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I ‘borrowed’ Van Helsing off someone on the ‘net for the second time the other day and finally got around to watching it last night.
The first time it was in Russian and even though I studied it for at least 3 months in 3rd form, I couldn’t understand it. The thing is it could have been in Russian and it probably would have been fine, everything was supremely predictable and it would have made it less boring making up our own dialogue to fit.

Basic Premise:- Van Helsing is an agent for the Catholic Church, for some reason he is kind of immortal. He is sent on a mission to Transylvania to kill Dracula and save the last in a family line who vowed to kill him in order to repent their sins or something. He goes there, there’s loads of uplifting action movie type music, some vampyres, a few werewolves, Frankensteins monster, a love interest, tearful loss of a loved one to the undead, all the makings of a fantastic hollywood blockbuster, but it basically doesn’t cut it, by a long shot.

If you want to see a fantastic vampire/werewolf movie, get Underworld. It came out about a year ago, and is really good. It has all the same elements as above (minus Frankenstein’s monster) but it does it well…

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