Richard Roxburgh = Dracula
May. 7th, 2004 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterRight. I saw Van Helsing today.
Overall? The plot could be used as a sieve, but the acting, visuals and music are worth it.
First shot of Van Helsing was a squee moment. Why? Because that neckerchief had the same pattern as the gloves Alucard wears in Hellsing :) Yes, gotta make that Van Helsing/Hellsing layout...
Intro? Brilliant. I don't have the words to describe how good a Dracula Richard Roxburgh makes: crazy, magnetic, powerful, old and youthful at the same time. Like, Oldman who? This is what Dracula should look like. I loved the whole old-horror-movie feel of the entire sequence.
The fight with Hyde was middling. Bad CGI, good banter. Hugh Jackman is mreeeow, but that's a given. I like his accent: kinda British, but not as snooty as in Kate and Leopold.
Rome was cheesy at times, butFaramir in disguise Friar Carl made up for it. I think they must have made David stoop and shuffle around on bent knees throughout the movie - he's really only two inches shorter than Hugh, and he looked a head shorter. Later on the undertaker pronounced his height as 5'8", when David's really 6'. The sun-bomb was way too obvious.
Then there was the tied-up boytoy. Caranthir-in-my-head immediately demanded a crossover for his own nefarious purposes, but I told him I'm already indulging his perverted borderline-rape tendencies in another story. Even if Will Kemp looked delectable, tied to the stake like that.
I didn't like the CGI vampires much. Too obvious, not batlike enough. The werewolves were better: actually handsome. Frankenstein's monster was also decent.
The plot? I'll be merciful and not comment. Suffice it to say, I can name a dozen plotholes off the top of my head. By the end, I was only watching for the pretty. (Which included Kate Beckinsale. If I could choose any woman to look like, it'd be a toss-up between her and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
Oh, and David Wenham had an ultra-cool moment as he woke up after his "wild night" ^__^ For a moment he looked at the woman, and he had this kinda Faramir-like smirk. Altogether, I'm really amazed at his acting range.
Will this movie change my life? No.
Will I go to see the sequel? Hell yes.
Other news: Fingon's angsting, Maedhros' playing pachinko, Thranduil has a ko-gyaru girlfriend.
Overall? The plot could be used as a sieve, but the acting, visuals and music are worth it.
First shot of Van Helsing was a squee moment. Why? Because that neckerchief had the same pattern as the gloves Alucard wears in Hellsing :) Yes, gotta make that Van Helsing/Hellsing layout...
Intro? Brilliant. I don't have the words to describe how good a Dracula Richard Roxburgh makes: crazy, magnetic, powerful, old and youthful at the same time. Like, Oldman who? This is what Dracula should look like. I loved the whole old-horror-movie feel of the entire sequence.
The fight with Hyde was middling. Bad CGI, good banter. Hugh Jackman is mreeeow, but that's a given. I like his accent: kinda British, but not as snooty as in Kate and Leopold.
Rome was cheesy at times, but
Then there was the tied-up boytoy. Caranthir-in-my-head immediately demanded a crossover for his own nefarious purposes, but I told him I'm already indulging his perverted borderline-rape tendencies in another story. Even if Will Kemp looked delectable, tied to the stake like that.
I didn't like the CGI vampires much. Too obvious, not batlike enough. The werewolves were better: actually handsome. Frankenstein's monster was also decent.
The plot? I'll be merciful and not comment. Suffice it to say, I can name a dozen plotholes off the top of my head. By the end, I was only watching for the pretty. (Which included Kate Beckinsale. If I could choose any woman to look like, it'd be a toss-up between her and Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
Oh, and David Wenham had an ultra-cool moment as he woke up after his "wild night" ^__^ For a moment he looked at the woman, and he had this kinda Faramir-like smirk. Altogether, I'm really amazed at his acting range.
Will this movie change my life? No.
Will I go to see the sequel? Hell yes.
Other news: Fingon's angsting, Maedhros' playing pachinko, Thranduil has a ko-gyaru girlfriend.
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Date: 2004-05-08 10:36 pm (UTC)