Brows Beat Down: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (REVIEW)
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=Originally posted June 7th, 2012; Re-edited version=
Film Brain and Kyle join forces to smite this atrocious adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel. Season 4, Episode 9.
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This review was originally posted in June 2012, and is the second of three crossovers produced during To Boldly Flee (the first being Metal Man with Allison Pregler, and the third is Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 with Todd in the Shadows). This version has been re-edited for UA-cam, running 38 seconds shorter than the original, with small trims to tighten up the pacing and shorten film clips. The "Brows Held High" theme had to replaced due to Content ID issues. Enjoy!
Hi film brain huge fan loved ur part in mod critics review of dreamcatcher
Film Brain Read the Alan Moore before review Alan Moore movies
hey film brain, did ya hear? they're rebooting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!
Film Brain you are fantastic!!
do you still make new content?
It's a fun review, but I'm disappointed that nobody pointed out that the Nautilus sailed to the coast of Mongolia, a country that doesn't even have a coastline!
I imagine that there is some kind of missing scene where they meet some other public domain character that would have a blimp or something.
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I read that Dorian Gray in the movie was modelled after Varney the Vampire instead of Dorian Gray himself. Someone looked at the comic cover of the league with portraits of past league members behind them. And instead of using the one clearly named Dorian Gray, they chose the one that stood out more.
That's like having Varney the Vampire in a Castlevania series, only to reveal him to be Death/The Grim Reaper. True, I liked it a little better in that anime series, because it gave us quite the finale to end with, but still quite false advertising.
This is one of those "So bad it's good" movies for me. I really enjoy watching it.
i love the movie as a whole. great to me in not a 'so bad it good movie'. mostly cause i never read the graphic novel and to be honest what I've seen of it i think i like the movie better the book seems more boring.....and in my opinion the nautilus looks gorgeous.
Adiaha Alexander I loved this movie🤗
One my guilty pleasures like Van Helsing, My Soul to Take, Dreamcatcher, Maximum Overdrive, Doom, House of The Dead, Stealth, The Marine, Ghost Rider and Spirit of Vengeance, Season of the Witch, Sucker Punch, Mummy Dragon Emperor, The One, Skyline, Devil Inside, Leprechaun movies, and Pearl Harbor
The part where dude gets crushed by the tank traumatized me as a kid no lie, I’m 24 now and couldn’t remember the name of this film and HAD to find it, as you can tell it was still on my mind 15 years later. Turns out it’s not that bad at ALL, definitely not how I remembered it to be. Now I can move on from this shit. 😂🤦🏻♂️
Yes…this movie is alright.
It was his final film... R.I.P. SEAN CONNERY
He retired after this film.
Having never read any of the source materials this movie draws upon, I never had any problems with it outside of one or two issues. Then I read _The Picture of Dorian Gray_--well most of it; I skipped over the parts where Oscar Wilde rambled on and on about nonsensical bullshit fluff. Anyway, after reading it, I realized how stupid Dorian's portrayal was in this film and now I must dedicate myself to reading up on _all_ the characters just to see how badly this movie got them.
r0bw00d don't bother they got them all wrong the only things they got right were the names
No read it
I highly recommend it. Allan in his books is awesome. also, audiobooks. its a godsend
So interesting to go back in time and see you two kids playing together.
This was as fun now as it was then, yet, both of you have moved ahead by leaps and bounds.
Thanks for uploading this for us, and thanks to both of you for all your good work.
It's actually quite sad that this would be the last ever theatrical movie to feature the late Sean Connery and Stephen Norrington (best known for directing Blade (1998)).
I’m pretty sure the CGI in this movie gave some poor kid nightmares
EDIT: I don’t mean it as a hate thing, or anything against the special effects department. I’m saying it because I’m around 25, saw it for the first time the other day and I had nightmares from it
I miss crossovers.
