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Quint and a few others chime in on VAN HELSING! 1 liked it, the rest didn't!!!
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Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with my look at VAN HELSING, the big monster summer blockbuster flick starring Hugh Jackman, Kate ("I have bitch stamped on my forehead")Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh and Faramir. I'll keep this short as there are a boat-load of reviews below mine, some more positive, some more negative.
To start with, I do admit to going into this film expecting it to be really shitty. All the negative reviews and Stephen Sommers' history of near-misses got to me. That's not to say I went in HOPING it'd be bad. I had hoped I was going to be proven wrong.
And at the beginning, I thought I was wrong. The opening with Frankenstein creating his monster in black and white was alright despite the very beginning of Richard Roxburgh's terrible overacting, but the real surprise to me was the introduction of Van Helsing himself. His introduction has him stalking, then finding Mr. Hyde (of Jekyll and Hyde, of course) in an old church. His dialogue with Hyde serves well to introduce us to this hero, his history of being a badass and also even makes Hyde the most interesting of all the monsters that follow later. There's a spark to this scene. Jackman was shining, the CG work on Hyde wasn't terribly distracting and the two had an odd sort of enemy on enemy chemistry.
The resulting fight has VAN HELSING using his weapons for the first time and curiously enough it seems to be the last time any of his weapons actually do anything for the rest of the film. Unlike everything that follows, you also get a sense that Van Helsing is not only smart, but clever... he thinks outside the box and gets the upper hand in the battle because of it.
That got me a bit excited. I was happy to be proven wrong... until the movie changes its mind and proves my weariness correct, mostly due to the vampires. Oh, my God... The Brides of Dracula... excruciating line delivery and posing. Roxburgh's Dracula isn't any better... matter of fact, he's much, much worse. Roxburgh's performance deserves a place on a shelf next to John Travolta's in BATTLEFIELD EARTH or that blue-lipped dude in DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. Actually, I take that back. I had a helluva time laughing at both the blue-lipped dude and Travolta. I just groaned during Roxburgh's Dracula.
Kate Beckinsale on the other hand... She gave me the giggles in a few spots where her dialogue and delivery was unintentionally funny... If you decide to see this film take notice to a scene when she's swinging through the air (near the end) and grabs the hypo... then stays in a ridiculous glamour pose for about 5 seconds... I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long while.
I'm upset at Sommers... While I shouldn't have it in my mind that this film would be anything but a shallow popcorn flick that always aims for the lowest common denominator, I just couldn't help but imagine he'd mix the popcorn fun of THE MUMMY RETURNS and the atmosphere and black humor of DEEP RISING for an out and out MONSTER MOVIE! Instead, he's made the most ridiculous, over-the-top retarded flick of his career. And this is coming from someone who LIKED Mummy Returns! It's funny... that kid in MUMMY RETURNS is smarter and more charismatic than anyone in VAN HELSING. But that's not to insult Hugh Jackman. He really tries and some of the times even succeeds despite the terrible script.
I don't know... I just didn't feel any sort of love for the original Universal Monsters... I know in reality Sommers loves them, but with the exception of a few nice nods back to FRANKENSTEIN and the immortal "Even a man who is pure at heart..." line from THE WOLF MAN you couldn't tell based on the movie. Where it counted I didn't feel any real respect to the classic movies.
Sommers creates his own mythos surrounding these creatures... and it appears that the most magical weapon in his world are clouds. Yes, clouds. Clouds not only shield vampires during the day time so they don't burn into crispy-critters, but if they float across a full moon the werewolf will return to man-form. So, a werewolf can be indoors on a full moon completely out of its light, but that won't change him back... But if the moon light is blocked by clouds, then back to man he goes... I'd say the only creature they got close to right was FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER... but even then Mel Brooks and Peter Boyle puts this one to shame... and that's in an almost 30 year old spoof!
To compare VAN HELSING to another like movie, let me just say that VAN HELSING isn't a pimple on the ass of MONSTER SQUAD. That's right, a cheesy '80s kids movie had more true emotion, more well drawn characters, more RESPECT for the original monsters and more thrills. It makes me sad that a $200 million attempt at a big monster movie fails so miserably in comparison to a low budget kids film from the '80s. Even the make-up looks better in MONSTER SQUAD!
