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Movie Name : Dracula 2000

Actress Name : Vitamin C, Jeri Ryan and Jennifer Esposito

Character Name : Lucy Westerman, Valerie Sharpe and Solina

Year : 2000

In 2000 movie Dracula 2000. Actresses Vitamin C, Jeri Ryan and Jennifer Esposito play as villainesses Lucy Westerman, Valerie Sharpe and Solina.

The reason I basically stopped updating the blog with modern movies is that I really can't watch a modern movie, movies are supposed to be form of entertainment, people should enjoy watching them, and I did, watched tons and tons of movies and TV shows, probably more than those trending critics did, like everything, action, drama, horror, comedy, good, bad, masterpieces, forgettable etc..

Like whenever they say "It's a comedy", and you find it not funny or boring, "action", boring, horror, somehow they also made horror boring, I don't know how but they did it, so watching what I already watched ended somehow to better than watching something new, for me movies and TV show were a form of entertainment of the past, and such form of entertainment no longer exist, I loved it, but came in terms with it, I can only watch either something I watched before or something that was made decades ago..

What you see in the first 5 minutes are actors staying true to the characters, you are watching characters, this actually help escapism, so, when you take character that is already established, and popular, and people know what true to the character you destroy escapism and the character, what would be left is trending in search result that is build on a story was built true to the character, which means, movies like The Matrix will always have value, and those who used the name will have no impact, only with destruction of the original character not a replacement..

Danny Masterson from That '70s Show is playing a villain in this movie?

As I said, get whoever play a good villain, and make them play comedy, it works..

About being true to the character, Amanda Donohoe in Lair of the White Worm is one of the greatest actresses who were true to character..

I watched this movie long time ago, I totally forgot about it, this movie had a heist in it?

This is very interesting, I had so much fun the first 15 minutes, more of what I get watching entire movie..

One of the things I love about villains, is the idea that they can hold two contradictory absolute truths, Solina for example is trying to free Dracula, which is absolutely evil, on the other hand on the metaphorical level, Solina is just being a good doctor who is trying to seek the secret of Immortality by doing her job, like, isn't that what humanity have been seeking since they existed, who can blame her for seeking it? A character with two levels, one she is absolutely selfish, on the metaphorical level she's absolutely selfless..

We see Solina again around 20 minutes, I love when villains get their screen time..

This movie was also probably the big break for Gerard Butler that made him a star, you have Sekhmet to thank for that LOL..

The intro of Dracula is insane, of course Gerard Butler was perfect to play Leonidas..

We see Valerie Sharpe for the first time around 35 minutes,

We see Solina as a vampire for the first time around 39 minutes..

Nightshade turned into a vampire too? Is it to reward him for freeing him from the coffin?

I don't know if I want to be a vampire, on one side, I get to be eternal, one the other side, I have to follow a blood-only diet, I don't get to eat the food I love, and for eternity?

This movie is very christian with Father David and Mary Heller, and you can notice that t-shirt Mary was wearing, Dracula is basically Satan in this movie, or at least metaphorically, similar to Amanda Donohoe in Lair of the White Worm, or Sybil Danning in Howling II, which is why I thought that Howling II seems to be about vampires not werewolves, Dracula is more tense tho..

Gerard Butler must had so much fun playing Dracula..

We see Solina around 50 minutes, if she wanted to kill, I'm so dead LOL.. Yeah, if she played such really good character of Sekhmet, the goddess of art and science and I'm not talking about ancient mythology I'm talking how her priests found her the only godly power that was sent to humans and basically associated the knowledge they had with her, playing such character would make you think, this character can easily kill me, but not because of her deadly weapons, the weapon if far sinister, you can't even resist her, not being able to resist is far advanced weapon, if you have a character with such insane charismatic pretense, heroes are easily resistible, unless you go with the dark depressing reversal of vampire, which is Frankenstein's creature, or Jesus, and even tho, you will also being able to reach people who only share your collective, not the individual, including individuals who agree and disagree with you..

Around 54 minutes, the movie basically called the culture then Satanic, it's like whoever make movies now unironically believe that it was Satanic and thus we see every movie being sanitized to erase such Satanic stuff, the difference is, even tho the movie may call culture then as Satanic, but the existence of this movie and being able to call the culture Satanic, is all thanks to the "Satanic" culture, which is an interesting contradiction, meaning the only culture that would give you the right and the freedom to call it Satanic has to be Satanic, the movie is kind of praising Satan if you think about it LOL..

Around 57 Dracula slept with Lucy by lifting her in air, and gave her a hickey..

Marcus still alive? Yeah, was stabbed then jumped out of the window, I thought he died because it felt like the hero won the fight.. Now he's dead.

