hugh jackman as VAN HELSING

[tyboogie]

http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030613/162159__hugh11_l.jpg



pretty hair.

i hope this film is a cool as it should be.

[I.was.ink]

I like his clothes, but who's van helsing?

[darkcult]

Bram Stoker...Dracula....hunter......


Van Helsing


:chug:

[RONIN]

I think he'll do a good job. In all the movies I've seen him in, I've been impressed. I always thought that when they did an X-Men movie the one character they were sure to F-up was Wolverine ... but he really nailed it.

[Cinsev]

hugh jackman, is good people! I met him on set of xmen one, i wonder if fame has changed him at all. he was a total joker.

[Blind]

So this is why he turned down the part of Dirk Pitt! Clive Cussler (author) fans will know who I'm talking about. My father knows Clive, and he told him he was trying to get Jackman to play the part of his character, Dirk Pitt (kind of like a James Bond type) for the first screen adaptation of his books, but he declined. I think they got that insipid Tom Cruise to do it instead.

[WildSpruceMoose]

What movie scene is he in there?

[darkcult]

What movie scene is he in there?

It is a crucial moment , a breaking point in the movie when VanHelsing is standing and looking to his left.

:beer:

[tyboogie]

yea--its the part where he vows to destroy all evil

[RONIN]

Actually he's saying "Who the F would put Mayo on French fries ... Damn Vampires"

[WildSpruceMoose]

He's a vampire killer? :confused: :evilbat:

[Fipse]

hi WildSpruceMoose,

there was once a book, long before Anne Rice and Vampire-Roleplay f***ed the motif up and there was a van Helsing taking part as a vampire hunter. The book is called "Dracula" and was written by Bram Stoker ...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451523377/qid=1056470730/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-4458105-1476007

Welcome to the weird world of literature! ;)

Fipse

[WildSpruceMoose]

Cool. Thanks for the info Fipse.

[Morpyre]

:evilbat:

hey everyone =) \/^^^\/

i was wondering if anyone could tell me where i could get a hat like the one hugh jackman wears in the movie - i have wanted one for ages and can't find anywhere that sells them - would go very well with my ankle length black leather coat and long hair =)

thanks for any info

i look forward to seeing this film - i look like a vampyre myself the way i dress though i don't intentionally dress to look like one - they copy me =) lol

from peter "Morpyre" turner

[merd]

Could anybody give me a link to the concept art of VanHelsing?
I saw the trailer and there were so many cool enviroments in it. I really would like to see some sketches or something like this...

[Spidey-man]

Hey everyone, I work at my local theatre and we go and watch movies early so we know the film is put together right. So all I can say is it is good and if you want some inspiration go watch it i was compelled to start writing and sketching when i got home. Just some friendly info.

[WildSpruceMoose]

By the way. I meant to ask "What movie is that a scene from?" I was unaware of the movie and its name at the time ;)

[Muttonhead]

Originally posted by Fipse


there was once a book, long before Anne Rice and Vampire-Roleplay f***ed the motif up and there was a van Helsing taking part as a vampire hunter. The book is called "Dracula" and was written by Bram Stoker ...

Welcome to the weird world of literature! ;)

Lol. Funny Fipse. I share your frustration.

I have not yet seen this movie, but I already know it is an abomination. Though I supported the idea of such a movie, I can already tell from the previews that it is an overly cartoonish mish-mash of overused CGI!! ARGH!!!

OH! I bet it probably even has my FAVORITE CGI Monster scene: The run-up-to-the-screen-and-give-a-big-open-mouthed-scream-complete-with-saliva-and-tongue-and-waggling-thingy-in-the-back-of-the-throat-scene! OH BOY! NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE!!!!

If I sound angry, it's because I AM!!!! When I saw Coppola's Dracula many years ago, I thought: That Van Helsing character (played quite well by Anthony Hopkins) would make for a really cool, dark, thoughtful, even-paced, intelligent movie!

So what do we have? HUGH JACKMAN fighting not only Dracula, but THE WOLF-MAN AND FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!

I am getting a little tired of these over-blown Prague-based film productions (I.E. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hellboy, etc) that want to throw a kitchen-sink full of crazy CGI things at you and hope you don't notice the poor scripts, bad direction and horrible art direction....... errrg.

