Adventure Is the New Boredom

This is a wonderfully scathing, literate review of the movie Van Helsing. To quote from the review,

We'’re in an age, cinematically speaking, in which special effects have evolved into a form of pornography, when the design of a good many movies is merely a series of money shots linked by scenes that (for the most part) crudely seek to build the audience’s anticipation.

So true. Seemingly more often, we get visual stimulation without the benefit of a story.