[Trailer] Solomon Kane

[BrooklynKnight]

Looks like I'll like it, and I'l agree the style looks similar to Van Helsing.

 

[Klaus]

I am not saying it will suck, but why are they calling this Van Helsing prelude movie Solomon Kane?

Beacuse it looks worlds better than that atrocity called Van Helsing. In fact, the movie Van Helsing stole his look from Kane.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Beacuse it looks worlds better than that atrocity called Van Helsing. In fact, the movie Van Helsing stole his look from Kane.

Yes. Thank you.

I'm assuming that the prior comments were made in jest, but the first time I find a genuine "They stole that from Van Helsing!" comment online, I'm going to have to climb through my monitor and eat someone's face.

 

[Desdichado]

A movie that's got principle photography done, by the look of it, a lot of the post production and effects done, and still doesn't have a US distributor or a release date is troubling. Why doesn't anyone want this? Is it that big of a turd?

 

[Krug]

There's a review of it here. -SPOILERS-

Reviews: TIFF 09: SOLOMON KANE Review

 

[Klaus]

A movie that's got principle photography done, by the look of it, a lot of the post production and effects done, and still doesn't have a US distributor or a release date is troubling. Why doesn't anyone want this? Is it that big of a turd?

Low recognition?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Low recognition?

This would be my guess. Studios are afraid to take chances these days on movies that they aren't A) certain of success, and B) aren't sure how to market.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I'm counting the days till the day the movie industry takes a page from the video game industry and starts cutting out the middle man and goes straight to digital distribution. Enough people have Widescreen HD TV's and Broadband today that they would most likley be sucessfull.

 

[Klaus]

This would be my guess. Studios are afraid to take chances these days on movies that they aren't A) certain of success, and B) aren't sure how to market.

I smiled at this quote from the review above:

Loaded with swordplay, evil creatures and adventure, all of it anchored by the classic antiheroic Kane himself, Solomon Kane is a throwback to the pulpy fantasy adventure genre that creator Robert E Howard once ruled. It is the sort of film that Van Helsing should have been only bigger, bloodier and burlier.

 

[NiTessine]

Beacuse it looks worlds better than that atrocity called Van Helsing. In fact, the movie Van Helsing stole his look from Kane.

Indeed, but the trailer reminds me more of Van Helsing than of the Solomon Kane stories, and their main character appears to have more in common with Van Helsing than Solomon Kane.