Don't get me wrong, I would jump at the chance to work on a movie like that some day, and I am sure that the artists and animators who worked on Van Helsing are all fine, talented people, but I just wish that the directors, script-writers, and art-directors would show a little restraint and judgement and try to tell a good story.

Lord of the Rings did this pretty damn successfully, so I know it can be done.

Ok I'm done now. I will take back everything I said if it turns out that Van Helsing is really an amazing movie. I will most certainly go see it because I am, after all, a sucker for movies like that. But i really doubt that I will be proven wrong on this one.

[N D Hill]

I don't know about the movie but I'd be interested to see some of the concept art for the vampires.

Personally, I'd love to see a movie with all of these monsters but interpretted by Todd McFarlane. Check these out. http://spawn.com/features/monsters

[sixBlade]

Originally posted by Muttonhead

I am getting a little tired of these over-blown Prague-based film productions (I.E. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hellboy, etc) that want to throw a kitchen-sink full of crazy CGI things at you and hope you don't notice the poor scripts, bad direction and horrible art direction....... errrg.


I couldn't agree more, its not just true with this sort of film but the entire action genre and even more.. (think xXx for overdone special effects with next to NO story line/script) Its something I've got increasingly pissed off about lately. Movie (and tv series) makers seem to think these days that the audience no longer thinks, they just want to be bombarded with all the visual mayhem possibly creatable with the latest 3d packages. Respect for the storyline, script, plot structure all seem to go secondhand to a movie that is visually interesting.

I'd much rather watch a poorly shot film with an amazing plot and script than an amazingly shot film that lacks in other areas. These guys need to learn that these visual things are just icing on the cake, they don't make the film /good/ they just hide the films bad writing until after the film when the watcher has a chance to process the visual imagery and think of what the film was actually about.

[shadow]

Well, I saw it, and damn, teh storyline is anything BUT lacking. Amazing visuals, corny but giggly humour in 'the Mummy's style, and hugh wasnt terrible. Beckinsale was more eyecandy, but overall i thouroughly enjoyed this, and gods, some of the best fight scenes i have ever seen:D

[SylkX]

I didn't like it too much. Those vampires like to cackle way too much

[shadow]

Well, they were a tad melodramatic, but twas all in fun. If you go into the movei expecting a jolly good romp, then you will enjoy it. If you expect oscar performances and such, t'will suck much sack of balls.

[Form]

i still cant get over the fact they put tom cruise in interview with a vampire. I hate that guy. Only performance i liked him in was Rain Man.

[Redder]

Originally posted by Form
Only performance i liked him in was Rain Man.

Yes he did good in film...yes very indeed...good film...yes...yes...good good good...indeed.

[Carnifex]

i'm most probably going to see this movie, because i generally like such movies and hugh jackman is a pretty good actor after all, but i couldn't agree more on the overblown film cgi thingy. what sickens me most these days is what the aliens vs predator movie is gonna be like. aswell as what george lucas is doing nowadays. he doesn't care for story or good actors but only cgi. ep.2 ohhh what cool monsters- and on the other side- ohhh what a weak fuck of actor for anakin. goddam. begin producing movies like original alien again! no big fucking cgi, but short moments of intense fear in dark tunnels.

[N D Hill]

I think I'd go as far as saying that CGI should ONLY be done when something can't be done by an actual animatronic. No matter how good a digitally created character may look, there is no substitute for something that actually exists in reality that can interact with both the actors and the environment. What bothers me the most about CGI is that things tend to be over animated and seem weightless. Characters are darting and jumping around in ways that no actual living thing ever would. I understand that puppets and animatronics can be cumbersome and inflexable but of special effects companies invest more in them and different ways to shoot them, I'm sure problems will start to disappear. You may think I'm crazy but I think mo-motion should be looked into more. Mo-motion is nothing but a miniature rod puppet shot over a blue screen (remember alien3).

[Carnifex]

that's new to me they shot it that way, but it did work obviously:)
has anyone yet seen the digitally revisited versions of sw episode 4-6?i must say i really liked the originals better, i don't know really why, but they had more charm. cgi figures are just to perfectly shaped for the rest of most movies. if you look "the league of extraordinary gentlemen", the submarine...it's just too perfect to be believable.
the best way animations done yet was lotr. they had the actual actor,reshot the scenes in a bluescreen studio and copied the cgi figure into the scenes done. gollum was just perfectly animated-that's what i call successful integration of cgi.