Unfortunately Channel Awesome is a shadow of its former self, with most of its A-List having moved on to other things or posting far less then they used to. I too miss what I like to call the ''Kickassia era'' of the channel but sadly its not coming back.
Yeah, I enjoyed the old days. Channel used to feel like a family, like they were all friends hanging out, doing crossovers and stuff. I do appreciate those still producing content but they feel more like they are in their own bubbles now, no interactions with each other any more.
That's why I'm really concerned about the 10th Anniversary movie (Yes Doug said they were doing it). I'm afraid it will just be To Boldly Flee all over again: cramming in WAY too many superfluous characters who do little to nothing for the plot. His NC and Awesome Comics crew would be a big enough cast as it is, but he'll most likely want to get in any producers he can (and possibly even the ones not on the site even for just a cameo). The only thing I can see working would be to do another Brawl but on a bigger scale. Kinda like Civil War meets Infinity War.
imdb88 I still look back quite fondly on To Boldly Flee. Frankly seeing everyone together is why I watch the anniversaries, plot be damned.
But that's the problem. In all three movies, there are plenty of people who do nothing but stand in the background and say really boring lines. You could replace them with a mop and it wouldn't change a thing. And if you're gonna go with the "Well, it is the Nostalgia Critic's movie after all" excuse, then why even have a supporting cast?
If you want a Channel Awesome crossover movie done right, look at what Linkara did with the Atop the Fourth Wall movie. It's basically the same plot as To Boldly Flee but with a smaller ensemble cast. Because of this, each character gets their own little mini story arc that doesn't overshadow the main character.
24:13 Africa isn't a country...
That majestic music coupled with violent or silly images was a delightful contrast, thank you.
I find it somewhat interesting that there is rarely any speculation as to rather or not Alan Moore took inspiration from Philip José Farmer's original Wold Newton Universe that was first touched on by Farmer in 1972 with Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and in 1973 with Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Which had a similar premise in that characters like John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, The Time Traveler and pretty much any character from popular literature existed together in a shared universe 27 years before The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
They had a few things to say about Moriarty's rooftop snipers in Venice, but they missed one thing: _How did Moriarty convince the snipers to _*_stay_*_ in Venice?_
*Moriarty:* "...So that's the plan. You guys stand on all these rooftops and shoot at these interlopers to stop them from stopping my efforts to destroy Venice. Once I've successfully destroyed Venice, all of you will receive your pay...except that you won't actually be able to _collect_ your pay, because you'll all be _dead_ as soon as Venice collapses into the sea. Are there any questions?"
*One of the Snipers:* "Yes. Can I be paid in Deutschmarks instead of local currency? I have a bodyguard job in Stuttgart, and I'll have to head there immediately after I finish _this_ job."
*Moriarty:* "Did you somehow overlook the part about the successful completion of this Venice job resulting in _your death?"_
*Sniper:* "It's okay. I'm a _very_ determined individual."
*Moriarty:* "...all right, then. Yes, I can and will convert your pay from Liras to Deutschmarks, at the standard international exchange rates."
*Sniper:* "Thank you, sir."
*Moriarty, aside:* "And my colleagues said that hiring brain-damaged opium addicts would be a _terrible_ idea...."
I HAD NO IDEA YOU DID THIS EPISODE! I like watching this move in a so-bad-it's HILARIOUS way but it feels so....rare to see people taking this on. I don't know why; it's perfect riffing material.
A FIlm Brain and A Gentleman
Great vid! Thank you very much!
Keep rocking and making awesome reviews of movies. Or posting your older movie reviews, they are all great.
17:25 - 17:31 I agree with Kyle and Mathew there; why didn't they just shoot the pod? They'd stop the bad guys, save the world faster without any more loss on their team, and the movie would be a lot shorter.
13:53 - 14:10 Also, yeah, I face palmed myself at the changing of Dorian Gray and the rules of his cursed painting. I fucking love that book, and do not appreciate that part with him just looking at it to undo his years of agelessness.
