I can't believe no one said anything about this yet. While not as bad as everyone said it was going to be, I was SEVERELY disappointed. They did a f**king miserable job translating the source material. Basically a "Carnosaur" style operation where they buy the title and the characters and do something completely different, except "Carnosaur" the movie was really really good.
I wish I had never read the comics before seeing the movie, because they absolutely rock. Alan Moore is my new comics hero.
Brother R
After I read about 10 absolutely horrid reviews I decided that I'll wait for it on DVD.
I know most people don't agree with movie critics but when nearly ALL of them bash the hell out of a film as they did with this one....I listen to their advice.
It's too bad really......LXG could've been really good.
I live in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe publishes a chart every Sunday showing a list of current movies and how various nespaperes and magazines across the country rate each movie.
This morning, they had about 4 or 5 ratings for LXG. EVERY ONE OF THEM was a negative rating. Usually, there is a mixture of "excellents," "okays," and "bads." So far, LXG has only "bads."
I think I'll stay away. My guess is that it is bad in the same way that THE AVENGERS was bad a few years ago. (And poor Sean Connery is in BOTH movies!)
"except "Carnosaur" the movie was really really good."
Only Gene Siskel would utter such a thing! Welcome back, Gene! :)
I just have one question to ask. Is it just me, or am I the only one who feels that THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN comes across as a film that Menaheim Golan and Yorum Globus would have made during their Cannon Releasing Corporation-The Cannon Group age?
Just asking.
Its funny,
last night, LXG was sold out til midnight and I didnt want to see Pirates at 10 45 cuz I thought it would be lame.
Now I will wait for LXG on video (while reading the comics) and I want really to see Pirates.
Huh. I really must be the only one who honestly likes "Carnosaur." And if you start collecting League comics, make sure to get the compiled version because the extras they threw in at the end are awesome.
Brother R
Well, it WAS a bad movie, but it had it's moments.
I was dissapointed that more wasn't done with the source material, but there is fun to be had with this movie.
My advice: don't be like me. Wait for a rental. It's easier to make fun of something when you didn't pay $8+ to see it.
I was hoping this would be quite good, guess not.
I talked aboot LXG with my cousin the other day, and we pretty much ripped it a new one. And we also came up with horrible, horrible sequel ideas featuring the raping of other literary classics. It was very cathartic. He posted the transcript on his site and I thought those of you who've seen the movie might find it interesting.
http://www.gerbilmechs.com/Comic/MM053/LXG_review.txt
In the transcript I'm "FilmCousin" and he's "Monthenor".
I enjoyed the satiric aspects of CARNOSAUR. Not that I ever want to see it again. . .
I liked some of the moments of spectacle in LXG, but overall it was pretty mediocre. Sean Connery plays Sean Connery, but now he's really not convincing as an action star. Let's get him and Harrison Ford back together for another Indiana Jones movie and we can watch them both throw their backs out searching for Curly's gold.
Too bad, because I really like Alan Moore's comic. (Will the last issue ever be released?)
Moore has said in interviews that it does not bother him if somebody makes a crappy movie out of his work, as all he really cares about is the comic. "If I write a great story and they make a bad movie, it does not diminish my work in the slightest." [sic]
Has anybody ever read Kim Newman's ANNO DRACULA series? It's about an alternate England where Dracula has married the queen. Of course, every literary character from the period makes his way into the book. The first two books of the series are really good. (Can't say much for the third.)
The only comics I read of LXG were the first 2 issues of volume 2. I'm not fmailiar with the first graphic novels but I found the movie okay.
Wasn't the best of course but wasn't as bad as critics were saying. I've seen much worse films than LXG that critics said were good.
There's two reasons I've observed people hate it. You either have be to a hardcore fan of the comic or be cluless about the comic to hate it.
The fans of the comic will hate it for not being as clever as Alan Moore's writing and the people clueless of the comic will hate it becuase they laugh at the concept of literature characters becoming super-heroes.