League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer 360
An anonymous reader notes that the
League of Extraordinary Gentleman Trailer is on apple.com. It's in quicktime. And since I'm downloading at under 3k a second, I'll let others comment on it. Here's hopin'
Why not explain what the League is??? (Score:1, Insightful)
Or is it cool to pretend that obviously we all know?
"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe you should finally get rid of that 36.6Kbit/s Modem...
Yeah, trailer looks good-- but what is it? Am I supposed to know that?
... And it looks truly awful. (Score:2, Insightful)
I was going to say, a fine opportunity wasted, but I don't think it was. The League was too sophisticated for the type of audience attracted to a movie derived from a comic in the West. They mainly want mindless violent-action crap, such as Dardevil appears to be.
Ignore the movie. Alan Moore's stuff is too good for movies; this looks to be a travesty even more egregious than the appalling From Hell. Read the book, instead. It's pure, inspired brilliance, with breathtakingly intricate Kev O'Neill artwork to match.
Re:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Score:4, Insightful)
I was a little disappointed that the trailer was all action, and didn't give any feeling about the theme. It would've been cool to at least start the trailer with the cobblestone streets and horse-drawn coaches to show that it is the 19th Century, and not the 1930s like it seems based on the car shots. They didn't move it in time, did they??
The trailer looked good (Score:2, Insightful)
God knows that having Sean in it tells us nothing about the movie's quality. He lets himself appear in some real stinkers.
Here's hoping for the best...
A trend for the times... (Score:4, Insightful)
Hollywood seems to follow a pack mentality at times, but this time I think they've actually hit the right cultural spot...
Re:"since I'm downloading at under 3k?" (Score:3, Insightful)
Saw it in front of Daredevil (Score:2, Insightful)
*Yawn* (Score:3, Insightful)
The whole trailer looks like an X-Men 2 rip-off.
Victorian roadster? (Score:5, Insightful)
And besides the Victorian anachronisms, why is it never daytime there?
Re:excellent! (Score:3, Insightful)
the characters may not exactly have amazing powers, but they've definitely got a lot more going for them in terms of depth and charm
That certainly didn't come across in the trailer! It looked like an invisible guy, a long haired guy with a gun, blond guy in a car with two pistols, Sean Connery punching some bad guy, and some scenery falling down. {yawn}
... but I'm sure they were restrained somewhat by the marketing department who insisted the preview feature Sean Connery saying something "witty".
Re:Heros? bah. (Score:4, Insightful)
Most find heroes inspiring. We look for the best qualities in our hereos that we hope to find in ourselves. Heroes remind us that the fight is worth fighting, and that in the end, generally, good does win over evil if the goal is worth sacrificing for.
Not everyone believes this. I do. I think the motivations behind every day heroes (doing the right thing) is stronger than the motivations behind the bad guys (self gain), in general.
To most persons, heroes don't represent any new ideals, rather, they affirm the deep convictions of those who admire them. This is not a bad thing in and of itself.
Wanting to watch virtual heroes defeat the bad guys doesn't make me weak as an American. It reinforces the American ideal that ordinary persons can do extraordinary things when they do it for the right reasons.
As a form of entertainment, I find this much more palatable and uplifting than "Faces of Death", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Scream".
LXG? Why the acronym? (Score:2, Insightful)
Where's the fun in that? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wouldn't use an acronym like that? In fact, I find it hard to swallow that ANY Victorian would use the letter "X" for extra. I guess they were just trying to make the logo not say "LEG."
The clips in the background look good, but I worry that the trailer's missing the feel of the comic completely. Something about the entire thing just doesn't feel Victorian. To much of the overblown "action movie" music, possibly. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope they pull off this movie...
Re:A trend for the times... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yep. Good versus evil right there, no doubt about it. Well, except for the "good" part.
the neverending saga of Israel & Palestine
Yep, once again it's good versus evil. Well, again, as long as you ignore the requirement for the "good" part.
Why is it that if something or someone is evil (like Palistinian suicide bombers or Saddam Hussien) that makes anyone believe the opposition to those things is morally good?
Iraq is run by a very, very bad man. That does nothing to provide any moral justification for killing another 250,000 iraqis to secure oil rights.
Palistinian suicide bombers are evil. That does nothing to provide any moral justification for imposing martial law on Palistinians in Isreal, and it does not excuse fifty years of condemnable human rights abuses by the Isreali's.
Stop looking at the world as black and white. Because, that point of view forces you to think that anything that's not "quite as evil" must somehow be "good." That way of looking at the world makes you into a moral cripple.