Van Helsing Trailer

[Tanager]

This looks like good campy fun. I'm looking forward to it.

A thought on the 'monster on the roof'. Look where they are in the tracking shot up the side of the building. If I'm not mistaken thats the Notre Dame basilica in Paris. Could our misshappen monster be Quasimodo? He doesn't reall fit in with the Hammer Horror collection of baddies, and it would mean two hulking brute monsters (Frankenstein's Monster and Quasimodo) so I doubt it.

Just a thought at any rate.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

The trailer is just to whet your appetite. The good directors know this (Peter Jackson, etc.) while the Robert Zemeckis's (Cast Away) don't.

I don't know that every director has control over the creation of the trailers though. I've read interviews with directors where they were very upset about exactly what and how much their movie's trailers had shown (like the Super Bowl trailer for Hulk), and I've read other interviews where the directors had total and complete control over the content of the trailers (like Del Toro with Hellboy.)

 

[Piratecat]

A thought on the 'monster on the roof'. Look where they are in the tracking shot up the side of the building. If I'm not mistaken thats the Notre Dame basilica in Paris. Could our misshappen monster be Quasimodo? He doesn't reall fit in with the Hammer Horror collection of baddies, and it would mean two hulking brute monsters (Frankenstein's Monster and Quasimodo) so I doubt it.

Interesting. I'll note that the "Wanted" poster that he rips down is in French.

Alternatively, the monster wrapped in rags that opens its eyes makes me think of the mummy.

 

[Klaatu B. Nikto]

Cool stuff. The Van Helsing character reminds me of Solomon Kane in some of those shots. Which is a good thing.

I couldn't help but think of Simon Belmont without his trademark whip.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

i believe the reason why the big cg-dude looks like Hyde is because it IS Hyde.
i read somewhere that dracula, frankenstein and wolfman arent the only famous monsters in the movie.

Check out this link.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16814

Looks like you might be right.

 

[Michael Tree]

The trailer is just to whet your appetite. The good directors know this (Peter Jackson, etc.)

You mean aside from spoiling Gandalf's return for the millions of viewers who have never read the books?

 

[Kai Lord]

You mean aside from spoiling Gandalf's return for the millions of viewers who have never read the books?

I would have preferred he didn't do that, but that was still nowhere near one of the biggest moments of the movie. The trailer was still just an appetizer.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I would have preferred he didn't do that, but that was still nowhere near one of the biggest moments of the movie.

It's about the biggest spoiler.

Nobody should be told before reading or watching FotR that Saruman is evil; nobody should be told before reading or watching TTT that Gandalf comes back.

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

It's about the biggest spoiler.

Well, sure, but it's far from being the BIG moment of the film. As in the jaw-dropping HOLY CRAP THAT'S THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN moment.

Which was kind of the point of the original comment (mine) -- that the Van Helsing trailer gives you the impression that there's still cool stuff yet to be seen in the film, unlike some trailers that obviously show you all the cool stuff and still hope you'll come to the movie anyway...

 

[Hypersmurf]

Which was kind of the point of the original comment (mine) -- that the Van Helsing trailer gives you the impression that there's still cool stuff yet to be seen in the film, unlike some trailers that obviously show you all the cool stuff and still hope you'll come to the movie anyway...

Yeah. It still irritates me when there's a big cliffhanger moment in a film, and the audience is supposed to be thinking "Is that character going to die!?", and instead, they're thinking "Well, we haven't seen that scene with him from the trailer yet, so he must get out of it..."

-Hyp.