#leagueofextraordinarygentlemen #seanconnery
Stam Fine Reviews looks at Stephen Norrington’s film adaptation of a comic that melded a bunch of different literary heroes into a team up film that was neither heroic nor particularly literate. League of Extraordinary gentleman was Sean Connery’s last film for various reasons and it’s not one of his best.
Also stars Peta Wilson, Richard Roxburgh, Jason Flemyng.
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Saw this in theaters in high school. I want to love this movie. What a premise! But it just misses its mark. It’s been 20 years time for e reboot 😂
😅 enjoyed it , its just turn your brain off and have fun 😊 I've never over thought a comic book film
"Electric Boogaleague" 🤣🤣🤣
I hate to be the one to tell you, but it's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", not "The Portrait…" It's an easy mistake to make; took me all of 40 years to finally remember that.
I love this movie. It's a real favourite. Also Alan Quartermain is a character from H. Rider Haggards King Solomon's Mines and She.
I love this movie.
I honestly thought it as an OK movie when I saw it in the theater, not the worst thing I'd ever seen, but not that great either. Then I read the source material and, yeah, kind of hate it now.
The League of Extraordinary Sliders
Now Pal The Movie Was Ok
I loved this film, i saw it twice at the cinema
I do think this would pretty much be an impossible comic series to adapt effectively, especially as it went on. I don't actually hate the film, though.
Oh i don't know i thought it was an entertaining Film
Saw it in theatre with a friend who knew and liked the source material, so he hated it.
I remember liking the first two thirds of the movie itself, but loving Moriarty’s big coat! Wishing I could have gotten a nice long close up view. Or better yet, one of my own.
Was immensely amused by P. Wilson’s impression of Quartermain.
I know this is different from the GN, but to be fair, they started filming before the final panel was completed. I rather prefer this film to the "kite fight" ending in the comic.
Was that terry o neil as Ishmael?
It was not too bad though after I got the graphic novels which were better 🙂 but over all I enjoyed it 🙂 Got it on dvd somewhere 🙂
I loved the LXG comic (all of the ABC comics line were top-notch, actually 🤔) and saw both the movie and Van Helsing in theaters. Ended up liking Van Helsing better as i was expecting much more from LXG. Great expectations resulted only in great disappointment ☹️
Penny Dreadful did it better
Don't bother watching this movie. Go read the original graphic novels by Alan Moore. You'll enjoy them far more than the movie.
Great concept. Questionable execution…
In the future can we look forward to the League of Copyright-Struck YouTubers?
Watched it a couple of times it's anenjoyable romp😊
Mostly agree on the review. I loved the original comics, as well as the literature that inspired it. The Invisible Man change was due to Universal having trademark on their version and the name given to Wells' character, in the film. It couldn't be used for this, though moore based his on the Wells novel, which is public domain. We get into copyright vs trademark, with that, which confuses people.
Moore wasn't totally original in this, because other writers had done meta-fictions before, especially Phillip Jose Farmer. Farmer wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Peerless Peer, where Holmes and Watson meet Tarzan, plus some cameos from pulp literature, like The Shadow and The Spider. He had Phileas Fogg as an agent for an alien entity and gave Dorothy Gale a barnstorming pilot son, who ends up in Oz. Farmer wrote a fictional biography of Tarzan, Tarzan Alive!, based on the various Burroughs stories. In it, he creates a scenario, based on a famous meteor crash site, Wold Newton, in England. he posits that the locals and passers by become extraordinary adventurers and villains, as do their descendants. It is called the Wold Newton Universe and Farmer had a whole family tree, linking Tarzan to other literary characters. He followed that with a bio of Doc Savage, doing the same and expanding it further. He then wrote three novels, crossing Tarzan and Doc Savage, but changing the names (Lord Grandreth and Doc Caliban), with a novel for each and one where they meet. His Riverworld series had all kinds of people meet and his Greatheart Silver trilogy was filled with pastiches of pulp adventure heroes, like The Spider, The Shadow, Operator 5, G-8 and his Battle Aces and similar.
Michael Moorcock did a bit of work along this line and British writer Kim Newman has done a bunch, in his Anno Dracula series.
Connery did the film after turning down The Matrix (or was it Star Wars?) and The Lord of the Rings, then seeing them become massive hits. He took the next big one that came along and it was this. The production was hampered by major flooding, in Europe, at the studio.
Stuart Townsend was fired off the Lord of the Rings, as Aragorn, leading to Viggo Mortensen getting the role.
The movie that retired Sean Connery
The fact that this links to my one of my favorite dr who episodes makes me sad.
They should do a sequel with Steamboat Willie Mickey.
Stuart Townsend was also Aragorn for two weeks before he got replaced.
Still better than those godawful Justice League movies and the endless stream of Marvel crap.
I enjoyed this movie back in 2000s and thank you for reminding me about this, I would gladly re-watch it today. It's far from being perfect but compared to the modern movies this one is easily a masperpiece, an artefact of the bygone era.
Oh I remember just loving the style of this movie, esp captain Nemo and his ship!
I remember watching this in the cinema when it came out. Felt it betrayed the comics from the very beginning on. Hollywood bastardization of a cool concept: super people who are basically normal fallible guys with extraordinary and complex circumstances around them. This made them too cartoony in my opinion: Mina is a vampire, Hyde is the hulk , Nemo does kung fu, Connery plays Connery. Lost is the comics ambiguity and ugliness, all i see is Hollywood farce.