this now!
Hard to do. I personally think just word for word copies of the stories is best. Then just add in cinematic scenes. Since all of Lovecrafts stories are very short (they were written for magazines). None really have great potential to be turned into movies. Unless you draw them out.
Shadow over Innsmouth isn’t long enough for a full movie. Maybe combine Shadow/Dagon/Call of Cthulhu into a movie.
Personally I think At the Mountains of Madness is the best pick for a full Lovecraft movie.
But The Thing is already copying the vibes of the first part of the story. Anthology like the other commenter said would probably be best. Like VHS with some Lovecraft stories.
The Shadow out of Time is my favorite story by Lovecraft. I think it’s the complete package.
But with all his stories, it doesn’t play well into cinema. The Lighthouse is probably the closest to a Lovecraft feeling I’ve had watching a movie.
That kid pranking Mike by chewing during every pause in dialogue is hilarious.
Mike should have broight the slide whistle with him
No it's not, it's stupid and pathetic.
@@SelfishFew The way it works is, it's hilarious since it wasn't me that it happened to!
I don’t know why I, a twentysomething woman from Europe who doesn’t even watch movies that much, love watching these middle aged midwestern men talk about movies for so many years but here we are
It’s stylistically designed to be that way, and I’m not just saying that
Idk but if any of your friends are single let me know
Maybe you're like Ellen in this movie. They have a psychic hold on you
Omg I'm not alone! We need to start a fangirl club for these hack frauds
Here we go again
My takeaway on her relationship with Orlok was much darker than a scorned ex-boyfriend, I took it as a parallel of someone suffering, like grooming, an actual abuse. She was practically a child, if not, call the child when she first calls out to him, and the fact that he’s also praying on the children of the other family. He seems to be a sexual predator, and she feels guilt for how much he woke her sexual excitementand was her development of sex. I think there’s a lot of dark parallel to how victims feel about their abusers in this.
yeah, I'm surprised they didn't go into this at all. It couldn't have been more obvious if Orlok had turned to the camera and said "I love molesting children and the unwilling" that he was meant to be a rapist
I feel the same. Don't understand the people who say this movie is about a love triangle with Ellen, Thomas, and Orlock. A child called out for help, she didn't seek Orlok he was just the one that found her and violated her. She even straight up tells him that she was just a child and she abhors him. Her journey of dealing with the trauma and how all the men who claimed to know better didn't pay any head to her feelings or needs and were useless in their efforts to "help" her. I liked how the movie showed her finding the inner strength to face and ultimately embrace and defeat her trauma. Fantastic movie
I am averse to this interpretation because it is the same interpretation that every person on the internet applies to every art piece there is. I will forget reading this comment for the same reason.
In this case there's an interesting idea at the end: Let your Trauma Die, don't drag yourself down with victimhood your whole life and inflict it on everyone around you.
Hmm, kinda like Hollywood.
Seriously! He grabbed her neck and she screamed. At the least, you are talking about an abusive relationship there, not some consensual romantic fling. And 'I am going to hurt everyone around you to get what I want' seems straight out of an abuser's playbook to me.
I was bored to tears for this movie. Enjoyed your review much more than the film. Thanks boys!
Did you guys know that the original Nosferatu was meant to have all its copies destroyed by court order? It only surived because Mike smuggled out the answer print under the seat of his walker.
Wasn't the original negative stuffed in a pizza roll?
@@kostajovanovic3711 It was a lot of pizza rolls. You can't fit much footage in one pizza roll. This is also why some prints of Nosferatu are tinted orange.
But he cut out the ending!
*_I had to wait two whole weeks to find out how I feel about this film!!_** THANKS A LOT, HACK FRAUDS!!!*
Muppet Nosferatu would be hilarious
That would be awesome. I'd be so in. Scooter could be Harker. Janice and Miss Piggy are our female protagonist. Kermit as our narrator. Cameos with Ralph, Fozzy, Dr Teeth etc.
I'm like half-sure you are referencing the movie. Buuuuut, just in case, last year came out Vourdalak which is a vampire movie where the vampire is a puppet like a muppet.
I think Sam the Eagle would make a good Orlok
@@dormant_informant He would make a great Van Helsing as well. Or maybe Guy Smiley or Gonzo.😆
@@atomcraft4067 gonzo would be the cowboy
A rare moment where I understand Mike completely. Crunching sounds of popcorn or chips make me feel an uncontrollable rage
That's one hell of a title.
It sure is a one.
What do you mean, isn’t that the original title?
Use less words, save time
Mike is already mad, it’s been 50 seconds.
It's why we're all here!
Random destruction of office equipment is why I came.
Ngl my last few experiences at the teather have been the same.
Absolutely obnoxious people, talking, kicking seats, munching loud af, kids crying and running, using their phones with flash mid movie...
