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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'
As in the BBC?
According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports.
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Why not explain what the League is in the description???
Or is it cool to pretend that obviously we all know?
Looks like something I could watch while I'm waiting for the Red Dwarf movie to come out this winter.
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Yeah, trailer looks good-- but what is it? Am I supposed to know that?
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none what so ever as to what this is about,
but damm the ''effects'' make it look like
a cartoon, as in you have foreground and background, nothing inbetween, teh car at the start looks fake as.. i hope they put some more work into this..
seems like it coudl be good..
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Seems like someone saw X-men, Batman and The City of Lost Children and said, I can do that.
Actually, it looks better than X-Men ever did. Here is to hoping.
Can't help but think they messed up naming this one - everyone (in the UK anyway) is going to confuse it with the League of Gentlemen - a very twisted black comedy.
Here's just the link to the .mov file:1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec6493ff77de/lxg_480. mov
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/f31fd0bc5c0b1d/
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Name is kinda weird, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (sounds more like a Monte Python parody) but the trailer looked pretty damn good. A bit gothic, but good.
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hmm.
Looks an awful lot like just another matrix rip-off, no?
A Minesweeper clone that doesn't suck
now this is one "comic book" movie that i've been waiting for. 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. i'm sorry, but i found the X-men (in the movie, folks) to be flat and uninteresting.
Alan Quartermain is going to kick some serious butt.
It might look like I'm standing motionless, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away
Looks shite, named shite, and undoubtably will do shite.
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Xmen set in the 19th century
Should that surprise anyone here? Too bad. Look at what they did to Birds of Prey. Serves it right, being cancelled.
... but XMen was good too, so who cares... it has to be better than Daredevil, and that's the important thing.
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Caught the trailer before Dare-Devil (was ok, rent it).. So, the trailer played, then it came up with the title, "Leauge of extrordinary Gentleman"/LXG, at the end.. and everyone laughed. I've never heard of it before.. so first thing that came to mind was "ripoff.."
I saw the trailer before Daredevil, and I have to say, this could be incredibly good, or it can be the worst thing ever to grace the silver screen, beyond the badness of Batman and Robin. There will be no halfways on this thing.
I was really psyched by the various characterizations, though; they seemed spot-on. And the voiceover sounds like they kept the, um, moral ambiguity aspect of the Alan Moore stuff. Hopefully he had a large hand in the story/script...
Too bad Sean Connery is such a bigger star than anyone else; this means that the center of the story is likely to be Alan Quatermain, rather than, um, whatsherface. I wonder if he will be the leader, just because of the star power present there...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book written by Alan Moore. The movie is extremely loosely based upon the first six issues, which comprise the first volume. The movie, due to its rather frightening changes, has a rather high suck-potential, but the trailer gave me hope.
The comic books are very good, however. Alan Moore has read every book ever written. And he really likes the ones written in and about Victorian England. In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real. The level of detail is astounding. Check it out.
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but just like with the matrix short they released it's in quicktime, now when i installed that horrible program on my computer it completely took over all of my media. after i watched the matrix preview i imediately uninstalled that piece of crap. so what i'm really saying is: Movie industry you aren't making any friends by letting apple host your previews.
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Buy the original graphic novel now before it is out of print and zooms up in price.
A mindless SFX extravaganza with none of the original's wit, subtlety, irony, cleverness, in-jokes, immaculate period references and panache.
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.
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...it looks like another movie that sucks... but hey you can't satisfy all tastes... some of you will think it's SUPER...
The league of Extraordinary Gentleman was a Comic written by Alan Moore (at least for some time, I haven't read it myself though I've heard about it).
Basically it consists of pulp heros and villains, like alan quartermain (as in Alan quartermain and the lost city of gold, which i have seen, No imdb but plot synopsis here. )
Basically Moore rewrites the characters of british pulp mythology in ways reminiscent of The Watchmen.
The Invisible man has sex with girls at a boarding school. It's that kind of comic I guess.
