Comments on: Van Helsing

By: shellshear

shellshear — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:40:31 +0000

I haven’t seen Ghostrider yet, but it’s definitely square in the middle of my purview. If I happen upon a copy cheaply, I’ll do it!

By: phoenix

phoenix — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:58 +0000

So…if you feel inspired to do a FF of Ghostrider…

By: phoenix

phoenix — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:01:48 +0000

After being introduced to the site through mezzacotta, I thoroughly enjoyed a number of movie rewrites here.

In fact, I’m seriously considering a rewrite of Ghostrider, if only for one thing at the ending where I think they really missed the boat…

Thanks for these enjoyable thoughts. And, in keeping with where I’m commenting, I must say that Van Helsing is one of my guilty pleasures when it comes to movies…

By: shellshear

shellshear — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:59:19 +0000

Certainly not! I realise I\’ve been a bit quiet on FF, due to stupid work stuff, but I do have a couple of partially written reviews, including Snakes on a Plane and National Treasure (which, I agree, is quite good. A lot better than I was expecting, and surprisingly a lot better than The Da Vinci Code).
Feel free to keep commenting – you\’re the website\’s one regular visitor (other than people who personally know me), I think, and are therefore our most valuable \”customer\”!

By: Annav

Annav — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:46:19 +0000

Are you tired of me?

By: Annav

Annav — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:20:32 +0000

Sorry just click on Annav.

By: Annav

Annav — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:16:32 +0000

Never mind it’s at http://valerous.blogspot.com/

By: Annav

Annav — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:11:37 +0000

I like the movie Van Helsing so much that I made up a quiz about. I have 241 questions all with answers. Some of them are at http://valerious.blogsopt.com

By: Annav

Annav — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:30:47 +0000

I am AGHAST that Hugh Jackman was in musicals like “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Boy from Oz”.

By: shellshear

shellshear — Thu, 25 May 2006 01:15:38 +0000

Hugh Jackman is pretty damn fine – there were quite a few eyebrows raised [1], though, when he was chosen for the part: until X-Men he was best-known for being in musicals – Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma, and notably “The Boy from Oz”, a musical biopic of Peter Allen. Some of the X-Men fans were *aghast*.

Then they saw the film. I must admit, I had my doubts too, but I had confidence in Bryan Singer – I figured after The Usual Suspects he should be allowed to do whatever the hell he liked [2]. And, of course, Mr Jackman was excellent. Wolverine could have been so very, very bad with stereotypical hollywood casting (eg. a professional wrestler.)

[1] – In hollywood, this is a more-than-usually ambiguous phrase.
[2] – OK, Apt Pupil was fun and capable but not genius. It didn’t, however, use up any of his goodwill points. Incidentally, I was – here’s that word again – aghast to see what Bryan Singer looked like. He’s a kid! A fucking kid! I was so certain he was in his 60s at least, a grizzled old man who’d seen too much too young, and who had eked out a living as the pilot of a cessna in Patagonia for the last twenty years, before trying his hand at directing.