The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen & The Little Mermaid 2

[apolla]

I just got done watching The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and I was actually quite pleasantly surprised. It's not high art, but it was quite fun. I think the concept is a really, really interesting one. I heard it's actually based on some obscure comic- is this so?

Although, and I'm sorry to any Shane West fans, but I've seen him in a few pictures now and he just sucks. Big time.

Also saw The Little Mermaid 2: Return To the Sea which actually wasn't bad although Eric remains one of the stupidest cartoons ever- just like every other Disney bloke ever.

Comments

[zorb]

Yeah, it's based on a comic. I think people who are familiar with the original were the most critical of the film, but I enjoyed it.

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[marquiserachel.livejournal.com]

Yeah the comic it's based on is really good but because the film people messed with the characters and stuff, diehard fans are not impressed. for example they added in characters purely to pander to american audiences.

[windtear.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is based on a comic, a rather good one.

The main problem, to my mind, was that where the comic was able to build up slowly and reveal its secrets over time. eg, Mina Barker being a vampire and the Mrs. Mina Harker of the book Dracula - that little titbit didn't come out in the comic until about the fifth or sixth volume. So having her 'revealed' fifteen minutes into the film was a real disappointment to me. With the comic, I'd spent months wondering who Mrs. Barker really was, why she was in this elite group - obviously intelligent and skilful, obviously not what she appeared, but also obviously not going to let just anyone know everything. It was frustratingly good. And then in the film they had her drop all that guarded wariness, all that hard-won privacy, just for a drop of blood? That was not well done, chaps, and that was so OOC for Mina Harker it wasn't funny.

I know they were trying to establish the group early so they could get into the story, but they twisted the characters way OOC to do it.

Plus... the comic is based on British literature. British novels. British steampunk. British horror. These are all very, very different to the American versions. Just think about the difference between British rock and American rock, and I think you'll see why all us comic fans were rather dismayed to see Tom Sawyer there. He's a nice kid, but he should get back to New York where he belongs. This is England, where the fog is thick, the beer is warm, and the bad guys are nasty enough to offer you an unpoisoned drink before they dispatch you to your doom.

Poisoning it would be unsporting.

[brianyoon.livejournal.com]

I liked him in a Walk to Remember, actually. Odd.

>:D