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"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is a very successful comic book written by Alan Moore, who also wrote "Watchmen" with Dave Gibbons (THE comic book of the '80s) and "From Hell" with Eddie Campbell (which was recently made into a movie with Johnny Depp and Heather Graham).
The comic book follows the adventures of several fictional Victorian characters (like Alan Quartermain and the Invisible Man).
For more information on Alan Moore, you should check out The Alan Moore Fansite. LoEG is really worth the read.it looks like a lot of people haven't heard of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and are passing this off as a matrix/x-men/whatnot ripoff.
;) true, it has the slick look of just about any another special-effects movie, but give it a chance.
if you want to know more about the comic book, take a look here.
come on guys, this is a comic book. i thought you were geeks?
It might look like I'm standing motionless, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away
sounds like a sythetic drug to me...
hmm, maybe that's the intention of the movie! watch it while your stoned?
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is kinda like X-Men 1800's sytle with a dash of James Bond both in story and because it includes Sean Connery.
The League is a recuited by MI-5 to protect England and includes Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea," Alan Quartermain from H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines," and Jekyll/Hyde of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" and Mina Harker from Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
From the Alan Moore graphical novel http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563898586
It looks like it's being lined up as one of Hollywood's summer blockbusters. That to me is as good as any reason to avoid it. They're always crap and substanceless, and often extremely unoriginal and cliched. They're for the brain dead (primetime NBC viewers???) and I won't waste my money on them.
What a dumb way to confuse your audience. Won't everyone confuse this with League of Gentlemen in the UK?
It's just a rather large typo.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
..that would be "pseudo-intellectuals". I guess you're not even among those ranks.
Heres an interesting web about annotations for the first LoEG miniseries. Its a comic-book with thousand of references of Victorian Era Fantasy.
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Ah, for anyone interesting to know what genre is this thing, its called STEAMPUNK (yes, the same thing like Wild Wild West or the extraordinary book by Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates)
But then again, it's seldom that trailers don't look good, assuming you like the actors and the genre.
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...
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This is an excellent Alan Moore comic book (Watchmen, From Hell, etc.) but from looking at the trailer (two days ago at the Daredevil movie) I can already tell that they're taking liberties with the story and characters. The most blatant of these IMO is Wilhemina Murray (Harker) who in the comic (and the book) never becomes a vampire. In the trailer, she's manifesting out of bats, etc. I guess having a regular but strong woman-figure among the likes of Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man was just not enough for viewing audiences. A good (well-researched comic) that will be gutted in the movie.
Alternatively, maybe they're hoping to duplicate the out-of-control appeal of Dick Tracy.
No one is going to see this movie.
I might, some of my friends definitely will, and some other slashdotters, but this movie is going to bomb. I want to know how a group of people can make decisions which are, at the same time, totally driven by greed and, at the same time, so obviously directed towards utter commercial failure.
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Every media player in existence (RealOne, Windows Media, QuickTime, even Winamp3) attempt to register themselves as the default player of every type of media they support on installation. I have all four installed, with no major conflicts -- it's really not hard to pick "advanced installation" when you install it and change the settings for file types. Even the fairly devious installation routine for RealONE lets you do that.
Don't rag on Quicktime just because you're too lazy to read the screens during the installation. Quicktime is a great player.
complaining about a low download speed on slashdot is certainly the best way to improve it...
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Here is a script I hacked up a while back to automatically download trailers from Apple's website. Just pass the resulting filename to the player of your choice. It is written in Ruby, and I use MPlayer. You can use it by doing a copy-and-paste of the URL in the story as a parameter on the command line (watch out for the lameness filter putting a space in the filename near the end after an underscore character; they really need to fix the problem in a real way, like using CSS right :-):
playtrailer.rb http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/lxg_trailerAn unjust law is no law at all. - St. Augustine
That sounds like its target audience to me. X-men, Spiderman and the Matrix seemed to do quite well, with pretty much the same demographic...
> What is with the sudden onslaught of superhero movies?
Yep, ever since Superman came out.
In 1978.
That's about the time special effects were making large leaps forward (no pun intended) and it was finally possible to make a realistic-looking flying man. The Superman tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly".
