'Dracula'

I was taken aback at how bad Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are at acting. And all the cornball shadow tricks and sticking Dracula's face in the moon and all that jazz.

All up until the point that a friend told me that Francis Ford Coppola did all the tricks on purpose to make it feel like an older film. Then I realized that had to be the reason why Ryder and Reeves were brought in. They had to find some of the worst actors in order to recreate the way people acted in 1935. There's no way anyone would admit this and there's no way this was mentioned to Ryder and Reeves because I'm sure both have too much pride to even imagine this scenario, but I believe it without a doubt in my mind.

Vampires are really popular and, really, have been for quite a long time. I can't imagine a time in the last 100 years or so when the vampire myth and legend haven't been commercially popular. "Twilight" is not so different from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which was on the air for seven years.

What men don't get about why women love vampires is that it's all about love and romanticism. It dates back to a day and age of nobility and the same love/lost that Jane Austen has sold a billion copies of her books over the last 200 years. It's no different.

What appeals the most is the idea of immortality and, yet, how carnal (human) vampires actually are mixed with this idea of chivalry and class. It's everything that a woman wants. She wants to be swept off her feet, ravaged and then told the man will be with her forever. Why wouldn't women love a good vampire story?