Rate Van Helsing

[Krug]

So what did you think? (1= terrible, 10 = excellent)

 

[milotha]

Is this on a scale of 10 being excellent and 1 being terrible?

 

[Krug]

Miotha> Yeap.

 

[Felon]

I give it an 8. I already supplied my reasons in another post. It's a fun ride.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Interesting polarisation of votes

 

[reapersaurus]

Interesting polarisation of votes

Simple explanatoin:
Some people are fans of the genre, and have actually SEEN the movie, while others aren't or haven't.

I gave it an 8, ALMOST a 9. It's hard to think of a much better action monster movie.

 

[Crothian]

4, below average. the CGI was destracting, the solution was strained, the use of Hyde was both badly done and completely not needed. It did have some good parts like the sets, and Franks Monster. But overall I was not imp[ressed with the movie.

 

[Wombat]

Just got back from it. I wasn't expecting it to be very good, so I wasn't disappointed that way. Lots of flash, lots of special effects, no discernible plot, but a lot of hoopla. In many ways, my feeling from watching the teaser bits remains: it equals League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that this film had lots of potential, all of it wasted.

I bow my head to the horror movies of the 30s and 40s that were so shamelessly ripped off.

My buddy both enjoyed it more and had more to gripe about; he has apparently read the comic book, which I didn't even know about. I couldn't keep up with half the things he said "just weren't right", but he is also a special effects nut and was drooling over several new effects types being used in the film.

 

[Thanee]

I gave it an 8 as well.

It was exactly like I expected, some light-hearted pulp-action fun.

I didn't expect a great story and I was actually positively surprised, that it even had a discernable story, which was quite simple, but surely not that bad. Some parts were a bit strange, but worked very well in context (like

Spoiler

vampire's bearing children

).

I like the way the completely different sources were mixed together and something new was formed out of that conglumerate, instead of trying to actually live up to the various originals.

The visuals (locations, costumes, etc) were very, very good.

Of course, anyone who wanted to see the original van Helsing should much rather watch Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Crothian]

Some parts were a bit strange, but worked very well in context (like

Spoiler

vampire's bearing children

).

I thought the idea on this was interesting but the exucution was terrible.