i disagree. at least rent it. its a fun movie if you dont take things too seriously.

What are you, president of the LXG fan club? Start multiple threads about the flick, post multiple times that we all take it "too seriously" because apparently letting a movie insult your intelligence is entertaining. We get it, you like the movie, some of us don't, let's all move on and live our happy little lives...

Not sure if you're serious or not, but you're forgetting the silliest part of this scene... !?!

surreal

adj 1: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions

I disagree... DON'T RENT IT AND DON"T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Trust me, life's too short to waste even 1 minute more thinking about this atrocious piece of cinema. Just move on because there's nothing to see here but Hollywood at it's worst. Believe me, you'll thank yourself in the end and probably me. Why you ask? Well if you did happen to see LXG you might have just picked up your DVD player, went into the bathroom, filled the bath up and submerged yourself with the DVD player plugged in. I certianly was tempted to do so... Then I realized I still had half a bottle of valium and it ALMOST numbed the pain. ALMOST...

For those of you in Canada that would like to buy it, it is on sale for $14 tomorrow at Zellers (along with X2). I will pick it up at that price, and if I decide that I don't want to keep it, I will hit ebay or the trading forums with it.

You're right, DRG. I thought of mentioning that, but figured I'd be called "waaaaaaay too anal" if I did.

While I don't know if the deleted scenes add anything or not, I found the movie to be total drivel with a few interesting action scenes. If you had ever read the original comic, this would make you squirm in your seat as it totally craps all over the source material.
What's worse, it proceeds to fail as a movie on its own. I tried to shrug off its disloyalties to the source as I knew it would never be that great, but even with low expectations I was still disappointed.

In short, yes. It's that bad.

I ended up seeing this again last night at the relative's house. And I had the exact same problems with it I had at the theater. It starts off great, IMO. Up until the first Hyde appearance, which was just a terrible creative decision. Then the movie rights itself for awhile, but then completely loses it with Venice and all the related crap. It gets better again in the end, but by that point I just didn't care anymore.

It just seems to me that by liking this movie you're 'settling'. I could forgive the mistakes, but why encourage sloppy filmmaking? Especially when there are directors like Peter Jackson or even Gore Verbinski that go an extra mile to make sure the finished product is polished? It's worsened by the fact that this movie had so much promise, even beyond the comic changes. I was fully enjoying the movie up to a point. Hell, I love the scene in Dorian Gray's study. The movie just goes off the rails one too many times. And, yes, the director had control ousted away from him, so maybe it's not his fault. But it's still SOMEBODY'S fault.

I was given the movie as a Christmas present and enjoy the movie.

But, all the post in this tread concerning the flaws of the movie I have to agree with. What I do to get around the down falls of the movie is to think this another world where this are a little different (characters from history/books, places, machines, lights, holidays/parties, war...), after all it is science "Fiction".

Doing this helped me to give the movie a solid C+ (not the best movie, but not a failing grade either).

i started one. one is not multiple. and you are complaining more than im defending. stop being hypocritical. apparently you are president of the i hate LXG club. you hate it way too much.

wow, talk about taking life too seriously! thats a shame.

settling for a fun 2 hours. thats all it is. wont win awards but a solid fun movie. i want to be entertained. mission accomplished!

As far as straying from the comic (which it did) this movie was in production before the comic ever hit the stands. It was from a conversation that one of the producers had with Moore and they both went different directions from there.

I've been a fan of Moore since the original Marvel Man and V for Vendetta stories in Warrior magazine. I've loved Kev O'Neill's art since Nemesis the Warlock in 2000 A.D. I've been buying these guys' work ever since and still love it. I still have it, too. When I came home from watching this, I immediately ran to my room and checked on all my old back issues. Once I realized that none had disintegrated and that I could have them and this fun if goofy movie to enjoy, I was greatly pleased.

If this had been made after the filmmakers had a chance to read the comic book (like Judge Dredd had been) maybe I would have shaken my tiny fists, screaming "WWWHHHHYYYYY!?!?!".
(Even then this blew Judge Dredd out of the water.)

It is possible to like this comic and the movie for different reasons. I’ve seen it five times and will watch it again soon. Definitely worth a rental if curious, if even to have something to gripe about.


...classic.

Okay, lemme get this straight Kudama... You're saying that the production of this film (which didn't even start filming until mid-2002) couldn't have drew upon the comic book written by Alan Moore because the comic wasn't out yet...