All in all, the film didn't hurt me to watch it, but I can't recommend it, either. It's bad, but I didn't find it offensively bad, even with its many problems and wasted potential. Poor Hugh Jackman. He gave it his best. I'm not sure what else to say besides Long Live MONSTER SQUAD!
Anyway, here's a review of VAN HELSING from Singapore. I personally think Mr. Fern is smoking crack (especially about Richard Roxburgh's performance), but for the sake of fairness, here it is:
Hi Harry,
as the name suggeststhis is one of two glowing reviews from a
reasonably hard ass reviewer here in the "caning" country
(incidentally, it's exactly 10 years ago on this day Michael Fay got
his ass whooped here). Personally, I felt the film was just one
monster screaming to the next for 2 hrs straight. Anyway, go figure this reviewer out.
Seany
Pure entertainment. Jam-packed with marvellous characters, superb computer-generated
effects and good acting, Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing is a thrilling
rollercoaster ride
By Ong Sor Fern
WHO'S AFRAID OF MONSTERS? : Certainly not Van Helsing, played by the
ever reliable Hugh Jackman.
SINCE remaking one monster in The Mummy (1999) made him a success,
writer-director Stephen Sommers' follow-up multiplies the formula by
three.
Van Helsing contains werewolves, vampires and Frankenstein's monster,
oh my. Just in case that is not sufficient, he throws in an opening
interlude with Dr Jekyll's monstrous alter-ego, Mr Hyde, as well.
What Sommers proves in this agreeably action-packed romp is that he
is, unapologetically, the popcorn version of Quentin Tarantino. While Tarantino transmutes B-grade pop culture into A-grade arthouse,
Sommers is content to simply repackage C-grade schlock classics into
shamelessly entertaining B-grade cineplex fare.
Hence the hilariously old-fashioned black-and -white opening sequence
which dusts off all the old cliches of Universal's old horror flicks
with steroid-pumped glee.
There is a mob wielding flaming torches and storming Dr Victor
Frankenstein's (Samuel West) castle on a dark and stormy night, no
less. The icing on this premium slice of cheesecake is a close-up shot of
Frankenstein himself howling triumphantly: 'It's alive!'
Enter Count Dracula, played by Richard Roxburgh, rolling his r's with
sonorous, luscious glee in a magnificently gauged performance that
skates the thin edge of camp.
Dracula wants to steal Frankenstein's secret to life so that he can
revive the thousands of vampire eggs he has sired with his three
brides.
It is up to renowned vampire hunter Van Helsing (the ever reliable
Hugh Jackman, who emanates understated calm and action man efficiency
amidst the avalanche of CGI madness) to stop this nefarious plan.
Aid comes in the curvaceous form of gypsy princess Anna Valerious
(Kate Beckinsale, showing more signs of life here than in that other
disastrous vampires-and-werewolves flick, Underworld).
There is also the obligatory comic sidekick, the geeky Carl (David
Wenham), a mediaeval monk version of James Bond's Q, who gets dragged
into Van Helsing's mission despite protesting: 'I'm not a field
agent.'
This movie is not so much a narrative as a series of action set
pieces strung together by numerous wisecracks and occasional film geek
jokes.
Sommers makes no bones (no pun intended) about the fact that all he
wants to do is entertain.
His love of matinee fare is evident in the way he has updated Van
Helsing into a supernatural Indiana Jones-meets-James Bond type,
complete with fedora and swishing trenchcoat. And the way he lovingly
films the relationship between Dracula and his brides as a sort of
baroque Gothic opera.
His movie is propelled by his need to make the 13-year-olds go:
'Cool!'
The level of appreciation here is limited to marvelling at the
director shooting from the vampiresses' point of view as they swoop
down on hapless Transylvanian villagers. Not that this is bad if you
are in the mood for a mindless, rollercoaster action thrill.
Unabashedly entertaining, Van Helsing is the official announcement
that summer blockbuster silliness has arrived. Let the monster mash
begin.And here's a review from a Belgian!
Hey Harry,
It's not often that us Belgians get to see movies - even if it's just
a little - before you guys. So here's my first review for your site.
Van Helsing could have been the best of blockbusters, but it turns out
one of the dullest. There are no scares - ok, maybe one or two when
some dreadful CGI pops up on the screen. There is no fun. There is no
nothing. I sometimes get the weird feeling that many recent action
adventures contain so much that they in fact contain zilch. I do have
to admit that the movie was a ride. There was not one scene in the
movie in which the action slows down, but I do not know if this is a
good thing.
