Re:’Van Helsing’ hmmm :/
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WOOO HOOO!!! I finally found the spot where folks are talking about this movie!!!!
BE WARNED: I *LOVED* this movie and saw it 4 times. 😀
I’m not sure about all the complaints I’ve finding where ever I go: here, the IMDB board, or the bb set up on the “Boy From Oz” offical theater site. This movie was supposed to be FUN and an homage to the Universal movie monsters. I think it was BOTH. Those Universal movies could get pretty campy……. they WERE meant to be summer teen movies, after all. 😉
As for the volume: it was just as LOUD as the commercials they now show along with the trailers before the movie starts, so I guess I didn’t really notice. Besides, all the better to hear every word Hugh Jackman utters…… 😈
I’ve seen so many complaints about the full moon thing and many are not willing to accept that Sommers merely did a bit of time compression by NOT showing the passage of time – in the same way “Troy” shows the Trojan war lasting only about a month, at best. In the most offending scene – where Van Helsing gets bit in one scene and then the next scene in Budapest indicates the full moon is almost back – I think folks have missed something. When we last see our heros the carriage is burned, the horses have run off, Velkan is dead, Van Helsling bitten, and Anna carried off by the last bride – Alleera. Watching her fly off with Anna, you see a city in the background and one more mountain between the heros and the city.
The Creature is a big lumbering thing with a piston in his bum leg. Van Helsing has a nasty chest wound from a werewolf bite. I doubt Carl has had much chance to get mountian climbing experience, since he never leaves the abbey. I’m sure it had to take more than just one day to climb DOWN the moutain they were on, then climb UP and DOWN the next one to get to the city. That part was just skipped over.
In the next scene the trio finally arrive in the city. No idea if it’s the outskirts or they’re in the absolute center of the city, but they DO look bone-weary. The confusion about the passage of time may occur when the creature and Carl finally realize Van Helsing’s been bitten by the Velkanwolf. The wound still looks fresh, however, in one of the versions of the werewolf legend I’ve read the wound inflicted by a werewolf NEVER heals. So, Van Helsing’s wound could still look as fresh as the day he got it, even one month later.
In any case, this apparent lapse in continuity bothered me a LOT less than the lapses in “Troy.”
MM
(who also loves “Waterworld”)
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