MyDarkSide wrote:
Fill me up on fried and sugary foods with soft drinks and set me down in front of Van Helsing, and I still have a good time. I generally agree that Dracula is "all wrong" but watching the film strictly in the context of the time it has come out in, it works. To try to compare it to anything post-1970, why, you are just torturing yourself.

It's a fun, mindless monster ride on crack.

And I vehemently disagree with you Ugly I and others in your camp over The Wolfman (2010)! It's the equivalent of the best of the Golden Age Universals! Simply great stuff that a true Monster Kid can recognize. Even better than JAWS! There, I wrote it!!! 


               Hmmmm. That is part of the problem isn't it? What's supposedly "fun" for one person is like watching paint dry for another. One word I wouldn't use to describe Van Helsing is fun. The Fun word is always dragged out with movies like this to defend them. Movies like Godzilla Final Wars (which incidentally bombed badly in Japan), the "Gino" remake, and yes even the Summers Mummy. (The "humor" only made me roll my eyes).
               If something is new it also doesn;t automatically make it good. A novel appraoch might be new AND good. Wouldn't that be cool?  Which incidentally the Wolfman did not do. 2 Werewolves fighting? Hmm Werwolf of London and (not a good film at least for the second half) Wolf jumps to my mind at the moment. I myself was very dissapointed that they went with the "dad is werewolf" idea. I will be curious to see that extended DVD cut though.

        Robert Troch