Gerard Butler is great as Dracula, Gerard Butler made some of my favorite movies of all time, and from different genres, the man left a mark in Cinema, like you have 300, The Bounty Hunter, The Ugly Truth and so many others, like many movies that seem to challenge the genre he's in.. You won't get anything like 300, 300 is 300, you won't get anything like Law Abiding Citizen, that's how insanely impactful as an actor he is..

The different between someone who watch movies for villains, and those who watch it for the heroes, I can watch a christian movie like this, talking about the cross, the holly water and the bible, and really appreciate religion for its artistic contribution, If I was watching this movie for the heroes, I would have to devoted christian in order to watch it, and even devoted christian could find it too boring to watch without good villains, I wouldn't watch a boring movie or TV show even if it praised me ideologically but so boring to watch, and I assume even a devoted christian would do the same if the movie doesn't have entertainment value and is basically another Sunday service..

The hero showed Dracula the bible and he was like "Propaganda" LOL..

Valerie Sharpe demise is around 1 hour 19 minutes, but Solina and Lucy knocked the hero's out afterwards..

The final confrontation starts around 1 hour 24 minutes, you can find the final confrontations of the vampires here and here..

I miss vampire movies, this movie would be my second best Gerard Butler's movies..

It feels like the movie both considered the cross is significant, but at the same time isn't, like at the start with the coffin, there were crosses everywhere, but then vampires act as if the cross has no power, but again Dracula was burned by pages of the bible, but mainly it uses the cross as a symbol not a superpower object, on the other hand, Dracula in this story is Judas Iscariot, which is interesting, because of we assume that Jesus Christ is the reversal of Sekhmet, then in this case, the story of the Crucifixion in the Islamic sources would be more consistent with such hypothesis, because if humans were able to trick Sekhmet to drink their blood, that's them having a fictional death, the reverse of that is Jesus - Sekhmet reverse - is pretending to have a fictional death, Sekhmet shared her immortality and godlyhood with humans by drinking human blood, Jesus shared his death by having humans drinking his blood, that's basically the idea of turning into a vampire turns you immortal, which make sense that many texts see Jesus returning would bring the end of the world, also with Jesus Christ having fictional death led him to be in the heaven, while Sekhmet drinking fictional human blood led her to be on earth, you can see villains, the charismatic and good villains as embodiment of the evil goddess who share with humans their mortality and share with humans their immortality, like Sekhmet did, by drinking the red wine she shared the mortality of humans by fictionally dying, because gods don't sleep, she also gave us her godly knowledge in science and art sharing her immortality for thousands of years..

It was also interesting that Van Helsing was using Dracula's blood to extend his life, which actually make sense if you see it like this, even if you hate science, you still need it to live longer..

Gerard Butler is the star of this movie, Solina is my favorite character, it's unfortunate that she didn't get the screen time the character deserve, but it's not possible to be fair, you have tons of characters and the movie is 1 hour 40 minutes..

Anyway, for the three villainesses, I would sell my soul to the devil to be with them LOL..

Vitamin C, Jeri Ryan and Jennifer Esposito as evil babes Lucy Westerman, Valerie Sharpe and Solina in Dracula 2000

Tag : 2000, horror, impaled, Jennifer Esposito, Jeri Ryan, Vitamin C,

Movie Name : Lair of the White Worm

Actress Name : Amanda Donohoe

Character Name : Sylvia Marsh

Year : 1988

In 1988 movie Lair of the White Worm. Actress Amanda Donohoe plays as villainess Sylvia Marsh. We first see Sylvia 14 minutes, her charisma is insane, she reminds me of Gus from Breaking Bad.. Amanda Donohoe is a legend.

Around 20 minutes, she spread her venom on the statue of Jesus LOL..

Around 23 minutes the movie basically using the snake as icon of Satan, and heathen on how they defile the righteous and how Jesus died to save the world and such.. Ok, let's talk about the symbolism of the snake, the snake around the sun disk, it may represent the ancient theory of the infinity of the universe, it's possible that it a represent a christian rejection of the theory, but it's more interesting than that, what if the snake doesn't eat itself around the sun disk, what if that only he you see it due to the restrictions we have as human to understand the reality of the world? What if the snake was climbing and your misunderstanding of it make you think that it's eating its tail? That's totally different story, it can only mean the existence of multiple parallel worlds..

Around 28 minutes, we see Sylvia Marsh again..

39 minutes in, this movie is how movies should be, you just keep watching, you are curious, you are entertained, Amanda Donohoe performance is insane.. Amanda Donohoe carrying the film on their shoulders, you know how hard this is? This is a star, when you have the character carrying the whole movie, you have a star, even if they are super famous, that's why if a superstar really want to help a young star to be introduced to public, make them playing a good memorable villains would be a reasonable idea.. Amanda Donohoe seems to really having fun in this movie LOL..

