Van Helsing Trailer

[Kai Lord]

Okay, I haven't watched the trailer... but that's of concern.

If you go into a movie hoping for some stuff that's cooler than the stuff in the trailer, then...

... wait, has that ever happened?

Almost none of the best sequences from LOTR, AOTC (Yoda fight), Spider-Man, The Hulk, and Pirates of the Carribean were shown in the trailer, and those are just the recent ones off the top of my head.

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.

 

[KenM]

I heard that David Wearim(SP?), the actor that played Faraimir is also in this.

 

[blackshirt5]

Oh yes. I now want to run a Victorian-styled Shadow Hunters game.

 

[blackshirt5]

I heard that David Wearim(SP?), the actor that played Faraimir is also in this.

He is in the movie, and his name is David Wenham.

 

[barsoomcore]

You know, I don't see this as a huge departure from the source material. I mean, the source material is clearly not any of the literary sources of these characters -- it's the old Universal monster movies. And to that spirit this looks pretty true.

Kinda goofy, not taking itself TOO seriously but still wanting to give you real thrills and chills. Something to make the popcorn munching accelerate.

 

[Mog Elffoe]

I don't think that's true, as there have certainly been other monstrous versions of the Mr. Hyde character in the past. Heck, in the Marvel Universe there is a "hulk-ish" Mr. Hyde character who's fought the actual Hulk himself.

True, true--but Marvel's Mr. Hyde is not THE Mr. Hyde. He's not Dr. Jekyll. He's just a guy named Calvin Zabo that has a formula that transforms him into a hulking brute and calls himself Mr. Hyde. Are there other versions of the original Rober Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde where Hyde is huge and hulking besides Moore's LoEG?? I'd be VERY surprised if the big guy in the Van Helsing trailer isn't the Frankenstein Monster, but who knows...

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'd be VERY surprised if the big guy in the Van Helsing trailer isn't the Frankenstein Monster, but who knows...

The guy on the roof has hair, and the Monster doesn't when he's on the slab... but he's still being created at that point, presumably, so maybe the hair grows later.

Apart from that, they look pretty similar to me, so I'd agree - I expect that the guy on the roof is Frankenstein's Monster.

Or, rather, "Frankenstein", as the trailer calls him.

-Hyp.

 

[Swoop109]

If you watch the trailer in slow motion, you will notice something interesting about the roof scene. Whoever the being is that throws Van Helsing of that roof has had their left arm amputated between the shoulder and elbow. IMO, this makes a good arguement for the person being the Creature. I find it hard to belive that even Hyde could handle the loss of an arm.

 

[NiTessine]

You know, I figured that Victor had created two monsters.

This looks like an interesting flick. Very pulpy, in a good way. Pity it comes out only after my 12 free movie tickets I got for Christmas have expired...

 

[tetsujin28]

Non-Quicktime link?

My network won't let me download QT, so I can't view the trailer :-(