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Just saw Van Helsing and it rocks. It is one of the most fun to watch movies I have seen in a while. The story is not bad but it is definutly not the focus of the movie. This is an action flick and a superb one. The movie never stops. It has action after action after action and worked for me. How do you feel about this movie.
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I'm not much for going to theaters to see movies... Saw ROTK in the theaters, and before that EP2 was the last theater experience I had.

My brother, sister and dad went to Troy yesterday though.

Not only does it have its historic inaccuracies, but apparently the people that made it don't know that the sun rises in the East (or doesn't know where Troy was located).
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Loved Van Helsing; great fun from the director of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Hugh Jackman does a great job, and Kate Beckinsale is HOT in that corset number!
Really have no desire to see Troy.

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Van Helsing : The London Assignment and Van Helsing the full length movie are both pretty good. I'll definitely buy it when it comes out on video.
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Kate Beckinsale in that corset would be my only reason to see this movie. I love her.

As for the Van Helsing movies... The London Assignment is already out in stores, JM.
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I have yet to see London Assignment but am trying to.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Kate Beckinsale in that corset would be my only reason to see this movie. I love her.

As for the Van Helsing movies... The London Assignment is already out in stores, JM.


I know, I have it. What I meant was when the live-action movie playing in the theaters comes out on video, I'll buy it.
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I'm hoping that Universal will have one of its typical boners and include The London Assignment with the Van Helsing DVD, much like the current Shrek 3-D promo.

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I think you'll enjoy it, sean.

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saw it today it is not that great.
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Its is very dumb. Dumb but fun as hell.
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I'll wait til DVD.
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Nothing compares to seeing a movie this fun on the big screen. Its so so fun.
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I agree on most counts. Some don't need to be seen on the big screen. I'm sure Van Helsing plays off better on the big screen, but I have others I'd prefer to spend my money on.
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if you do see van helsing see it when it comes on the big screen at the welfare theaters. where you can see like 4 movies for a dollar.
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i really like Sommer's mummy movies, and i think Jackman is quite a good actor, but i have no desire whatsoever to see van helsing. the first time i saw the trailer it made me cring "vampires! the wolfman! frankenstein's monster!" please...i know it is meant as a tribute to monster movies but i don't know seems over the top. the vampires look terrible imo and van helsing's line "this is my destiny...my curse" reminds me so much og Spider-Man. total rip-off.
Same for Troy, sounds too much mike a wannabe epic, although i heard that Eric Bana is good in it.
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Of course it's over the top. That's what makes it fun.

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Originally posted by: Han's Girlfriend
i really like Sommer's mummy movies, and i think Jackman is quite a good actor, but i have no desire whatsoever to see van helsing. the first time i saw the trailer it made me cring "vampires! the wolfman! frankenstein's monster!" please...i know it is meant as a tribute to monster movies but i don't know seems over the top. the vampires look terrible imo and van helsing's line "this is my destiny...my curse" reminds me so much og Spider-Man. total rip-off.
Same for Troy, sounds too much mike a wannabe epic, although i heard that Eric Bana is good in it.


your absolutly correct, it was just too much.
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I checked out both Van Helsing & TROY last week.

Van Helsing - overall verdict.....................completely over the top nonsensical nonsense THAT WAS AWESOME NO BRAINER POPCORN MUNCHING FUN!

WE all knew it was going to be OTT after the Mummy Returns & the Scorpion King, I, personally, was expecting the whole thing to totally SUCK BALLS, but it was good crazy fun!

Troy......................................

Where the fuck did 200 million dollars go? It sure as hell didn't go on the script! Maybe it went into the CGI for Brad Pitts legs? Well this was a film I was looking forward too, being a BIG FAN of anything Greek Mythology wise, especially the classic Ray Harryhausen flicks!

I can forgive the subtle changes in the text, look to Clash of the Titans for complete arsing of Greek Legends, so what was the problem?

The film looks great, superbly shot & for the most part acted extremely, if not a little too hammy, well.

Eric Bana is superb as the troubled, yet noble Hector. Peter O'Toole lends an air of authority & tenderness to his role of Priam. Brian Cox totally hams it up as Agamemnon, Sean Bean is ever on form as Odysseus & Brendan Gleeson lumps it up as spurned King Menelaus.

Great cast & great photography.....so where exactly is the problem?

Orlando Bloom!

Sorry to any fans out there but he just can't act at all! How this kid has got so far is beyond me? If i have to sit through another film watching his 2 acting expressions (eyebrows up in a "arent i so cute way" & eyebrows down in a "cor im trying to look disgruntled but really look like i've shat my pants" kind of way) I shall scream!

His portrayal of Paris just left me wanting to boot the whinin little fairy right in the arse!

But perhaps i shouldnt be too heavy on him, its not as if he had a lot of quality written material to work with! Bordering on hammy, you can imagine the scriptwriter really thought he was getting close to achieving that classic golden Hollywood era of epic movie! Pffffff, Cleopatra this is not!

For all my ribbing I really did enjoy the movie, I was secretly hoping that it would be better than gladiator, which although a good movie, i found to be rather over hyped, alas it fairs no better than gladiator.

It's just such a shame that TROY had the potential to be so much & ended up delivering not enough!
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That was my problem with the whole movie. I heard they were making a Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman and I was imagining something like Bram Stoker's Dracula but with the focus being on a younger version of Anthony Hopkins' Abraham Van Helsing character. So I was stoked. Then I saw the trailer...
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What is wrong with a big dumb digital effects fest of a movie. Movies purpose is to entairtain. If it can entairtain it needs no intellegence.
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Nothing's wrong with it. I was just disappointed that it wasn't what I had been hoping for in a movie about AVH.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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