#5 Argento's Dracula

What a worthless piece of junk. This flick felt and looked like the BBC tried to remake the Coppola version in 10 days with a budget of $400. I guess I've never seen any of Argento's 'good' movies, but they can't have been good enough for everyone to just look the other way while he cobbled together this mess of a retelling of Stoker's original story. I mean, what was the point? You've got a totally vanilla dude playing Dracula, no addition to the mythology beyond 'Dracula can turn into a giant praying mantis' (yes, you read that correctly), not enough skin or violence to justify anything, and they handled whatever plot they were trying to include as kind of a second thought to overlong, overacted snooze-fest dialogue scenes. I guess maybe just the idea of Dracula in 3D is enough to get a green light, but I did not watch it in 3D and didn't see anything visually that really would have been worth the glasses. Even Rutger Hauer asVan Helsing (for about 20 minutes) couldn't save the thing.