"If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all." Blu-ray Review.
Added 1/17/2010
The LXG is a fun popcorn flick. I have read the graphic novel and found that the only real similarities are the characters. The movie is fun and enjoyable. Someone said this is a family flick? Ummm, no. Unless everyone in the house is 13 or older. Don't expect to much and you will have a blast!
NOW MY BLU-RAY THOUGHTS: It looks better and sounds better! However, they did not carry over any of the special features or very few of them. Only worth an upgrade to the hardcore fan. FINAL VERDICT: NOT UPGRADE WORTHY.
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BLU RAY VERSION
Added 1/15/2010
BLU-RAY VERSION IS WORTH BUYING. I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE MOVIE, OTHERS ALREADY HAVE. BUT, NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE TELL YOU IF IT IS WORTH UPGRADING FROM YOUR REGULAR DVD TO BLU-RAY. THIS ONE IS WORTH IT. COLORS ARE STUNNING AND SOUNDS GREAT.
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Mina (Peta Wilson) can bite me any time
Added 1/10/2010
The year 1899, the world under threat of war. World war. England calls to her hero Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery). Will he head the call? And who else may join to form the league of extraordinary gentlemen
Great concept for a comic book, however never had a chance as a movie.
Where do I start? The story (no plot) had no chance from the start. The graphics were substandard. The dialog was stilted. The fighting was poorly choreographed. The music was forgettable. However the hokey costumes were a quite amusing. I always thought Sean Connery could make any movie work until now.
On the plus side Peta Wilson could be a modern day Emma Peel "The Avengers" (1961 TV series)
The Avengers - The Complete Emma Peel Megaset
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Fun but not very consistant
Added 1/6/2010
League of not-so-great gentlemen:
A review of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Okay, where do I begin? Well, when the making of footage shows the director of film (which was based off a graphic novel with the intention of getting young people interested in reading the classics again) goes out of his way tell you 'The characters in this movie are from these huge, archaic books I never read so I found a writer that at least read some of them.' That's the first warning sign that a film is in trouble.
I think my biggest pet peeve, and ironically also my favourite part, was Dorian Gray. It was not Dorian Gray of the novel, not authentically anyway. This version of Dorian dies when he looks at the painting. This bothers me because so many people who have never read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde now think that looking at the painting would kill Dorian. I've heard of people argue with those who have read the book to insist they got it wrong, that stabbing the painting doesn't kill him, it's looking at it! WRONG! Dorian looked at the painting a lot, that was sort of the point.
A big issue with this Dorian is M stole the painting from Dorian's Foyer. Quartermain notices the spot where it had been. If looking at it would kill him why did Dorian have it hanging in his foyer? Did he cover his eyes every time he walked into his home?
Now for the serious flaws of the time line.
Tom Sawyer's story takes place with him, at age twelve, before the civil war. That means it has be before 1865. Tom Sawyear cannot be a teenager in 1899.
Mina Harker: Mina Harker's story takes place in 1897. So In two years she was made a vampire, widowed, dated Dorian, and became a Chemist?
Dorian Gray: Dorian Gray becomes immortal in 1891. So In eight years he lectured at a university where Quartermain was a boy. Less than eight years after college and he looks like that? The boy didn't age well!
Another thing about the film that didn't sit right for me is Dorian's life was in danger. M had something that could kill him at any time, and Mina pretty much executed him for that. But because he once broke up with her that's okay? M might as well have had a gun to him the whole time but Mina was right to kill him? Sure he acted cold but would it really have been better if he was sniveling and pleading? That didn't make Dorian look that evil to me or Mina look that good.
Under tight scrutiny League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would require a TARDIS for those characters to all meet at those points in their lives. Just because they're all from the nineteenth century does not mean that their stories can mesh with a plausible storyline. My gradfather was born in the 1920s. That doesn't mean he and I could be teenagers together because I was born in 1981.
This film can be fun as brain candy but under tight observation it makes little sense and it's blatantly obvious the director didn't read or respect the original novels the characters came from, which is a shame because the original purpose of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's graphic novel was to try to get young people interested in reading the classics.
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I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!
Added 1/5/2010
Sean Connery truly shines as an older Allan Quartermain. I've loved all of Haggard's characters for years, and I found no fault with his character.
I know some purists have a thing about vampires in the daylight, but let me remind you forgetful individuals: BRAM STOKER WROTE ABOUT VAMPIRES IN THE DAYLIGHT!!!! Jonathan Harker sees Count Dracula in braod daylight (well, it WAS London, maybe not so broad).
Anyone raised on Disney's 20,000 Leagues movie was probably a bit confused by the appearance of the Nautilus, but this design is probably far more in keeping with the time period than the Disney design.
I never was a big fan of Mr. Hyde, or of The Invisible Man, so I'll not comment on them, except that I found Hyde's characterization interesting.
I thought Dorian Gray was well done, if not perfect.
That leaves Moriarty. Doyle's madman would certainly have been capable of the plots of this man, but I believe that he would have been far more subtle, and I don't think he would have given Dorian's picture back. It would have been just TOO intriguing for him.
The only disappointment I had in the DVD was the lack of the ending that I saw in the theaters, where Quartermain's hand rises from his grave to grip the rifle. DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THAT???? Sometimes I think I'm going crazy.
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"If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all." Blu-ray Review.
Added 1/17/2010
The LXG is a fun popcorn flick. I have read the graphic novel and found that the only real similarities are the characters. The movie is fun and enjoyable. Someone said this is a family flick? Ummm, no. Unless everyone in the house is 13 or older. Don't expect to much and you will have a blast!
NOW MY BLU-RAY THOUGHTS: It looks better and sounds better! However, they did not carry over any of the special features or very few of them. Only worth an upgrade to the hardcore fan. FINAL VERDICT: NOT UPGRADE WORTHY.
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BLU RAY VERSION
Added 1/15/2010
BLU-RAY VERSION IS WORTH BUYING. I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE MOVIE, OTHERS ALREADY HAVE. BUT, NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE TELL YOU IF IT IS WORTH UPGRADING FROM YOUR REGULAR DVD TO BLU-RAY. THIS ONE IS WORTH IT. COLORS ARE STUNNING AND SOUNDS GREAT.
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Mina (Peta Wilson) can bite me any time
Added 1/10/2010
The year 1899, the world under threat of war. World war. England calls to her hero Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery). Will he head the call? And who else may join to form the league of extraordinary gentlemen
Great concept for a comic book, however never had a chance as a movie.
Where do I start? The story (no plot) had no chance from the start. The graphics were substandard. The dialog was stilted. The fighting was poorly choreographed. The music was forgettable. However the hokey costumes were a quite amusing. I always thought Sean Connery could make any movie work until now.
On the plus side Peta Wilson could be a modern day Emma Peel "The Avengers" (1961 TV series)
The Avengers - The Complete Emma Peel Megaset
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