League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[kellinator]

Okay, I'll admit I've had a lot of doubts about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie, but the poster is fucking cool.

http://www.superherohype.com/cgi-bin/news/league.cgi?newsid1047525004,71347,

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Re: Clue Request

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Ooops!! My bad.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a terrific comic book by Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and widely considered one of the best comic-book writers). The premise of the comic: In late Victorian London, a team of characters from pulp fiction (Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Murray from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde) are assembled to protect the British Empire from various threats. It's a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek piece of metafiction, complete with cameos by a veritable Who's Who of Victorian literature and a sternly moralizing narrator. There have been some major changes for the movie, but I'm hoping it won't suck too much, 'cause damn it's good.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563898586/qid=1048524608/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-0819340-3136719?v=glance&s=books

[avatar-x.livejournal.com]

I'm still wondering if the movie will maintain the quirkiness and characterization that makes the comic so good, of it's just going be some big-budget mess. I'm REALLY hoping it'll be good. I'm still not sure how I feel about them giving Mina wacky vampire powers (judging by the trailer).

The poster is great, but I think they need to do something about that tag line in the trailers.."The bad fight for good"? What's that about?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the trailers, so I'm at a disadvantage here (I tried, but they wouldn't download on my work computer!).

I share your fears, but the truth of the matter is I've been expecting them to fuck it up so badly that anything that doesn't completely suck will be a treat.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Hell, the poster alone looks rather cool, and your persuasive write up of the plot sounds intriguing, as well.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

READ it. It's GOOD.

;)