This everyone is total bull shit!

The first issue of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol 1.) came out in early 1999 and finished in 2000. Given the fact that EVEN if LXG was in pre-production (for over 3 years before shooting mind you), that would be MORE than plenty of time for someone to write a decent script using the comic as a template. Of course this obviously didn't happen, which is clearly obvious to anyone who both read the comic and saw the film.

So this is just yet another example of how Hollywood had the perfect source material to draw from and bungled it all to hell... Once again...

This movie is one of those leave your brain at the door popcorn flicks just like the 2 Mummy flicks....or one of my favorites, Flash Gordon. I personally enjoyed it. Is it as good as say the LOTR trilogy? Hell no, but then again this is a different breed of movie to me...just stupid fun. It has its place and there are FAR FAR worse films out there, for me it depends on my movie viewing mood. Then again I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than the 2 Matrix sequels, the Hulk or Daredevil in terms of movies I've seen this year. It was a year of dissapointments.

One prob tho...If Mina Harker is a vampire, how is she standing in broad daylight in Africa at the end? Buildings in Venice falling like dominoes I can accept but this drove me crazy!

well said womp! its not even close to my top 50 all time movies but it was enjoyable...thats all it was...thus it was a good movie and a great blind buy for me.

This movie sux. I rented it tonight just to see if it really was that bad. I loved the comic and knew going in that a lot of the characters were changed and new one's were added, so I was prepared.

But I wasn't prepared for the story to be completely different and I couldn't even make sense of most of the "story" that took it's place. It was just one big dumb action scene after another with the occasional scene of dumb dialogue. I almost hurt myself laughing at some of the plot twists that deviated from the comic. It's not even good as a Sean Connery vehicle either.

And as one poster stated, not only could Mina Harker The Vampire go out in the daylight, she could see her image in her little compact that she carries (her first attack scene she checks her face to clean herself up). Oh and since when did Dorian Grey become invincible? His legendary power is eternal youth, not invincibility. Hey since the Invisible Man is invisible, does that mean bullets whizz right through him?

No wonder Steven Norrington (director) disowned this movie after release. I had to stop watching it after the hour and 10 minute mark. What could have been, what could have been....

I would only recommend it if you are a completist DVD collector or you just HAVE TO SEE every movie out there. At least rent it or borrow it from a friend. Don't add to the coffers of movie studios that purposely release garbage like this.

Exactly what I was thinking. I ended up picking this up Cost me nothing. (had a GC and a $5 off coupon and PM'd)
Really an uneven film IMHO. Starts off great (I was just sucked in completelty by the story). I was embarrased by how stupid Venice was. I laughed at the Venice sequence. Then i was sucked in again until It's almost like they had a case of Dr Jekyl/Mr Hyde for the screenwriters and the director.

BTW, I used to be a big comic book reader back in the day and if I had read the comic book and was a fan of it and saw this...I have no doubt I'd be pissed and dissapointed too. Given the track record of comics done right on screen, LXG seems to have gotten some of the worst flack. Luckily for me I hadn't read the comic so I probably enjoyed it more than someone who was a fan of it.

But in the end, I have a different taste in movies as it is and it all comes down to depending on my movie watching mood. If I want hard core drama that makes me think or something like this. I do agree the movie has some big flaws, but I think its design and cast make it worth checking out.

I'll recommend it.............if anything in revenge due to the fact a lot of you goofballs recommended the utter S@#% fest that is Way Of The Gun back when. Now THAT is a BAD movie!

I liked the movie, bought the dvd.
It's a action packed movie for 8 to 15 year old boys.
It's really like those old action movies that the whole family can watch on a Sunday afternoon.

atari2600: I was being sarcastic.

That's how I took it.

Yes, I have read them all, and much more from that era. I'd agree that they really bastardized Hyde in this movie.

Your right, Sawyer never became a wise crackin, car drivin, gun totin secret agent in his books. Mina never became a scientist either as far as I'm aware. The thing is, we don't know what happened to them after their stories ended, we don't know that they did or that they didn't. This is a fantasy, it's a what if. It takes place after these characters gained their fame in their own stories, and we visit them years later. I think this is the biggest problem people have. If you can't buy that premise, then you won't like the rest of the movie.

And yes, if you're familiar with the literature of the time, this movie is paced very much like a victorian action novel.