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VetLegion
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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
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
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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.
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
time: 05:31
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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.
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Dr Strangelove
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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.
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
time: 05:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I meant the Mr Freeze one. st_swithin read my mind. |
Just returning the favour.
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VetLegion
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quote:
Originally posted by axi
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. |
As DinoDoc said, he is a Brit
But you missed the whole point which is not creating just another superhero comic.
The comic 'belongs' to the Steampunk subgenre and as such it obeys its rules at least as much if not more than those of the superhero genre.
The big attraction to me is the world itself, the steamboats, huge coal-powered (and correspondingly polluted) megalopolises, and the spirit of victorian times, which is one of progress. It is after all the time of industrial revolution and there is no limit to what can be done with steam and a bit of imagination (tanks, moles, flying ships... computers, transatlantic tunnels, you name it..)
Ofcourse, there is the desperation of the working classes, on the brink of exploding into a revolution ... 
Well, not all of that is in the comic, but that is what I looked for.
What was a bad side to the comic, to me, are all the references to other works. There are virtually hundreds of them, little clues scattered around. There are sites out there documenting them. It struck me as both elitist and pointless to do that.
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