League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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Posted: 1/1/2004 11:11:24 PM EDT

Rented it and saw it tonight. Fun movie. I probably would have enjoyed it in the theatre, but for $2 it was a great deal. Even freely used firearms instead of the normal avoid them at all costs in most movies these days.

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:16:56 PM EDT

[#1]

I thought that movie was a hoot.

Loved those boxy machine guns. A precurser to the HK caseless OCIW?

Too bad they didn't have Jack the Ripper and Frankenstein.

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:22:55 PM EDT

[#2]

It was a good movie but I went to the 10pm show and I feel asleep half way through.

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:24:11 PM EDT

[#3]

I saw it for free on a Target TV display.

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:24:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Loved those boxy machine guns. A precurser to the HK caseless OCIW?

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AK's with some serious bulk added to them. Great movie!

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:34:19 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I thought that movie was a hoot.

Loved those boxy machine guns. A precurser to the HK caseless OCIW?

Too bad they didn't have Jack the Ripper and Frankenstein.

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You liked this suck-ass movie, but you hated 28 Days?

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:35:34 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I thought that movie was a hoot.

Loved those boxy machine guns. A precurser to the HK caseless OCIW?

Too bad they didn't have Jack the Ripper and Frankenstein.

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You liked this suck-ass movie, but you hated 28 Days?

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Let me clarify: I saw "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" free, and I paid for "28 days" [:D]

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:45:10 PM EDT

[#7]

I bought the DVD when it came out. It took me until my fifth viewing to make it through without falling asleep.

I wasn't too impressed.

Posted: 1/1/2004 11:49:42 PM EDT

[#8]

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I bought the DVD when it came out. It took me until my fifth viewing to make it through without falling asleep.

I wasn't too impressed.

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It wasn't good enough to keep me awake.

Posted: 1/2/2004 1:34:42 AM EDT

[#9]

Man you guys are a tough crowd.

Posted: 1/2/2004 1:41:01 AM EDT

[#10]

It was a decent movie. A helluva lot better then that rank-ass 28 day's. As far as I'm concerned, there are only three zombie movies:

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Living Dead
Day of the Living Dead

Posted: 1/2/2004 1:44:22 AM EDT

[#11]

Did anyone notice the bling-bling STEN guns that Cpt.Nemo's men were using in a movie set in 1899?

Posted: 1/2/2004 2:51:48 AM EDT

[#12]

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It was a good movie but I went to the 10pm show and I feel asleep half way through.

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Hey I only made it through the last Lord of the Rings because we went to the 4pm show. Though that probably says more about my becoming and old fuddy duddy who falls asleep in movies than the quality of the movie. Man I remember going to the late showing of Gangs of New York last Christmas with another couple, forget about it, I was out like a light

Posted: 1/2/2004 2:57:02 AM EDT

[#13]

You dont snore, do you?

Posted: 1/2/2004 6:47:28 AM EDT

[#14]

We rented it New Year's Eve along with Tomb Raider II. We watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last and it ended at about ten minutes before midnight. Frankly, we didn't enjoy either movie greatly. And if it weren't for Angelina Jolie's bustline in Tomb Raider II movie and the firearms in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , both would have been total disappointments. But, hey, to each his own. If you enjoyed it, that's all that matters.

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:14:31 AM EDT

[#15]

Some parts were too far over the top, like the Nautilus being bigger than an Iowa class battleship. If a couple things had been scaled back a bit it would have been more enjoyable.

Generally, it was a "remove your brain and place it under your seat until the end of the movie" type of film. Fun in a cartoon kind of way.

Interesting how Connery has played some great major roles, and yet he shows up in some stinkers too.

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:31:56 AM EDT

[#16]

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Generally, it was a "remove your brain and place it under your seat until the end of the movie" type of film. Fun in a cartoon kind of way.

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That's a pretty good assessment. It was bascially a comic filmed as a live movie. I think it was a comic book-er graphic novel.

This theme with higher technology victorian stories is an offshoot of those Cyberpunk novels from the late 80s, early 90s, like Nueromancer. I forgot what they're called "Steampunk" or something like that. There have been a couple of novels by well known science fiction writers with this same idea, computers developed with steam power and so on.

Anyway it was certainly cool looking. When you think about the movies we used to watch back in the 70s and earlier you never would have thought it was possible to show victorian london with Mr. Hyde running around on the rooftops like that, or the huge fantasy battle sequences like in the Lord of the Rings.

And, no, to the best of my knowledge I do not snore. I may drool a little, but hey it's dark and I paid $ 18 for us to go the movies like everyone else, I got my rights! [:)]

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:34:43 AM EDT

[#17]

More like "League of Extraordinary Copywrite Infringement".

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:39:47 AM EDT

[#18]

I watched it while taking a nap...

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:42:50 AM EDT

[#19]

Regretfully, I bought the movie before watching it. It will NEVER see the inside of my DVD player again. There was not one thing that I enjoyed about this movie, and I'm not even a movie snob.

Posted: 1/2/2004 8:44:06 AM EDT

[#20]

Just watched S.W.A.T. boy it was a hoot, Just loved the opening incident at the bank, the sniper takes out the driver of the G.A.V. but can't see it in his heart to plug the dufus spraying the neighborhood with full auto fire!

Yeah ok!!

Posted: 1/2/2004 9:04:18 AM EDT

[#21]

I thought that LXG wasn't too bad. I don't watch movie to be "moved." Just for entertainment.

Not a classic, but worth the $2 rental fee.

Posted: 1/2/2004 9:13:07 AM EDT

[#22]

I enjoyed it. Good brainless entertainment.

Posted: 1/2/2004 9:57:30 AM EDT

[#23]

sucked...total waste of film and actors.

Posted: 1/2/2004 10:08:26 AM EDT

[#24]

It's a GOOD movie.
Peta Wilson gives me a boner, no matter what she's playing.
Sean Connery still kicks ass.

I liked the comment about 'who'd invent such a weapon?' regarding the fully-automatic rifles...

"...probably a BELGIAN..."

Gee, I wonder who THAT could be? (John Moses Browning's design sold to Fabrique Nationale, maybe?) [:D]

Some of you guys need to lighten up or go watch Disney. [;D]

Posted: 1/2/2004 10:17:28 AM EDT

[#25]

I saw it in the theater with my Dad & we both enjoyed it. I plan to get it on DVD.

If any of you who bought it & hate it want to sell it at a fair price, please e-mail me...