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Well, I just got back from seeing Van Helsing (okay, I got back an hour ago; I was distracted by math :P ), and I'll say it was good, but there were several parts that made me semi-not like it.
Yes, Dracula was exceptionally well-cast. That was an excellent choice. Many of the action scenes were well-done, and though the CG-ing was fairly obvious (which isn't a good thing), it was still okay.
The biggest problem I had with this was in the script itself. Many of the "comic relief" lines were extremely trite, and one could anticipate almost all of them. They also led into the plot way too early; I guessed the ending within a half-hour. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not fun.
Also, at the end, when Dracula is "revealing" all these things about Van Helsing, he didn't do a very good job. Again, I blame the script for the most part, but the delivery could have used work.
Another problem I had was not with the movie, but with the audience, so I probably shouldn't use it to judge, but I'll mention it anyway. The audience laughed at parts of the movie that weren't supposed to be funny; there were even a few serious moments in which they laughed. Namely, the end, when Van Helsing lets out a yell (I'm desperately trying to not spoil anything), the audience laughed. I was laughing at what he was yelling about, but it was fairly obvious that they were laughing at the way in which he yelled. Why did this turn me off? Because he was acting naturally. There was nothing funny about how he yelled. Essentially, they laughed at anything that something non-human did which was something they'd do naturally.
Anyway, from my point of view, I'd give it a 7/10. Had they put a little more effort into writing the script, it would have been utterly beautiful.
Yes, Dracula was exceptionally well-cast. That was an excellent choice. Many of the action scenes were well-done, and though the CG-ing was fairly obvious (which isn't a good thing), it was still okay.
The biggest problem I had with this was in the script itself. Many of the "comic relief" lines were extremely trite, and one could anticipate almost all of them. They also led into the plot way too early; I guessed the ending within a half-hour. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not fun.
Also, at the end, when Dracula is "revealing" all these things about Van Helsing, he didn't do a very good job. Again, I blame the script for the most part, but the delivery could have used work.
Another problem I had was not with the movie, but with the audience, so I probably shouldn't use it to judge, but I'll mention it anyway. The audience laughed at parts of the movie that weren't supposed to be funny; there were even a few serious moments in which they laughed. Namely, the end, when Van Helsing lets out a yell (I'm desperately trying to not spoil anything), the audience laughed. I was laughing at what he was yelling about, but it was fairly obvious that they were laughing at the way in which he yelled. Why did this turn me off? Because he was acting naturally. There was nothing funny about how he yelled. Essentially, they laughed at anything that something non-human did which was something they'd do naturally.
Anyway, from my point of view, I'd give it a 7/10. Had they put a little more effort into writing the script, it would have been utterly beautiful.