Maybe it's my age but I no longer enjoy going to the cinema as much as I used to when I was younger.
To my horror, the cinema was PACKED when I went and watched Nosferatu. To my surprise, not a peep was heard during the entire showing. Movie is a masterpiece too, well worth it
Movie was shit
@@spencerlane415 Your mutha
@@spencerlane415 Absolute garbage.
Same! Full theater both times I went and people were LOCKED IN.
Yeah u don’t get what you see in this movie but hey art is subjective
i had an old guy show up twenty minutes into the movie and walk around the theater with his phone flashlight looking for his seat
glad there was a mini lighthouse review in this, I love hearing different people's interpretations for different scenes because I always find something new, one of the reasons it's my favorite film is because of all the different possible interpretations people make from it
Saw it opening night and someone dropped their METAL WATER BOTTLE on the floor TWICE during complete silence
Metal water bottle? White woman detected.
well earned jump scare? lol
@ LMAO
In the first few minutes, Mike is describing a thing called "Misophonia." It's a real thing, and there are different triggers for different people.
Welcome to the club. My condolences.
I just realised Mike has been doing quippy Letterboxd-style reviews before Letterboxd was even a thing, he really is the Nosferatu of film criticism
Letterboxd reviews if it wasn't written by an unfunny 19 year old girl in film school
@@thefutureisbread I can never make it through Letterboxd reviews without adding a few more jokers to my block list.
@@Guags I think reading Letterboxd reviews counts as self harm. I simply do not scroll down 🙏
You people sound miserable
@@Guags Letterboxd is very worth it for the opinions you actually respect. Following certain critics, filmmakers, and actors, for example. You can get some great suggestions in your personal feed that way. Letterboxd is NOT worth it if you browse the "Popular Reviews" section. It is entirely "look at me and how funny I am! Pop culture reference!" Like don't even look at the reviews of people you aren't already following. Just look up lists online of known industry people and follow them.
Fun fact: Dracula was inspired by Carmilla a Gothic novella from 1872 by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu.
Loved the new Nosferatu! I had a very good time in the cinema. Almost sold out and everyone was quiet and seemed to enjoy it a lot.
Here's to another 25 years of great video-movie reviews~
going by the grey... and the liver abuse. they don't have 25 years between them all...
I imagine their set smells like my dads basement... old beer bottles/cans mixed with electronics and regret. I love you guys.
I loved this interpretation of Nosferatu. I love that he's basically a ghoul. Eggers clearly read actual folklore versions of "real" vampires, so to speak, because this was far more akin to how they were in actual folklore, effectively walking corpses aka ghouls. The whole handsome, charismatic, romanticized vampire was actually an invention of Hollywood, and, perhaps, you can even say Bela Lugosi himself, as he was doing Dracula that way on stage for years before he even did his Dracula film in 1931. For the mustache, yeah, in the book, Dracula does indeed have a mustache in the novel. There's also no romance. He's more obsessed with Mina rather than it being anything actually reciprocated. He's effectively just a supernatural stalker in the book...very akin to how Nosferatu is portrayed here. He also went for what real counts and noblemen looked like at the time. I LIKED that he wasn't just a replica of the Max Shreck make-up. I felt there was almost a sort of Grendel quality to him in some ways, the film giving off a near OG terrifying fairy tales and folklore quality at times, the pre-censored versions that are the stuff of nightmares. There's a lot more Dracula in this Dracula ripoff than the original Nosferatu. I like that they tried to poorly disguise it was Dracula originally back in 1922, but now, over the decades, it's actually come full circle, and new directors are entirely embracing it's totally Dracula by bringing in even more blatant comparisons...but at the same time, simultaneously having it carve out its own unique qualities. I also couldn't help but notice that Willam's character, the role that's a surrogate for Van Helsing here, visually resembles a character from another lost (though, unfortunately, this one permanently lost) silent horror film, Dr. Burke from London After Midnight. I can't confirm anything...but I don't think that's a coincidence. At this point...I'd about die for Eggers to make The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, though I'd also settle for Del Toro.
100% agree!
There are a few books with handsome vampires before Bela lugosi, but you are largely correct. He definitely popularised it, and it was not a staple part of the mythos before Hollywood.
I got the London After Midnight feels from him too!
Please don't give Hollywood ideas to start remaking german expressionist movies, leave them alone.
For the look of Orlok, they took heavy inspiration from Vlad the Impaler. Very similar nose and prominent moustache.
I absolutely loved what they did with the voice. It just embodied a sense of age and rot while also having a powerful malevolence behind it. Great work.
what they described at the beginning happened to me with the grand budapest hotel. some older person snuck in an entire gallon ziploc bag of shelled peanuts and was cracking them open and eating them. I think at one point they got self conscious because the movie was so quiet but they quickly got over it and resumed. there were maybe three people in the theater, and when we left I went to their seat to see what they did with the shells and they were left in this pile of detritus. I’ll never forget it
This comment literally made me LOL. Today is my birthday. Thank you.