I never get what does it means that Conney "didin't understood" the script of LOTR. What's there to understand? is a pretty straightforward Hero's Journey.
I'd love to see the two of you review the 2004 phantom movie. Also, this isn't the first literary character Stuart Townsend botched. He played Lestat De Lioncourt in the movie Queen Of The Damned. You guys should review that.
The one with Gerard Butler?
@@scottylewis8124 Yup. 😈😈😈
@@GenAqua why queen of the damned? It's a decent film.
@@scottylewis8124 Yeah. I like it somewhat..not as good as the Interview With The Vampire movie...but I would love to hear their opinions, and how they react.
You know, Tom Sawyer looks pretty good for someone in his mid-sixties.
What we don't know is that there is a hidden Tom Sawyer story where he journeys to Florida and finds the fountain of youth so-!
Also: Even for the time, $78 million is actually pretty cheap by the standards of this kind of movie. Curse of the Black Pearl? $140 million. Master and Commander? $150 million. Hulk? $137 million. Matrix Reloaded: At least $127 million. X2? $110 million. There are three action movies that year with similar (as in, within $10 million) budgets: 2 Fast 2 Furious, Daredevil and The Core. Two of those are, primarily, practical. The other is The Core, which looks similarly bad. What I'm saying is? For a CGI heavy movie like this in 2003, a $78 million budget is almost like having no VFX budget.
I can't help but like the movie for what is though I do acknowledge that the book is leagues better (no pun intended).
Shall I point out that our current numbering of years is supposed to be based upon Christ's birth? Zero is the moment of birth. Therefore, one must live an ENTIRE YEAR to reach the age of one and an ENTIRE DECADE to become ten. That's why medical terminology calls the first ten years of one's life one's first decade. Ages 11 to 20 is one's second decade. I'm a 68-year-old former medical librarian, and thus, in my seventh decade of life. The 19th century was called that because it ran from January 1, 1801 to December 31, 1900. 1899 was the next-to-the-last year of the 19th century, not the last.
Is it weird that the movie is one of my guilty pleasures?
No it’s fine
Soooo Quatermane shot a guy from that great a distance with a shotgun slug from a double barrel in one shot?
The league of Extraordinary gentlemen was first released as individual comics. Compiling it into a collection of volumes and shaping a fancy title on it doesn't change what it is lol
Hilariously, in the bonus features, producer Don Murphy said that to write the script, they first needed to find someone who had read ALL the involved stories.
jwhaler82 I am so glad Don Murphy didn't make Spawn 2 because of this movie's failure but at least he made a better comic book movie known as Transformers which is based on a classic anime/manga made to sell toys.
24:01 - I always crack up at Kyle and Mathew here
In 14:46 - Same as how gunpowder works inside the cartridge. If those barrels were air-tight the powder would ignite because of the Saltpeter.
Judging from their appearance, they don't seem especially airtight, especially given there appears to be bubbles floating from them.
Film Brain I see
I never thought this movie was that bad
I don't think they identify the Germans as Nazis in the movie. The German soldiers look like WWI era troops - a bit early, given the 1899 setting, but they aren't dressed in the uniforms and emblems of the Reich. I think that might have been an error on your guys' part.
They don't obviously, this is sadly an example of these guys looking for and often making up reasons to bash movies they don't like. Obviously those guys aren't meant to be Nazis since the party wasn't even formed until well after World War I.
I forgot how stupid this movie is, and to think a friend of mine once convinced me the movie was decent.
Are they making another one soon I hope there will be
That first 30 sec... Preach!
Real talk though I'm incredibly glad we didn't get saddled with Sean Connery as Gandalf. That would have been terrible
I actually liked this movie X3
I didn't think the film was THAT bad. Sure it isn't good, it's more or less in the middle.
I'd give it at least a 5.3/10
Guess what comic im buying next?
Hey, now that Disney owns Fox, they can give us a decent adaptation (if they can get Moore on board, that is).
