Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

[Brad Johnson]

Do you mean The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

The storyline sucketh greatly, but the visuals, effects, and sound were extraordinary enough to kind of make up for it.  Then there's Peta Wilson - my, my, my...  

Worst adaptation of a comic book - ever.  

No, that would be either The Shadow with Alec Baldwin or The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren.

Brad

[Manedwolf]

Do you mean The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

The storyline sucketh greatly, but the visuals, effects, and sound were extraordinary enough to kind of make up for it.  Then there's Peta Wilson - my, my, my... 

Worst adaptation of a comic book - ever. 

No, that would be either The Shadow with Alec Baldwin or The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren.

Brad

Yes, I particularly liked the bit where a giant submarine first shown as being the dimensions of an Oscar-class somehow fit into and navigated the shallow canals of Venice, including some that would be tight for a gondola, and you weren't supposed to notice the utter lack of spatial relationship to the buildings. Or even think about where the rest of it went beneath the shallow water. I guess the designers figured it was like a game map, where anything under the buildings was empty space below the map?

[Brad Johnson]

Yes, I particularly liked the bit where a giant submarine first shown as being the dimensions of an Oscar-class somehow fit into and navigated the shallow canals of Venice, including some that would be tight for a gondola, and you weren't supposed to notice the utter lack of spatial relationship to the buildings.

Oh, sure.  Next thing you know you'll be claiming an X-71 can't slingshot around the moon and land on an asteroid.

Brad

[CatsDieNow]

The most unrealistic thing about the Venice sequence, to me, (other than the blowing-up of landmarks that I distinctly recall standing in) was the complete lack of pigeons in the square.  Anyone who has been to Venice knows that there are more birds than brick pavers in that square.

[mustanger98]

For those who believe the effects were the turn off, consider "League of Heroes". It was essentially the same "steampunk" but done on blockbuster hollywood scale, and it still failed at the box office. Overall, I liked both movies well enough, but I am clearly in the minority. 

Do you mean The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?  I've been meaning to see that.  Anyone else like it?

I saw LXG on tv a while back... I had to do some research on it and if you keep in mind that it's steampunk and based on a comic book, it's pretty good.

Note that Alan Quattermain (as done by Sean Connery) knew how to shoot and hit whereas Tom Sawyer (I forget the actor's name) knew how to spray lead from the bottomless magazine and cylinders of an 1873 Winchester and two 1877 or 1878 Colt double-actions.

[Devonai]

As of this post I'm the only one who voted for "loved it," but I would have rather voted for something in between that and the "merely okay" option that most voted for.  I thought it was very entertaining and I had fewer complains than the majority.

However, I'm in agreement with the majority when it comes to LXG The Movie.  Whenever I say it I have to quote The Simpsons, in which one episide there is a male strip club called "The League of Extra-Horny Gentlemen."

[Perd Hapley]

Ooh, let's all laugh at him!   

[Modifiedbrowning]

Sky Captain was ok, nothing special.
As far as LXG I actually like that movie, but I have never read the comic it is based on. BTW the whole submarine in Venice scene was what my brother said to me when bashing the film.
Umm, it's a movie based on a comic book (sorry "Graphic Novel"). You have the Invisible Man hanging out with Alan Quartermain, Mina Parker, Dorrian Gray, Capt. Nemo and Dr. Jekyll and the submarine scene is a big deal? Come on now, where is the suspension of disbelief?

[bedlamite]

 Sky Captain was ok as a rental to kill a couple of hours where you have NOTHING else to occupy your mind. That's about all it's good for...

Starship Troopers would be better in your case. Or maybe Zardoz

[HankB]

Worst adaptation of a comic book - ever.  

No, that would be either The Shadow with Alec Baldwin or The Punisher with Dolph Lundgren.

I guess you missed Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze . . . though technically, that movie was based on old pulps, not comic books . . . though I do remember seeing a Doc Savage comic book somewhere . ..

[Manedwolf]

Phantom was a pretty horrifically bad adaptation, too.

On the other side, for good stuff, they finally got the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles set out the door.
$160 for both volumes, The Early Years and The War Years. Though I heard that, unsurprisingly, Lucas "re-edited" it all, removing the original endpieces, cutting half of the first Egyptian epiode with T.E. Lawrence, and basically f-ing it up.

Maybe someone will release a master from laserdiscs sometime...the original ones.

[Strings]

You CAN be replaced, Skip. With a puppy.

[Perd Hapley]

I like puppies. 

[bedlamite]

The puppy would piddle on your foot.

[MechAg94]

Cleaning up the puppy mess would still be better than some of these movies. 

[Perd Hapley]

In the world of tomorrow, puppies will not produce waste matter. 

[Manedwolf]

In the world of tomorrow, puppies will not produce waste matter. 

I thought that was people. Science fiction hardly ever has bathrooms.

[Perd Hapley]

Is that why they showed us a toilet in Firefly's pilot episode?  Look, it's space, and we still pee!

I was actually more impressed by the fact that they still use aluminum-frame-and-webbing lawn chairs in the future, and on other planets, even.   

[mustanger98]

I was actually more impressed by the fact that they still use aluminum-frame-and-webbing lawn chairs in the future, and on other planets, even.   

They still make those? I don't know... we haven't bothered with them in a long time.

I'm trying to remember which model shotgun they used... 1897 Winchester? I guess that ain't much different to building Han Solo's blaster from a C96 Mauser.

[Manedwolf]

Is that why they showed us a toilet in Firefly's pilot episode?  Look, it's space, and we still pee!

I was actually more impressed by the fact that they still use aluminum-frame-and-webbing lawn chairs in the future, and on other planets, even.   

And it couldn't have been a retro fashion? Ever go in an Ethan Allen? Lots of newly-made chair designs from up to 300 years ago, look in other stores, there's even Roman design curve benches.

[lee n. field]

Is that why they showed us a toilet in Firefly's pilot episode?

And Babylon 5.  There was a scene in a season 1 episode, with the commander and security chief chatting in front of urinals.

[Perd Hapley]

Manedwolf, I didn't think it was a five-hundred-year-old chair.  I was just talking about the design and materials being identical to chairs that we use today  don't really even use much anymore, in the twenty-first century.  Them new-fangled lawn furniture that fit in drawstring bags seem to have totally replaced them. 

Is that why they showed us a toilet in Firefly's pilot episode?

And Babylon 5.  There was a scene in a season 1 episode, with the commander and security chief chatting in front of urinals.

For Sci-Fi, that is pretty hilarious.  But no cable, so...

[Manedwolf]

I know, I just noticed that Firefly seemed to like to show "ancient relics" and reproductions thereof, things from Earth That Was. In one episode, there was a phone booth, displayed a museum-like setting in a private home. 

[Strings]

>Them new-fangled lawn furniture that fit in drawstring bags seem to have totally replaced them.  <

Actually, I have yet to find one of those "fit in a drawstring bag" chairs that would last more than a couple months of regular use. But I remember some of the older style lasting MUCH longer...

[denfoote100]

I bought it out of the bargin bin at Wallyworld.
That should tell you something!!