MrFrosty

Yeah, that was referenced earlier in the film. The person he was speaking to replied "Too bad we're not in Africa" or some such.

Anyway, that ending tended to point to a sequel. It was the most blatant setup for one although, having no knowledge of the graphic novel, I wonder what the sequel would involve. Plus, I strongly suspect that the film will be mediocre, at best, with its box office takings so a sequel would appear unlikely.

Ab_Normal

Had a "hot date" with my husband and went to LXG this week. First off, let me confess that I'm a bit biased when it comes to Sean Connery films (mmmmm sexy old guys), and even more biased when it comes to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, though I haven't read "League", and I find steampunk very entertaining in general. With those provisos: I really enjoyed the movie. I liked the little details (like the poster with Moore and O'Neill's names near Dorian Gray's house). The jerky-cam in the action sequences was a little off-putting.

Heard a review on the local NPR station from the local movie reviewer, and he (predictably) hated it. I'm so tempted to go to his website and ask him to leave pop culture alone. Or maybe tell him that I do use his reviews as a guide, just not in the way he wants; if he doesn't like a movie, I probably will. I am so the lowest common denominator sometimes.

King Rat

Here are my criticisms of LXG.

The CGI was weird

When they first see M's lair it's this sleek and shiny factory-like thing, they go inside and it's some kind of ruined old castle?

When they first enter M's lair there is a giant open crack running down the middle of the entire length of an arched hallway. Hint: no keystones.

Quartermain's dying speech is pure comedy, I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be funny.

The plan to stop Venice from collapsing is utterly ridiculous. I kept waiting for Nemo to say "why don't we try this instead," and come up with a real plan, but he never did.

'Shaky Cam' and quick cuts instead of real action scenes.

The faux maudlin father-son thing between Tom Sawyer and Quartermain, ick.

In M's lair they show an entire army of the metal-clad dudes. They end up fighting only two.

No matter where they are in the world they seem to end up in small, cramped, dark rooms. I guess small cramped dark rooms are victorian?

Every line Nemo says sounds like something out of a fortune cookie.

Why was Jekyll's top hat really big?

Jekyll could open the gates in the Nautilus under all that water pressure but he couldn't do any damage to the Uber-Jekyll?

AND SO MUCH MORE!

Rusting Car Bumper

Someone aintitcool that says something is great and they use lost of exclaimation points!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!

Completely Unexpected!!!!

Never wulda thunk it!!!

DC

Jesse

Kevin O'Neill is not a writer from aintitcool, he's the illustrator of the original comic book, as I already said in my post. He was just quoted on aintitcool.

BrotherMan

The library from early in the movie is in London the other manufacturing plant is somewhere else in the world.

As to the rest of your criticisms: They're valid, but they didn't ruin the movie for me. The only thing that perplexed me was all of the anachronastic technology.

King Rat

Nah man, not the library, the place out in Siberia. They come over a rise and they see this black shiny factory with flames and terraces and stuff, then they go inside and it's an old ruin.

King Rat

On a more positive note, when they showed the pre-view for Freddie vs. Jason the entire theatre erupted in laughter.

Bree

The whole blowing-up-Venice thing comes from the original version of Le Fantome de l'Opera (I think I got that right). The filmmakers were making fun of what happens in the novel, which is predictably cheesy and rather stupid in its own right. Which is probably why they chose to use the title character as a bluff for the bad guy.

Know thy book . In the original novel, Jekyll starts out by having to drink equal amounts of each potion (ie 5 cc's of the turn-into-Hyde potion and then 5 cc's of the turn-in-Jekyll potion to get back). When we first meet Hyde he is physically smaller in stature than Jekyll - he has been repressed (yeah, yeah, cheesy). Once Hyde gets stronger, he gets larger in stature (and increasingly mroe wicked, get it?) - and Jekyll has to take more of the turn-into-Jekyll potion in order to get back to himself. Eventually he isn't in control of the transformations - Hyde accomplishes it all without the potion.