[Form]

oh and hugh jackman is australian.

GO AUSSIE!! WEWT!

hrm, maybe i shoulda seen the movie before i said that..

[WildSpruceMoose]

I could only find one glaring plot hole. The story was decent, character development a bit too underdone, action sequences every 2minutes lasting for 3 minutes(awesome). No oscars will be won of it, but it was a good movie. Oh, and acting was alright too.

[Form]

it was a horrible movie. Im not one to go ahead and trash a movie without reason so here they are:

1. The monster animations were quite good - ESPECIALLY in the first wolfman scene and the last fight scene between you know who and you know who else.

2. Then it goes downhill. Story: nonexistant - ok so theres a story, but its mutilated beyond belief. I predicted EVERYTHING like 10 minutes before it was due to happen, there were no twists, no ANYTHING. It was like a TV episode, just longer...it did not exploit the chances making a movie can give to a script.

3. The OTHER monsters. Here in australia we have a drink driving ad where the peoples brains show through their heads with little lights to show theyr thinking, and as they drink more the lights dim. The ad was produced on a budget of AU$750.

Frankensteins brain.....was just......i mean......*barfs*. The monster designs, and especially the way their characters were portrayed was horrible!! Im sorry, *whoever directed this* but a couple of flashy cats-eye contact lenses wont save your slutty vampire hos from the halls of crap-character infamy.

4. The dialogue. Sucky. They didnt know how to use humour at all - it verged on slapstick and it was completely out of context. I fell sorry for Hugh Jackman as what he was given surely did not live up to what he is able to do. You can only do so much with a poorly written screenplay.

5. The stupid stunts. The whole movie was left looking like some bad computer game because of the sheer impossibility of the stunts and things that happened. I mean some dude is fighting on a bridge, he calls out for help and some lady comes swinging down on a conveniently placed dangling cable to save the day.......this movie had a serious case of mcguyver syndrome.

6. And i hate to say it.......art direction. The ideas wernt bad. The modelling and animation (to a certain extent) wernt bad. But they wernt good - they didnt break any barriers in film (which theoretically each film should push a little). But most of all it lacked an overall feeling of being a tightly visualised movie. There was nothing that pulled it all together - in a matter of speaking nothing that created a 'world' for the characters to live in. Like in LoTR - there was definately a distinct visual style to the movie.

Example: If you had watched LoTR:FoTR (1st movie for those who dont know) and Van Helsing....and say LoTR:TT had just come out and so had van helsing 2 and you hadnt seen either.....if you were shown 10 seconds of each second episode, you would know instantly that you were watching lord of the rings - but you wouldnt know what the fuck van helsing 2 was - it could be any cheesy monster flick - there was nothing UNIQUE about it!!!!!!!!

Sorry if i ranted a little. Im just getting frustrated - thank god i still work at a video store part time and i can get classics like godfather, deer hunter, and so on.

Im really looking forward to seeing Hero....that will be a fucking great movie. About time.

[treeboy]

*shrug*

i thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I think one really has to stop and think about the intention of the movie theyre watching. For instance, LotR was supposed to be epic, a world apart, races with ancient histories thousands of years of development and aging.

Van Helsing is supposed to be an action shoot'em up crazy blood 'n guns fest. I thought the brides of Dracula were pretty cool, so they werent groundbreakingly original or whatever. I felt the movie definitely did have a very unique mood to every shot and scene. Its hard to make noon seem like midnight...but they did it, the whole movie reeks of death and decay, very few movies ive seen pull off that kind of overall mood.

And you know, i have a problem with each new movie "pushing the graphics envelope." when that happens you suffer from the "Star Wars Prequels" syndrome, where the gfx as opposed to mood/story/characters/action/entirety of the movie take a second seat to "how many freakin polys can we fit on screen"

Yeah i admit it did suffer from macguyver syndrome. but you know, it was fun. It wasnt meant to be anything more than it was, a good fun movie. And for the crazy amount of stories/myths/whatnot they mixed in i thought the plot was quite well constructed. Of course they didnt leave themselves any material for a second movie....


i give it a thumbs up, worth the money, and ill prolly buy it when it comes out on DVD

[Form]

but thats the thing - after reading someone (i froget who) post it earlier in this thread, i went expecting that very thing - just a fun action romp. BUT IT WASNT!

