Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
20210530 温情与感动之外，片中最令人意外的或许是那一段讲述老友记在全球影响力的视频，配合NYT关于这部剧对于英语在全世界推广和影响的报道，完全可以将其看作是后冷战的第一个电视现代神话，它不仅提供了一套关于理想的城市生活的格式和语码，英语的标准口音，同时也将sitcom这种形式推广到世界各地——不仅规训着笑/幽默的发生，也将美国生活想象和显示为一个无阶级、无政治的永恒循环空间。
以这种形式出现拍成这样已经很好了，但这种形式真是让人爱不起来，还不如重看前几季
大体是六个人坐在一起说一些《老友记》粉丝早就熟稔于心的幕后花絮轶事，演员很多时候真没有铁粉对剧集的感情深，毕竟他们是拿钱干活，我们是付钱看故事。更有意义的导演编剧包括客串演员的采访。为什么美国人这么喜欢James Corden这小胖子啊，我真受不了他，浑身上下透着一股又gay又事儿妈的讨嫌感！还不如请Conan来主持，或者干脆不要主持都行，反正流程都要用Cue Card。
看着老人家被迫营业，有点伤感
新剧场版四部看下来，Mari的存在还是那样莫名其妙，感觉就是生硬地从Asuka那里抢了一些戏份
如果世间有完美的动画，这就是。梦想有一天能在电影院看一遍。
我总觉得制作组应该给他们再设计一些iintimate的聊天环境，例如重玩问答的部分至少也应该多放一些内容，《老友记》那么多素材，多设计一些桥段应该不成问题。大家私下的感情是那么深厚，在片场的记忆是那么宝贵，总觉得应该能采访的内容更多。加上并不是所有演员的性格都是张扬的，马修派瑞明显就还没进入状态，总感觉大家都还没完全放松下来就拍完了。T_T
只想好好看剧，不想被情怀绑架。这只是个重聚聊天而已，缺乏剧本那种自然的组织。《老友记》的前几季还挺自然的，往后好像就越来越疲惫了。角色被他们自己先前的灵感所束缚……和丽莎说得有点像，就体现在这个重聚聊天里，为了迎合段子而迎合，被框柱了，就让它像原来那样结束好了。
“We knew. ”
《老友记》是多变的时代里固定不变的时刻。看到嘴角不自觉上扬，以后装修要选一间复原场景。
其实我也特别怕看花絮和戏外采访，它会提醒我“老友记”是扮演的，但是真的太想看他们了，这不仅仅是他们的历史，也是我的大学时代啊，泪目！！！！干，我快要30岁了！！！
今日大事。Matt简直就是Joey本人啊，时装秀那里笑死。
不如好好拍一集 哪怕只拍个短短20多分钟也好 现在戏外的这种重聚好像在提醒我们 戏里那些友情都是假的
每个人都成长为了大人，每个人都把自己对他人想说的话说了出来，也都学会了去爱这个新的世界.
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我是真的蛮想看到六个剧中人物和他们的家庭都如何了。
心情复杂，但都要说了一句，再见了，全部的EVA。庵野这个剧场我个人看法是不负责的，将TV坑填了，但这些我们都知道了，从Q开始的高潮戏打戏都没再现TV、真心为你的质感，画面就一个乱，EVA全部无双，观感太差了。而且真希波根本就没塑造好，就一工具人，结果是与真嗣一对？你不想认真，不想对之前观众负责写好故事，拍好电影，你就直说，不要拍就是了吧。观众不需要从EVA解脱，不要将责任推给观众，庵野不好好拍，你不负责，你才是巨婴吧！旧TV，旧剧场，序，破我觉得永远五星。
How U Doing? [in Joey's tone]
对这个节目来说，基本都只剩下情怀了，岁月啊你别催。老友记如此的经典，可以刷一刷
该说什么好呢 那就祝你终于长大了吧 恭喜你终于与过去说再见了吧
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