Haha your Disney doing it would be a disaster
well, at least we could forgive them for Logan and Deadpool. even though i have a bad feeling for The New Nutants and Dark Phoenix since they kinda rushed it (both of them are gonna be released in 2018).
jake hilado it's 2019 now
3:44 except in dc animation
I have no prior familiarity with this movie or the comic it's based on, but wow it looks so bad that even watching the review hurt a little.
I think u missed the bit about using a middle during ww1
Their a rumors for a reboot.
Aww... I know this movie is stupid and makes no sense... I still enjoyed it.
To be honest I hated it and I didn't read the comic.
I saw this as a child, and it actually has turned me off of the comic. I might read it now that I've heard that it's worth a damn, but I'll always associate it with this terrible film, which is the worst thing an adaptation can do.
Well actually I am not an idiot. Still I enjoy the movie for what it is and do not care about the plotholes and counterlogic bits.
I mean this is a story by alan moore where in an invisible man, a lady that survived a vampire and an opium adicted retired adventurer areuset in place.
And you guys complain about if gunpowder does work under water or how the phantom managed to place all the snipers on the roofs?. For real?
For fs sake this is fantasy. I don't need logic to enjoy a movie. I want to simply switch off my brain and laugh about some crazy action and funny oneliners.
Yeah there's a reason Film Brain's sub count never cracked 40K and the other guy basically faded into obscurity. They arent' good at their job.
Alan Moore happens to be a friend of my dad's from when they were kids. I've met him a couple of times, which was cool given a I'd become a fan before my dad told me that he knows him. If you're lucky enough to ever speak to Alan by all means converse on any topic, he'll have something interesting to say on almost anything, but just don't bring up any of the films of his works. Seriously. Also, side note, if Tom Sawyer was around at the time this film is set he'd be Quartermain's age. So yeah.
Oh yeah? Well my dad knows Rob Liefeld.
Oh God. I'm so jealous.
So, your father was from Northampton?
+Archeopteryxman421 Yep. I grew up there, most of my family still lives there. Not my favourite place but I know Alan loves it. Couldn't get him out of there with a crowbar.
If I knew Rob Liefeld... I would never, under any circumstance, even under the threat of death or dismemberment ever disclose it due to simply dying of complete embarrassment. Like going to my death with shit stained underpants.
Tom Sawyer Jr., anyone? That was easy.
This movie kind of glosses over some of the important negative traits of its characters. Like the fact that Hyde is a psychopath, Nemo is a fanatic and the isolation of being invisible can drive people insane.
Adam Hoffman isn't Hyde a rapist too? I haven't read the series yet, but I heard that Hyde is a rapist too.
He is in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. I'm not sure if he is in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, though. I can't remember all the details from the book.
and what happens to the invisable man is too graphic for a blockbuster even when its not out of character for mr hyde
Like how the original Invisible Man started being driven insane by his own formula.
are you invisible ?
Nothing disappoints me about a film more than missed potential.
I would love to see an adaptation of the graphic novel done competently.
What I'd honestly like to see more would be an ongoing TV series or cartoon with the same setup (maybe even the same characters) following a monster-of-the-week type formula. Seeing what a team of writers could come up with based on the idea sounds more interesting to me then just retelling the story of the graphic novel, even if it ends up being worse.
Bianca Mayer They did make a tv version (at least the concept) they just called it Penny Dreadful.
Huh, I had that show on my radar as horror more then superhero stuff, but I haven't actually seen it. Might check it out when I get around to it.
ChaosSandwhich I wish properties of Alan Moore we're adapted properly
If I'm correct the only adaptation he likes is "For the Man Who has Everything" from the justice league
I'd love to see individual movies (20.000 leagues for Nemo, Dracula for Mina, King Solomon's Mines for Quartermain, etc) and THEN the league movies. Of course, changing the novel endings where the characters die.
