We-ell, see... I didn't think it was funny enough to be camp, and it wasn't serious enough to be scary. And the characters weren't interesting enough to like, and the clothes were too ridiculous to be time-accurate. And poor David Wenham didn't get to be KEWL like he did in LOTR, and Hugh didn't get to be quite as KEWL as Indiana Jones. And the monster was far too eloquent to have been sewn together while still doing a really good Peter-Boyle-in-Young-Frankenstein imitation, and the CGI was choppy and way too obvious, and Drac had a 90s hair clip, and... and...
I'm kind of a cinematic snob. We have to go through it again, maybe when it's out on DVD, with a fine-tooth comb. There were way too many Dogstar-specific references in there; who's been reading my RPB (http://p206.ezboard.com/bdogstaracademy)?
But I've read both good and bad reviews. Personally I don't recommend that people spend a lot of money on it, but hey. Maybe if you had a few beers first...
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Re: Van Helsing
Date: 2004-05-09 04:00 am (UTC)I'm kind of a cinematic snob. We have to go through it again, maybe when it's out on DVD, with a fine-tooth comb. There were way too many Dogstar-specific references in there; who's been reading my RPB (http://p206.ezboard.com/bdogstaracademy)?
But I've read both good and bad reviews. Personally I don't recommend that people spend a lot of money on it, but hey. Maybe if you had a few beers first...