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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atridis" data-source="post: 1318237" data-attributes="member: 13919">Yeah, Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale should give everyone something to watch, even if the movie itself is terrible... I saw the trailer on tv last night, and I'm a little concerned about the trend of using CGI for humanoid characters (a la Mr Hyde in LXG and The Hulk). Am I the only one who thought the "Empire Strikes Back" version of Yoda kicked the crap out of the "Attack of the Clones" version of Yoda? Visually, I mean. CGI-Yoda did the whole lightsabre-whirling-dervish thing, which was cool, I guess (mitigated by the fact that the movie was such a disaster in most other respects, but that's another topic...). Gollum far exceeded my expectations for CGI, and came extremely close to complete suspension of disbelief more than once. But that seems to have been the exception, so far, not the rule. Anyway, the CGI in Van Helsing didn't look quite right to me. More like LXG, less like LOTR. Maybe this is the "cartoony"-ness that other people mentioned. Underworld and LXG both suffered, it seems to me, from trying too hard to make a "cool" movie and not a "good" movie, if you follow me. I agree that Sommers is a good sign, and I'm looking forward to this one (among upcoming genre movies, however, Hellboy is what has my attention).</blockquote>