Tom Sawyer looks good for a character who should be in his 50's.
According to my calculations, Tom should be 66. He is 12 in 1845. The movie takes place in 1899. This is a difference of 54 years. 12 + 54 = 66.
“May this new century be yours, son... as the old one was mine.”
Sir Sean Connery 1930-2020
Watching that scene post death really got me in the feels.
You are now the man
As bad as that movie is, I'll give it this......THAT was admittedly a good line.
Wait, so the bad guy created an ensemble team just so they could stop the threat he created himself?
What is this, Suicide Squad?
the only thing missing is one of the main heroes being self referential by saying "What are we... some sort of league of extraordinary gentlemen?"
Yozora Mikazuki LOL
Waller's threat was completely unintentional (unlike Moriarty's), and the squad was completely useless for its original purpose of combating a Superman-like threat (While the League was exactly what Moriarty wanted).
Moriarty's plan was a lot more clever:
He got the best hunter in the world to capture Hyde, which he needed. And creating the threat of the Phantom was the best way to get the otherwise reluctant characters (Skinner, Harker and Nemo) together (with Hyde), in order for his double agent to not only collect what he needed, but to kill them all at once, because they were the only thing that could stop him. His main failing was largely not using a bigger bomb. Or several.
well, at least, there's only one thing this POS movie has done right: NO SKYBEAMS and faceless CGI minions.
Khaine's Lair Waller first appeared in 1986 so I assume you mean 1987 not 1978. Or was there a flashback story that told about her past?
The chemist is not really that far a leap for Mina who was described in the novel as having a sharp mind that would be suitable for science.
'L.X.G', Because poor literacy is KEWL.
Marc Baker To be fair, they couldn't call it L.E.G..
Also because apparently adding "X" in the title makes it cooler...
They even made fun of that in a later LoEG volume
". "That's right. The X-Ls are American made."
"Well, I suppose they'd have to be. Who else thinks 'extra' starts with an X?"
It should have been League of XTREME!!!!! Gentlemen
-90s Kid
90's Kid: DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE, The Extraordinary Gentlemen are EXTREEEEEEEEEEM!
and with dorian's painting, i would rather have it in my possession instead of far away cause if someone wanted me dead they could find it and use it, if i had it i could hide it so only i knew where it was
That should've been Dorian's reason for betraying the league.
If the movie writers had actually read the novel, Dorian's painting keeps him alive as long as it remains undamaged. Had Moriarty stolen it and threatened to destroy it if Dorian didn't cooperate, then it would've made more sense for him wanting it back.
It wouldn't even have to be leaving the portrait at risk of _deliberate_ destruction. If Dorian had left the portrait in some abandoned house on the other side of the planet, and - unbeknownst to him - somebody bought the land and had the house bulldozed while he was on another continent entirely, then he wouldn't be there to stop the bulldozer; he wouldn't even _realize_ that the house was being destroyed - and his painting along with it - until he started keeling over and dying, and by then it would be too late. So it's in his best interest to keep the portrait close at hand (to protect it from destruction), but not _too_ close at hand (if we're going by the movie's premise and the portrait can be used to kill him).
(Three-year-late reply is three years late, I know.)
Apparently Larry Cohen accused Fox of having stolen one of his ideas for this film - he'd written a script called "Cast of Characters" and the accusation was that Fox made this movie while calling it "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" to make sure it would sell, so the only thing it actually took from the graphic novel was the title. That makes SO much sense.
I can believe that, since THE VERY NEXT YEAR in 2004, they did something similar with "I, Robot" by taking an unrelated spec script and slapping the name of Assimov's book and adding the 3 Laws of Robotics into it.
And to make matters worse, didn't Fox throw Alan Moore under the bus, thus resulting in his utter disdain for putting his name to film adaptations?
Wait, isn't the Jekyll and Hyde serum is supposed to separate the good and the evil in someone, if so how would taking more serum make your Hyde stronger?