Three comparisons come to mind when I think of this picure, one with
LXG, one with the Batman movies and one with LOTR:
As much as i hated LXG, I hate Van Helsing even more, but how do I
compare the two? Well, in way of having so much opportunities and
doing nothing with them. Is it a coincidence that both movies had
horrible minions that in fact do nothing? Is it a coincidence that
some of the most terrible scenes in both movies take place in the
docks? And what about Richard Roxburgh in both movies playing some of
the most contrived villains in recent movie history? But the thing
that struck me the most in both movies is the lack
emotional attachment I had with the leads. Just as Quatermain was a
boring old dick to me, Van Helsing comes off as a one dimensional
action machine.
My comparison with the Batman series might be a little vague,
because I stopped paying real attention after Batman Returns but here
I go. The main problem with the Batman sequels, I always thought, was
the sheer abundance of characters. I don't know in which one it was,
the Riddler one I think, there was so much going on with so many
characters that nothing made any sense at all in the end. The same
goes for Van Helsing: it has the absurd baby vampire plot, which isn't
a half bad way to link Frankenstein's monster and Dracula. And I was
even able to deal with the adding of the werewolf mystery, but Sommers
chose to put all exposition in crummy dialogue the characters have to
shout whilst fighting.
LOTR - easily one of my favorite series of cinema experiences in the
last few years - comes to mind one time too many in a negative way.
Jackson tried hist best to integrate CGI with real characters, this
didn't always work, but at least he tried. Sommers, to me, just messes
around. There's the horrible scene with Mr. Hyde (another element to
be found in LXG) which was just embarrasing, but the scene in which
the last vampire bride dies and how they put the real actress' head on
the decaying body must have been the worst CGI I have seen in years.
When the movie comes to an end and we see a burial I also thought of
LOTR and how the passing of characters in it always put me in
tears. Whilst viewing the aforementioned scene in Van Helsing I felt
absolutely nothing (and I'm not even mentioning the heaven scene). Did
anyone else notice how Silvestri's score all of a sudden sounded like
third rate Shore work during this scene?
You probably know by now that I didn't enjoy the movie, but what I
find the most frustrating is the potential Sommer had with this film
and has himself. I admit that I looked forward to this movie, the idea
sounded pretty cool to me. A messy script, some odd directorial
choices and a lack of humor seemed to have ruined everything. I loved
Deep Rising and The Mummy Returns. Both movies didn't take themselves too seriously but in the end did a decent job at entertainging
me. With Van Helsing I feel that Sommers decided to make a halfhearted
attempt at a bleaker movie. There is some comic relief but it's almost
hidden, like Sommers was ashamed that he put it in.
One thing I did love about the movie though: Frankenstein's creature.
Isn't it ironic that the only man-made monster in Van Helsing is the
thing that I enjoyed the most?
Love,
Possum.And here's one final review, this one also on the negative side...
Hey There…
I just had to throw my oar in on VAN HELSING, because it’s been getting
a lot of coverage on your site, and there’s the worrying possibility
people are going to think “Well, it can’t possibly be that bad!”
Speaking as someone who’s still trying to rid himself of tinnitus in
the ears thanks to the deafening soundtrack of the film I finished
watching just over 90 minutes ago… the answer is, quite frankly, yes.
It can be that bad. VAN HELSING is bad blockbuster movie-making writ
large, taking all the mistakes that Steven Somners made with THE MUMMY
RETURNS and magnifying them to the factor of 1,000. It’s a movie where
characterisation is that fleeting, annoyingly boring stuff that goes
on in the fractions of a second between the action sequences, where
the only thing the director seems capable of doing is pacing the film
like a Runaway Train- just aiming it down the tracks, letting his foot
off the brake, and any time anyone looks in danger of losing interest,
just making it go faster and louder. Make no mistake- there’s a whole
heap of cool stuff in this movie, and it’s not as if it ever gets
boring (it’s far too magnificently awful for that), but it’s ruining
classic horror characters, and the equivalent of spending 135 minutes
on a roller coaster- it might be fun for the first twenty minutes, but
soon you’re just begging for the whole thing to stop. An injunction
needs to be taken out on Richard Roxburgh before he slaughters any
more classic roles- he’s already screwed up Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty,
and now he’s transformed Dracula into a camp, bellowing Eurotrash
hairdresser. It’s a truly painful performance, cranked up to eleven by
Somners simply so he can get the whole thing louder and faster… but
never better. Diminishing returns in action, and the attempts at
pathos or serious characterisation just come across as absolutely
hilarious. It’s hard to believe that nobody at any point during
production raised their hand and said “Excuse me… isn’t this a bit too
much?” We deserve better films than this. Monkeys could make better
films than this- but it’s trading on the treasures of the past, and
it’s been marketed so efficiently that everyone’s going to see it
anyway. And no doubt, the sequel will be along in a couple of years,
with Somners once again trying to make eardrums bleed across the land.
