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"To anybody who's seen Van Helsing"

Can you please tell me what it's about?

Having recently read Dracula I can't see how the film makes any sense at all. From what I gather, in the film he goes around slaying numerous famous creatures from horror stories and is a fairly young man and a good, fearless fighter. The only similarity I can see is that he has a good knowledge of vampires.

So, can anybody explain?

But I thought you and Jackie were like that (YN)

gerrid wrote:
> It's like if I made a film about a guy who swam around the world with
> Jackie Chan in his pocket and called it JFH.

Not quite. At least they've kept absoute basics that Van Helsing is involved with vampires. It's jsut after that that it seems to go off a bit randomly.

Ah, it's on Sky Movies tomorrow night. I'll watch it then.

To be honest I thnk the comics are actually based on the film. But yeah, the character and the film only have the name Van Helsing in common with the original Dracula.

It's like if I made a film about a guy who swam around the world with Jackie Chan in his pocket and called it JFH.

gerrid wrote:
> Anyway, I thought there was a comic about Van Helsing, and he was a
> vampie hunter, Buffy/Blade style.

Quite possibly, but the book was written pre-1900 so any comics will have been based on the character from Dracula.

It's just about Dracula lording it over some village, and Van Helsing, a legendary monstery hunter, comes along, and tries to kill him. There's also a Werewolf and Frankenstein in there. It's got nothing to do with the original Dracula movie, the original Frankenstein or any other comic or book or film that's gone before.

It's literally just a mish mash of characters cobbled together into one film. Like if they did a film about Alien against the Predator or something stupid like that!

Anyway, I thought there was a comic about Van Helsing, and he was a vampie hunter, Buffy/Blade style.

It's basically The Mummy, but with Dracula and The Wolfman instead of the, er, mummy.

So you get Hugh Jackman running around with lots of guns instead of Brendan Fraser, and Kate Beckinsale instead of Rachel Weisz as the rather fit Brit brunette.

It's not too bad, worth a look.

JFH wrote:
> Chr1s wrote:
> Has to be entertaining though, and the original Van Helsing looks
> like it would have made for an even worse movie than what we got.
>
> There isn't an 'original Van Helsing'. The character just appears in
> Dracula as the supernatural expert to help the other charaters
> destroy him.

They just altered and expanded on the character into a more Hollywoodish Van Helsing then so they could turn it into an action movie.

Accuracy isn't everything, and I doubt most would really know what the character is supposed to be like.

Chr1s wrote:
> Has to be entertaining though, and the original Van Helsing looks
> like it would have made for an even worse movie than what we got.

There isn't an 'original Van Helsing'. The character just appears in Dracula as the supernatural expert to help the other charaters destroy him.

Basically Van Helsing is some kind of "Frankstein" type professor who has a knowledge of the supernatural such as Vampires

I think his girlfriend gets captured. He then has to make his way to Draculas' castle and kill him, or maybe the village is in peril, I watched it last Summer

He basically encounters Frankenstein and someone who's like a Wolfman, they've combined many mythical creatures into one place and made Dracula some kind of "Supernatural king"

It's got excellent Special effects, some decent acting and is just quite action packed throughout (with some tension)