That’s honestly oddly fitting for a Wes Anderson film. Kinda adds to the charm?
@@stuntmanmike37Happy Birthday, hope you're having a great day today :)
Mike has the best German Pizza Man impression I’ve ever heard!
Mamma Mia! I'ma doing German accent!
Mama Mia! Ima gonna annexa Poland! -Adolfo Hitlerio
@@archfriend Babbedi boop, have a the pizza with bratwurst und ze sauerkraut.
@@archfriend I was looking for this lol even his hand gesture was Italian 😂🤌
Mike's irritation with loud popcorn munching is the most relatable thing I've heard all week.
I'm also on the autism spectrum, Mike.
Underrated comment
It's not autism, it's misophonia
The man who made deepdives into Star Trek and Star Wars films via his serial killer character has autism?
Yeah, probably. I do, too, tbh, and I've noticed Mike has a lot of autism traits. Hell, I'd say most niche creators on youtube do
This was my first thought lol.
pretty sure I am Like Mike (2002)
Lighthouse is the best SpongeBob live action movie adaptation.
For me it feels more like an episode of Flapjack if you think about it
Gotta blast The Mollusk by Ween while watching it.
And Nosferatu, starring the Krusty Krab's light-flickering night manager, is the best live-action Spongebob spin-off.
Costarring the old sea captain from the Simpsons.
I liked the mustache. Nosefurato wrapped in black except for his head is kind of worm-like and the mustache looks like a bug's mandible. I thought they were purposely making him look like a parasite.
Honestly, interesting take
well I thought he looked like a boat
That's kind of how it was described in the book
This ties in really well with the read of him being a sexual predator. Kind of crazy how much fascinating stuff you can do with Dracula.
Just saw it in the theater because of your review....literally the only one in there. Absolutely magical.
I was completely alone watching the movie as well. Loved it.
I did laugh a few times during the movie, but it was just out of pure awe. This movie smacks you in the face at times, the images and sound, and it just kind of made me giddy. It’s masterful filmmaking and it’s a wonder to see.
Also, I saw it on Christmas in a fully sold out theatre, and everyone was silent.
Worst experience i ever had in a cinema in regards to people making noise was when i saw 12 Years a Slave. There was an older guy sat behind us listening to the football results on his phone...with no headphones in...during the whipping scene. The entire circle of people around us turned round and glared at him. His wife looked like she was wishing the ground would just swallow her up. No self awareness from this guy whatsoever, and he acted thoroughly inconvenienced when he finally turned his phone off.
I've had this experience multiple times, of people being on their phones, listening and watching something very loud and random during a movie. Unfortunately, nobody around me seems to care except me so I'm the only one who turns to glare, and people stare at me like I'm the problem. It seems like most other people don't care about extra noise in general, at least in my vicinity.
Why didn't...anyone SAY anything? Like, "hey do you mind?" Or "Can you please turn that off?" Or even "shut up."
very allegorical
@@justsomeguywithsunglasses8418 that's the thing, amidst all of that we could hear his wife trying her best to discreetly tell him to turn it down or turn it off. Baffling 😅
Because you never know if these totally inconsiderate agitated people are going to turn around and punch you in the face. It can get violent.
The real Dracula was the friends we ate along the way
The count Dracula joke was so worth it! :D :D :D
Great movie by the way.
Spent 20 years as a projectionist running new movies after work alone in theater, bliss.
Some kinda Dracula!?
No no no it’s
“You’re saying we have some kinda…” DRAMATIC ZOOM “…Dracula?”
@@danieltobin4498 they dracula now!!
are we some kind of count orlok?
Some kind of…nosferatu?!
@@bakashinji (wilhelm defoe seeing knock bite a guy's throat out) well, that just happened
I will admit that I had a small chuckle when the dude eats the pigeon and the doctor’s response was, “oh why did you do that? 🤨”
"My good fellow"
I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE PRINCE OF RATS
Ok, dude.
Honestly I think there's a lot of humor in the movie.
@@davidr2421it’s genuinely funny
I am so glad I went to see this film - my first Robert Eggers film in theaters for me, and I was so glad to see so many technical achievements done for a film lovingly made.
Thanks for covering this movie, Mike and Jay.
Now get Mr. Plinkett to cover the Robert Eggers Quadrilogy - post the video on your webzone.
Seeing The VVitch in the theater going in blind was an epic experience.... Nosferatu was fun as well. Stoked for you!
'plague is a big aspect of the original' maybe because that movie came out a couple of years after the Spanish Flu ended. Audiences in 1920s Germany could certainly see the topical subtext. Young german dude goes to a faraway land(WW1) and comes back bringing an epidemic(Spanish flu). The subtext is obvious once you know the year it came out.