It’s not worth it, you mark my words…
If you use this- my name is Kingboy D. I answer to no otherWell, three negatives (including my own) and one positive. I know most in my group felt the movie disrespected its source material, but Harry seemed to like it... So, which side will you fall on?
-Quint
email: Email Quint here, bandaid breath!!!
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Where'd that come from? I've always thought she was pretty hot.
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May 05, 2004 3:27:31 AM CDT
Harry liked it? Oh, whatever. He called "Daredevil" "almost perf
by smarkjobber
I love Quint's line about the British kid being more charismatic than everyone in "Helsing." That's a stinger.
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Why spend all that money on effects if you have a script which holds lines like: 'I've never seen the ocean' and 'Save yourself'. When those lines were spoken, everybody laughed and not because they liked it.
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I mean, who _wouldn't_ wanna lick the crud off her boots? C'mon...!
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May 05, 2004 4:04:07 AM CDT
We've argued about this a bunch of times before, but FX really d
by frankdrebin
I watched LOST IN SPACE (1997) again on tv recently (don't ask why) and, as bad as the story is, the FX are solid. The Jupiter 2 launch, the sun-dive, the jump to hyperspace ("bullet-time" 2 years ahead of THE MATRIX), the cryo-tubes, the holographic interface with the robot, the derelict spaceship, the crash-landing, the Smith-spider... I've seen video games with more realistic (motion-captured) characters than we're getting in movies now.
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WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE SEEM TO HATE THIS FILM???
Did you not know who everyone was? Was it too much like a period drama? Is the Jekyll/Hyde transformation really that bad cause it wasnt a CG shot? I really enjoyed it and came out a lot happier than I went in.
I cant say that about many films these days.
Too many films being reviewed these days on the grounds of what the reviewer thought the film should be as opposed to what it actually is. Kill Bill 2 also suffered from this syndrome. Its a shame that Norrington might give up film making because of the bad experience cause its 1 less enthusiastic , talented film maker in the world and Stephen Sommers will keep churning out pish like this. You have yourselves to thank! -
Do people take it upon themselves to defend huge cheesy soulless studio moneymakers as though they were their first-born children? Get something important to care about, sad act. Oh, and everybody but Harry hated it. Why am I not surprised?
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I'm with fortune. I liked LXG a ton. No, it's not the Moore comic book. But no one could do that as a movie. Too nuanced. Requires a knowlege of literature and 19th century history. Some throughly adult themes. They wont give u the money to make it. LXG had flaws. Sure. But the production design and set pieces were great.The makers DID understand the comic and took quite a few themes and ideas. But it's NOT the comic. It's a big summer movie. And there are some fun things about it. Norrington is an amazing director. I liked The Last Minute too. But the real reason he won't work is because He is fucking psycho. He's so tough to work with I think he may never direct again. I hope he does.
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No joke, monster squad's held up incredibly well for an 80's kid-empowerment exercise. That fucker has a body-count, it shares more in common with lethal weapon than the goonies. i've always found the tale of the mutant lug sidekick mildly disturbing, but the monster squad hangs out with tom noonan's exceptionally touching Frankenstein's Monster. One of the most intense dracula performances of the last 25 years
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also, Van Helsing's so awful it made me fondly recall Beckinsale's other vampires-and-werewolves exercise Underworld, which I thought, as they say, blew wet ass.
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May 05, 2004 7:11:27 AM CDT
That Ong is one sour fern! By the way, children, what is a fern?
by salvatoregravano
And as much as I laugh at the usual "PLANT!" screams in talkbacks, I can't help but think that his putting "fern" as his name was intentional in this case, an idiot's attempt at making a failed pun...
