haydeetebelin Reviews

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

A bad movie

[1/10 · 23 January 2021]

Watching the classic adaptations by hollywood only feeds my prejudices against his films. A garbage film of a great classic. From a beautiful story of love and devotion from a wife to her husband, also the opposite to a story that supports adultery. Hollywood defends the worst values

The Count of Monte Cristo (1998)

Horrible version

[3/10 · 6 January 2021]

This version is horrible like the hollywood versions of the book. I recommend watching the movie The Prisoner of Château d'If, directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. While the Depardieu version omits important parts of the book and inserts content that does not help in the development of the story. The Soviet version, it omits secondary parts of the story like Maximilian and Valentine, but maintains the main story, the ending is Count and Haydee. The Soviet version devotes time to the development of the relationship between Abbé Faria and Edmond Dantes, the 1998 French series omits this development. The disguises of Edmond do not work with the actor because of his unusual appearance. The series had the time and budget to fully adapt the novel, but chose to make a fanfic.

The Musketeers (2014–2016)

Poorly written fanfic

[1/10 · 27 December 2020]

Fanfic about the history of France written by Englishmen who did not study the culture, values of the time, with gross historical errors. Moral values, the notion of good and evil are not timeless and universal, each society and time has its moral values. And the series wanted to impose 21st century Anglo-Saxon values on 17th century French. The series is a complete failure to reproduce the historical period.

The Three Musketeers (1993)

Horrible

[2/10 · 27 December 2020]

A film with gross historical flaws and a different behavior from a 17th century Frenchman. I find it pathetic to try to attribute current moral values to a person from a different and different thinking society. Moral values are not timeless and universal, each society and age has its moral values. I find pathetic this Americanization of Frenchmen from another time.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

A naive and shallow film

[1/10 · 24 December 2020]

I see people who seek to exalt this film that is as superficially superficial as the Disney films are. They are not realistic and very complex stories, just entertainment for the common public and escaping from reality to fantasize. Victor Hugo was not naive to make a simplistic ending like that. "Society is the stepmother," - The man who laughs by Victor Hugo

Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (2017)

This was one of the worst adaptations in the book.

[1/10 · 6 July 2020]

The exclusion of kitty and levin that are fundamental in the book and the whole comparison of the couple is ideal for Tolstoy with the two hedonists and sinners that are Anna and vronsky simply this adaptation as unworthy of the book. It destroyed all of Tolstoy's message.

The Prisoner of Castle If (1988)

One of the best adaptations of the book

[10/10 · 5 July 2020]

One of the few that keeps the message of the book of forgiveness and restart.

Monte Cristo (1922)

weak adaptation

[1/10 · 5 July 2020]

Bad adaptation of the book. Hollywood is a failure to adapt the count of monte cristo. Hollywood should learn from the Russians, who made a great adaptation with th count of monte cristo in Uznik zamka if (1988).

Monte Cristo (1929)

Despite the simplifications, it is a more dignified adaptation than hollywood.

[8/10 · 5 July 2020]

Hollywood adapted the book 3 times (1922, 1934 and 2002) and France adapted it (1918, 1929, 1953, 1954, 1979 and 1998), No hollywood adaptation was satisfactory. This adaptation despite simplifying the stories, and maintains more of the book than the Hollywood adaptations. And it was a more dignified version of the book and deserves to be called adaptation

Love (1927)

Garbage of low value artistic and philosophical

[1/10 · 5 July 2020]

What differentiates Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Dostoievsky from many writers is that their books are not only an artistic work, but have reflections, not being art for art, but art having a purpose. It is not limited only to entertain, but to teach. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opposes the adulterous couple who are Anna and Vronsky with their model couple who are Kitty and Levin. Tolstoy was inspired by the suicide of adulteress Anna Stepanova Bibikov for the suicide of Anna who, full of guilt and regret for abandoning her son, kills herself. While Hollywood ignores even the logic of real life to create fantasy escapists for audiences like Isabella of France and Willian Wallace in Braveheart. They never met in real life. Tolstoy, different from the garbage that is published today, does bring moralistic messages to reflect, that is why I value and criticize the promiscuous human conduct. Anna killed herself because of guilt, she could have been abandoned by Vronsky after he met a beautiful French girl and abandoned Anna. Remember Gwynplaine when he was seduced by Duchess Josiane in the man Who laughs, then regrets it. Ana simply regrets her choice and realizes that she made a bad choice when she was abandoned. Love (1927) is from the tradition of great books turned into cheap feuilleton like The hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) that ignores Victor Hugo's messages about not trusting seducers like Esmeralda did with Phoebus for a cliché ending for the audience accustomed to feuilleton low quality and shallow. The film ignores the messages and reflections of the book for a superficial "happy ending" for an audience not accustomed to reading classics, but pulp fictions.

Little Women (2019)

It is a sentimental story, without much complexity and very inferiority complex

[1/10 · 24 January 2020]

Little women is a sentimental and overcoming story, as hollywood likes, not a complex story that addresses complex themes. The criticism treats the story as if it were complex and with great reflections like Dostoevsky's The brothers Karamazov.. It is just a sentimental story of overcoming and with a woman wanting to prove to society that she wants to be independent and winning. It is a story with an escape valve that can overcome obstacles and that nobody needs, wanting to prove to society in a need to be self-affirming. Their dialogues are very simple and do not bring much thought as the dialogues of The Brothers Karamazov. An overrated movie.

Dracula (2020)

Horrible adaptation

[1/10 · 9 January 2020]

The series is a garbage. The series looks like a feminist parody of the book of so bad. They tried to insert social criticism, but they don't have the capacity of Vivctor Hugo who insert social criticism in his books.

Don Juan DeMarco (1994)

Horrible movie

[1/10 · 7 November 2019]

Don Juan is not a romantic hero, but a womanizer narcissistic and hedonistic. A true romantic hero was Gwynplaine in the Man Who Laughs (1928). He was capable of loving a woman, Don Juan only wanted sex and loved no nobody.

Ophelia (I) (2018)

Infantile version of Hamlet

[1/10 · 1 September 2019]

Interesting story showing Ophelia's point of view. But they turned an existential tragedy into a childlike self-insertion film by females without the slightest depth. Just to please feminists in their fantasies of super-powerful female characters who have a happy ending, who can transgress customs without thinking about the consequences and the historical-social context, because they love fantasizing about reality. They missed the chance to build a complex character with existential dilemmas, moral doubts, internal conflicts, and frustrations to create a shallow escapism character for frustrated people.

Aladdin (2019)

Very bad movie

[1/10 · 2 July 2019]

Lousy movie. History is very poorly written and clichéd, stereotyped characters and no charisma, anachronistic behaviors. They did not look like they lived in the Middle East.