It just stank - it had no guts. I mean sure if you want a movie with no brains and no good direction/art direction and you call it just a "fun" movie.....i mean come on, its becoming an insult to our intelligence - people shouldnt have to make an excuse like that for a movie. If you make a movie you make it well....noone should set out to make a 'fun blood n guts' movie just so they can use that as an excuse for a poor movie.

The purely masturbatory act of having made a movie does not justify the fact that there was no substance to any of it - just because you made a movie doesnt mean that it isnt shit. This was shit. Signing off before i make enemies!! And no offence meant treeboy - i like plenty of movies that other ppl hate :D this is just my opinion. Sugarcoated ;)

[Skank]

lol
holy crap
i laughed my ass off during this movie...tho i dont think that was the intended reaction the director wanted at the parts i was laughing at :rolleyes:
i REALLY liked the werewolves, and dracula looked pretty cool in his true form....and i enjoyed the very beginning when we see van helsing tracking a monster, that was pretty well done.
i also liked his sidekick...he made me laugh

i fucking HATED the brides tho...holy crap, they wouldnt stfu..

i found it REALLY funny how they worked frankenstien in there..
its like they had to reach SO far for a plausible reason to include him, that it just escalated into lunacy.

i think the director was trying to do another movie like the mummy, a good humored, fun action movie with alot of laughs, but instead infused forced humor into a movie that couldnt makle up it mind on what it wanted to be...a fun action movie, or a downright badass action movie...so we got a mediocre mix

the cool parts were really cool...and overall i enjoyed the movie..but they pretty much made half of a good movie...

oh well...
we still have quite a few movies to look foreward to this year :chug: :beer:

[seb]

van helsing would make the coolest episode of scooby doo ever.

[Skank]

Originally posted by seb
van helsing would make the coolest episode of scooby doo ever.

lol
sooo true

:chug:

[Form]

seb, you hit the nail on the head!

[Miau]

well
there are some really nice parts, especially the very beginning, has a nice creepy beautiful mood... but then.... its was a very exhausting movie, every sceene overloaded with thousands of visual effects also the sounds where just hurting my entire body nearly everything in this movie gives a screaming sound. but we just laughed about this crap, its so funny :)

[Happy Camper]

I Absolutely hated the accents, I don't know what they were meant to sound like but they sounded awefull. I agree the Brides totally sucked, as a monster design and as characters. Other than that no real complaints, it was okay, I might watch it again but there's no way I'd add it to my Dvd collection.

I don't know who directed it but the entire movie reminded me of Leage of Extrordinary Genltemen. I think it has something to do with the lighting, mood, art, FX and location. Also the fact that the first monster at the start of the movie that Van Hellsing killed is (I think, not sure) the same monster that's a member of L.E.G. (the skinny english guy that takes the potion to turn all hulk like without the greeness). Also the fact that both films are based around the same time period and that some of the characters - if not all -are taken from famous literary characters.

Still, apparently it's making lots of money so somebody must like it.

[young paddy1]

I'm sorry everybody but I loved this movie,

oh look a winged pig.

the brides were as hilarious as the accents, he didn't have one so why did everyone else, Hyde sounded like dick van dyke in mary poppins, but I did like the swinging bit he does, and he had the best shock value of any of the characters even though he looked like a pink shrek.

All the monsters were too cartoony considering the quality of the literature they're lifted from, the lighting was like a mixture of hammer horror and an episode of X-Files, the entire thing was eye candy from begining to end. There were only two perfect things in the whole film the friar and kate beckinsale's backside.

[Miau]

thats sick young paddy1 ;)

[seb]

http://www.animationartgallery.com/images/SIM/SIMP953.jpg

worst episode ever.