Now we are seeing the results of a new generation of low-cost, high-power computers, which make realistic effect cheaper and cheaper.
Superhero movies are a necessary result of Moore's Law.
Hard to convey these in a short, short trailer...
Good news for those of you of the male persuasion--a movie with Sean Connery is a movie your girlfriend would probably like to see.
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Absolutely wonderful comics that look like they've been made into a horrible movie.. or at the very least, they have no idea how to market it and have just thrown the movie into the same "preview-making machine" that makes all previews look the same. "LXG?" We don't need stupid "T2"-style tage for every single movie, do we? What's wrong with occasionally using the NAME? But the marketing people think everything new has to look like everything else for people to like it... The comics are funny, clever, and inventive... there must be a market for that too.
I found this review of the script from last year:
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http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/358/358223p1.
They ran out of original ideas. That's why they're currently trying to milk comic books (and old tv shows, old cartoons - see Scooby Doo, The Brady Bunch Movie, etc)
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I dunno. It doesn't look all that "extraordindary" to me. Just some slick CG from what I could see. In this day and age, the eye candy won't make the movie. Just look at Final Fantasy. My interest is piqued, I guess, but the trailer didn't convince me.
Compare this with the X-Men 2 trailer that also played. Just as good of CG as LXG, but with a healthy dose of plot. I suppose it could be that it's already riding on the success of the first one, and perhaps they are going with the whole "mystery" thing to get word of mouth going. And maybe I'm also full of BS, but I think that even non-comic book readers would be more likely to see X2 instead of LXG. Too many acronyms?
I'll reserve any final judgement (as if my opinion means anything) until I get more info on the plot. But many potentially good movies are bad because Hollywood thought they could dazzle moviegoers with distractions instead of paying attention to plot.
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Well, it looks like Alan Moore's comics start (after more than 20 years) gaining attention. I'd like to know his degree of involvement in this btw, as he usually lives like an ermit and I'd be surprised if he had his word to say for anything in the movie.
But more importantly, as long as nobody tries to butcher "V for vendetta" (one of the best piece of graphic literature ever written imo), we should be ok...
Hollywood seems to follow a pack mentality at times, but this time I think they've actually hit the right cultural spot...
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It's a comic by Alan Moore (of From Hell fame) about a group of superheros who are literary figures - Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, etc.
Personally I didn't care for the book (and I was blown away by "From Hell" (the comic, not the movie)). Maybe this'll be one time the movie is better than the book.
Still waiting on movie adaptations of Bendis books. Goldfish, Jinx... Hollywood, I tap my foot in your general direction...
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To be honest, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is probably one of my less favorite Alan Moore comics, but I've never been a big fan of the genre of dumping a bunch of unrelated characters into a narrative. Perhaps the worst example is Young Indiana Jones in which kid wonder Jones bumps into every historical figure of the 20th century. People who realy think that an Aliens vs. Predator movie would be "cool" should be profoundly pittied. League does not have the rich exploration of diverse characters bound to a common fate that makes The Watchmen work nor does it have the political poetry of V for Vendetta or the raw mystical imagination of Promethia. V is probably the Alan Moore work I would most like to see translated to the silver screen and the least likely to be made.
I will probably go see this for many of the same reasons that I saw Daredevil a movie about which the best I can say is that it didn't suck, and it enabled me to listen in on a funny conversation about Ben Afflec's chin afterwards. Perhaps this time I'll wait for the $2 theatre.
From the trailer, we have an adaptation that isn't an adaptation. Part of the fun of the comic was the inside jokes on these Victorian characters put into a "Justice League" situation. The trailer delivers little more than "Blade" in 19th century England.
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I think it looks awesome. I can't wait to see it!
It doesn't look like an X-Men rip off either. X-Men the movie was lacking a certain charm about it. This movie looks like it's got everything it needs to be awesome.
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Some of the Aliens vs Predator comic books are good. A movie however would be bad as they are unlikely to hold that Predators would be portrayed as sneering one liner bad guys.
