The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
<div class="IPBDescription">Bringing back the classics... really</div>
I just saw this movie, based off of a book about the joining of several characters from our more "classic novels and short stories".
I thought it was really good. If anyone here is a fan of older british and american literature you might like this film.
**** POTENTIAL SPOILERS*****
Characters you will find in this film include,
Miss Murray = Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Allan Quatermain ="King Solomon's Mines" by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Captain Nemo= "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne
The Invisible Man = "The Invisible Man" H. G. Wells
Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde= by R. L. Stevenson
Dorian Gray="The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Tom Sawyer (grown up)=Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
Yes yes, if you didnt know Mark Twain wrote a book called "Tom Sawyer Detective" it details Tom as a young adult. hes a police detective.
There was another British Secret agent named Campion Bond, who is an ancestor of the 20th century's James Bond, but he was left out in the final production b/c they didnt want to have "disagreements with MGM studios.
The invisible man is not the origional but rather someone who stole the formula from the now dead origional one.
For those of you who have never read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde its about a guy who sold his soul for immortality. He has a painted portrait of himself and the picture decays and ages. So does his painted image. However he stays young. If he gazes upon the painting he will age to the hideously and decayed image of the panting and he would then die.
But yea I thought the movie was great how they tried to prevent a "first" WW1. Liked the new "technology" too. 19th Century body armour <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Interesting film.
I just saw this movie, based off of a book about the joining of several characters from our more "classic novels and short stories".
I thought it was really good. If anyone here is a fan of older british and american literature you might like this film.
**** POTENTIAL SPOILERS*****
Characters you will find in this film include,
Miss Murray = Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Allan Quatermain ="King Solomon's Mines" by Sir H. Rider Haggard
Captain Nemo= "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne
The Invisible Man = "The Invisible Man" H. G. Wells
Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde= by R. L. Stevenson
Dorian Gray="The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Tom Sawyer (grown up)=Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
Yes yes, if you didnt know Mark Twain wrote a book called "Tom Sawyer Detective" it details Tom as a young adult. hes a police detective.
There was another British Secret agent named Campion Bond, who is an ancestor of the 20th century's James Bond, but he was left out in the final production b/c they didnt want to have "disagreements with MGM studios.
The invisible man is not the origional but rather someone who stole the formula from the now dead origional one.
For those of you who have never read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde its about a guy who sold his soul for immortality. He has a painted portrait of himself and the picture decays and ages. So does his painted image. However he stays young. If he gazes upon the painting he will age to the hideously and decayed image of the panting and he would then die.
But yea I thought the movie was great how they tried to prevent a "first" WW1. Liked the new "technology" too. 19th Century body armour <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Interesting film.
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and i thought the movie was based on a comic? that's why they added, "based on the graphic novel"... wasn't sure if that was some smart way to call it a comic book...
*edit* heh, sorry E-Th33ph... guess that makes me your superior.... but really, i wasn't totally sure. maybe the novel had pictures in it, i wasn't sure.
However, I do believe it was based on some comic that centralized around uniting a bunch of fictional characters. Sorta like the Justice League, cept with people from novels.
The movie's interesting for a good watch, but I wouldn't pay to see it again.
[EDIT] Curses... foiled again. BlaqWolf beat me to it.
Not reccomended reading for starting out, will probably bore to tears. I'd suggest Sandman.
Yes its based off a graphic novel with the same name. So thats where the name comes from.
To E-Th33ph
And yes in the book there are appearences by other famous characters such as Sherlock Holmes. ie. the author Arthur C. Doyle however thowever these characters do not make an appearance in the film.
you mean your turned on by the old scot eh?
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Reloaded couldn't live up to the Matrix standard I had in my mind, they molested the computer animation and in most cases outright relyed entirely on it. There were only three decent scenes in the entire movie and they add up to seventeen minutes tops. Maybe they just should've re-released the old movie with those twenty minutes on top as an <b>Add-on</b>
Finding Nemo was pretty decent and I thought it had it's moments. But although I've come to expect nothing, but adventures with children I still am a little dissapointed.
The League made me want to bury myself in mechanics and science books construct an instrument with which I would travel back in time and apologize personally to every single author's character that was brutalized in this movie. My favorite character was Mr. Hyde, but even he wasn't the way he was supposed to be. I mean Hyde in the books was monsterous size, it didn't say he was a friggn proper skin-toned version of the Hulk. Which by the way you can save $7.00 by going to see LXG. They are the same character, where do you think the Hulk came from!? Plus you don't have to put up with two hours of solid grunts and sniffs.
Charlies Angels didn't have much to live up to. They did like all sequels seem to do, show more skin and give more story, which happens to be poorly written. I won't give them the dignity of a proper review.
The last good movie I have seen was 'the Two Towers' which by the way I would still have to go back in time and apologize to Mr. Tolkien. Though it was a great movie, the battle of Helms Deep is truely magnificent. Minus one modern age added shield surfing scene. The greatest tresspass of this movie was the portrayal of <b>(Fair-rim-meer)</b> Tolkien said it himself, if you can't spell it don't, I know how to pronunciate it though. His entire role in the film was completely opposite of that in the book. He is was not an extension of Borimir! <b>(That however is the proper way to spell his name)</b>
Whats wrong with a little more skin! long live Lucy Liu (sp?)
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they couldn't make the movie just liket the book as you've seen in the fellowship. They'd lose ALOT of money that way, because all the morons who haven't read the book would be all "this is boring, someone kill something" but ya, it was a great movie =)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the villain with the last name starting with "M" an evil character from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories?
On to my opinion of the movie...it didn't reach up to its potential. It was the sort of movie where you could just tell the original graphic novel was better without ever having seen it.
My problem was the way they could just twist things around however they wished for the sake of moviemaking. Example: the vampire character, Mina, would have never been able to expose herself to sunlight as she did in the last 1/3 of the movie, and would also never have been able to approach the graveyard at the end (broad daylight and numerous religious crosses.) These are the sort of things that make characters unique; the extent of Mina's uniqueness was reduced to quick self-regeneration, bloodsucking, and turning into a swarm of bats (a power which, mind you, is not <i>possible</i> for her type; one creature, yes, swarm, no.)
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Sean Connery is dreamy. I can't watch bond movies anymore because I keep getting jealous of those damned blondes! But he's starting to go the way of Burt Reynolds (and not in the celebrity jeapordy way). At least David Hasslehoff will always be there to fall back on.
This scares me because theres talks of other comics being made into movies such as Sandman,Death,Preacher,Hellraiser. I like-love most of these comics but like the league I doubt they will be made into watchable movies <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> the league