[jwo]

:barf:

[DanSTC]

It's a really stupid movie that feels like it was made by a committee to appeal to the lowest common denominator, rather than by any particularly inspired director. While some of the action is kind of cool, it would be even cooler in a movie with some actual substance and finesse to it. The characters don't come off as characters who speak dialogue - they come off as charicatures who spout stupid movie cliche(tm) after stupid movie cliche(tm) every time they open their mouths. The plot frequently contradicts itself, as though the scriptwriters were (badly) improvising a skit rather than writing a film. And the stupid movie even ineptly sets itself up for a sequel...ugh.

To me, the movie is a little like watching some jerk with steroid-fnflated muscles try to imitate professional athletes...only to wind up huffing and puffing and collapsing because he doesn't have any of the actual steam to keep up with people who actually worked hard at what they do.

In the same manner, the director doesn't seem to have enough sense to know the difference between entertaining and stupid. Wholly in spite of itself, "The Mummy" worked simply because it was so utterly silly, so it was a guilty pleasure of sorts...this movie flops because it tries to be serious and winds up looking just plain stupid, due to the fact that all the filmmakers are really equipped for is being heavy-handed and silly, but don't seem to know any better or have enough skill at directing/screenwriting to make a difference.

The "humor" that is there is more "HUMOR. AHR AHR AHR." crap than anything else...it's not funny, just emberassing. Horribly emberassing. Most of the time the "jokes" left me thinking "What the fucking hell?...was that supposed to be funny? Shit. This movie sucks."

Even from a concept art standpoint, the movie is sorely lacking. For the designs are vapid and imitative, rather than stylized or inspired...not to knock the working-stiff artists who likely busted their balls to knock out those designs, but such rushed and vapid designs will only further inspire more vapid and imitative concept work by other artists. The point is, most of what I saw in "Van Helsing" I saw done better a thousand times over by various fantasy illustrators, Japanese Manga/Anime, other movies, video games, comics in general, or various other sources. (For that matter, I believe much of the stuff was actually stolen from those sources.)

Also, I've been getting really annoyed by the constant hype for this lousy movie...it's been going on for MONTHS, too. Practically a flood of stupid-ass ads beyond all reason telling people to see this sack of shit.

The worst of it are the retarded Carls Jr. radio ads, which combine two of my least-favorite things...mediocre movies, and annoying radio ads: "HI, I'M CARL THE BIG SEMI-RETARDED MALE, BECAUSE ALL GUYS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INCOMPETENT PSEUDO-MACHO LOSERS LIKE ME...I SUGGEST YOU TAKE YOUR LOVELY BUTTRESS TO SEE 'VAN HELSING' SO SHE'LL JUMP RIGHT ONTO YOUR CROTCH AND BOUNCE UP AND DOWN REAL FAST AND MAKE YOU FEEL TINGLY 'DOWN THERE.' ALSO, BUY A CARLS JR. SIX-STAR BURGER, THE NUMBER ONE BURGER FOR SLOSHING BARRELS OF PORK LIKE ME...HURRRRR."

Above all, Van Helsing is more mediocre than anything than bad. It's not unintentionally funny or creative enough in its badness to be entertaining (I.E. "Army of Darkness") since it tries to take itself so seriously, and because it comes off as more annoyingly pathetic than entertaingly goofy. Nor is it anywhere near good enough to be entertaining completely on its own merits (I.E. "Kill Bill 1&2" or "Hellboy").

It's just...stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. It's everything that halfwaly intelligent fanboys like me hate about vapid mainstream cinema. I give it one and a half stars out of five, its only saving grace being that some of the action is kind of neat.

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Muttonhead

OH! I bet it probably even has my FAVORITE CGI Monster scene: The run-up-to-the-screen-and-give-a-big-open-mouthed-scream-complete-with-saliva-and-tongue-and-waggling-thingy-in-the-back-of-the-throat-scene! OH BOY! NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE!!!!

It has it all throughout the movie...I swear, if I ever "dramatically" zoom in to see the back of another CGI monster's mouth, I'm going to start setting fire to movieplexes.

Well, that, and the CONSTANT USE OF "DRAMATIC OFFCAMERA SILHOUETTES." Unfortunately, the animated shadows often look nothing at all like what they're being cast off, and look more like cartoonish cel animated fare.

I really think the director/screenwriters are in a mental loop of some sort so they can only recycle the same lazy mindless tripe they used in other movies.

Even the character designs reek of creative bankruptcy, for I recently found out that the designs for a particular group of characters were ripped off almost directly from another source, and I don't doubt there are more to name.