Just wanted to say, the site loaded quickly with my broadband-connection. And for modem users, there's a smaller version of this trailer on: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/lxg_trailer_ small.html
My experiences with this site are very positive. It's stupid to complain about download rates when your overall connection is slow.
Thank you, apple, for providing a free, no pop-up window using, no registration requiring, movie-preview site. And, in my experience, also a very fast loading one :-)
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If you have quicktime working in mplayer under linux and you use Mozilla for browsing, you might want to check this out:
http://www.webfreetv.com/linux/
Its a plugin that uses mplayer for quicktime on the web. It works pretty well for most of the trailers that I have tried it for. (Worked for this trailer, for instance)
If you have another plugin that handles quicktime (I was using plugger, which seldom worked) you will have to locate the plugin, rename it (xxx.so.OLD or some such) edit pluggerrc (if you use that) and start Mozilla. This removes Mozilla's "dependence" on the old plugin. Then, you close Moz, add the new plugin, rename the old plugin (if you were using plugger) back to its original name and start Moz. It should work, then. I would advise patience when you first try it out as the plugin gives no indication that it's downloading the movie. Pick a small, low res version to start out with.
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This is a Global website for Global people! Now go away. http://www.leagueofgentlemen.co.uk/
One thing that bugs me about trailers is how much the narration repeats itself. Action, sci-fi, and fantasy movies have the same dude with that deep throaty monotonic voice saying the same lines like :
"This time bad must fight alongside good to destroy a more evil enemy"
"He must decide what side he's on"
"He is the only one who can save the world",""
"Evil has a new name"
"They are the only hope for mankind"
and in every Star Trek trailer,
"The crew must disobey direct starfleet orders in order to save a planet"
These lines were cool twenty years ago and it's easier to reuse them instead of come up with something new, but at least try. Oh wait! I forgot this is hollywood.
Crappy Adventure Movie. Looked like Rambo.
Hollywood please meet plot, Plot; Hollywood.
And since I'm downloading at under 3k a second, I'll let others comment on it.
Let me get this straight - your're dissatisfied with the speed at which you can download this thing, so what do you do? You LINK TO IT ON SLASHDOT? Do you understand CAUSE AND EFFECT???
"It's a comic by Alan Moore"
Easily his best work was Watchman... why do they allways option his worst comics? (swamp thing, anyone?...)
Most people already know, but if your new to linux I'll mention it anyway. With Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
the quicktime codecs and the Mplayer Plugin (there is one at mozdev.org but I haven't tried it)
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
You can easily watch quicktime movies in Mozilla. Not to mention many windows media files as well. It sucks to have to do a "workaround" but besides paying for the crossover plugin its your best bet for proprietary media types.
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Hey, scrubs was one of the most hilarious shows on Primetime NBC. Of course, NBC, in their infinite wisdom, just fills those slots with 2 hours of crap now.
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predator: gooble gooble gooble!
maybe this movie needs subtitles?
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I saw Daredevil yesterday, and the LXG trailer was there. I'm a little put off by the "X". Last I checked, Extraordinary started with an "E". I don't expect this movie to to do all that well, but I'll probably see it simply because it's got Sean Connery. When I was in college, my friends in I came up with a scale of whoop-ass for actors. It involved how many cans, cases, or kegs of whoop-ass an actor could open. Sean Connery earned the top spot as the Epitome of all Whoop-ass.
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It seems like most everybody here is getting the name
of Sean Connery's character wrong.
It is Quatermain, not QuaRtermain.
And the preview looks like any random action movie,
not the subtle brilliance that Moore/O'Neill create in the
graphic novel.
Hollywood has never been known for its originality
You didn't miss much. The whole trailer looks pretty generic. They don't explain who the "League" is (B-Grade, classic literary characters turned superheroes), not even naming them. And what's with this "LXG" crap?
The whole trailer looks like an X-Men 2 rip-off.