Oh, and INCREASE THE BANDWIDTH, Harrey. Come on, daily Amazon clinks from the reviews should be enough to pay for it. The constant timeouts are more annoying than Paul W. S. Anderson. All right... not *more* annoying, obviously, but about 1% as bad as he is - and that means BAD. -
And that doesn
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Van Helsing looks like harmless popcorn laced entertainment. I am 36 y/o and beyond these types of movies, but it will probably appeal to kids and those adults who have a lower IQ than I do.
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Yessum, it was pure tits on toast. from the cop's "I give up, lets be firemen" line to, Franky's "bogus" at the end, it was a Goonies/Gremlins/Universal Monster paradise for a 12 year old. Still going to see Van Helsing, because the thing I love about Movie reviews, is that it sets expectations, but its always up to the individual.. The truth behind every review is, it doesn't matter what some movie boffin thinks, You will never know, until you give it a go... I've read two LXG books and they're boring, something that tried to be clever and wound up being just... boring.. a waste of 3 pounds. Some changes were made and the movie turned out to be b-grade popcorn, which is cool, the world needs that too. Its still not as bad as some would try and tell us. "You like this movie?, this movie sucks, you are a (insert clever name here)" *yawn*
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May 05, 2004 8:44:30 AM CDT
By 'Tits' do you mean awesome and can't get enough of 'em?
by theginger twit
And thus, I my go cuddle a pair now.
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Other sites have posted that "Contagium" has wrapped but I found the site and a trailer. www.taurus-entertainment.com/Contagium.html
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Everyone I know who doesn't like movies really want to see Van Helsing. Hard to beat Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. Still can't get over how Sommers fucked up a sure thing like The Mummy Returns. The ladies seem to like Hugh Jackman. Maybe I can use this to my advantage...;)
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May 05, 2004 9:08:20 AM CDT
Rupee88: I'm 28 and in Mensa and I still like these movies.
by some dude
So what is your point about being 36 and so smart and not liking these films? If you had any brains at all your name would be Rupee255.
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Van Helsing would've been better if they had made it the sequel to Dracula and kept Hopkins in the role.
-Dre
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Its weird reading about the comparison in an earlier post made between the first Lethal Weapon and Monster Squad because both movies were written by Shane Black. Also, Night of the Creeps writer/director, Fred Dekker co wrote and directed MS. I know Monster Squad will not go down in the history of great cinema, but it doesn't lesson the fun that a person can have watching this cult classic. The PG-13 movie is sort of violent, which is probably one of the many factors that kept this movie from becoming a success if the studio was targeting kids as viewers.
One of those violent scenes included the kid, Horace blowing the creature from the black lagoon away with a shotgun. A favorite scene of mine from the movie is when the wolfman who is in human form escapes from Dracula to call the cop father of one of the MS members to warn him that Dracula is coming after his family. It -
I hope that was a compliment. Otherwise it is totally unnecessary and uncalled for.
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I'm in Mensa! I know Sommers! Harry once sat around me! All these idiots who think that we aren't in on the fact they are the definition of pathetic really are sad. On a good note though, they do make me feel better about myself, that I don't have to bullshit myself and a bunch of whiny talkbackers. Also, I attented Mensa with Stephen Sommers.
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I brought up Mensa because that other douche Rupee88 made the outrageous claim that his allegedly high level of intelligence barred him from enjoying movies like Van Helsing. That is a stupid comment and your response, misunderstanding my response, might be even more stupid. Plenty of smart people like "dumb" or "low-brow" movies. Regardless, it is amusing that you whine about others who whine. Also of interest is your belief that anyone who claims to be in Mensa or, GASP, know a famous person must be lying. God knows smart people don't use the internet and have no interest in movie gossip, while famous people only know other famous people and couldn't possibly befriend a mere talk-backer. You are a friggin' retard. Oh, and... WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS!!!
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oh wait...you're Mensa material. Of course you can! Sad dude...really sad. Epic proportions.
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I wouldn't think they would let you visit this website at Mensa, seeing as how it is called 'AintItCool'. Aren't they outraged that it is not 'IsntItCool'? Just a thought. Me and this guy attended Mensa together. True story.
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The dude compared Stephen Sommers to Quentin Tarantino. That is just a travesty. Although the real travisty is that fucking Van Helsing will probably be the number one movie at the box office this weekend because the world is full of dumbasses.
