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Summary: Loved it, and a quick explanation for Mina walking in sun...
Review: If you haven't read Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is the vampire legend Mina Harker is taken from, you wouldn't know that Stoker's Dracula is able to walk around in the sun, but just doesn't have his vampiric powers during the day. My biggest complaint about Mina was the inconsistency of her hairstyle, even within scenes. Whoever was in charge of continuity, at least as far as Peta Wilson's hair was concerned, did a poor job. For the most part though, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I hope there's a sequel (although I don't believe there will be because it wasn't a blockbuster), so I suppose I'll just have to wear out the dvd. :)
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Summary: It was an ok movie.
Review: A decent enough try at turning a comic book into a movie. But let's face it folks. It's not easy to do. They tried and didn't quite pull it off. I have never read the comic book but I still enjoyed the movie. Could they have developed the characters more? Of course? Could they have taken out the pointless car scene ( much like Lucas could have taken out the pointless pod racing scene from Phantom Menace)? Oh heck yeah!A great concept that could have been done better. Still. I would classify it as a gamers movie based on the ideas and adventure hooks presented there in. Chip Dobbs
Visionary Entertainment Studio Inc.
www.visionaryentertainment.com
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Summary: Great Concept executed with too much ambition: 3 & 1/2 Stars
Review: Director Steven Norrington did such a good job with Blade, that you would believe he would wrap this up with staunch precision. Something went wrong in the mix. Either there was a different Director of Photography, or producer or something. There were many rumors of Sean Connery and Norrington butting heads on the set as well as the movie being delayed due to budget...but so was Blade. Myself, I enjoyed it, to a point. I thought the concept was facinating, if not simple; bring together characters from Victorian literature (extremely intresting) to battle a world power hungry villian (cliched). The characters are good and most of them are well cast. The father/son subplot between Quartermain and Sawyer is nice, but it is being beaten to death in many action movies these days. The romance subplot between Harker and Gray is more instresting. Although the special effects are good, it does seem like the budget ran low in some spots. Don't nit pick this movie, the action scenes are good and the pace moves it right along in most areas and it is very entertaining. But overall you're left with a sense of longing for character development. As if something else was supposed to take place, but didn't. But hey, it is just an action flick. The cheezy ending may ruin it for some as well, if you are easily thrown off by one far fetched gesture. I do recommend this one, but I would recommend another teams superhero movie more, X-2: XMen United which came out at the same time, had better reviews and made a lot more money.
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Summary: YES YOU CAN ADAPT A COMIC INTO A MOVIE!
Review: People are wrong...look at Spiderman, X-MEN, Superman even the Wonder Woman TV series did a better adaptation of their source material than this film.
Here is the deal Alan Moore is superb writer, there is no need to totaly alter the story so that it has very little in comparison to the original. If you're going do that write your own damn story! Don't tell everyone we are doing LXG and then NOT DO IT. You should always be true to your source as much as possible when making an adaptation, or why bother at all?
Wheather or not you have read the comic shouldn't be an issue people CAN and many HAVE done faithful and well done adaptations of comic books so to say you can't is junk IMHO. A comic book isn't a novel and is easy to make into a film if the folks who made LXG had ANY respect for the original they would have tried harder...not every movie has to be an action film to be successful.
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Summary: Tried but FAILED.....
Review: This movie had such good potential but fails miserably. The characters are hollow and a bit over-acted. Certain scenes are shot well but lack substance. The supposed intrigue just isn't there. I say pass on this movie.
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Summary: Why even Make it.
Review: This was definitelty not a good movie. I pretty much like to watch any movie, but minus the few decent action scenes and Sean Connery, this movie was a complete bomb. The story was almost nonexistent, I really hated the fact that I bought this one because it is a watch once and forget about.