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I don't understand this need for heros, if indeed it truly exists. Does anyone else find the thought that Americans are so frail and weak minded that we need heros to comfort/inspire/nurture/motivate/whatever us, to be somewhat pathetic? I do. In fact, I don't think Americans are as weak as the media and Hollywood (and even some politicians) would like to believe. Todd Beamer & co. certainly weren't, and there are plenty more where they came from. I think some would like Americans to believe we are weak, for whatever private reasons they may harbor, so they shove this ridiculous neediness down our throats every chance they get. It disgusts me, and I hope I'm not alone in that sentiment.
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Everyone's saying this movie is set in Victorian England. Queen Victoria ruled until 1901. That car, and the WWII-style German helmets, don't look "Victorian" to me.
And besides the Victorian anachronisms, why is it never daytime there?
I started watching this trailer with some interest, until about halfway through. Suddenly, a geriatric, slurring scotsman appeared on the screen and delivered a line which destroyed the moment. When is Sean Connery going to get some speech therapy (and maybe an acting lesson or two)?
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Heh...some other movies that shouldn't be made besides Aliens vs. Predator (which COULD be a REALLY cool movie)...
Paul Atredies vs. Harry Seldon
Borg vs. Vorlons
Gremlins vs. The Littles
MIB vs. Illuminati
US vs. Iraq
Tech Support vs. the Vast Horde o'Clueless
Count Chocula vs. Lucky
The Thing vs. the Blob
IE vs. Opera (bork bork bork)
Cats and dogs living together...TOTAL CHAOS!
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I guess I'll wait for it to come out on DivX.
I don't understand this need for heros, if indeed it truly exists. Does anyone else find the thought that Americans are so frail and weak minded that we need heros to comfort/inspire/nurture/motivate/whatever us, to be somewhat pathetic?
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".
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Nothing I had ever heard about this movie boded well, but the trailer is just absolutely diabolical.
They've taken an intelligent well written comic by one of the masters of the genre and created a complete travesty!
It looks absolutely fucking awful, a mad sub-matrix mindless special effects extravaganza.
(Excuse me? Mina Murray coalesces from a swarm of bats? I think they missed a major point here in that she's not a fucking vampire!)
Alan. Alan, why do you let them do this? Do you really need the money so much?
When it comes on TV I may watch it if I have nothing better to do, but I'd not pay money to see this piece of shit, and I suspect anyone who enjoyed the comics will do likewise.
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The comic's pulp brilliance also relies upon Kevin O'Neil, the hyper-frenetic, stylistic artist who has brought us (along with writer Pat Mills) such sick-humor nightmares as Marshall Law (one of the original and best post-modern deconstructions of superheroes, but one all about the humor and the sado-masochism). Kevin got his start with British imprint AD 2000, responsible for such stalwarts as Judge Dread and Slaine, working with Pat on stuff like Warlock.
I recommend LoEG the comic quite heartily (despite Ain't it Cool's support. . .even a stopped clock is right twice a day). It's written in the tradition of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton books, where he takes such characters as Tarzan and Doc Savage and writes his own 'more realistic' adventures mixing them with other pulp heroes and villains. Moore can't use these characters due to our criminal copyright laws (he wanted to originally with the Twilight of the Superheroes series, the proposed DC book of which Kingdom Come was a very weak but direct rip-off) so he had to go back to earlier characters.
For those with twisted humor and a high tolerance for violence, I especially recommend looking for the original graphic novel collection of Marshall Law, Marshall Law: Fear and Loathing.
O'Neill's over-the-top art work is as detailed as Moore's references, and without it LoEG wouldn't be half the book that it is.
Additionally, LoEG predates the show League of Gentlemen. As for the trailer, it looks fun, but also a bit sad as they felt the need to turn Mina Harker into a vampire. I suppose that's their idea of grrl power, the dumbest/most-hypocritical ploy in marketing history (baby, you've come a long way. . .not only can you smoke yourself into an early tomb, but now you can be as brain-dead violent as so many Neanderthal men!)
Coming Attractions (aka "Corona") has details about the movie available.
All of the images and movie files on Apple's site are served by Akamai. I had to take the Akamai entries out of my hosts file just to navigate the site, much less download the file.
