Topic: vanhelsing move to much like lords of shadow

[gandalfi]

well im new here but i recently watch the vanhelsing movie and noticed way to many simularities for starters both main charecters are named gabrial and work for some sort of secret order... hmm. both seem to cant remember much about there past... hmm. they both take place in translyvania tho thats just cause they both originate there. and also gabrial belmont looks alot like hugh jackman if you ask me... hmm. just saying it does seem real simular.

[Shadowserg]

Yes, LoS - is just a stupid clone of Van Helshig movie.. 

[crisis]

some say the castles look similar too, with the interconnecting towers I suppose

[A-Yty]

So..I guess the circle is complete 

[Munchy]

Except Van Helsing has more of the monsters expected of a Castlevania. ZING

[Kingshango]

Another day, another Lords of Shadow looks more like "this" that it does "Castlevania" discussion, surely we haven't seen this brought up to death a million times. /sarcasm

I'll go ahead and ask this anyway, why does Van Helsing get so much hate anyway? I thought it was a ok movie, cheesy as hell but it was at least watchable. Hell I'll be the one to say it's the closest to a Castlevania movie that we'll get untill the actual movie gets made.

[crisis]

I thought it was an ok movie as well although I hated how Dracula was portrayed, relied way too much on CGI, etc.

[whitedragon_nall]

I enjoyed it too. Nothing amazing, but it's still a fun movie.


Plus Kate Beckinsale.......

[shelverton.]

I think it was alright too! It's not the OMG MOVIE OF TEH MILLENIUM, but it's solid enough. I doubt an official Castlevania movie would do it better.

[darkwzrd4]

I think it was alright too! It's not the OMG MOVIE OF TEH MILLENIUM, but it's solid enough. I doubt an official Castlevania movie would do it better.

Yeah, Van Helsing is as close to a decent CV movie as we will probably ever get.

[Inccubus]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. I love the score. And I thought is was awesome how they reference Castlevania and the Belmont clan in the video game.

[X]

I too, noticed how much LoS was to the Van Helsing movie since both had stone castles in the frozen wastes.

-X

[Inccubus]

I think it would be fairly safe to assume that Van Helsing inspired aspects of LoS in the same way that classic CV inspired Van Helsing.

[Thunderbrand]

I said on DAY ONE that the castle in LoS was exactly like Dracula's castle in VH. The layouts were similar and even had the main towers connected by huge support chains. Same thing. Ironically, Castle Frankenstein in VH was much more like the "traditional" castle in CV1.

[gandalfi]

yeah the movie was good tho with all the creativity konami has done with all the previous castlevania games its strange that they couldnt come up with there own charecter the two Gabrial's are just to much alike.