The scene around 53 minutes, is one of the most powerful scenes in history of cinema, I can't even describe how insanely good this scene is..

Around 1 hour 19 minutes our villainess kills Angus Flint, this is one of the greatest scenes, you should hate her, but you can't you have such strong contradiction that can never be replicated with any other character, like I said, villaines are uncut gems..

The final confrontation starts around 1 hour 22 minutes, but apparently Angus isn't dead.

I don't know, is there any other character in this movie I would watch the movie for if not Sylvia Marsh? I don't think so, Sylvia Marsh is the movie, like, this is in the 80s, and Amanda Donohoe carried a whole movie by herself.. This movie is a mixture of the vampire genre, and have elements that led to creating movies like The Mummy, but unlike The Mummy this one is kind of heavy on religion, and attacking heathenism, as the Christianity is the savior of humanity, and let's be honest, that's what the vampire is built on, yet everyone love vampires as artistic concept even if they aren't christian.

The efforts required to make this movie is insane, Sylvia Marsh keep changing her outfits to suit the environment, and the way she acts is crazy, it require insane efforts even if most people wouldn't notice it, but they will surely feel it and would feel how different and unique this movie is.

I can't believe I watched Liar Liar and didn't even notice such huge actress, I kind of feel bad TBH, I have to rewatch Liar Liar..

Amanda Donohoe as evil babe Sylvia Marsh in Lair of the White Worm

Tag : 1988, Amanda Donohoe, falling, horror,

Movie Name : Howling II

Actress Name : Sybil Danning and Marsha Hunt

Character Name : Stirba and Mariana

Year : 1985

In 1985 movie Howling II. Actress Sybil Danning and Marsha Hunt plays as villainess Stirba and Mariana.

This is a movie I watch for the first time, for Sybil Danning, I hope it's fun...

The movie starts with what I think an introduction of our villainess? Like Stefan played by Christopher Lee saying "The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with her blood." Like is he talking about Sekhmet or Jesus Christ? Because Jesus is the reverse of Sekhmet artistically, Sekhmet the one that was thirsty for human blood, and was offered wine to trick her, while Jesus offered his blood to humans, Sekhmet was sent to punish humans, Jesus was sent to save them, Jesus Christ is The Great Sphinx, the reverse and the opposite of Sekhmet, he is the guardian of the dead, like The Sphinx was for the pharaohs, so he was basically the manifestation of Sekhmet and her reverse in the other life, Christianity rejected the worldly gods, the goddess of science, art, and music, and only kept The Heavenly Father, Yeah, the sun circle around both the head of Jesus Christ and Sekhmet isn't a random coincidence, In my opinion it's possible that Christianity evolved from such philosophy, basically, if Sekhmet is the worldly goddess and her reverse is the heavenly god, maybe we should reject the worldly goddess and disobey her in order to please the heavenly god, which resulted in the idea of Satan, the idea that humans should either suffer in the worldly realm or suffer in the heavenly realm, which explain monasticism..

The acting in this movie is so funny, minutes ago, you have Christopher Lee, a very serious actor with a very serious performance, then just after him the movie go to the night club when someone says "Hey, what's with you, man? Can't you see she's a lady?" in the most fake way possible..

Around 9 minutes mark, Mariana took a group of people, and holy shit, that was bloody, and the practical effects are insane, the concept of werewolves in this movie is basically like vampires, only they can be in the light..

Watching movies from the 80s is insane, you are watching something took place 40 years ago, it's like travelling in time, it's priceless, especially if it's a good movie, you have never seen..

Watching the movie around 15 minutes thinking that Christopher Lee will break the fourth wall and look to me seriously saying "I know I'm too good for this movie" LOL..

Poor Erle died around 25 minutes..

We see Mariana around 28 minutes, and it's insane, You basically just saw brutally devouring multiple people, and she looks absolutely gorgeous, should you love her or hate her, run away from her or towards her, a character with godly power, the eye of Ra, you both attracted to her and repulsed by her, the way earth attracted and repulsed to the sun..

The villains started their evil rituals around 32 minutes, this is a well-made scene, the scene contain frames with Saturn Devouring His Son painting, this is extremely artistic..

We then see the gorgeous Stirba around 33 minutes..

This scene is so beautiful I'm gonna cry, the way she undress her robe to show how beautiful she is, is like a butterfly coming out from chrysalis, to show that she got another life and rebirth..

You basically are watching Stirba a very hot scene with Mariana then suddenly the scene is cut and you see Stefan in front of you, with his seriousness, it give you "Your father entered the room as you are watching the scene", that's a great jump scare LOL!!

Stefan would be a great comedy character, it can inspire a great comedy characters on the like of Dr. Rumack in Airplane!

