{"id":7503,"date":"2004-05-13T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/13\/van-helsing\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"van-helsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/13\/van-helsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Helsing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\t\"\"Just came back from the movies. Watching “Van Helsing<\/a>” this time. This is one of those times when IMDB’s rating is totally screwed. 5.2\/10 is completely unfair. I would give it a solid 7\/10 or even 8\/10. Both Hazard and Olga liked it even more. :)<\/p>\n

There are many nice things about this film and very few mildly bad ones. Effects and computer graphics are excellent. There is lots of style. There is lots of action. Soundtrack is excellent, and especially the orchestra that performed it. Somehow I didn’t notice these guys in the first half of the movie, but closer to the end they are getting really enthusiastic. And if all of that was not enough, they even do kill one of the few main characters in the end, so it’s not so happy as it is usually. Additionally, you have this “good guys are going to loose” feeling during most of the movie. :)<\/p>\n

The only displacing part for me were those kind of stupid dialogs in the first part of the movie. I stopped noticing them later, but at first they were rather disturbing.<\/p>\n

Everything else was very close to perfect. :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Just came back from the movies. Watching “Van Helsing” this time. This is one of those times when IMDB’s rating is totally screwed. 5.2\/10 is completely unfair. I would give it a solid 7\/10 or even 8\/10. Both Hazard and Olga liked it even more. :) There are many nice things about this film and … Continue reading Van Helsing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7547,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/03\/win-a-date-with-tad-hamilton\/","url_meta":{"origin":7503,"position":0},"title":"Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 3, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I was in a mood for a movie, but all theatres were occupied by \"Day After Tomorrow\", \"Troy\", and \"Van Helsing\". 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