I've never seen a movie that looks so expensive also look so shitty

Stephen Sommers with $45m budget = masterpiece
Stephen Sommers with $80m budget = masterpiece
Stephen Sommers with anything more than that = no, daddy Steve, put the computer graphics down

also the guy who plays the Frankenstein monster in this was Jud in Oklahoma with Hugh

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What a great opening. The stark b&w photography. The monster mash atmosphere. The exaggerated shadows and lightning strikes. It's a cute little short film ultimately undone by the rest of the movie, which is a garish, CGI aesthetic wasteland that feels like the worst possible recreation of something like Coppola's Dracula. Terrible.

I was bored. I was bored during and after watching the film, not before.

Effects so bad even your kids will comment on them, leather so tight even the best of us can't ignore, yes that's right, I'm talking about the one and only Van Helsing!

dracula's earring reblog if you agree

WHY IS THIS FILM TRYING TO MAKE ME LIKE IT BY SHOUTING AT ME THE ENTIRE TIME? 'LOOK!! WE'VE GOT EVERY MONSTER IMAGINABLE AND HAVE GIVEN THEM ENTIRELY NEW CRAPPY CGI LOOKS!! ISN'T GRAND? YOU MUST LOVE ME, I AM COOL AS HELL!!!!'

please stop shouting......my head hurts.......and please stop trying so hard.....it's annoying....

Scavenger Hunt #53 || August 2019
Task 28) Watch a film that features Frankenstein's monster.

There was a time in my early teens when this was my favourite movie of all time & do you know what?! I'm not even embarrassed.

Movies that should be fantastically camp too often take themselves far too seriously. This was especially the case in the early 2000s when we started to realise computers could make movies for us and that everything that exists needed a gritty reimagining (steam punk style).

This flat, charismaless mess of a film should be placed in a museum. It’s a perfect summation of everything that was wrong with an era of blockbuster movie making. It’s phenomenally ugly, barely acted and beyond convoluted. The structure is a mess, nothing really makes any sense and it’s all slow-mo badditude for a bloated run time. It’s also so dark, as in lighting, that you can’t really see anything. Which, turns out is a blessing.

did i really watch this again??? you're goddamn right i did!!!

fed up with the Sexy Dracula and Ugly Frankenstein's Monster formula 😡

Cringy, over the top, terrible cgi. I loved every minute. The film itself was worth 2 stars, but the enjoyment factor was a 5 out of 5

It’s ridiculous but it’s not entirely bad! It follows in the same vein of Resident Evil and Underworld where action was clearly the priority and nothing else mattered. The thing that bothers me the most is how stupid the action ends up looking when EVERY single enemy in the film toys with the main characters instead of actually trying to hurt them. It feels like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon to be honest.

I love this movie

damn this one is bad. its so so bad but i just want to watch it again with my friends and have a fucking laugh
it doesnt deserve the 3 stars idc i had fun lmao

"My life... my job... my curse... is to vanquish evil." - Van Helsing

This might be the closest thing we will get to an Avengers style monster movie and that's a good thing. Van Helsing is an entertaining campy bad movie but it's 40 minutes longer than it needs to be.

I'll level with you. I am not absolutely 100% sure that none of the actors who they got to do a Romanian accent have never heard a Romanian accent. But I am 99% sure.

Regal Marketplace, Orange City FL
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With Magen and Kristine

I made a drinking game out of this. I'm a bottle of prosecco down and i realised...this is so shit but i'm obsessed

best vampire depiction ever