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His set starts with an empty stage and familiar backing vocals: ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom boom-boom ba-boom... Then. With no marketing, no press release, no social media teasers, the spotlight reveals Ryan Reynolds on the mic, and he launches into Santa Baby in a slutty, purring voice.

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a truly fantastic movie. I was reluctant to give it a shot because Leslie Nielsen was central to the kind of comedy that I found uncomfortably awkward as a kid, but he’s so great in this! He does one of the best Lugosi-esque Dracula accents I’ve ever heard, and he has the confidence and sincerity necessary to pull off portraying a comedic Dracula. There are a few jokes in the movie that fall flat for me (and of course ymmv), but overall there’s a blend of silliness and wit that I found to be fun as hell. 

The whole cast gives superb performances (special shout-out to Peter MacNicol as my favorite Renfield since Dwight Frye in 1931), the sets have a charmingly theatrical feeling, and the stunt work (for the over-the-top physical gags and dance scenes) is brilliant. Is the movie perfect? Of course not. But it’s an earnest love letter to the decades of Dracula media that precede it, and everyone making it clearly appreciates that source material. (When setting your expectations: it’s more akin to Young Frankenstein than it is to Robin Hood: Men in Tights.)

I was scanning the shelf for what to watch, saw The Terminator, and thought, "Oh, perfect! We watched The Rock yesterday, so now we can watch Michael Biehn in a movie that's Good rather than Fun."

We watched it, had a good time with it, watched another movie, and went to bed. I spent a lot of time outside yesterday, so between that and how late it was after the second movie, I didn't spend much time on tumblr. I didn't get around to documenting watch diary posts until today, so I just now saw the anniversary posts.

I know it's a coincidence, but wtf??