As Blockbuster Buster pointed out, if an already evil guy takes the potion, he should turn into Mort Goldman.
I'm guessing the filmmakers just thought that Hyde was just a victorian Hulk and so isn't evil, just a mutant (missing the whole point of the novel).
@@sebastianrosa7935 yeah….also Hyde is meant to be a persona
Ah, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The movie that divided many audiences.
Myself included.
I honestly wanted to enjoy it as a mindless action movie, but it fails even at that.
Its one of those things that need to be viewed once and then forgotten to the annals of time.
divided the audience to the bored and more bored?
+TulilaSalome Ha, nice. 👊🏻
Just like Van Helsing.
I just tolerate the movie.
This movie deserves a reboot that’s true to the comics.
Never been interested in the comic, so I don't have any skin in the game on that end. For me, I kind of like the movie despite its faults. It's a guilty pleasure, i guess. I love the look of the Nautilus; I loved Jekyll and Hyde; I loved Quartermain; I loved Mina Harker; I loved Nemo; but I think I absolutely adored have Tom Sawyer in it the most. That just made me really happy. I liked reading Tom Sawyer as a kid and having him as an adult in this being awesome made me really happy. And I like Mina mostly because of Peta Wilson; I just really loved the show "La femme Nikita" growing up, and seeing her in the movie made me go "OMG YAY!" because I had stopped watching the show.
Also, I really, absolutely adore the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies. Not even guilty pleasure. I think they're amazing and RDJ is now firmly cemented in my head as Sherlock Holmes as well as Tony Stark. Never really cared about Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. Oh, but I do love the old Basil Rathbone radio plays I have copies of, and the Tom Baker version.
"How did Quartermain know M was Professor Moriarty?" During the fight in Grey's library, a henchman yells to the Phantom, 'Run, James!" Listening to M's 'My Evil Plot' record, a henchwoman tells M, 'You may start recording, Professor.' So, Professor James M. Eh, I guess that makes sense.
0:51 "As a great man once said, 'Why the hell not?'" lol gets me every time
The thing that always bothered me the most was Tom Sawyer being so young in 1899. Tom Sawyer the novel was set in roughly 1845 when Tom was 12. Quartemain WAS older but there would be no father/son dynamic since Alan would only be 82 (born 1817) to Tom's 68.
Shane West just doesn't fit that age. With so much crap in this film, so I don't know why this bugs me so much, but it does.
According to the team of the movie, this version of Tom Sawyer was based on his adventures in 'Tom Sawyer: Detective' where he was about this age in the book.
Fun Fact: at one time, the Bank of England was in fact protected by a detail from the Household Division. So yeah... that's actually not inaccurate.
After reading the graphic novel a thought came to me if fox does reboot the movie how amusing would be if they somehow got Connery out of retirement to play campion bond.
I don’t know if Connery would like that role, but it would be a great nod to his character.
Kind of wish someone would remake this. Like Lara Croft it would be worth a second go.
Unbelievable that BvS copied the ending of this film almost exactly. Didn't think anything could make BvS worse but copying a notoriously terrible movie did the trick!
Way better than the Nostalgia critic's.
Oh yeah….. might avoid his vid
@@dimitriwarchief301 please do avoid it😅
This movie is a guilty pleasure, and it's what introduced me to the comics. I still find the Hyde costume effects to be pretty rad, and hold up better than dopple-Hyde's CGI.
Yeah, all the forced perspective technical trickery really makes the hideous CGI at the end stand out all the more. Some of the production design in this movie is quite good, and it's a shame it's undermined by the script. There's also quite a few miniatures, which isn't often seen in a film post-2000.
Same here. It's a film I bought both on VHS and DVD when it finally came out only because I wanted to see the special features and stuff. It's really dumb and takes a crap on the original source but it's funny to sit through pointing out how RIDICULOUS things can get, even for a comic book movie.
