would have van helsing been better if it was a darker horror flick
i have always loved the character van helsing, and in bram stokers dracula Anthony Hopkins was the best.
Would the movie that came out with jackman been better if it was a darker type horror and stayed truer to the character of van helsing?
I thought Van Helsing was okay. I would have loved it if it was a dark horror. They should have left the adventures to Indiana Jones and let this be a horror.
Not this one, I know Van Helsing to be Edward Van Sloan.
Anycrap, my answer is "No". While it was a total 180 for the character going from a college professor to a trenchcoated 30 something who apparently had Whistler as a parts dealer, it flopped. The character was uncharismatic, his supporting cast were unintentionally comic relief, the CGI monsters were about as bad as those in LXG, and it was just a poorly planned summer blockbuster, and it shows.
Not that I actually enjoyed any of the original Universal monster movies, "Van Helsing" really made a mockery of what they stood for.
trenchcoated 30 something who apparently had Whistler as a parts dealer (Cinema)
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I loved Stephen Sommer's Van Helsing. It should've been a bit longer & it could've been a bit darker but overall, I loved the film the way it was.
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i voted yes, it just noticed that hugh jackman had a jolly good time during his scenes, but unfortunatly this wasn't real horror. I had hoped it would have been a little like Bram's stroker's Dracula.
A dark and classy horrormovie.
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Return of the living dead.
the beginning scene......so so sad and i mean sad as in storywise, frankenstine was not milked, he wasnt some dumb coward he was like the freaking terminator, killed people and everything, could treat you to peaces with his bare hands, dodge BULETS! read the books its true.
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No, it wasn't. The Frankenstein in Van Helsing was like the Frankenstein in Mary Shelly's book. He wasn't really supposed to be some super killing machine. Also, Richard Roxburgh did a fantastic job as Dracula & for my first time watching it I thought he was a little scary & was definitely unpredictable.
__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
The best place to start for a hypothetically improved van helsing movie. Would be to start with the script, and then focus on the tone of the movie. Everything from the introduction of characters to ction sequences were just silly. I know the movie was supposed to be a loose combination of golden age cinema and sophistication, but like backfire said. It just felt very sloppy and undecided on the overall direction
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this movie will forever be one of my favorite worst movies of all time. I havent seen the movie in a while, but all i really remember were people swinging from cables to other cables that shouldnt have been there. stuff like that
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__________________ "It wasn't even about the eggs. Quite frankly I like the eggs, I don't have no...problem with...It's just there's always been a lot of tension between me & Lois. It's not so much as I want to kill her...I just want her...to not be...alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. Then I think to myself, wouldn't it be MARVELOUS if I turned out to be a homosexual?"
Here's a movie that did away with all the morbid and gothic value of classic monster element and sh*t out a movie where no one could possible take it for any serious value. This film is far too loud(no pun intended). To colorful and flashy. What happen to classic mists and cerebral scares. Hugh Jackman was terrible, dido to Kate Beckingsale(but she's fcuking hot, tho, LOL!). Only thing scary about it was jackman's hairdo and only thing good about it was Kate's flashlights.
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would have van helsing been better if it was a darker horror flick
Jan 6th, 2005 12:25 AM
