Van Hellsing
 

Jackman and Beckinsale as badass vampire hunters
looks promising

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It does look interesting, but I'm cautious because I can't stand the director, Stephen Sommers. I'm willing to give it a shot because I think Hugh Jackman will kick some serious a** in the movie, and having Kate Beckinsale as eye candy never hurts.

If Stephen Sommers can restrain himself from going way over the top, and actually works on completing the visual effects(both were the case with his last film, The Mummy Returns)then this could be a good film.

Been looking forward to this for some time now. :thumbsup:

I thought Kate was really good in Underworld, it'll be cool to see her on the other side now :)

Anything with Kate Beckinsale in it looks promising to me :p

But seriously,I do think this movie will kick major ass.

Looks good. Ill be seeing it.

Really hope its better than it looks. Because Hugh Jackman looks like a fruitcake on the poster.

Looks interesting. will watch it.

This is the must see movie of the summer.

That door in the first pic almost looks like a caricature. How serious is this movie supposed to be?

Have you ever seen King Kong?

Looks neat. I'm liking Jackman

Beckinsale = guaranteed ticket purchase

I'm there...

Anybody know when the trailer will be up?

Will be up at Apple's site tomorrow (Friday).

Kate + Hugh = I'm there!

I saw the trailer and it looks pretty good. Not blown away, but pretty good. It reminded me of Underworld and The Mummy, and not just because the actress and the director. You can see some of it on Thursday's Entertainment Tonight. Pretty good creature FX.

www.themoviebox.net has the trailer up.

:jawdrop: OMG!!!!!!!! :up: :banana:


Seriously... looks pretty good... but I wonder how far this'll push the envelope, so that it would stay PG-13 and pull in the younger X-men audience. Just a thought.

By the way, Apple has the title in the New Trailers section, but the page is not there yet.

Direct Apple link
Looks nice man, I just hope it doesn't disappoint.

Looks great........

The trailer looks great, I really liked the look of the wolfman too, especially compared to Underworld's action figure werewolves :)

Have I said today how much I love Kate Beckinsale? :)

Looks good to me...

Looks really good. :thumbsup: And though I usually don't think a film needs to be R to be good, I dohope thisfilm was made with an R rating in mind (though I doubt it) because I think I'd suit the film.

This looks like a fun movie. I'm pretty positive that this isn't the movie many people have in mind. No, this ain't going to be a dark, violent, vampire hunter D movie. Looks to be more in te vein of The Mummy, and considering that it's intended as a franchise movie, it'll be a pg-13 flick.

But it looks fun...Sommers can make a good mindless adventure. Though it's a little disapointing knowing this won't be as cool as it could be.

Looks very good. Kind of like if they were to make a Castlevania movie. :up:

Maybe it's just as a fan of the old Universal flicks of the '30s and '40s, but I wish the look of some of the monsters was more "classic." Really just had glimpses of Frankenstein's Monster, Wolfman, Dracula but I'm not sure about them. Dracula in particular looked rather goofy, like an "Alien" ripoff. But the general look was pretty nifty and of course Hugh Jackman rocks. I just hope this is more "Mummy" and less godawful "Mummy Returns."

From what I saw, this is a dark film. It's a hell of a lot darker than the Mummy, and a lot more violent too. This looks nothing like the Mummy. I also noticed a complete lack of jokes and humor in the trailer, something that wasn't the case in the Mummy movies.

I see little resemblence other than the film containing well known monsters written about in famous novels.

You would've thought they would only have one villian per movie and make a trilogy out of it. I don't see how each story is going to mesh with the others. Still, a must see.


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Well the main resemblance is having the same writer director at the helm. Seeing as his last three films have all followed the same action/horror/comedy bit, I'd say it's quite obvious this will follow suit. And since the budget is so insanely high, it CAN'T be that violent, because there is no way in hell this is going to be R rated.

Another resemblance? Updated action movie based on Universal's horror movie characters. With a kick butt hero taking them out. Sounds like The Mummy to me. Sure it doesn't have the Indiana Jones feel, but it will be a similar fun adventure. Everything points to that.

And go back and watch the trailer for the original Mummy. Not a bit of humor anywhere. While I can't say they will be as overt with the humor, this movie will be a fun adventure, not a dark violent retelling of these classic characters.

Nonetheless I have high hopes this will be a fun ride. MR was...junk imo. But I highly enjoy Deep Rising and The Mummy, so I think Sommers can do a great job on an adventure film like this. it's just too bad the rating won't allow the silly excessive gore he got to do in Deep Rising.

Well I'm looking forward to it being a Deep Rising-esque gore fest but with little or no humour. I'll try not to hold my breath.

this flick looks decent! Too much really crappy CGI for my tastes though... I hope this is R with quite a lot of Gore and such...oh man...if not maybe we'll get an Unrated DVD or somethin..

It looks like a pop corn flick with vampires who wont be looking in mirrors and being saved from drowning, so I'll watch it atleast once.

A Definate watch for me. Some of the CG in the trailer looked a bit "iffy" but vampires, dark-goth look to it, and Hugh Jackman= I'll be there.

:lol: You just can't get over Underworld can you?

:rolleyes:

and no silly patchwork chick falling in love with skeleton santas ;)

Shit this looks like soo much fun :up:

However, I have no doubt many dvdtalkers will hate it. :lol:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/van_helsing/

Looks good to me. Hope some of the CGI in the trailer will be touched up though. :)

atleast the patchwork chick didn't save the life of something not even alive. ;)