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The League of Extraordinary Gentleman *SPOILER*

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
I thought it sucked! PLOT HOLES GALORE...worst than a STAR TREK episode

it has good promise:
Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Invisible Man
Capt Nimo
A vampire
An Immortal (who was dorian gray??)
Tom Sawyer as an adult (from Huckberry Finn book)
And Sean Connery

If the plan from the beginning was to get their powers, then why try to kill them in the beginning?!

If Dorian Gray (immortal) was the spy, then why go thru the pretense of him not joining the league?

kinda lame that the immortal's weak spot was to look at a magic portrait of himself. and of course that portrait just happens to be around in plain sight 🙁

machine guns from rooftops shooting into a convertible w/the top down, and noone gets hit?!

why the hell do they need the car to goto that house to shoot at the house to save the city? why couldnt they just shoot the house w/o the car?!

on the plus side, the special effects were nice. the fight scene between the vampire and the immortal was nice. they both can't die, BUT it would have been MUCH better if they didnt cop out w/that picture thing 🙁

I like bruce almighty better. but i'm glad i only paid $3.50 to see it

Your thoughts?
 
If you knew anything about literature.....

It's Captain Nemo
Sean Connery= Alan Quartermain
"A Vampire"= Mina Harker
Dorian Gray = A character from an Oscar Wilde book "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

amish
 
Dorian Gray is from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. He never aged, but instead, a painting of him aged and became rather hideous to look at.
 
this movie has had disaster written all over it from day one

check out it's ratings on rottentomatoes.com!

btw...i was watching a preview for it on tv a week or 2 ago and it said "one man joins this team together, and that man is sean connery"

i was like "what??" why would you call him by his name...you have to call him by his characters name, not his REAL LIFE name
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
If you knew anything about literature.....

It's Captain Nemo
Sean Connery= Alan Quartermain
"A Vampire"= Mina Harker
Dorian Gray = A character from an Oscar Wilde book "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

amish
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ok, who is quartermain and harker in literature?
 
Originally posted by: JEDI
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
If you knew anything about literature.....

It's Captain Nemo
Sean Connery= Alan Quartermain
"A Vampire"= Mina Harker
Dorian Gray = A character from an Oscar Wilde book "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

amish
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ok, who is quartermain and harker in literature?
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Mina (Harker) Murray is from "Dracula"

Alan Quartermain is from "King Solomon's Mines"
 
Originally posted by: JEDI
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
If you knew anything about literature.....

It's Captain Nemo
Sean Connery= Alan Quartermain
"A Vampire"= Mina Harker
Dorian Gray = A character from an Oscar Wilde book "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

amish
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ok, who is quartermain and harker in literature?
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Quartermain is the central character of H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" and other stories. Sort of the original Indiana Jones.
Mina Harker is Jonathan Harker's wife, Wilhelmina Murray by her maiden name, from Bram Stoker's "Dracula". She was the one that Dracula tried to turn into a vampire and who much of the latter part of story revolves around.

 
Uhm. the big problem I had with it was Venice. You really can't drive around venice. You can't get a big friggen sub anywhere near Venice. And like, New Orleans, you don't have graves in Venice.
 
Is it just me or was this a B movie? I mean I liked some of the main characters and some parts of the action, but other than that it was crap. I'm glad I only did a matinee for it.
 
Just saw this movie.

****SPOILERS****





This is not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it's close.
Coming into the theater, I was torn between being excited for LXG because of my insatiable fanaticism for the comics, and mortified at the thought of how Hollywood might end up butchering a good comic book license, like they did to The Hulk.

Now, LXG wasn't either completely unwatchable. In terms of fun factor, it rivaled the amount of entertainment I think I would have gotten from picking a scab. Take a completely decent - nay, godly comic book story written by one of the most prolific authors in the industry, and blow it up into a rushed, commercialized debacle with a typecast lead actor and shoddy special effects. Then, throw that film in the toilet and do it again except with half the time and a third of the money. That will probably net you a film worthy of comparison to LXG.

