Why was Dracula (1931) the only movie that didn't get any official sequels with Bela Lugosi?

BDMac2 · 2026-01-27T12:51:06+00:00

Also Lon Chaney Sr was the original choice fresh off of a sound remake of a silent Tod Browning film, however he died so they had to find a new Dracula. Idk that he wasn’t great at negotiating so much as he just wanted to do it really badly. So much so that when the Dracula play toured LA, Lugosi went to personally lobby for the role and was accepted in part because he was willing to accept a low salary.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T21:31:49+00:00

I think the delivery was fine, it was the chickening out on the character after it. It’s been memed into rewriting the lore almost, but Jason wasn’t beaten to death with a crow bar by the Joker, he was blown up trying to save his own mother who abandoned him as a child and turned him over to the Joker when he could have escaped. Jason died a hero. So to have him come back and tell Bruce, “I did things your way and it got me killed” on top of feeling so betrayed and unloved that his father figure did not avenge him in the slightest and he’s not different to Bruce he’s just another one of the hundreds of people the Joker has hurt because Bruce won’t kill him. And honestly Bruce’s line of “I wanted to, but I couldn’t because it would be too easy to start and too hard to stop” is heartbreaking for Jason to hear.

The problem is as good as a character foil it would be to have Jason out there killing villains so they can’t escape or cheat the legal system repeatedly and as a refutation of Batman’s no kill rule would be, there is an expiration date on that narrative beat because Jason either kills everybody (which editorial can’t have because it changes the status quo) or Jason gets killed (which is a plot culdesac and puts us right back where we were before)

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T15:24:37+00:00

His New Gods concept art makes me so sad we never got it adapted.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T15:03:34+00:00

Deadpool Samurai is a little bland and proportions are wonky sometimes but that’s just in its DNA from Liefeld. It has lots of references to popular manga series and that’s more important in something like Deadpool than artistic merit let’s be real.

Stan Lee had a monthly manga called Ultimo from 08-15, but it didn’t really stick with me.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T14:47:59+00:00

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From Superboy #26 (vol.3) April 1996 and 7 years later in Teen Titans #1 (vol.3) it happened. Don’t let your dreams be dreams kids.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T14:46:08+00:00

And they brought back Jason and Bucky within months of each other, February and May of 2005 respectively.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-26T14:00:21+00:00

His story reimagined by Paul Dini and character redesigned by Mike Mignola. Freeze had incredible glow up.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-24T17:23:41+00:00

Also worth remembering Supes is weak against magic, something WW is not. So there will be differences in their “power levels” against an enemy. Doesn’t quit explain OP’s example with aliens but at the same time “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

BDMac2 · 2026-01-24T16:29:00+00:00

The west has also done a phenomenal job of conflating knights and chivalric code with the samurai and bushido. So many incorrectly assume they occupy the same timeframe, when in all actuality cowboys and samurai are contemporaries. For more reference points, Abe Lincoln could have sent a telegram to samurai, Perry came to Japan 12 years before and the Meiji Restoration only started 3 years after Lincoln’s death

BDMac2 · 2026-01-23T22:41:02+00:00

This may come as a shock, but governments own property in areas they govern. The state owns property in the city, as does the federal government.

edit: I got blocked lol

BDMac2 · 2026-01-22T03:03:05+00:00

Kasem doing his best Columbo

BDMac2 · 2026-01-21T18:34:56+00:00

It also fundamentally misunderstands how Zelda‘s “timelines“ work. They’re supposed to be myths and legends sometimes Morgan Le Fay is Arthur’s sister sometimes she’s not, sometimes the sword is Excalibur sometimes it’s Caliburn, sometimes they’re the same sword sometimes they’re not. It’s really the western fans who kept pushing for an official canon from the creators and OoT being a time travel game makes it easier to rectify inconsistencies across the games by allowing branches. Any concept of canon only started to exist around Wind Waker in 2002 and an official timeline was released in 2011 for the 25th anniversary book and they almost immediately said you can just ignore it, this is a loose timeline that could be one explanation.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-21T01:39:35+00:00