I think it looks interesting, though I wondered about the Victorian England (1898?) aspect of the story line when I saw the automobile with obviously 1930's design cues. And what's with the six wheels? Four in the front? Been watching "Thunderbirds" re-runs on TechTV?
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Cinemark theatres has a promotion right now where if you buy a $3.50 bag of popcorn, you get a DVD with a bunch of movie previews and interviews, sort of like what you can expect to see if you bought the movie on DVD.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is on there, and I must say it looks badass. I am no familiar with the story at all, but it looks like something worth seeing. I'd watch anything with Sean Connery.
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Back when I was at university, I was in a wargaming club called the League of Unreasonable Gentlemen (LURG). A much better name.
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This should be modded up, not down. You're just proving my point - that Slashdot has lost its objectivity and ability to listen to both sides of the issue. You're proving that you are pro-Mac biased by censoring unpopular opinions such as this one. Read the Slashdot moderation guidelines - mod power is to be used for modding things UP, not down, unless it's a really offensive waste of bandwidth. This, however, is not. You are trying to stop others from seeing this, because you don't want people to be exposed to the unpopular opinion that maybe Slashdot has lost its objectivity, and that the 90% pro-Mac users aren't being objective themselves with their rivers of undeserved praise for Apple.
.mac email treating you? Hope you won't mind paying for iTunes by next year...
Apple is the new Microsoft. I still remember the piles of people fleeing Apple when Win95 came out because of the fabulous GUI of 95, the many apps that ran on it, and the commandline that MacOS lacked. This is the same, running from one megacorporation to another, all the while ignoring the fact that if all the switchers who can code put 6 months into Linux, we'd have a completely free and open system that beats the hell out of the proprietary offerings of Microsoft and Apple. Yes, OSX is proprietary. Darwin doesn't count, because it's a very weak kernel that wouldn't be chosen by anyone who doesn't get Aqua and iTunes bundled with it. It's a horrible kernel, really. Nobody in their right mind would use it except as a way to run Aqua.
OSX isn't open source, it's "Open Source Lite". Same as Microsoft, except with Shared Source, MS actually gives limited access to far more of their code than Apple does with Darwin. This means Apple is MORE proprietary than Microsoft. And we still fawn all over Apple, praising their every move. Why? Hell if I know. The GUIs not that good.
The seemingly insane and irrational fervor you guys display for Apple, defending its use of the DMCA, accepting their limitations with joy, paying more for less all the time, HONESTLY makes me think there is subliminal messages in their products. Why couldn't there be? They used to be in movies, and our technology has FAR FAR progressed since then. Prove me wrong - oh wait, you can't, since you can't see Aqua's source code. Well, I hope you live by faith, then, because that's all you have in your corner. I can PROVE there are no NSA backdoors, subliminal messages, or trojan horses in my operating system. You never will be able to prove it, you'll have to hang on to the hope that Apple are good honest folks, and that the government hasn't ordered them to secretly put backdoors in as part of their new security initiative, which the government openly considered doing last year. Never heard what decision they made...
Enjoy being tied to a corrupt corporation that is getting desperate to regain the feeble market share it's lost in the last 5 years, and will screw anyone over to get it back, especially their customers. How's that "free forever"
Now, I was never a regular reader of the comics, but I did have a healthy respect for them. So I cringed when they trotted out the giant glowing "LXG" logo.
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...
"Isn't that the sweetest little well-balanced undergraduate-level philosophy of life."
Looks like a good movie... I'll watch it when it comes out on DVD. But the name... ick.. sounds so cheezy. I realize its an actual comic book, but it just seems... dumb.
- Jimbob
If this film is a success, it could move us all one step closer to "Watchmen."
I think Pharmboy is totally correct in his assessment of "trying times," which closely parallells Adrian Veidt's thoughts near the 11th hour of Watchmen.
. . . and I know a pretty good actor who will work for scale if you'll let him be in the movie.
"It's out. It sucks, and makes me want to die, but it's out."
