Damn. I thought your complaint about Van Helsing would be the same as mine. I can't stand how the whole time he's suspecting that Dracula is a vampire, he keeps thinking about it out loud so much, which makes everyone go "what is it?" And he's just like "No no. In time I will reveal the thing I won't shut up about, but not yet!" It's like Stoker wanted to do the bare minimum but didn't want to just write "and then something suspenseful happens".