[Form]

hahahahahhHAHAHAHAh where did we get to see the back of a monsters mouth :o ?? Sorry, i musta fallen asleep.:bash:

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Form
hahahahahhHAHAHAHAh where did we get to see the back of a monsters mouth :o ?? Sorry, i musta fallen asleep.:bash:

Various shots of the wolfman and Dracula's groping vampire sleepover pals come to mind. :rolleyes:

[Form]

the what now? Musta slept more than i thought......

Is there a way to contact film directors and abuse them and actually let them know why their movies suck? I mean maybe theyr sitting in some hole somewhere and have little to no contact with real people and thus are actually innocently ignorant of their movies' suckage.......

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Form
the what now? Musta slept more than i thought......

That's fancy talk for "vampire hos". Drac's bitches/daughters/whatever the hell.

Is there a way to contact film directors and abuse them and actually let them know why their movies suck? I mean maybe theyr sitting in some hole somewhere and have little to no contact with real people and thus are actually innocently ignorant of their movies' suckage.......

I think some of them are aware, but they really just don't care because it makes them money. For the same reason that shitty pop music acts make lots of money due to overblown overpromotion and droves of idiots ready to lap it all up...there's no incentive for the "artist" to improve his craft beyond the surface level if surface is what is selling. But all that means is there's just more schlockmeistery crap to go 'round.

[Form]

thats why i work on a personal project - ive been designing my own world since high school - its characters, locations, politics etc......i dont know what ill do with it eventually - but i think every artist needs a personnal project so they can express what they need to and not be told what to do.....

[bRyaN]

i was entertained, so the movie served it's purpose...

[WildSpruceMoose]

thats why i work on a personal project - ive been designing my own world since high school - its characters, locations, politics etc......i dont know what ill do with it eventually - but i think every artist needs a personnal project so they can express what they need to and not be told what to do.....

I have 800 years history for my project. I have only small evenets occuring during the 800 years, when I'm bored I fill in the history with new stories, myths and legends. It is very fun. I hope to one day turn it into a comic.

[Form]

nice homie, do you work forwards or backwards with your history? send me a copy sometime id love to munch thru it

[WildSpruceMoose]

Its disorganized right now =D Still trying to wrinkle out the cliched parts and find a single medium to work it out in. I have the prologue written and bits and pieces drawn. Character/race designs etc. Most of it is currently in my head arghhh. Its like my personal bed time story, if I have trouble getting to sleep I add another couple stories to it. I'll see what I can pull together, but most of it was drawn 2 years ago before I started this long joruney to learn the basics of art. I'd like to see some of your's too.

P.S. It is a very delicate and early wip right now, but when/if I do put it together the coming years I'll be sure to send you a copy before I post =D

P.P.S. Oh, and I work sporatically, but right now I'm trying to find a fitting conclusion to an 800 year old character. heh.

[Form]

Originally posted by WildSpruceMoose
P.P.S. Oh, and I work sporatically, but right now I'm trying to find a fitting conclusion to an 800 year old character. heh.

Hrm.....maybe they could die?

[WildSpruceMoose]

Dying is the easy part, how to make it fitting is the tough part =P

[Jared_Bishop]

I think it was funny that in both Van Helsing and X-men Hugh Jackman couldn't remember his past.... Maybe he should try and keep a journal.

[Darkstrider]

I haven't seen this and I don't plan to, until it airs on cable. They won't get any of my money! The trailers were enough of my time wasted.

The really sad part is, reading through this thread, how many of the people who disliked it said "But I like movies like this and I'll probably watch it again/buy it/jump at the chance to work on something similar..." (Sorry heh.... nothing personal against anybody here, just trying to make a point)

So the message the studios get is that yeah, they're well aware people find their product insulting and mediocre at best, "but who cares... they're still lining up at the turnstiles". They don't care if people bitch... all they look at is the returns. It's all about the all important opening weekend grosses.

But then, the ratio of good movies to bad has always been low. With luck, most of the bad ones will be forgotten. This is just the legacy of a studio system that has grown bloated and moneygrubbing and feeds on its own waste products year after year. We keep buying, they'll keep shovelling the shit. Don't expect to see an end to it anytime soon (if ever).