And Hyde was the best part. They did great with the forced perspective shots with the budget they had and he looked 10000000x better than the Hyde in Van Hellsing which was utter SHIT. The directed stated he didn't want to do things the way they did in the earlier Hulk film for just that reason because the effects looked bad and in the end, Hyde actually looked like he was there....partly because he was.
Interesting notes about the production of this film; they were filming in a lot of place in Europe but they lost a lot of the set due to a massive flood. They were using a lot of practical effects so most of the post-CG stuff we see is the result of a lot of the things being lost. You mention the house exploding in the earlier part of the film and how it looks terrible but that was in fact a miniature and there's also a little CG error right in the foreground. Reed walks right through the assassin who killed himself, as his foot clips through his arm.
Jared Delahoussaye Hyde was done with as much practical effects as possible. The same cannot be said of dopple-Hyde
Jared Delahoussaye
This is my guilty pleasure too and the blame for the films failure should go to ex-executive of Fox, Tom Rothman now in charge of Sony.
This is why Penny Dreadful is the best adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ever.
Penny Dreadful is a contrived, stupid, fantasy wank project from a shit creator that would rather live out his fantasy on film then direct a Goddamn series.
I mean, the idea of "Mina Harker actually stays a vampire" could have been used to do something interesting. (And imply different rules to vampirism than the original novel.) That doesn't happen here (and has no business being here, because of what its adapting), because this thing is just completely brain dead, but it's not without merit for something in the future that is neither this thing or that flop TV show Demons. That having been said: Unless the novel is supposed to take place earlier in this continuity, Dracula takes place sometime between 1890 and 1899. This movie takes place in 1899 and Jonathan Harker is dead. Even for the 1890s, that's probably unusually young.
I would've accepted Mina's vampirism, if it was a curse. Something she hated with a passion because it forced her to kill in order to survive. The red scarf she wears could've been what kept it surpressed, and would only activate when removed.
Slightly reminiscent of Rosario (not to a "ripoff" degree, but close enough that it feels like an influence), but that could have worked.
Quartermaine knew he was Professor Moriarty because at the beginning of the black and white video and when he walks into the room the man calls him professor. professor James M . Professor Moriarty would have been in the newspapers in this universe.
I know this is a bad movie but if they fix the special effects and did a couple of More tweets to the strip I think they would be a good movie and a good trilogy
There was even a clue before that. During the gun fight scene in Dorian's home, one of the soldiers yells out 'RUN JAMES!' as M is escaping.
I mention that moment in the review when the reveal happens.
Film Brain i know
However, it makes no sense. Even if half the world knows about Sherlock Holmes and his arch-nemesis Prof. Moriarty, there was no mention of Holmes or his death anywhere in the film. Quatermain just "deduces" that it's the Napoleon of Crime based on nothing but an initial, a first name and a title.
BBBHuey Alan Quartermaine is a very smart man and so is Captain Nemo and dr jekyll. And someone who can outsmart all of them and name is Professor James M?. Coincidence he thinks not!
so... LEG is a shittier version of The Avengers?
neat.
Nah, it's more like a steampunk Suicide Squad.
I thought league of extraordinary gentlemen was entertaining enough, but I never read the source material .The same goes for Constantine (2005) and V for Vendetta (2005).
still a better suicide squad movie than suicide squad
Ouch man, ouch.
I like This Nautilus. Just because its a giant Typ XXI German Submarine, they put some stupid things on
you just won a subscriber :)
Oh you were finally able to put this back up how wonderful! This is one of your most memorable crossovers; my favorite! Thank you!
Another thing that's sad about this is that James Robinson is usually a solid writer, not the greatest but generally solid, I was shocked when I found out he wrote this
I like this movie, screw Alan Moore.
Tanks were anticipated pre 1900 by one of Jules Vernes novels.
