I watched this movie yesterday and I thought it was alright. Some people said the movie is downright terrible, but I thought it was actually mediocre. A hell of alot of CG in the movie though.....

i bought it yesterday as well. it wasn't anything special, just another action flick

I didn't like it



Why?

***SPOILER***
(Hell an initiative for the spoiler tag)


1. They didn't give us a good overview between Gabriel and Dragulia (they hinted about Gabriel's past)

2. The CG was really off putting. Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde looked like shriek and why do the vampires have such flexable jaws (they make Mr. Fantastic look like an amateur)

3. Richard Roxborough is NOT and repeat NOT a good Dracula (he makes Leslie Nielsen look like a professional).

4. The acting was par.

5. The final battle was very disappointing ... not only did Dracula not put up a fight he kept flying away (I mean shouldn't the left and right hand be equal?)

[end rant]

The movie had less plot then LXG (Impossible!), the action was plain stupid, the plot was HORRIBLE with cheesey dialouge. Everything else in the movie was just plain horrible. It had to be the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. They didn't explain anything, they assume you already know the backstory, everything was just big, overdone and stupid.

"Hmmm...we're fighting vampires...oh by the way I have this ball that has the capability to let out the brightness of a sun, what could I POSSIBLY need this for? Vampires...sun...nope I'm sure I didn't miss anything." Also what was with the carridge bursting in flames after the wearwolf skid across it? Must have been all the gasoline in the tank :rolleyes:.

I was entertained by it.

lantern, kerosene, DUH

I hated it.
There were so many movie errors in it.
And it was just one of the completely outrageuos movies. Like all the normal physics of life just completly go to hell. And all the one in a million chances things. Some are acceptable, but this movie was full of them.

So the vampires you accept, but an exploding carriage is just a little far fetched Get real.

This movie rocked for 2 reasons:
1. Van Helsing has a sweet hat.
2. Kate Beckinsale has a sweet body.

The movie was a good popcorn munching action flick, stop overthinking it and enjoy the ridiculousness

Because it was made by the same people who made The Mummy (Returns) so obviously some mystical creature like vampires should have huge gaping jaws even though they just need to bite your neck. You didn't know that? For shame!

But yes...the movie was stupid, predictable and basically like they took a ton of stories including the Mummy and then copy and pasted.

-Hugh Jackman was a very poor choice for this sort of movie, the mysterious dude not knowing the past thing works when he's Wolverine, in this he really couldn't pull it off.

-Igor was basically Benny from the Mummy with a hump.

-Frankenstein's Monster was more like from the end of Son of Frankenstein.

-The Wolf"man" (seriously...what was the point of including werewolves?) looked like a hairy turd.

-The CG was overdone and a HUGE portion wasn't needed.

-The "lightbomb" was not only ridiculously added, but when it went off it made light come out of EVERY window after being detonated inside a cramped room.

-Van Helsing's "crossbow" was just...stupid. (Glad he wasn't afraid to spray & pray in the middle of a village)

-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in here was just as lame in LXG (why on earth are people using the Hulk so much to represent Hyde?) but at least he had a dark side.

Only real pro: Yes this is a real spoiler people, if you're sensitive to them NO TOUCHY! Wolferine fortunately killed Kate Beckinsale so if a movie was made it would be very difficult for it to be carried by her hype.

Seriously..this is the best way I can explain this as to how this crew has advanced (using the term lightly..):

The Mummy - Batman '89
......................... - Batman Returns
The Mummy Returns - Batman Forever
Scorpian King & Van Helsing - Batman and Robin

If I had to gather a list of movies they ripped...

X-Men
Underworld
Son of Frankenstein
Dead and Loving it
The Mummy
Blade II

I heard that this was based off of a Van Helsing comic book and that's where the whole not remembering the past came from, but somehow I doubt they weren't ripping off Wolverine in the first place.

YES

i thought they made it clear that there was a bomb inside with the stakes...

I can agree with that.

You guys need to stop nitpicking and taking movies so seriously. It's meant for entertainment, especially a movie like this.

I think you should just go back to your pornos or something, maybe then the seriousness will wear off. :p

QFT

I haven't seen the movie, so I'll talk about the book Dracula instead.

The first part was excellent, then it got to a long and boring newspaper article and I gave up.

Oh, Nosferatu is the greatest vampire movie ever. Shadow of the Vampire is also excellent.

Yeah, you guys are nitpicking way too much. Who cares if the CG wasn't done to perfection.

I enjoyed it. I agree a better Dracula could have been used but he sufficed.

The best part was definitely Frankenstein's Monster. His hydrolic knee was a nice touch.

You have various types of movies, one of them being "sit-back-shut-brain-down-eat-popcorn-have-fun'.

This was one of them.



And by George, did I love it. Nice soundtrack too.

I thought it was really entertaining. There comes a point in ones life where you're sick to death of completely realistic action movies, and Van Helsing came out at exactly that time for me. I don't believe I've laughed so hard at an action movie. It was obviously trying to be so unreasonable that it turned out to be quite funny.

I gave it 4/5 stars for keeping me entertained on a dull gray Victoria afternoon.

Can't you all just relax and realize it was a Goddamn movie?

Can't you do anything but post worthless crap in every thread you visit?

That said, I never saw it, due to HORRIBLE reviews. I've been thinking about renting it though.

I liked it because it had action, they smashed the same window 4 times, smashed about another 100 and it was just fun.

PS. If John McClane was in that movie dracula would have been dead at the start

I actually thought it was quite funny.

I enjoyed it for what it was: an action flick. The only problem was that I figured out the "twist" within ten minutes after the Jekyll/Hyde scene, and I'm usually the last person to figure out the "twists" in a movie. Additionally, Dracula's brides were frigging annoying. Hot, but annoying.

Oh, and why the carriage blew up:
Remember that Monk Q showed Van Helsing the glycerine in the beginning of the movie?

Wait...it was an action movie? I must've missed it under the rest of the crap.

I know it was a frickin movie, that's why I went to the theater to see it, because it was a movie. Theaters show movies. I'm entertained by alot of movies, why am I nitpicking it? Because theres nothing good about the movie to concentrate on except that it ended.

Really, I liked it from the start even though I didn't expect really anything from it except something entertaining because I REAALLLLY enjoyed the Mummy. But alas, it's what happens when crews who work better under smaller budgets get too much power.

Was it explained why:

SPOILERS: Dracula can only be killed by a werewolf and not be the traditional silver stake?


What does this stand for? Quadratic Formula Time?

QFT=Quoted For Truth

Relax bro.

This enrages me. THREAD TIME.

When I was watching the movie, it reminded me of something. I brough it up at our traditional post-flick-Wendy's stop and my friend Rick suddenly acted like everythign in the world now made sense.

The movie felt like it had the plot of a video game adaptation of a movie, ya know, like with the first Sipderman movie and its game. Like it had "bosses" inserted into it to break up the story a bit.

The other thought I had about the movie was "Hey, do you remember that whole ten minutes without action in the middle of the movie?" "Yeah." "That was weird, wasn't it?"

I liked the movie... and I cant remember if I already posted on this thread, but I liked it. It was cheesy but it was fun cheese. It made fun of itself as it went along kind of like Sky Captain.