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Oct. 7th, 2003 04:21 amApparently I'm the Tim to Liam's Tam. I am very amused by this. (For non-Australians: this is referencing a popular biscuit [what Americans call cookies] here called a TimTam.)
Ergle. Saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen tonight. I managed to (mostly) sever myself from the graphic novel, and quite enjoyed it. ( Plot spoiler )
I quite enjoyed the few literary references I caught in the beginning of the movie: ( Minor not-really-spoiler )
This was the best quote in the movie. THE BEST. ( So hardly a spoiler. Happened in the first 10 minutes. )
Aaaand, I've just got this joke. Go me. ( Ditto above )
Mina was surprisingly good, despite the whole "OOh, look! I'm a big scary vampire!" HOWEVER. That whole "Look at my scar!!1one!" bit was really, really out-of-character. She totally sold me with her mimicking of Allan, though, which was superb.
Two things supremely pissed me off: ( End spoilerness )
Sean Connery was Sean Connery, as always. Stuart Townsend was like a more attractive, handsomer, extra personality Orlando-Bloom-in-Pirates. Skinner was okay, though I didn't remember him being a Gentleman Thief in the comics. I thought it was someone else who had died, not the scientist, and everyone had misunderstood. (ETA: "Rodney Skinner replacing Hawley Griffin from H.G. Wells "The Invisible Man" (1897) (due to rights issues)" Thanks, IMDB.) Richard Roxburgh was excellent, of course; but then he always is.
When it comes to Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah) OMG I HAVE NO WORDS. My biggest fear in this was that Nemo was going to be crap. I already knew that Mina was doomed (tho' she was far better than I expected), but Nemo was excellent. May we all be grateful for that. I want to marry Nemo, and have, like 10,000 of his babies. 'cept not.
I. Did. Not. Like. Tom. Sawyer. ( It didn't help that he was the obligatory American... )
ETA: "Continuity: The film is set in 1899, but Tom Sawyer appears as a young man when he really should be closer to sixty years old. Everyone else, including Ishmael, have the ages they would be expected to have in 1899." AHAHA. YOU SUCK, MOVIE PEOPLE. You should have stuck with the League of the comics.
Is it strange of me to be all squee-y over the fact that (apart from Ishmael, who existed solely for one in-joke) Nemo's crew were actually all Indian? That was really nice. No random Americans, or other whiteys for no good reason, as often seems to happen in movies.
That's about all I can think of, for now. I'm really tired. Overall, I think it was good to have such low expectations. It was so easy to exceed them. I want to see it again. I need a League LJ layout. With Nemo. Yep.
*blinks* I could have sword IMDB said "Evil Cast and Crew for League..."
ETA: OMG! Dr Jekyll was the coachman from From Hell! No wonder he looked familiar!
Final edit probably: When Quartermain and Sawyer are hunting Hyde in Paris, they describe him as a "big monkey" who had been terrorizing the Rue Morgue for months. This is a direct allusion to Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders at the Rue Morgue", in which the murderer was revealed to be a trained orangutan in the employ of a mad scientist. Hey! That was referenced in Sandman. Cool. *suddenly feels knowledgable*
Ergle. Saw League of Extraordinary Gentlemen tonight. I managed to (mostly) sever myself from the graphic novel, and quite enjoyed it. ( Plot spoiler )
I quite enjoyed the few literary references I caught in the beginning of the movie: ( Minor not-really-spoiler )
This was the best quote in the movie. THE BEST. ( So hardly a spoiler. Happened in the first 10 minutes. )
Aaaand, I've just got this joke. Go me. ( Ditto above )
Mina was surprisingly good, despite the whole "OOh, look! I'm a big scary vampire!" HOWEVER. That whole "Look at my scar!!1one!" bit was really, really out-of-character. She totally sold me with her mimicking of Allan, though, which was superb.
Two things supremely pissed me off: ( End spoilerness )
Sean Connery was Sean Connery, as always. Stuart Townsend was like a more attractive, handsomer, extra personality Orlando-Bloom-in-Pirates. Skinner was okay, though I didn't remember him being a Gentleman Thief in the comics. I thought it was someone else who had died, not the scientist, and everyone had misunderstood. (ETA: "Rodney Skinner replacing Hawley Griffin from H.G. Wells "The Invisible Man" (1897) (due to rights issues)" Thanks, IMDB.) Richard Roxburgh was excellent, of course; but then he always is.
When it comes to Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah) OMG I HAVE NO WORDS. My biggest fear in this was that Nemo was going to be crap. I already knew that Mina was doomed (tho' she was far better than I expected), but Nemo was excellent. May we all be grateful for that. I want to marry Nemo, and have, like 10,000 of his babies. 'cept not.
I. Did. Not. Like. Tom. Sawyer. ( It didn't help that he was the obligatory American... )
ETA: "Continuity: The film is set in 1899, but Tom Sawyer appears as a young man when he really should be closer to sixty years old. Everyone else, including Ishmael, have the ages they would be expected to have in 1899." AHAHA. YOU SUCK, MOVIE PEOPLE. You should have stuck with the League of the comics.
Is it strange of me to be all squee-y over the fact that (apart from Ishmael, who existed solely for one in-joke) Nemo's crew were actually all Indian? That was really nice. No random Americans, or other whiteys for no good reason, as often seems to happen in movies.
That's about all I can think of, for now. I'm really tired. Overall, I think it was good to have such low expectations. It was so easy to exceed them. I want to see it again. I need a League LJ layout. With Nemo. Yep.
*blinks* I could have sword IMDB said "Evil Cast and Crew for League..."
ETA: OMG! Dr Jekyll was the coachman from From Hell! No wonder he looked familiar!
Final edit probably: When Quartermain and Sawyer are hunting Hyde in Paris, they describe him as a "big monkey" who had been terrorizing the Rue Morgue for months. This is a direct allusion to Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders at the Rue Morgue", in which the murderer was revealed to be a trained orangutan in the employ of a mad scientist. Hey! That was referenced in Sandman. Cool. *suddenly feels knowledgable*
