I went to see the 2024 version of Nosferatu because it got a couple of Oscar nominations and I love the original. It is AWFUL. I only lasted an hour (and I hate leaving a movie early) but it is truly dreadful. Really really awful. Poor Nicholas Hoult who started so well in About A Boy. I bet he regrets ever getting involved. Possibly the worst film ever made.

But why was it so bad, that's the most interesting part you left out!

It was almost entirely trying to create a visual effect. Virtually every shot was "artistic" - in other words dark and gloomy. No characterisation. Ghastly sound with absurd titles. It tries to be art but is actually crap.

I did like Nosferatu with Klaus Kinski. It's so bad it's good.

The original is a masterpiece despite not being a complete movie.

JK2006 wrote:
It was almost entirely trying to create a visual effect. Virtually every shot was "artistic" - in other words dark and gloomy. No characterisation. Ghastly sound with absurd titles. It tries to be art but is actually crap.

Thanks for that JK. I get exactly what you are saying and agree with you. I especially dislike TV shows nowadays and dramas for TV that attempt to be "filmic" shot. TV and cinema are meant to be different, too often nowadays TV tries to ape cinematic effect.

On an artistic level I used to dislike the far too commonly overused habit that many acts did for making their music videos in black and white or even sepia for no obvious reason as if being in black and white conveyed some extra arty aspect which it never really did. Any opinion on that kind of thing?

Correct Rich - those dreadful B&W videos were exactly the same as the reason that Nosferatu 2024 is so bad. Pretension.

The only B&W music video that's iconic is Black - Wonderful Life.

White Town - Your Woman is very close second.

Most B&W videos are the same, Control the Joy Division biopic. Is pretty decent movie but the B&W look adds nothing special to the storyline same with Raging Bull. Which I found very heavy going.