A few reviews

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Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
This has the rep of being by far the very worst of Hammer's Dracula series but I quite liked it....
The funk score is bad and at odds with trying to create a scary atmosphere, plus the dialogue is peppered with naff phrases like "Maaaan", and "Far out!".  Stick on a more traditional Gothic score and you'd improve things no end.

Light fan-fix?

I love to but I couldn't be bothered with all the work it'd take to rescore it and the other easier-to-solve problems are minor in comparison to that issue.  If somebody skilled in rescoring wanted to take it on, I bet they could really transform this one.

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
'Crazy Rich Asians' begins with a threatening on-screen quote from a military dictator and then a prologue showing how horrible, pathetic and ludicrously racist British people are. Erm, I thought this was supposed to be a light, fun, romantic-comedy?  So it didn't exactly win me over straight away .  The other two hours are devoted to worshipping obscene wealth and profligacy, superficiality and shallowness. The writers seem to assume that the viewer is witless enough that by introducing a character with a shot of her smiling at a cute child, right before a scene where she squanders a couple of million on a pair of gaudy earrings, is enough to make us think she's a good person.  Her character's arc concludes with her shedding her comparatively skint husband and loving the "fabulous" earrings instead.  The male main character is similarly intro'd with him proclaiming his disinterest in money, before sitting back in his designer clothes, 1st class cabin, champagne and positively wallowing in excess.  Everybody is perfect, toned, coiffured, vacuous and every shot looks graded like a Chanel commercial.  This film's idea of poor is arriving at your boyfriend's mansion when you're only driving a metallic-pink sports car which cost upwards of $100k.  One scene ends with a visual "joke" of one of the supporting millionaire characters accidentally killing a hooker with a missile launcher but it's never mentioned because the lives of "the help" aren't important I guess.  Awkwafina was so damn good in 'The Farewell' but here she is very irritating, constantly improving lines to fill up every second of screen time.  That might be the fault of the director, maybe telling her to "keep saying funny stuff, we'll leave it all in".  From what I gather, the source novel was satirical, multi-layered, multi-generation and self-aware but none of that is present in the film. It seems like the script has squeezed the book into a simplistic, Disney-fied, Cinderella-style plot, leaving some characters all but redundant. By the way, I think the title is supposed to read as "crazy-rich asians" but "crazy rich-asians" is equally applicable. Personally, I really disliked this movie but I could also see people switching off their brains and having a good time with it.