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Summary: A Great Form of Entertainment
Review: I've read some of the other reviews submitted earlier and it appears everyone who said something negative about the film are avid comic book fans. Well, I am not. Personally, I could take or leave comic book based movies but I'll sit down and watch them at least once. LXG is quite the exception. I would watch this movie over and over again. This movie was unlike all the other comic book based movies I've seen in the past. I like the special effects, the introduction of each character and their special talent, the plot, everything. I think overall it was a great movie to watch. I would definitely recommend people who are interested in watching an action movie with some old time make-believe characters (i.e. Dr. Jeckyl/Mr. Hyde, Mina Harker, Dorian Gray, the Invisible Man, Allan Quatermain, Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, etc) then this is the movie for you! Boo, to all the nay sayers...GO WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF!!! You'll see what I mean.
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Summary: Entertaining, but not Great
Review: The movie was pretty good. It started out strong, but kinda lost it towards the middle, but the ending was good. The special fx are really good w/ Hyde changing and Invisible Man. Overall, If this movie is on HBO or Startz, I'd watch it or buy it used on DVD, but it's not like X-Men 2, but much better than the Matrix Revolutions.
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Summary: If You Know Nothing About the Comic ... You'll Love It
Review: I LOVED this movie. It had lots of action and the special effects were really good, especially the changing of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. It appears to me that the only people that don't like the movie are those people constantly comparing it to some comic book. If you haven't seen the comic book and are looking for a good action movie with the ever charismatic Professor Sean, this is the DVD for you. Four Thumbs Up!!
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Summary: LXG makes WILD, WILD WEST look like CITIZEN KANE
Review: Any acceptance of LXG is no doubt based on a faulty premise that springs forth from deep and fundamentally erroneous assumptions about what LXG was intended to be, as well as a mystifying indulgence of the film's grievous flaws, thus rendering any favorable reception moot. I would say that the filmmakers used the main conceits of the film (and the graphic novels) -- the existence in reality of literary figures and their unification into a proto-"superhero team" -- as boneheaded permission to *sever all ties to reality*...much less a *consistent, internal reality*. *-*-* SPOILERS *-*-* *-*-* SPOILERS *-*-* There are other issues, as well. For example -- 1. Not trusting their audience to accept a flawed hero, the filmmakers sanitized Alan Quartermain, reducing him from tragic hero to one-dimensional übermensch by failing to include his opium addiction; 2. They unnecessarily and wrong-headedly add the character of the too-young Tom Sawyer (who should have been middle-aged by 1899) to the League, presumably so that American audiences could relate to the film; 3. They could not settle on Mina Harker's appearance throughout the film, nor her vampiric abilities (such as walking in sunlight with ease at the end of the film); 4. They present the Nautilus as roughly the size of a modern-day aircraft carrier, yet somehow it magically changes size so that it can slip through the canals of Venice with ease; 5. The character of Nemo is inexplicably transformed into a martial arts expert, and; 6. Despite the fact that Alan Moore wrote the character of Nemo as a genius of mechanical engineering, his Nemo never developed automotive, ballistic and marine technology to rival that of Star Trek (including what seems to "smart bomb" technology, since he's able to hit a target miles away and completely out of view); 7. Speaking of automotive technology, there are no streets in Venice: an automobile cannot drive through Venice; 8. Which brings me to Tom Sawyer, again...at what point in his life was he able to become an expert driver, when there are no such things as cars in existence anywhere else in the world? 9. The script suffers from the "Batman" syndrome: half of Venice is left in ruins, and no one seems to notice...they still party like it's 1999 (a Prince reference, heh-heh); 10. The script also suffers from the "A-Team" syndrome: the Phantom's henchmen fire thousands of rounds from automatic machine guns, yet they never hit anything of significance; 11. There are no graveyards in Venice, as the dead are buried aboveground...above water level; 12. With all the money they spent on the film, they could not spend enough money to make Mr. Hyde look convincing? *-*-* END SPOILERS *-*-* *-*-* END SPOILERS *-*-* I could go on, but you get the point. In my opinion, LXG is so bad it makes WILD, WILD WEST look like CITIZEN KANE by comparison.
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