November 16th, 2007 - Strange coincidences
The director of the movie Van Helsing, Stephen Sommers is a 1980 graduated of St. John’s, one of the two colleges I attended! (And my brother.)
A year ago, we adopted Pi from the shelter. His name there was Van Helsing. I’d never heard of the movie and Eric had never seen it, so we rented it. The lady at the shelter rolled her eyes at the name and hoped we’d change it because she said it was a really bad movie. I loved it! But we changed his name anyway. [edited to add: I just read the post from last year. Eric thought we had seen it, I didn’t remember it. We watched it on TV rather than renting it. It stars Hugh Jackman.]
November 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pm EST
I saw VanHelsing — want so much to like it, there is so much good in it, but, like a Frankenstein monster, it’s puts together in thoroughly-wrong-yet-hard-to-articulate ways. Some really great ideas and visuals, tied up with a lot of wrong-headedness of same. Timing off all over the place. Really sad.