Is he joking? I can't tell for sure. He probably is, but just in case...

Anyways, The Hulk is what had the workprint released with unfinished special effects.

LoEG looks cool, it made my list of "upcoming movies that may kick ass" over on groucho (which, along with the "upcoming movies that may suck", was roundly ignored, which I believe is due to the amount of work I did, calling out Hot or Not for movies that are in the goddamn planning stages all the way up to about-to-be-released - the quantity of information was too much and folks just had their eyes glaze over and moved on to the next post)...

I hope that the last sentence is in contention for the longest parathentical run-on sentence yet used at JC.

I cannot wait to see X-men 2. One random X2-related news item: somehow, someway, there was a copy of the movie circulating around Kazaa. Yes, *before it was finnished*. I have no clue how that happened. Anyway, people would of course download it and watch it, therefore not needing to go to theaters. Even worse, the movie was, as previously stated, unfinished. Somehow, this was not mentioned. Therefore, most of the OMG LOL!1!1!1!1!1!WTF?/.>/? special effects looked really, really stupid, thus it would get unfairly slagged for being a bad movie. "So?" I hear you ask. So nothing! That's all I wanted to say! Bye-bye, I'm off to get a start on this morning's headache.

It'll be interesting to see how much the protagonists in the movie retain their anti-hero depictions from the comic.

That's not how I meant for that to be received. What I meant was that the concept is so good you can't help but me mad at the guy who came up with it out of spite because you didn't come up with it yourself. In all seriousness, I think the guy is a genius.

However, the concept (getting a bunch of characters no longer under copyright together) is so completely his that nobody else could really expand on it. Getting a bunch of characters from earlier in the 19th century to, I don't know, go knock around with Moby Dick or something may have some value, but if Moore doesn't do it, it won't get done. A person would be called out as a hack and a thief if they went to do that story.

(I suppose if enough of it went on, it could become its own genre like how D&D sprang up after the Tolkien books, I guess.)

But yeah, Alan Moore gave us the Watchmen, the LoEG, one of the few things in the last few years that handled Jack the Ripper well and the Killing Joke. The guy's a god.

In terms of the movie -- I understand that Moore didn't have much to do with it. That's unfortunate, but fortunate for me as what I know about the League won't really matter much due to how the story got changed. If I were a hardcore fan of the comic I'd be pissed, but I'm not.

Robb, why are you disappointed in Moore's involvement? Just curious.

pinback wrote:Oooh, a movie made from a comic book??

That IS exciting!!!

YOU ARE A LOATHESOME INDIVIDUAL.

I DON'T LIKE YOU.

Yea, they cut up the comic book and just video tape them moving each frame up and down going *CRASH* *BANG* *SMASH*!

Oooh, a movie made from a comic book??

That IS exciting!!!

Yeah, I hear you. My reaction was quite the same.

It's just an incredible concept, though. It's one of those that I'd have never thought of, but I am actually angry at Moore for thinking up itself. It's just so completely perfect (especially since, due to the fact the Mouse will be forever protected by Disney, Disney's lawyers and Disney's money, it's not something that would even be possible in this day and age).

I don't know how the story ends, either, so unlike my viewing of Daredevil and Spider-Man, I won't be one up on the movie in that regard. Which'll be neat.

I read the first couple issues of the comic and it also didn't exactly grab my attention, and I do think the recent previews to the movie look more interesting than the ones they were showing months ago on the internet so I'll probably be going into that thing with an open mind. We'll see how it goes.

(I refuse to call this thing "XLG" or whatever set of random letters they are using for it.)

(I mean, X-Men II's official title is "X2." How fucking stupid is that? I mean, really?)

Anyway, all of this utter inane horseshit regarding "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia" and "Alien" or what *I* like to call, "Shit" is no longer important or necessary. Thanks for holding down the fort, Ben! Thanks, indeed, for all your intentional trolling to get this place going strong. 'Magnolia the best movie ever'... Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! A hand, ladies and gentlemen, for Benjamin "Pinback" Parrish! He really had me going there for a second.

So back to a film that will not bore the rest of us to tears: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's the 1800s and all the books you never read in English Lit are decidedly more non-fiction than in our world. I was never a really big fan of the original comic that this flick is based on, so I hardly even care that Tom Sawyer was added. I finally have the right attitude going into a comic film! Excellent!

Let's hope that shit gets fucked up most excellently in this, shall we? That's all I'm hoping for. Oh, and of course, a few fucking HYDE-OUTS where Edward Hyde just flips out and starts breaking everything in sight. Destruction! Horrible, sweet, destruction! That's the kind of money shot I'm talking about, Boogie Night Fan. Thassssss right. So we've got Hyde, the Invisible Man, a vampire, Nemo, Tommy there and Quatermain altogether again for the first time. This is what movies ought to be -- where else (except for a comic) can one see (and except for the novels these characters were first featured in) these characters all getting together and beating the piss out of people? Exactly. EXACTLY. Stories you can't see anywhere else -- that's what I like about the movies.



To the League!