Van Helsing

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anyone seen or going to see his movie?

I'm thinking about seeing it this weekend with my boyfriend, but want to know if it's any good in the first place. films normally have to be pretty good for me to enjoy them. i like Hugh Jackman, he's a good actor, so hopefully it will be thumbs up.
 
Its a well intentioned effort, with a plethora of characters from almost all horror script from the past. It moves quickly from scene to scene at the beginning but the plot goes nowhere.

CGI gets to take over as a result of the storyline having no logic, Jackson is his usual screen image, Beckinsale once again shows she is simply not cut out to be in Hollywood (a career move is long overdue)
 
A "review" on breakfast tv this morning slated the film. Another hyped up piece of garbage then [possibly], but I'm sure that some people will enjoy it :)
 
I've heard good and bad things, one of my mates who has seen it, said it' s rubbish, but I still want to see it.

Might be going, depenRAB on wether my boyfriend wants to!
 
i must say that hugh jackman does looks rather "grrrrrr" in it :D i'm still waiting for my boyfriend to decide.

is it scary at all? i've never seen a scary movie in a cinema before.....
 
i saw it tonight and thought it was really good, i never listen to the critics anyway they don't know what they are talking about most of the time!
 
just got back from seeing it and its worth a watch, i wont buy the DVD but its deffo worth going to say, only thing i found a pain is that it as that kinda movie you knew what was going to happen, the CGi was bloody amazing tho, it worth seeing just for that (IMO)

i would rate it about 7.5/10 (i only buy dvRAB that are 9-10 out of 10 ;))
 
I thought the CGI was awful, it was very predictable and was filled with every cliche in the book. Hugh Jackman may as well have just been playing Wolverine again (lost memory, etc) and Kate Beckinsale had some awful lines and that bit where she was swinging on a rope with a "determined" look on her face was just laughable. Nearly all the "fights" in the film were done with CGI and as for the Hulk, difficult to follow, and completely unrealistic. I know you expect little realism when talking about werewolves and vampires, but it just looked terrible.

Enjoyable in a "The Mummy" way but nowhere near as memorable. Go and see it if you like the trailer but if the trailer makes you groan avoid it.
 
I went to see this over the weekend and I must say I liked it. Van Helsing was universally panned by all the critics, but i thought it was very enjoyable in a "B" movie sort of way.

The plot was a bit too improbable at first, frantically borrowing left right and centre from every other movie of the genre, but it soon found it's feet and the film settled down into an enjoyable farce.

I liked that it wasn't over gory and that it managed not to take itself too seriously without resorting to overt humour.

There were hommages paid to every good genre movie, although I did initially mistake the first of these as blatant plagarism.

Go and see this film - you'll like it!
 
I see it has a 12A - certificate, so it probably isn't gory or violent?

Mind you, I bet 12A certificates nowadays would have probably been classed as 18 or X in the past.......
 
Some bits in it made me think that it was more of a 15 (not that 12 yo's shouldn't have the chance to see it tho ;))
but imo it is a good film, not the type i'd usually watch either :cool: so that's saying something, seeing that i enjoyed it :p
 
Interesting info.
Van Helsing slayed the competition on Mother's Day weekend, taking first place in the box-office rankings with about $54.2 million, the Associated Press reported. Van Helsing also earned $53 million internationally after opening simultaneously in 41 countries, the wire service reported.

The first-weekend ticket sales landed between director Stephen Sommers' two previous monster smashes The Mummy, which had $43.3 million in 1999, and The Mummy Returns, which had $68.1 million in 2001, the AP reported. Van Helsing is released by Universal Pictures is currently a unit of Vivendi Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM. Universal is in the process of being sold to General Electric Co.

The Jennifer Garner fantasy comedy 13 Going on 30, meanwhile, dropped to fifth place, with $5.5 million for the weekend and a three-week tally of $42.6 million, the AP reported.
 
i saw this earlier with my boyfriend. i really enjoyed it actually, thought it wasn't a bad movie at all. sure, there were some cheesy bits, but overall i thought it was some fairly light enjoyable entertainment :) i thought the special effects weren't bad either.

it normally takes a lot for me to be impressed by films, but i thought this was ok. my boyfriend liked it too - and that's really saying something as i practically had to drag him along! i thought the friar dude was quite funny - made some lighthearted comedy which was good.

i'd recommend it as an evening out :)
 
I thought it was pretty good. I thought because it was a 12a it might not be very violent, but it didnt let me down. And since it was such a low rating, we didnt see much of the lovely Kate Beckinsdale with any kit off. Booo!! ;)

Good popcorn film.
 
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