EyeShotFirst said:I always thought christopher lee was scary enough. He was almost as good as dracula as gary oldman (shame the one with oldman had Keanu Reeves who sounded like he was stoned and then Wynona Ryder's clepto ass) Ahhhh it is a shame though Anthony Hopkins added another point to the good actor side of the cast.
Coppola's Dracula was an obscene joke, to have the nerve to stick Stoker's name to that silly film (all be it with some nice bits) was the final nail in the coffin of his reputation. Hopkins was terrible, he acted like he was suffering from concussion, shame really because if you stuck a white handle bar moustache on him he could have been a not bad Dracula. Oldman tried his best with a terrible script (at least he got the accent right but he wasn't Dracula.
The let down of being promised a faithful adaptation of the very filmable novel only to watch that hideous concoction was worse than TPM.
Lee got the nearest in Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dracula_(1970_film)
Even that made some large changes.