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Ordinary Pictures of League of Extaordinary Gentlemen

 
  

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deja_vroom
16:14 / 03.09.02
clicky
 
 
deja_vroom
16:17 / 03.09.02
and more
 
 
gridley
16:48 / 03.09.02
wow, hopefully Nemo looks less like a guy in a fake beard in the film...
 
 
glassonion
18:55 / 03.09.02
o god
 
 
grant
19:50 / 03.09.02
I'm guessing those were stand-ins, or rough takes for special effects or something.

They kind of have to be.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:21 / 03.09.02
Jesus, guys. They're pretty obviously just shots taken of people messing about on the set and not in any way supposed to form some kind of PR release or represent the final product. The guy on the far right in the posed 'fight scene' has got the biggest, most stupid grin on his face.
 
 
Mazarine
02:09 / 04.09.02
They kinda remind me of Doctor Who, I don't know why.
 
 
invisible_al
11:23 / 04.09.02
You've also got to remember that those were taken with a digital camera in odd light conditions. The actual film will make everything look lovely I'm sure when the director, cinematographer and the like get involved.
 
 
rizla mission
13:32 / 04.09.02
So weird .. it looks kind of like they're going for sub-Indiana Jones retro-pulp and getting some sort of "PowerRangers go Edwardian" thing..

God help us all.
 
 
The Natural Way
18:05 / 04.09.02
Moore!

Fuck's sake...

I don't want to keep having to explain to work-mates that 'From Hell' is "actually really good..."

Oh...bloody hell....
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:10 / 04.09.02
Best thing about this? Even if the movie turns out to be decent everybody here's going to say it was shit anyway.

WRT "Moore: What was he thinking?" complaints: he doesn't care about the movies. He's said in interviews before that he has absolutely no interest in helping create works outside of comics. If somebody wants to buy the rights from him, then fine, he's happy to take the money and then it's up to them what they do with the source material. He's produced what he wanted. Which strikes me as a fairly sensible attitude to have. It helps prevent his blood pressure rising when a studio screws up, it keeps him in beard lotion and it always but always pisses the fanboys off.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:02 / 06.09.02
Dupre: No I wouldn't. If I liked it, I'd say I did. And, God....I know all that shit about Moore - I've read the interviews. Feeling irritated because something you really dig's been pooped on is perfectly normal (it's not like onion, Rizla, myself or anyone else are actually gonna lose sleep over this, but here we are on Barbelith and what the hey...). God, get off yr "look at the sadfuck fanboys predictable moaning...not like me..." soapbox.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
12:08 / 06.09.02
Yeah, sure, I understand that. Just one thing: how do you know it's been pooped on when the thing's not even been seen properly yet?
 
 
The Natural Way
14:47 / 06.09.02
You'vce got me!

Damn, I hate people prejudging stuff....and now I'm doing it. I'm not one of these, "this hasa to be shit!" people. Really... Please believe me...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:43 / 06.09.02
Okay, 'fanboys' was a cheap shot. I was in attack mode.

It just narks me that people are willing to shoot this down before it's even had a chance. It could be good. Hell, it could be brilliant. Taking Moore's original LoEG premise and altering the cast of characters, setting, plot, etc, could be a very good idea - rather than trying to stick to the story in the comic and risk the backlash if they screw up, the film-makers give themselves room to play about with the basic idea. And that's good, because it's exactly what Moore himself has done in the comic - taken other people's creations and done something different with them.

It could be good. If it's shite then I'll be pissed, but not overly so. The comic still stands up on its own and a crappy film translation won't change its quality.
 
 
Hieronymus
16:29 / 10.09.02
Bumpety bump. More pics Might be spoilery I suppose.
 
 
Hieronymus
12:44 / 28.10.02
So that's their take on Hyde, huh? More here

It looks slightly cartoonish to me for some reason. Maybe because they're missing Hyde's giant Neanderthal head and have replaced it with what looks like Woody Harrelson in a beard.
 
 
deja_vroom
12:47 / 28.10.02
This movie *looks* really silly. I know this are poor quality pics and all, but... can't shake the feeling that's gonna be one of the finest cringe-inducing devices of the year.
 
 
CameronStewart
15:18 / 28.10.02
Those photos of Hyde look absolutely ridiculous. I'm hoping that they're going to do some sort of CGI trickery with him, because that huge torso and teeny pair of legs looks just fucking stupid.

