Van Helsing

[Thanee]

Overall would you guys recommend seeeing the movie in the theatres???

Well, that fully depends on what you expect.

If you want to see something similar to the various originals, then you will hate the movie.

If you want to see oscar-worthy acting (or anything oscar-worthy ) you shouldn't watch it either.

If you want to see the best CGI ever, there are certainly some better movies out there.

If you want to see the best monster-based story of all times, no you won't get that either.

If you just want to have two hours of fun, watching a light-hearted movie about fictional characters that have few similarities to other fictional characters but are not necessarily the same, in a never-ending stream of action scenes bound into an interesting, but quite simple story, then I can recommend it to you.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Dimwhit]

I'd say don't bother going, but then maybe I'm picky. I also didn't like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Attack of the Clones (though this was worse than either).

Man, I'm the complete opposite. If I had to choose between watching LEG, Attack of the Clones, or Van Helsing at any given time, I'd choose to watch Van Helsing every time, hands down.

But, alas, everyone has their own opinion, which is as it should be. As to watching it in the theater this Sunday, I'd say go for it, but that's me. Go in the afternoon for a matinee and save a few bucks.

And let me add this...if you're expecting that the movie will be bad, based on the reviews, you'll likely hate it. This seems like a love it or hate it movie, and I'd bet that low expectations going in will only be confirmed. Apparently not always the case with high expectations, though... [/end ramble]

Funny side note to Van Helsing (well, funny to me): My wife likes Hugh Jackman, for obvious reasons. I like Kate Beckinsale, for the same obvious reasons. Naturally, this was the perfect movie for us to see together (my wife jokingly suggested we sit on opposite sides of the theater). Anyway, we get in to the theater, the lights finally go out and the movie starts. My wife goes into her purse and takes out the candy we snuck in...er, I mean, purchased...then she hands me one our old baby bibs. For the drooling. She brought one for herself.

Anyway, I laughed. I've got a cool wife...

 

[Crothian]

Man, I'm the complete opposite. If I had to choose between watching LEG, Attack of the Clones, or Van Helsing at any given time, I'd choose to watch Van Helsing every time, hands down.

Well, you could at least make the choice with movies that were at least good.

 

[Thanee]

Hey, Attack of the Clones wasn't that bad (it did have a certain video game feel, tho), at least it was much better than Shadow Menace.

Still no match for the original trilogy, tho.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Dimwhit]

Well, you could at least make the choice with movies that were at least good.

I was just going with the movies mentioned by buzzard and...hey, at least one of them was good!

 

[Piratecat]

Hey, Attack of the Clones wasn't that bad...

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."

 

[buzzard]

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."

"Oh... Anakin"
"Oh... Padme"

 

[Krug]

Frankly, save your money for Troy. You'll forget Van Helsing and realise why Sommers is just a hack after watching it.

 

[Umbran]

We found a few other plot holes - ...

Personally, I found these less annoying than the rather basic ones that revolve around our main character. Honestly, it reminded me of Star Trek...

Spoiler

In the "What does God need with a starship?" sense. Did it only annoy me that after implying there's an archangel walking around on Earth, they do nothing to tell us why he's got no memory, and how in Heaven's name (literally) he's susceptible to lycanthropy?

 

[Umbran]

Incidentally, how many folks hadn't realized that the friar was Faramir from LotR?

Or how about the fact that Richard Roxburgh, who plays Dracula, also played M in LXG, and played The Duke in Moulin Rouge?