Sean Connery is always a joy to watch. With his large presence and hearty delivery he can turn any role into something memorable. Except this one. A friend was telling me that upon receiving both the script and the comic book in preparation for the film, Connery skimmed the script and worshiped the comic, and it shows. The entire time he was on screen, you could see that look on his face - that look of "What the hell am I still doing on this set?" The supporting cast was acceptable at best and their performances nowhere near noteworthy.

The story vaguely followed that of the first comics, much like a really long tale is told by a drunk at a party who can't quite remember all of it, so he exaggerates some and makes up the rest as he goes along. The "plot twists" were about as sneaky as a freight train.

Don't get me started on the special effects. I'll admit that the CGI to make Dr. Hyde was well within the realm of acceptability, the explosions and flame effects subjected the audience to some of the worst digital compositing in the history of the craft. It's almost as if, upon a final screening of the film, someone exclaimed, "Bloody 'ell! We've forgotten the explosions!" This was immediately followed by people digging through the couch for change and using the $12.77 (Canadian) they found to hire an art school intern to create explosions and buildings on fire as quickly as possible on his iMac. I couldn't help but laugh when a building explodes in quite possibly the most embarrasingly fake burst of flames I have ever witnessed in a film.

All in all, I'm not upset that I watched this movie, even though it was bad. It wasn't "Batman and Robin" bad, or even "Barb Wire" bad, but it was bad enough to make me cross my fingers and hope that they don't somehow get it into their head to make a sequel, because that was quite obviously what they were shooting for at the preposterous end sequence. That being said, I would vehemently recommend anyone planning on watching this to spend their money on Pirates of the Carribean instead, and should the next showing be sold out, to forfeit the evening and spend a wonderful time at home picking your scabs. You'll waste a couple hours but at least you won't be out ten bucks.
 
I'm seeing it cause Nasruddin Shah is in it. He's an old Indian actor; I grew up watching some of this movies..he plays Captain Nemo in EXG.
 
DANGNABIT! I loved the comic book and I love Moore. But all I've been hearing is bad things about this movie. CRAPPPPPPPPPPPP!
 
Originally posted by: Greyd
DANGNABIT! I loved the comic book and I love Moore. But all I've been hearing is bad things about this movie. CRAPPPPPPPPPPPP!
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The comic book is by far a pinnacle of human achievement. Moore is a talented man.

Unfortunately the movie takes a gigantic crap on the franchise. Do yourself a favor and do not see it under any circumstances.
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac

All in all, I'm not upset that I watched this movie, even though it was bad. It wasn't "Batman and Robin" bad, or even "Barb Wire" bad, but it was bad enough to make me cross my fingers and hope that they don't somehow get it into their head to make a sequel, because that was quite obviously what they were shooting for at the preposterous end sequence.
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Connery and his fellow producers have more than hope for the film. They are convinced it will be a steady hit. They have already greenlit the sequel.
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From here.
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: Greyd
DANGNABIT! I loved the comic book and I love Moore. But all I've been hearing is bad things about this movie. CRAPPPPPPPPPPPP!
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The comic book is by far a pinnacle of human achievement. Moore is a talented man.

Unfortunately the movie takes a gigantic crap on the franchise. Do yourself a favor and do not see it under any circumstances.
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Even tho it sucks I'll prob have to see it anyways.
😛
 
You know, I'm probably going to get lynched for this, but the comic wasn't that great. They spent half of the time walking around and talking, and then the finale was Moriarty's zeppelin versus Fu Manchu's exploding kites IIRC.
 
i heard that Norrignton was fired from the project by Connery, so the film may not have been as good as it could, sin ce the original director was canned.
 
I just came from the movie and thought it was awsome. No, its not oscar worthy, but I was entertained and thats all I ask for. I will buy it on DVD.

People are Lemmings. The Lemmings in this case all lead to "What an Awful movie!" or "I would rather have bamboo shoved under my toe nails than see this again!" and are unable to form their own opinions. Naturally, most people follow...
 
Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
I'm seeing it cause Nasruddin Shah is in it. He's an old Indian actor; I grew up watching some of this movies..he plays Captain Nemo in EXG.
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sweet he's an awesome actor....but I've only seen a couple of his movies...Masoom and Monsoon wedding. Both classics.
 
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