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| Joe Randel
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|  "Re(1):Van Helsing"
, posted Wed 4 Feb 17:58
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Now that I've seen a trailer for Van Helsing, I'm really looking forward to the movie. I like Hugh Jackman and the effects look like they'll be good. I hope that it'll turn out to be pretty good. The last movie I saw that involved Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, and Dracula was good. I'm talking, of course, about Monster Squad. It also had the Creature from the Black Lagoon and the Mummy in it. Anyway, I'm sure some of the rest of you are looking forward to Van Helsing. Watching the trailer though, it looks like if they gave him a whip and called him a Belmont the movie could be called Castlevania. Of course, that's definately something that draws me to this movie.
I don't know I think that it looks kinda cheezey to have Drac, Frank and the wolfman in one movie. Then to have one dude hunt them all down? I'm not having great expectations...
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| DarkZero 610th Post
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|  "Re(3):Van Belmont, plus trailer links"
, posted Wed 4 Feb 21:26
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Hey, he even has the cross boomerang... that's highly suspicious of you ask me, ha ha ha.
But it's also highly cool. Because what are the chances a Castlevania movie will ever be made? A good one that is.
As Ain't It Cool News noted when that poster was just a piece of concept art, Van Helsing bears a striking similarity to another Japanese vampire hunter, as well. And, if the mostly spoiler-free previews I've read of it are accurate, the movie should have the same sort of gothic spaghetti western style that Bloodlust had.
Between this, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and Kill Bill Vol 2., this should be a pretty good movie season. Well, for us geeks, at least.
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| OmegaDog 1051th Post
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| "Re(3):Van Helsing" , posted Fri 6 Feb 06:47
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Considering this movie is being given to us by the fella responsible for the two Mummy movies, my expectations are not all that high. I like Hugh Jackman and I thought the first Mummy movie was a fun, albeit mindnumbingly stupid, popcorn movie. Nevertheless, this has the potential to be a cluttered mess. I'll be there opening weekend anyway...
I kinda agree. I'm not really into movies like this. Plus, the CG monsters don't look all that great. It almost reminds me of the Pixar movies. Too cartoony. It just looks too much like CG, like The Mummy movies, which I thought were silly mindless movies. Hope they clean it up before the movie's released.
To me, the term "mindnumbing" is reserved more for films like XXX and a number of chick flicks -- not so much the 1990s Mummy films. (I haven't seen the original.)
The 1990s Mummy movies were simple in delivery -- but they were fun adventure movies in the same vein that the Indiana Jones movies were, so enjoyable to me that I didn't mind how simple it could be. (Yes, I even enjoyed The Mummy Returns that much.) So, the fact that it's by the director of the 1990s Mummy movies doesn't really bother me.
[... though, we'll see in three months how well he actually pulled it off.]
Besides, I'm a sucker for the kind of settings Van Helsing seems to portray -- and the movie seems to portray them well.
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