Quote Originally Posted by Scotty_ffgamer View Post
I haven't seen it yet, but just based on the trailers I am very iffy about it. If it was its own stand alone thing, I don't think I'd mind it as much. As the first in a reboot for all the old universal monster movies, I wanted something that was much more horror focused and much less action based. That's not to say that the old movies are all that scary these days (though there are some legitimately disturbing scenes), but I'd love to see a reboot that tries more for horror.

Of course, i could be remembering the trailer wrong. I'll probably also enjoy it when/if I see it. I just wish the universal monster reboot as a whole went a different direction.
Oh, you definitely aren't. It was a massive action movie with some kind of cool aspects, but it wasn't a horror movie, and I honestly don't think it was trying to be one. If they hadn't tied it to Dracula, it could have actually been about some random dude who got some magical powers and took out a whole army by himself.

Like, they mention that he might start to develop bloodlust - but, as Shaibana says, it never really manifests itself. He's completely under control of himself all the time, other than one time in which he made a sadface at his wife. It just feels like they had some wasted potential here and there to inject some classic vampire rubbish in there and make it a bit spookier than it was.