Blergh.

[daemonluna]

We're not watching people eat slugs on Fear Factor tonight, just be covered with bees and submerged underwater in a locked box with holes in it. I think I like Fear better. Y'know, the one on YTV where they run around a supposedly haunted location alone at night and we get the whole mass hysteria shaky camera thing.

Barb says I can change the channel, but I have to use Trout's bum. It's a remote control bum, no reallllly. (Translation: the cat is sitting on the remote again. *g* Yes, we're both quite wierd.)

I'm having a pretty crappy beginning of the week, actually. I've got a cold, the DVD player decided not to work, the laptop won't play DVDs without stuttering, and oh yeah, Barb got laid off. Whee. She's already got a job interview on Wed, so it's not dire or anything, but still.

And they still haven't posted either of the librarian vacancies at the public library. (One of which was the job I was doing, except permanent instead of just contract, and the other is the same thing at a comparable branch.)

Oh yeah, and we've got a frickin' snowfall warning.

But all that aside, we went to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen today, in the cheap theatres. It was... not as bad as I'd expected. Sure, they added Dorian Gray and (get this) Tom Sawyer to the cast. Just because. And oh yeah, Captain Nemo's submarine, shown minutes before to be the size of a cruise ship, blithely traveses Venice canals. It must be a magic shrinking submarine.

Not to mention why Mina Harker is a vampire who uses a make-up mirror, and wanders about blithely in direct sunlight. And I wasn't aware that Mr. Gray's portait not only prevented him from aging, but also made him bullet-proof. (And he's far more interested in Mina than young Mr. Sawyer, what's up with that?) I'm really kind of cranky about Tom Sawyer. Much is made over the fact that he's American, like they put him in because they couldn't possibly have gotten by without someone from the good ol' U.S. of A.

Huge gaping holes in the plot that you could sail a cruise ship through aside, I actually did enjoy it. The cast (IMVHO) did a great job with what they had, the effects were okay, and hey, period costumes. The premise, of course, was really cool, since it was Alan Moore's idea in the first place. And it said right there on screen, "Based on the graphic novel." I will most likely pick the first trade paperback up when I'm working again, and I'm waiting for volume two.

It's a shame, though, because if they'd been more faithful to the source material, it could have been a really good movie.

Comments

[alessar.livejournal.com]

I agree about the magic submarine... that was sloppy. Mina's ability to walk in daylight is cannon with Bram Stoker's Dracula; vampires are nocturnal predators in that, not particularly allergic to the sun or anything like that. Once they go to their coffins to rest for the day, they're stuck there until the earth's tidal forces shift at noon or sunset. Dunno about the mirror though, I think that's just more sloppiness.

And yeah, Dorian Grey was an ok inclusion but really oddly done.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

And shouldn't she also be sleeping in her native soil? And the mirror thins was SO stupid--I thought they were going to use it to point out that she didn't have a reflection, but nooo...

Dorian Grey wasn't, well, quite pretty enough. Although he was a much better additional character than Tom Sawyer. Yeesh.