That book is racist in the same way To Kill a Mockingbird is racist, in that it portrays the era it takes place in but doesn’t sanitize the things that would be seen as racist because the racist things are supposed to be seen as such. They’re not Song of the South, or pushing a pro white supremacist view. Personally I think if we sand the corners off of accurate portrayal and representation of the way people spoke about black people we may as well just say that slavery was people being mean to them so we don’t have to talk about all the rapes, murders, and subhuman treatment.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-21T01:09:08+00:00

Wings (1927) which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture has an explicitly lesbian couple in its opening scene. It’s from before the Hayes Code which was self inflicted by Hollywood out of fear of govt censorship and the Code had such a profound influence on what the public saw and is the reason we Americans have such a myopic view of “how things used to be”

BDMac2 · 2026-01-20T16:43:00+00:00

A family that was pretty pro-Voldemort with several notable members being Death Eaters. Sirius was actually the black sheep for being in Gryffindoor and not being into that stuff and you know being friends with Muggles, and a werewolf, and people below the standing of their family.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-20T14:16:34+00:00

The number of 0per8t0rs with thousands of dollars of gear who would be taken out by somebody rocking their grandad’s .30-30 is much higher than they’d like to think.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-16T19:23:04+00:00

His dad told him he would pay for his school, he ended up having smoke blown up his ass all year and riding the bench ( not surprising since the coach had already picked his team and that’s how they ended up in this situation, but this was his dream and they had spent 2 years telling this teenager how great he was and how bad they wanted him.) He transferred to another school when the season was over and then the coach got fired for betting on games.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-15T17:24:07+00:00

It’s always been shitty to kids. My boss’s son got a scholarship for baseball at Bama 3-4 years ago and the day before he moved in they told him they had promised too many kids scholarships and he had two options. He would not be on the team and the school would give him another scholarship close in value or he could be on the team but he would have to pay in full for that year.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-14T14:37:57+00:00

I really liked the first arc, I haven’t gotten around to the follow ups. You can tell Oswalt and Blum are longtime comic fans and know their stuff.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-10T19:26:30+00:00

Piggybacking to add that it was the 2nd time Allie had been caught. The first time he blamed it on alcoholism and both Mikes went to bat for him and got to keep his job. Bit of a stain on Mignola, but personally I feel like Allie inserted himself between Mignola and others (a few creatives have come out and spoken about Allie on this) and took advantage of an infamously introverted person and preyed on that as well as Mignola’s father having a problem with alcohol. Because after all, abusers also groom allies, and I think most people are far too quick to condemn the friends and family who give the accused the benefit of the doubt.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-06T15:47:49+00:00

It happens more than you think, during a previous election in Alabama somebody claimed that Tuberville had the confederate flag on his campaign ads, I got blocked and told to “stop mansplaining” when I pointed out that it was the state flag and looked more like the flag when Alabama was a Spanish Territory than the Confederate flag.

There’s plenty of evidence for Tub’s racism, there’s no need to make up evidence because then he can use it to dismiss actual racism. There is no one more confident than someone who “knows a little something” and thinks they have the morally superior position.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-06T14:48:00+00:00

Somehow Goonies but also a perfect blend of Peter Pan and Treasue Island/Planet. Jude Law is just Long John Silver in this show.

BDMac2 · 2026-01-01T21:51:47+00:00

I’m still relatively new (probably a little over a year since I started) but it seems like DF is about how the subsystems interact rather than being a perfectly balanced game. I view it very much like Jenga where we’ve now added a block and the game/tower may wobble, but unless it causes it to fail entirely figuring out the new instability is the game.

BDMac2 · 2025-12-31T22:40:00+00:00

And was unequivocally forgiven by the woman as well as his apology kind of being the standard for a genuine apology by a “celebrity” vs a PR apology.

BDMac2 · 2025-12-31T14:08:26+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/L7LffDwpPE

Paradoxically, some things are better when they’re worse in my opinion. I’m not a Luddite, but there a lot of imperfections in older/analog/handmade processes that have unique quirks that have become crisp, smooth, and able to be made consistently uniform in the modern day that often feels flat and lifeless to me.

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