The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[Born2Entertain]

More like The League of Extrordinarily Boring Gentlemen. The movie Blew ass. Its suposed to be exciting and entertaining but i was half a sleep until the end. Not only does it Drag for a long time making the movieseem longer than it really is, but the story.......oh wait its non existant. Im not going to sit here bash the movie with out giving you some of the good sides. Some of the characters were pretty cool and the action scenes, although some very fake, werent that bad. To some this up id wait till it comes out on dvd to watch it. I give it like a 3.5 to 4

[Beale the Rippe]

Welcome to the forum. I take it that was on a scale of 10....I think you were a tad to harsh, but to each his own.

Welcome to my review: http://www.movieforums.net/showthread.php?t=4771

[Fatman]

It wasn't a good movie, but if something was great about this movie, Sean Connery was responsible for it.

[Beale the Rippe]

Welcome to the forum Fatman.

[Fatman]

Thank you, I'm glad to be here.

[VMax]

I totally agree.......this film was a train wreck from start to finish. The only saving grace was Sean Connery......looks pretty good for an old man.....still got the chops.

[Beale the Rippe]

I'm gonna have to disagree with both of you. I thought if anyone was great in the movie, it was Hyde. Sean was cool as always, but I didn't think he made the movie or stole the show. I think some of the characters were more interesting and were cooler than Sean. That said, I liked Sean in the movie.

And I thought the movie was good, but just barely so. The entertaining factor saved the movie.

[Monkeypunch]

I'm sorry, but this movie was really bad. I've read the source material this is supposed to be based on, Alan Moore's brilliant comic book, but the question is, did the people who made this read it at all? Gone was the cleverness of the premise, the moral ambiguity of it's protagonists, the feeling that the story belonged to the time it was set. Instead we get a kung-fu fighting captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer, who, if the writers had researched this at all, would actually have been around 50 in 1899, a car chase (?) in the streets of Venice, which is famous for not HAVING streets, and lots of pointless action.

Things that really bugged me:

Mina Harker as a Vampire. Nowhere in the novel Dracula did she ever become a vamp. And the dialogue, "Does the vampiric sucking of blood make someone a radical?" is just some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard.

Mr. Hyde. In the book, Mr. Hyde was an amoral monster. Throughout the movie, he doesn't do anything monsterous, and in fact is just an incredible Hulk stand in. WASTE OF A GREAT CHARACTER.

The Invisible Man. The best character in the comic book version, a complete sociopath, rapist, and murderer. Here, he's a "Gentleman Thief". BORING.

I won't even get into Sean Connery or how they tried to set up the never to be made sequel.

[jrs]

I agree with you Monkeypunch. LXG was one movie I was waiting to see. When it came to watch, I was dissapointed. I thought the characters were no good (presesenting themselves), the story dragged a little, I can't stand Connery :p and god knows what else. I loved though the fight between Mr Hyde and that other beast. :D

I give LXG a big D +

[Beale the Rippe]

I've been thinking a lot about this movie. Maybe I was to easy on it. Could you two write a little more about what was wrong with it? (I'm in an indecision kind of mood, check out the Transporter)(This is the second time this has happened....maybe I need to be more solid...)

Thanks.

[jrs]

I just hated LXG terribly. Bassically what i said tops it all. i could sit and write a review but i think there are too many of them of LXG here. I just hated it.

[Beale the Rippe]

Alright.....


I guess I've have to sort out my insecurities by myself....