The day after tomorrow

[BWDOWN]

http://www.thedayaftertomorrow.com/

Looks to be an awesome movie, Very slick CG effects too

Go have a look what $100 million dollars can make...

[Bullitt]

I seen the ad for ages and it looked interesting but I didnt have the slightest clue what it was about.

Went to the movies last night and saw the trailer so I actually know what its about.

pfft. Van Helsing which I saw last night cost way more than that to make. A big budget does not necessarily make it a good movie though :wink:

[BWDOWN]

Yer I heard Van helsing ate ass, promo looked ok, obviously sucked from what I read...

[lofreq]

big money definitely doesnt make a good movie.

compare waterworld, and el mariachi (the original one)...

you'll know what i mean if you know the movies and the figures behind them

[freestylin_hamster]

Originally Posted by BWDOWN

Yer I heard Van helsing ate ass, promo looked ok, obviously sucked from what I read...

heeelll no!
I was so against going to it, thought the preview looked gay and thought it was gunna be shit like underworld...
But surprisingly dman good

[Macros]

i liked underworld :cry:

[moggey]

ahhhhhhh Van Hellsing. *sigh*

well looks like "mr cranky.com" did all the reviewing for me.

For every film that benefits from special effects improvements such as spectacular car explosions that fling underpaid stuntmen for miles or body-shaping that makes Lara Flynn Boyle appear almost lifelike, there's a film like "Van Helsing" in which the barrage of CGI sucks the life out of everyone in the theater faster than marrying Anna Nicole Smith.

At the beginning of "Van Helsing," it appears that Stephen ("The Mummy") Sommers is prepared to deliver his predictable brand of tongue-in-cheek action film, but then the film's 19th century European impressionist ethos and matching color palette (grays, blacks, whites, and cold blues) get the best of him, driving the movie into a kind of dark psychological funk unseen since Robert Downey Jr.'s last stint in rehab. Think Edvard Munch's "The Scream" for both context and the proper emotional reaction.

Simply put, nothing is enough here, and it's like being force-fed rice cakes with a shovel. Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is no longer simply Dracula's nemesis: He's a fighter of all things evil in a story that reads like Sommers's dog chewed up a library of Evil Cliffs Notes and barfed up a script. Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) leads the chaos, but to recount the story in any way that makes sense would require about twenty more paragraphs and an abacus. Suffice it to say that if Van Helsing kills Dracula and a variety of minions including three female vampires, a werewolf, Count Chocula, and possibly Frankenstein's monster (Shuler Hensley), he will save Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) from eternal purgatory and a role in "Underworld 2."

Frankenstein appears to have nuclear waste in his head. The Wolfman is a dull effect. Finally, Dracula seems less like a guy who needs a silver stake through the heart and more like a perturbed fellow who just requires a laxative. And does Hugh Jackman's name bother anybody else?

So many convoluted ideas writhe through "Van Helsing" that it feels like being locked in an espresso stand with Brittany Murphy. The final sequence in Dracula's secret hideaway is practically a case study in idiotic serendipity, and the final fight contains "twelve strokes of midnight" that last about twenty minutes.

If deep characterizations were the literary lynchpins for Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, they're sunlight and garlic for Sommers.

http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/vanhelsing.html

and one last comment from me:

isn't it amazing the backwards evolution that plagues some hollywood pictures.... where the tools and processes become more and more sophisticated (and the budgets to match) ...yet some movies, like this fine example - remain just as rank. 8O

Van Helsing: Visual effects masturbation dammit. :evil: damn you stephen sommers.

although i got to give it this: it is watchable....just.

my 2cents.

[Bullitt]

I didnt think Van Helsing was that bad, it certainly wasnt the best and to many people wont be worth paying to go to the movies to see. However it is at least good enough to hire it on DVD.

There are too many special effects as said above that take away from the movie and are obviously done on a computer. There are too many famous characters such as Van Helsin, Dracula, Frankenstein, Frankensteins monster, Egor (Frankensteins hunchback helper who actually helps dracula), Dr Jekle and Mr Hyde and probably others that I cant remember.

Hugh Jackman makes a more convincing Wolverine than Van Helsing.
Kate Beckingsale is Fecking hot.

The guy who plays the fryer is the pick of the movie to me. Basically Q from the Bond movies if he were written into a monty python script

6.5/10 Not great but better than I expected it to be and alot better than Underworld

[rage_chiksta]

I guess everyone has there own opinions about differnent movies...everyone's a critic, but I like movies bout vampires and shit like that, and the new one out looks pretty good. I'll still go and see it tho.

Underworld was a cool movie to!

[pxpx]

Four words can describe a crappy idea for a movie.

Dawn Of The Dead

Jeebas.

[WOLF]

Originally Posted by rage_chiksta

I guess everyone has there own opinions about differnent movies...everyone's a critic, but I like movies bout vampires and shit like that, and the new one out looks pretty good. I'll still go and see it tho.

Underworld was a cool movie to!

so if u saw a vampire u would give him or her your neck then rage_chiksta and i liked tears in the sun with bruce willis in it.

[moggey]

Originally Posted by pxpx

Four words can describe a crappy idea for a movie.

Dawn Of The Dead

Jeebas.

the new dawn of the dead?

oh no!

i had high hopes for that.

[rage_chiksta]

Originally Posted by WOLF

so if u saw a vampire u would give him or her your neck then rage_chiksta and i liked tears in the sun with bruce willis in it.

wouldn't go that far...i like sunlight! :twisted:

[INPHAMISTICS]

I reckon the add that comes on tv makes this movie look really good, the animations seem so realistic and also van helsing looks awesome too. Gonna go watch it tomorow hopefully

[Agent86]

Looking forward to The Day after Tomorrow for some reason....last movie with a similar plot was 28 Days and that sucked herpes rotted monkey dick...so I dunno why I wanna go see it...

I hope my mates don't drag me into Van Helsing....I think the concept is gay and special effects just suck if there's an aire of pointlessness about them only a lack of good plot can give. Adding together several famous characters that aren't meant to be together (Dracula, Frankenstein, a werewolf, Jekyll and Hyde) to a plot should be avoided at all cost (artistic licence is heinously abused at times). 'Course, I could be wrong, as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was pretty good and I wanted to stay away from that for the same reason. All the same, horror movies + pop culture+ artistic licence = gay ass pounding movie IMHO.

Want to see Troy as well, although it seems more like a Gladiator takeoff..Gladiator was nice though. Lets hope the trend to manufactured movies (made to order, assembled in China, you get what I'm saying) escaped a few in the future.

Bring on the next Fast and Furious movie...m4D tyTe y0!

[Macros]

Originally Posted by Agent86

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was pretty good

Real? I thought it was pretty crap
Anyone else reckonise the Command and Conquer death sounds?