League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[VetLegion]

This is for europeans, as most americans already saw it.

This movie even Sean Connery could not save

Actors are not that bad (NIKITA) but the whole movie is just a collection of badly connected scenes, the character development is terrible (relationship between Quatermain and the young American especially), the computer animation is lousy (I could recognize copy pasted workers on the nautilus!)

Motivation of just about everyone in the movie is very unrealistic and the whole movie is very unplausible, and no, I do not mean the invisible man by that. He is ok. Although everyone is a bit watered down here, for example in the comic book the invisible man is actually a rapist...

Anyway, I don't mind the departures from comic, that is all fine.

What I do mind is ignoring the laws of phisics, no society portrayal, only few scenes of London, and...

...no steam!

Save your money and see something else, LoETG sucks bad

[chequita guevara]

Very sad, cuz I was so looking forward to this.

[VetLegion]

I was also looking forward because:

1) I did like the comic
2) I like Steampunk and Victorian era is great setting for an adventure
3) I like Nikita and Sean Connery

But suspension of disbelief can only go so far. The movie is full of kitsch and not just Victorian exaggeration, plain kitsch and things that don't belong in the era nor in the movie. A dissapointment since the comic was minutely crafted to be as Victorian as they get.

[Ming]

After early reviews... we decided not to see it in the theater, and wait for it to come out free on Cable

[st_swithin]

I was SO bummed this movie was made. The comic is EXCELLENT.

The casting director should be castrated and forced to watch a good movie based on the comic, with proper actors and cast, for eons and eons and eons until he/she admits their mistakes and stabs out their own eyes in a penitent fit.

[Harry Seldon]

My parents saw it and walked out on it. They didn't even do that for Batman Forever.

[SuperSneak]

Hmmm...I thought it was entertaining, but yes, in relation to the comic, it was nearly unrecognizeable and atrocious.
Still...better than a lot of crap out there now...and that is very sad indeed.

[Provost Harrison]

"This is a local thread for local people. There's nothing for you here!"

[axi]

I even detested the comic. So IMO, it's only reasonable that the film should suck.

I wonder how many $$$ they paid the comic artist for the rights of the script.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
My parents saw it and walked out on it. They didn't even do that for Batman Forever.

I still think of that one as "Aryan Asylum" - blond Batman, blonde Robin, blonde Batgirl, blonde Poison Ivy, blonde Mr. Freeze.

Your parents must have good taste in films.

[molly bloom]

What is it with Alan Moore's comics and bad films? First 'Swamp Thing', then 'The Watchmen' never getting made (Arnold Schwarzenegger was proposed as Dr. Manhattan) and now 'League of Gentlemen.'

Anyone considering watching this, who hasn't read the comics, then please do so, as the whole comic (down to the fake/spoof Victorian advertisements, and the world spanning travellers almanacs, is a visual and literary treat, with frequently recondite and abstruse references to 19th (and earlier) European and American literature.

This hasn't come out in Oz yet, and I was so looking forward to it. Apparently the director and Connery were at loggerheads for a great part of the time...

[bigvic]

it really sucked

[bigvic]

escept for mr hyde - he was better than the hulk - much

[Dr Strangelove]

Yes, there really wasn't much to recommend it. I wondered why Tom Sawyer was chosen as the token American. He doesn't really have anything in the way of superpowers, and actually would have been 50+ years old at the time the movie allegedly portrayed. Annie Oakley would have made a better American member.

[axi]

I don't know if it can be seen as an artistic touch, but in my book, picking a bunch of adventurous heroes of different background and mingling them all in the same adventure means a writer who is lacking the imagination to create his own heroes, while in the same time he wants to make a big impression, so he does the simple math: one exciting hero + another exciting hero + another + another = a league of extraordinary gentlemen. Only an American megalomaniac would ever think that this is a worthy idea.

This kinda reminds me of those 30's horror movies of the kind "Dracula and Dr. Jekyll vs. the Mummy and the Wolfman".

Have you noticed that the world has years to see a truly original action figure?