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Hellboy- This is one fantastic movie... It astounds me every time. It has flaws and stuff, but the story holds, and is really good and freaky, the action is awesome, it has the coolest weapon ever (see new thread in gen.) and pretty nice acting. Amazing special effects too!

9/10

Van Helsing- This is another great one...... with big problems. Great movie, 2 1/2 great actors, amazing story ( I thought it was well put together) great action of course, and a repeater. So what's the problem you ask?

dialogue. fuck! It's absolutely MISERABLE to listen to! Just watch it in a foreign language so you won't understand it, because it's TERRIBLE. Stupid lines, and pointless yammering on (frankenstein's stupid creation), whatever. That's the lowest point. On the same side, there's a lot of bad acting... The frankenstein guy did the single most hateable acting i've ever experienced, and dracula's stupid brides are friggin obnoxious and squeal a lot. Dracula, on the other hand, is the 1/2 mentioned earlier. I think he either did a very good job, or a terrible job. He wasn't all that bad, and he has a good "dracula" look to him. I think the dialogue just brought them all down, even kate and hugh a bit. The main bride had ONE line where she looked convincing, and that was when she said "and I say you can go when you're DEAD!" <decent. The cgi is terrible, but it was pretty low budget I suppose, but it is just another mindless action flick.

Don't watch this expecting a masterpiece, watch it for the kick ass factor.

6/10