It's a bad movie
@@supoa9489 but it’s fine to like it
I think this film is a good example of how movies are made for people who watch movies and not for readers. I don't mind at all when I film is completely different than a book I just read. lol, I'm commenting on an old video. you guys have come a long way congrats
how the gunpowder barrel bombs work: by having air and the ignition source in the barrel will make the gun powder barrels go off, thats y there r so many cause of the barrels being probably half full
unownbob123 Daaaaamn that makes so much sense now
I still like this silly, stupid movie. I quote "no not the whole thing" to this day. Also Dorian was fun and Nemo is beyond badass.
Agreed. Nemo and Hyde were my favorite characters in this clusterfuck.
Is anyone here after watching Kyle's two hour breakdown of the comics?
There were plenty of automobiles in 1899.
20:42 There were actually a few more hints of the name; there was also a woman on the vinyl record who called him "Professor" and he called himself "M"; so, "Professor James M"
I know this movie is as stupid as it is insulting, but ... it's kind of a guilty pleasure of mine. I love Dorian and I think Mina was one of the coolest vampires we've ever been given on film. Plus, the effects whenever Jekyll/Hyde transform are AMAZING, despite the rest of the movie's effects being the very definition of dated. I even like the movie's version of the Nautalus. It looks friggin' cool to me! I don't know, I guess I caught the movie at the right age. I was a twelve-year-old boy when it came out. This flick was MADE FOR twelve-year-old boys.
I also like this movie, despite the flaws. And I liked that Mina actually got to kill Dorian Grey, there are so many movies out there that has "strong female characters" that never actually do anything, or they end up in a stupid catfight with one of the female villains.
@@blondbraid7986 That moment was just so...SATISFYING. After all the shit he pulled on everyone, Mina stabbing him in that inescapable position felt so fitting. I think one of the things that really shook it was that even Mina had no idea what was going to happen. As Dorian is just disintegrating in front of her she gets the biggest 'WHAT THE FUCK-?!' look on her face.
I admire the symbolism of the British hero (Quartermain) passing the torch to the American hero (Sawyer). Sort of like in history how the British Empire waned as America battled with the Soviet Union and eventually took center stage.
I'd argue that including Sawyer is a brilliant addition to the movie. Dorian's addition does feel weird, since his story is different than the others, but adding an American character gives both a sense of international cooperation in the team, and to expand the roster to other Victorian novels besides exclusively British materials. I understand why Moore does this in the graphic novels, since Moore is British, but there are other countries with famous novels in the time period, and something from Mark Twain is the best option for the US.
But all material isn't British, wasn't Nemo created by Jules Verne, a Frenchman?
Having read volumes 1 and 2 of the graphic novel, and looking up nationalities of authors, Verne was a Frenchman, Stoker was an Irishman, Stevenson was a Scot, and Wells and Haggard were Englishmen. Early in the first volume you get an Edgar Allen Poe character, so I'd say the graphical novel has mostly British authors, or characters that directly tie to Britain. While in the graphic novel it makes sense that such a heavily American character like Sawyer is not part of the story (since the story is mostly in Britain), the movie is a much more international effort, so Sawyer as a movie member makes sense.
Rewatching this after Kyle's 2 hour long video about the graphic novels.
I love this review. You guys are too cool. Big fan. A million Thunder-Clappin High 5's to you
BAH! Do not dare mock the steel bum of Nemo!!!
*cough*I like this film*cough* Sorry, I've got a chunk of guilt and shame stuck in my throat. Oh, and for anyone who read my list of movies I like and everyone hates in the comments of Doug Walker's list and might wonder why this film isn't on it, consider it an honorable mention.
00:28 -- Me explaining to my mom why manga isn't a lower form of reading than a "normal" book.
Venice ending up in the ocean? Apparently it teleported... I'm not surprised, what with this dumb movie.
I kinda like league of extraordinarily gentlemen
I knew I wasn't going to watch or like the movie when I saw Mina turn into bats. SHE'S NOT A VAMPIRE IN THE GRAPHIC NOVEL!