The movie:
We saw it last night at 10:00.
How can any decent company watch a movie like this and release it? It really should be against some kind of intellectual honesty fraud law.
Worst
Movie
Ever
(and my expectations were low already!)
I’m going to kick Sean Connery square in the nuts the next time I see him and shout “You owe me sleep and $9 dollars you washed up has-been!”
Right. I was scared of seeing this movie already. Now you have terrified me 🙂 No LXG for me.
Worse than this?
I also went into it with very low expectations, which I think helped immensely.
Having read the graphic novel, I knew there was no way in heck that Hollywood was going to make a film true to the source material. They were clearly going to do the hold trick of taking a popular piece of fiction made popular by it’s uniqueness, and change it to fit the same formula as everything else that’s already out. Standard Hollywood.
So I went to see a slightly silly film done with steampunk trappings made by people who’ve no idea what steampunk is. And that’s what I got.
Yes. In fact, while I was watching it, I thought “Wait, didn’t I see this random style of editing in the Avengers?”
This could be the intellectual sequel.
Your tolerance level must be different than mine. 🙂
I did like Tom Sawyer, though. Rawr!
Yeah, the eye-candy helped. A lot. I never read the graphic novel, so I had no expectations. It’s my dad’s fault. I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.
Ha! Which movie?
League of eXtraordinary Gentlemen.
barf
I am so glad that someone else hates this piece of refried tortoise shit… I have never seen such bad editing in a major motion picture. Not one part of the plot made any fucking sense at all!!!! Several instances of egregious idiocy stood out for me, however.
1) The Nautilus, which appears to be sevral stories tall in the film sails through the canals of Venice… submerged, no less. Correct me if I am wrong, but the canals in Venice can’t be much more than 10 feet deep in the city proper.
2) The car racing through the “streets” of Venice… I thought Venice had canals instead of streets, but I guess the filmamkers didn’t notice that…
3) Mr Hyde swimming into the flooded part of the sinking submarine and opening a vent to let the water drain out… Huh? If only the Titanic had been eqipped with a louvered keel to allow all the water filling her to rush out when opened, imagine the lives that could have been saved.
All I can say is that I am glad that I only paid matinee prices for this abortion…
I hated it sooo much (still worst movie ever given what it attempted) – but to answer to 1,2:
Venice: you are absolutely right, but I figured this was an alternate world that was ‘like’ ours but not ours, allowing venice to have similar but completely different architecture. Yes, this is a weak explanation, but it was necessary to keep me from taking off my clothes and throwing feces at the screen.
and #3
Mr. Hyde swam down to start up / fix the bilge pumps to pump the water out. Never mind the huge holes in the ship, of course.
Still no excuse.
I really think that legal action should be taken by those who put money into the movie. It is like 3 finger window lickers did the work.
Bilge pumps, eh? I must have been pounding a spike into my head when they explained that part… it still mkaes no sense, but it makes *more* sense than draining the water out of the sub…
Thank you for confirming my suspicion that I should not go see this. Loved the graphic novel, don’t want to see what they’re trying to pass off in its name.