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The dude compared Stephen Sommers to Quentin Tarantino. That is just a travesty. Although the real travisty is that fucking Van Helsing will probably be the number one movie at the box office this weekend because the world is full of dumbasses.
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who needs to be keelhauled. Kate Beckinsale got off to a rousing film career start with smaller and much better films: Much Ado About Nothing, Cold Comfort Farm (a fabulous bitch here--a woman in precise control!), and Emma. However, the big, overhyped crap (Pearl Harbor, Van Helsing, Underworld) are ruining her acting credibility. Then again, they're probably making beaucoup bucks for her. I hope.
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The sad truth is this, Sommers was so excited about his huge concept, mega huge budget of a movie he didn't spend nearly enough of his time or imagination coming up with a great story and quality characters (he nailed The Mummy, that was a truely awesome popcorn adventure film). The early teaser posters gave us film lovers a glimpse of the possibility that we would get to see the monster movie to end all monster movies. Shame then that Sommers delivered this pile of crap. I respect what Harry has to say but there is no excuse for blowing $200 million dollars on a movie that probably would have been a lot more enjoyable and inventive had the budget been 'only' $50 million. I don't care if Sommers was making his 9 year old dream come true, I was into Bruce Lee, Transformers and comics when I was 9, shit I still am into those! But, I've grown up and to be honest a lot of the stuff I thought was cool when I was 9 is actually shit and who would give a 9 year old $200 million to waste on a truck load of CGI? I was hoping that Van Helsing couldn't fail but Sommers has fucked it up, big time. Shame on you! Stop getting jealous because George Lucas has billions to spend of his own cash on making whatever he fancies and just stick to the fucking writing!!!! Let's hope that from now movie makers will produce the effects and set pieces around great scripts and not produce a lame script around a few average effects and set pieces.
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It's sad when good actors do shitty shit. Remember Vin Diesel in "Boiler Room"? He was good. Now he's ass. Let's hope poor Hugh doesn't go the way of the Diesel.
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I'm honestly amazed at how many people liked that monstrous turd The Mummy and its equally excrable offspring The Mummy Returns. And anyone who didn't learn their lesson after sitting through those two suckfests deserves to lose the $10 they flushed to see Van Helsing.
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I've seen this used to good effect in a few fantasy novels: Dracula, who is actually quite a lonely guy, decides to listen to his bride. And they give him an earful of shit! He then tries to make a go of being a better husband and father, often to comical ends. It's truly a shame that Sommers doens't know how to tell good comedy from camp. Going for interesting characters rather than broad laughs is just too hard for him.
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See above. Plain and simple. Like it or don't. Me...I'd rather spend Friday night curled up with my lady then watching a Summer Movie...anytime they bill it as a Summer Movie you know it's going to be a lot of action and no sense. They should call it...Summershitsfest or something. Enough. Woody has Spoken. Mojo Jinx.com
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However much any of you hated LXG, you have to admit the African medicine man scene at the very end is fucking classic. That scene changed the entire perspective of the movie for me. Now I masturbate to it every night.
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May 06, 2004 1:14:13 AM CDT
Harry liked a movie that everyone else HATES? Nothing new... I'v
by ted striker
True story. He likes to go against the grain, and who knows... he was probably paid well for this review.
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May 06, 2004 1:17:10 AM CDT
I'm more excited about renting Monster Squad than seeing this...
by yossarian
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May 07, 2004 1:31:21 AM CDT
Damn! Van Helsing is just so so. Talk about a cool premise, Damn
by the founder
I swear the premise is cool. You got Van Helsing as a moster fighter, and the monsters are classic Hollywood Monsters. We got Dracula, Wolfman and Frankenstien, all together with a million budget. How could this movie fail. I'm pissed, because the classic characters in universal's archieve have all the making of a truly great movie. I hoped it would be good and turn out cool, but I had little faith with sommers behind the project, and he didn't let me down i see. Shame on Universal, I just hope Sommers gets no where near Creature from the Black Lagoon if that's ever made.
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What was Universal thinking??? Why in the world would they pile that level of money into a movie that didn't need that big a budget. I think they could have done it as Summer piece with a 100 million budget. The CGI looks awful for that amount of money. Why do them idiot studios go to ILM, when all the good people are on Star Wars? Their are other fx studios that could have made the shyt look real. The Wolfman and the Dracula creature look as bad as the Scorpion King in Mummy Returns. i can't believe that shyt made it pass post production.
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