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nissa -> RE: Worst movies ever (3/7/2007 8:07:23 AM)
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I'm a fan of the Allan Moore comic, so LXG was nearly agonizing to me. However, since it was a poor comics interpretation, I don't really count it. Mistakes made:
- casting Sean Connery as Quartermain. Um, why cast an actor who has no chance of properly portraying a recovering opium addict who acts scared of his own shadow.
- changing Mina Harker. Since they gave her job as leader to Conner- er, Quartermain, I guess they had to have her as a badass some other way. oofah.
- making the Invisible Man a lovable goof. Okay, granted -- it'd be hard to take kids to a movie that showed the Invisible Man's origins Moore style, but ... yeesh. They basically changed the tone of the entire story that way.
- Adding in Huck Finn as a major character. Um ... the hell? I guess they'd screwed up the original characters so badly that it made sense to bring in someone else, but he felt so tacked on that it was a rather sad attempt.
Not even Nemo's ship breaking the surface saved that movie for me.
LOL ok...if you want to base the movie on accuracies; then yes, it was horribly innaccurate in keeping with the actual characters. However, I think that for me, it was the complete 'turn around' of the characters that made it enjoyable for me to watch. And...since I had never read the actual comic series; that was never an issue for me.
I do agree with Stella about VanHelsing; however, I thoroughly enjoyed Constantine.
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