It's hard to decide which Sybil Danning's movie I like more is it Hercules or this one, because I'm having fun watching both and the two are completely different characters..

We see Stirba again around 48 minutes having some werewolfy fun..

We see her again around 52 minutes with this insanely attractive outfit, the way she sits on the chair elegantly is very interesting..

I don't know, if a 10 thousand year old goddess exist in real life, I would probably worship her, I would absolutely worship Stirba if she actually existed, if not because she's so gorgeous, she probably more trustworthy to follow from billions of people who don't have as much knowledge of the world as her..

Around 56 minutes Mariana said "Let me kill him" and I burst out laughing..

I love Sybil Danning, whenever she plays a villainess, she's always awesome and I love this movie..

Around 1 hour, a petty villain was assaulting a poor girl, and Stirba kind of saved her, and maybe her men ate him, then she uses her to lure the hero..

The werewolves having another wild party around 1 hour 8 minutes, and the heroes are gonna ruin it now LOL..

There's absolutely no woman in the world as beautiful as Stirba, I would do anything to be with her.. How come someone watch this movie and give it anything but 10/10 score, like, have you seen anyone as beautiful as Stirba?!

It's like when Nizar Qabbani was expressing his love and the contradictory nature of love, he was describing her when he said:

"I hate her... and yet I long for her.

And I love my hatred for her..

I love the malice in her eyes, and the falsehood in her words.

Her eyes, like a wolf's, are deceitful.

The devil has taken up residence in her pupils,

And lust has extinguished her reason.

If she hugs me, she breaks my ribs,

And pour her venom upon my mouth."

what the poet is describing here is so being in love that the word love can't describe the intensity of the feeling, that's why he trying to describe his lover as a villainess that whenever she hugs him, he became helpless as if ribs became broken and losing every ability on resistance, and that's how Stirba, you know she's a villainess, you know you should hate her, but because how gorgeous she is, the mixture of feelings of attraction and repulsion create a higher intense feeling of not just being attracted to her, you are passionate about her, that you would even die to be with her, that's how great such character is..

The practical effects around 1 hour 18 minutes is insanely good, I don't care if it looks like a dummy, but I would prefer this every time over CGI..

I think the final confrontation around 1 hour 20 minutes..

Stirba says "Finally, we met again", if I were there all I would be thinking about "I'm so in love with you, I would be a werewolf to be with you" LOL..

There are some awesome 80s movies, that was fun..

I consider being able to like villains is the ultimate measurement of any free society, and also that characters like Stirba is the highest form of art, and without it, you are headed towards a dark age, where not only art, but science and religious freedom become at risk as well in a multicultural society which Egypt was, and it sustained a system that lasted for thousands of years, till Christianity came and it turned it into a lifeless empire that can only run by coercion, which ended with it imploding under the unsolved contradictions, villains also important to replace the unsolved contradictions only in a fictional space not a real one, that's what escapism is, replacing the real contradictions the empires faced historically with fictional contradictions, and even the leaders can share their followers such fictional contradictions, this can't be replaced with AI, I never experienced any contradictions with anything made with AI, and even when using the AI to create stories, you will never experience a contradiction with a story made..

Why this movie isn't one of the greatest movies of all time? And why Sybil Danning isn't the greatest actress of all time? It's full of contradictions and still being able to achieve escapism and immersion, the contradiction that the hero isn't like Rambo so you automatically admire, the villainess is insanely beautiful, the contradiction between the seriousness Christopher Lee and the absurdity of some other scenes, it's very rare to find movie like that, let alone how it basically an early movie towards the vampire genre, it also has some elements that led to Salma Hayek in From Dusk Till Dawn, so I don't care, Sybil Danning is one of the greatest actresses of all time.

Let me tell another thing about how great this movie is, you have multiple villains, Mariana and Vlad, who once they met put their medals together as if they are in love, then ended in love afterwards, you have Stirba, who is absolutely breathtaking, you also feel bad for Erle, only one villain doesn't have contradictions, and it's Tondo, Tondo's character is made, and a character that have no contradictions is always be a character you end up hating or at least have apathy towards it, you would never want to watch this character again, it's one of the worst characters ever..

There are two things that I wouldn't trade them with any other hobbies, movies and reading, not into games, if I ever played a game, it would be probably chess, other than that, it's very rare for me to play a game, movies for me are unreplaceable, movies with mythology, villains and escapism are absolutely awesome.. I don't know how to watch a movie if not for the villains, maybe if it's comedy, maybe if I would watch something tragic and very dark, then it's the reverse of a villainess, Frankenstein, just below that if an actress played a villainess then had her own movie, because I would want to see her on screen for the longest time possible, and that would make me want to watch a movie starring her, even if I wouldn't watch the movie otherwise..