Van Helsing: sad waste of a cool concept
Box Office Prophets hammers, chops, dices, drives a stake through the heart and decapitates Van Helsing, a movie that broke my heart by raising my hopes only to through them off the Notre Dame Cathedral. So much potential, so much squandered. Go read Box Office Prophets take on it.
posted by Carnacki | 6/02/2005 11:04:00 AM
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It's probably unhip to say, but I really liked the Mummy and the Mummy Returns. They were over-the-top fun, sort of like one of the more adventurous Call of Cthulhu adventures I'd throw at the players after an especially dark and brutal campaign. So I had my hopes high for Van Helsing being that kind of fun since it shared much of the same film DNA. What a disappointment. You're absolutely right. Sommers had no faith in the original material so instead of making it dark and scary, he just made it big as if he made the CGI monsters big enough, it could hide the holes and flaws in the story. I could go on, but I'd be typing with trembling, angry fingers.
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