The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I never read the graphic novel, so this flick was all I had to go on. Great look to it, CGI or no, but the script was SERIOUSLY lacking, and the characters--flat.
If you don't think about it, it's a lot of fun, but not the really good action movie I thought it would be.
----------Which, for people who have read the comic, is the most insulting thing about that mess - the characters are all brilliantly explored, and given more than enough moments. And the Nautilus is... Not quite right in the film.
It could have been so, so much more, and the astonishingly bad performance of the film means we are never going to get the musical segment based on Mack The Knife brought to life on the big screen.
If any comic deserved a great adaptation, it is League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
If the Nautilus in the comic book resembled the one used for the Disney flick, then okay, I could see it. TLOEG's Nautilus looked like a skyscraper rising out of the ocean...not what I imagined.
Apparently, Sean Connery and Stephen Norrington (director) did NOT get along. Norrington's a hack and the way he directed it was like, "Let the camera run and that's a wrap!"
I'll have to get the comic, I really will. Stores in Japan only carry the Japanese translation of some of the more well-known graphic comic books so I'll have to Amazon it.
Also they had to make Connery the lead, as opposed to the character of Mina. I mean, god forbid a woman be the leader of the team .
Give it a few more years and they should try again. And make it R rated. And actually do the story (which is dark and twisted and the total opposite from what Hollywood blockbusters are like).
Always liked that one.and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005, w/Robert Downey, Jr.
Star Wars Attack of the Drones, it was on at 2am this morning.
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You're really a glutton for punishment, aren't you?
Anything done by George Lucas in the last ten (or more) years should automatically be locked up in an airtight, time-locked, and heavily guarded steel vault which should not be opened for the next then thousand years. By then, we'll have all killed ourselves off and when the aliens come to Earth, they can have a good laugh at our expense.
I heard that Princess Leia has signed on to do Episode 7, and that Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill will likely join the cast.