Romania isn't a super far away land to Germany, it's just a remote backwoods like what West Virginia is to Americans
@@tpower1912You gotta view it as metaphor. And the pov of germans circa 1920. The guy going away to another place is a metaphor for the war and how most young german men left their homes. The plague is obviously the Spanish flu.
A certain area in Romania (Wallachia) is a german byword for „I am at the end of the world, completely lost.“
Here in Romania, everyone laughed everytime anyone spoke Romanian in the movie. They weren't even saying anything funny, just "lol there are Romanian characters in a Hollywood movie, that is funny for some reason"
The price of success is psychological defense tactics in case someone belittles the Romani portrayal and they decide they’ll wholeheartedly identify and predictably would have to take offense at said criticism.
The human mind is fucked. And that’s my human mind saying that.
Were the actors, aside from Bill Skarsgard, speaking proper Romanian at least?
@@georgezee5173 yep, they were clearly Romanian
@@TwoSoulsOneCup i like your name. btw, to avoid any confusion, i feel like i should remind everyone that Romani and Romanians are two different ethnic groups, etymologically unrelated, it's just a coincidence the names sound alike. both are featured in this movie.
@@georgezee5173 Bill Skarsgard wasn't speaking Romanian.He was speaking Old Dacian, they reconstructed his dialogue with the help of a Romanian writer. The villagers, Romanis and nuns spoke Romanian.
Jay must always continue his quest to see every Bobbie Eggers film in theaters no matter what...
PS, very shocked Jay didn't mention this isn't the first time Willem Defoe has been involved with Nosfaratu. He played Max Schreck in the film Shadow of the Vampire, sorta about the making of Nosfaratu.
Can you blame him? His movies are consistently great
Me too. And all of Ari Aster movies.
@@mellowyellow6572they are consistently awful and weird (in a bad way).
Bobby Eggy
@@handznet opinions are like assholes - yours sucks
That sense of dread when the lights dim, the studio splash screens start appearing... and the talking in the seat by you doesn't stop. You know you're in for a good time.
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this
I remark a bit on movies, and so did the ladies next to me for this movie. It enhanced the experience, we had a great time! That's the whole point of film in public for me lol. If someone ever hushed me I'd stop, but isn't it nice to go "ooh girl..." with the middle aged woman next to you? Human connection and all that.
I loved it. Watching it is like what you see in your head when reading a classic horror novel.
100% agree. I want to watch it again
All the clips of Coppola's Dracula in this review reminded me that it was a perfect move- until the clip of Keanu's acting started playing
@@kingsleycy3450 Whatever do you mean? Keanu’s accent was most excellent!
Putting Keanu alongside Oldman, Hopkins and Ryder was like putting a small one legged child as an offensive tackle for the New York Giants, and telling him to 'go get 'em kid'...
@@dominicoliver7505 Keanu’s presence in that hammily-acted movie is just part of its charm. I also very much enjoyed Tony Hopkin’s scenery-chewing.
Doktah! Polease.
There should be a Keanu-free version of that movie made commercially available.
I love it when I get halfway through a youtube title, and I have to double check I'm not having a stroke.
Film experts think fans calling a movie boring means it is challenging? That's way too generous.
My friends and I went to a local art theatre where there are only 15 seats in each room. Everyone behaves well, there’s a bathroom in every room so you don’t have to go to the lobby, it’s actually cheaper than regal or flagship, and it started on time with no Pepsi or Toyota advertisements.
Tickets at $7 and popcorn is $4 at my local indie theater in Albuquerque. It owns
Installing toilets instead of seats is a brilliant innovation! How quietly do they flush, though?
No flush!
Only an endless pit beneath@@Everywhere2
But how are you supposed to know when the toyotathan starts?
You still have to watch people use the bathroom, but it's worth it.
pretty sure 'looks like boat' is meant to be "looks like borat", which to be fair is pretty accurate
That seems possible.
Holy crap, you've solved it.
Both boat and count orloch travel west to a more modern country in search of an unattainable woman. I see the parallels
Borat
Does borat look like a boat?
The worst thing about seeing a movie in theaters is sharing that experience with other people and you don't know who you're gonna get
This is why I like going to the snooty arthouse theaters. Those people are at least there to see the movie.
Just like my sex life XD
The movie isn't funny but when Orlock flashes his junk some woman in the theater gasped "OhmahGod"!
I was struggling not to laugh 😂
Saw it in a small independent theatre with a full audience. I walked in right when It started and realized I was the only one with popcorn. I tried my best to only take bites when the audio was loud. Lmao I have become death destroyer of movies!
That's why I always go in when the screening officially starts. After half an hour of ads and trailers I have already finished my popcorn :-)