Some things about me:
1. I'm a sucker for special-effects extravaganzas. Maybe less so than when I was younger but slow motion gunfights, exploding zeppelins, flying boats & alien-eating vampires will always get my attention.
2. I will watch movies made from comic books (with some exception).
3. I always watch the whole movie.
That's why I'm little surprised that I gave up on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. What a piece of doo doo. The regression starts with them exiling Allan Quartermain to the veldts of Africa instead of the opium dens of Shanghai or wherever. And then it's downhill. Shit blows up, the fake-Indian Captain Nemo had a sword-shaped submarine & a giant white "auto-mobile", guns blaze, fireworks, rockets!? and still I switched it off, lured away by this here internet & the deluxe DVD version of Hype Williams' Belly.
Posted by Rob at July 14, 2004 1:03 AM | TrackBackI had such high hopes for that movie and it really really disappointed me too. Why did they have to add Tom Saywer?! Also, I didn't know that the canals of Venice were large enough for a ship as big as an aircraft carrier. Hollywood will never cease to amaze me how they can take something good and turn it into shit.
Posted by: Brian at July 14, 2004 12:18 PMseriously. that movie sucked.
Posted by: bryan at July 16, 2004 11:04 AM