The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Jul. 12th, 2003 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinRather than re-type something I already wrote I figured I'd just repost what I put up on goth.net:
I haven't read the graphic novel by Alan Moore, so I can't compare the two, though judging by the reputation of Mr. Moore and the reverence with which he's held by such superb authors as Neil Gaiman I'm pretty sure that his graphic novel was a damn sight better than this movie.
There's not really all that much that I can say about it. It looked very impressive from the ads and trailers that I'd seen, and that's definitely one of the aspects where it did deliver... visuals. It's stylistically gorgeous, unfortunately the beauty seems skindeep in this case.
Other than that it's a fairly standard kind of thriller/double-cross plot, which has a number of gaping holes in it (like the humongous Nautilus sailing along through Venice's narrow canals). There's little in the way of character development which was unfortunate, I think the movie might have benefited from more of that and more depth in character interaction rather than counting on the many many visual effects and action and explosions.
Sean Connery does his usual dashing Sean Connery thing, kind of auto-pilot for him I suppose by now. Peta Wilson (Nikita from La Femme Nikita) was okay as Mina Harker, though she didn't really work for me all that well, but she did okay with what she was given. Stuart Townsend, well, I saw his part described somewhere as Stuart Townsend playing Lestat playing Dorian Grey, which is fairly accurate. Pretty face, nice body (which he gets to show off again) but ultimately he has this way of overacting which just kills it, just has he did the role of Lestat (no pun intended). I'm just glad he got fired from the LotR set in favour of Viggo Mortensen, I shudder to think what would have happened with the role of Aragorn in his hands.
Definitely not the best set of CGI effects I've seen in more recent times... fairly obvious cgi of the cities (to be expected) the Nautilus is so obviously a model in some of the shots (you can tell by the lightfall on the silver embellishes etc.) that it's just painful.
For a movie that invested so heavily in the overall look of the picture they didn't deliver for me in the cgi department.
It was entertaining enough, but ultimately it felt a tad blah, especially after having seen Pirates of the Caribbean a mere two days earlier on Wednesday night which kicked ass and delivered on all counts and went way beyond my expectations.
Given the choice I suggest going to see Pirates a second time over LXG.
I haven't read the graphic novel by Alan Moore, so I can't compare the two, though judging by the reputation of Mr. Moore and the reverence with which he's held by such superb authors as Neil Gaiman I'm pretty sure that his graphic novel was a damn sight better than this movie.
There's not really all that much that I can say about it. It looked very impressive from the ads and trailers that I'd seen, and that's definitely one of the aspects where it did deliver... visuals. It's stylistically gorgeous, unfortunately the beauty seems skindeep in this case.
Other than that it's a fairly standard kind of thriller/double-cross plot, which has a number of gaping holes in it (like the humongous Nautilus sailing along through Venice's narrow canals). There's little in the way of character development which was unfortunate, I think the movie might have benefited from more of that and more depth in character interaction rather than counting on the many many visual effects and action and explosions.
Sean Connery does his usual dashing Sean Connery thing, kind of auto-pilot for him I suppose by now. Peta Wilson (Nikita from La Femme Nikita) was okay as Mina Harker, though she didn't really work for me all that well, but she did okay with what she was given. Stuart Townsend, well, I saw his part described somewhere as Stuart Townsend playing Lestat playing Dorian Grey, which is fairly accurate. Pretty face, nice body (which he gets to show off again) but ultimately he has this way of overacting which just kills it, just has he did the role of Lestat (no pun intended). I'm just glad he got fired from the LotR set in favour of Viggo Mortensen, I shudder to think what would have happened with the role of Aragorn in his hands.
Definitely not the best set of CGI effects I've seen in more recent times... fairly obvious cgi of the cities (to be expected) the Nautilus is so obviously a model in some of the shots (you can tell by the lightfall on the silver embellishes etc.) that it's just painful.
For a movie that invested so heavily in the overall look of the picture they didn't deliver for me in the cgi department.
It was entertaining enough, but ultimately it felt a tad blah, especially after having seen Pirates of the Caribbean a mere two days earlier on Wednesday night which kicked ass and delivered on all counts and went way beyond my expectations.
Given the choice I suggest going to see Pirates a second time over LXG.