Sigh...
 
 
arcboi
18:57 / 28.10.02
You may mock, but there are some people who can testify to the terrifying presence of Woody Harrelson in a beard in a taxi...

When I first saw Hyde in LOEG I thought he was ridiculous. It was Kev O'Neil re-doing Razorhead from Marshall Law. But that's what Kev does best - mad cartoon characters. I'm quite used to him now in LOEG II. But the attempt to translate that into 3D space does seem to lose something in the translation.

Even so, I'm going to reserve judgement on this film until I see it. I think it's a brave attempt at a bizarre idea.

And think on this: If it's actually good *and* successful, then they might well do LOEG II. I'd pay money to see that!
 
 
Mystery Gypt
23:05 / 28.10.02
i think it's ok for me to say that i've seen a ton of actual footage from this film and it looks fucking GREAT. and feels fun. the photos are not representative of the look/feel at all. i am totally looking forward to the finished film and i'm a grumpy bastard who hates everything.
 
 
Sebastian
17:56 / 29.10.02
This going to be sort of "Indiana Jones' Dad Invites Some Freak Guys To His Birthday Party". Definitely not for my palate these days.
 
 
uncle retrospective
11:46 / 17.11.02
The film is going to hell according to the Scotsman
 
 
gridley
12:32 / 18.11.02
wow, Sean comes off as kind of pathetic in that article. Like he's making some dying gasp to prove he's still important. After the Guber deal going bad and having his pointless cameo in James Bond 20 cut out, he's sure as hell not going to let some young prick director make him sit in the trailer in his make up, dadgummit!
 
 
CameronStewart
14:51 / 18.11.02
Grrr. Uppity actors make me mad. Yes, Sir Sean, you're a Knight Of The Realm and you've been in a shitload of big films, but you're hired to do a job. The director is THE BOSS.
 
 
John Adlin
19:17 / 23.11.02
Is this Sean-I-love-Scotland-the-brave-but-actually-live-in-marbella-Connery.
He's a adequate actor, hes had good roles in crap films and crap roles in good films. About time he was taken down a peg or two.
 
 
Axel Lambert
17:29 / 23.01.03
More photos
 
 
Axel Lambert
17:31 / 23.01.03
Maybe this link works better
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
18:57 / 23.01.03
Thanks for the links, Jake.

sob... sob...
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
19:10 / 23.01.03
"The film is going to hell according to the Scotsman "

To Hell with the comic movie, I want to see the Making Of Movie!
 
 
000
19:26 / 23.01.03
I am not in it to praise or critisize an in-production movie, but after having been pleasantly surprised by the Blade movie last year, the first one, I have to say this looks promising.
 
 
The Photographer in Blowup
19:36 / 23.01.03
This movie has had so many twists - and i don't mean in the plot - that it's getting boring.

Moore is really an idiot for letting the producers do whatever they want with his graphic novel - and really don't stand his 'it's not my comic book; it's their movie' attitude; he thinks i want to see the movie because it has Sean Connery? Hell, no, because Moore wrote the comic book; but that really doesn't matter anymore because there's nothing of the book in the movie at all - no victorian dialogue, no british atmosphere, no victorian moral codes - instead we only got Dorian Gray and a grown-up Tom Sawyer, and a guy i couldn't care at all called Dante - producers must think they're really smart for naming him after Divine Comedy's Dante - and a shitty plot about a guy called The Phantom wanting to take over the world - again

And to top that all, the guy who is playing The Phantom just gave away the whole movie some time ago - during an interview he admitted the Phantom in the end proves to be none other than James Moriarty - main villain of the original comic book - don't know why he would give away such a SPOILER, but he did.

Can't wait for the movie the Razzie awards are awaiting for it.
 
 
gridley
12:54 / 24.01.03
You mean he gave away the ending kind of like you just did?

ummmm... right, he sounds like a total bastard.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:13 / 24.01.03
Moore is really an idiot for letting the producers do whatever they want with his graphic novel

Indeed, because Alan Moore's primary consideration when making these considerations should not be his own interests - but rather what you think, fanboy. That's the spirit.
 
 
arcboi
16:01 / 24.01.03
Yeah cheers for that L.M. Can you give away the endings of any other films for us? Think of all the money we could save by not going to the cinema.......

I don't want to judge the film too much before I've seen it and I agree with Bendt - Blade looked spectacularly bad on paper and the pre-productions shots didn't impress much, but I was also pleasantly surprised by it.
 
  

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