Sigh. I get an article accepted as an AC, and they wipe out my lovely personal touches.
And is this a _local_ movie?
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I am amazed at hollywoods ability to put such volumes of utter crap. They all look exacty the same. Bunch of people running around at night. The concept of orginiality is lost on these people. I don't see why they worry about digital right sense nobody in their right mind would want this garbage..
Oh and would somebody put a bullet in that deep vote narrator guy. God I am sick of him. HELLO!!!! hollywood here's an idea why don't you try to do something original and insightful for a change.
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Alan Moore + Sean Connery + Campy Phantom-esque antics = FUCKING GOOD.
I went to see "Dare Devil" last night and they played the advertisements for "LXG" and "X-Men 2" sequentially. Most people were laughing and mocking the "LXG" trailer but the comments were favorable and enthusiastic for "X-Men 2".
Trailers are often made before all the effects work is finished, so it is quite possible that the pillar falling effect will be much better in the actual movie than it was in the trailer.
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.
This is being directed by the guy who did "Blade" (and incidentally NOT Blade 2). However they've obviously Hollywood-ized it which isn't necessarily a bad thing but they've invented young handsome characters into the story-- that guy driving the automobile appears to be "Dorian Gray" and imbd.com lists another character as "Detective Tom Sawyer", which I find troubling...
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"
That's the quote.
And it was an arrogant statement, she was basically saying "I don't care that the peasants are starving."
She was too preocupied with her royal intrigues to care about matters of state.
You can't take the sky from me...
-Tom
Hey fbg111, that was a very nice troll! Subtle enough that most readers won't realize you're trollong and yet inflammatory enough that you are sure to get some hits, bravo!!
I am so sick of all the amateurs around here who think that trolling is posting goatse links.
Although that style of helmet is well known for being used by Germans in WWII, a similar style was used by Germans in WWI. I noticed this when I was in Germany and saw statues dedicated to the fallen of WWI wearing those helmets.
Modern American infantry helmets now bear a resemblance to this helmet.
That's the problem with liberals. You see problems, but you don't offer any real solutions, just criticisms.
Inaction is *not* a solution.
Where were all these liberal peace-niks when Clinton was firing missles and dropping bombs and invading countries? Oh, that's right... they were hiding under the desks with the feminists, who were similarly faced with the dicotomy of supporting a liberal president who happened to be sexually assaulting women, and were just praying that it would all go away.
No, Real Player is the devil. Quicktime is just a lesser demon.
I've been waiting for this one for a long while and looks as good as it can be....
I'm shiviring with anticapation over this!!!
Save Pangaea!! Stop Continental Drift!!
I thought geeks were supposed to innovative, orginal and in to whatever interests them.
No.
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
for local people. We don't want any trouble here.
Wow, this looks Avengers bad.
You can't kill the boogey man.
They're turning Allan Moore's literature into another Kung Fu movie.
At least it has Sean Connery...
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Anyone who has not heard of the league shold tunr in their geek license right now.
The comic book had a very Steampunk feel (James P. Blaylock / Tim Powers etc.), with a lot of Mooreish blurring of the lines between good and evil. The trailer looked more like a preview for a new Batman sequel.
Simon
p.s.
anyone remember "Space: 1889"?
The implication of the accusation is that she (or whoever was being accused of saying that, and I'm sure dozens if not hundreds have been accused of saying this before M. Antoinette) are so far removed from the lives of those they are supposed to be ruling over that they cannot conceive that having no bread means having no food at all.
That dumbass narrating the trailer + Sean Connery saying "and the game is on" => guaranteed worthless movie
Well, actually, they did. And it's the Wachowski brothers who wrote it.
I wonder if the same moderators who moderated this up are the ones who moderated this post up too.
(see last sentence)
The LXG trailer upstaged the X2 trailer which immediately followed it. The LXG franchise looks to have learned from Xmen's mistakes.
I hope the movie doesn't disappoint. I'm probably gonna see both anyway.
everything about the trailer seems like they are trying to capitlize the spandex-turned-leather superhero movie craze of X-Men, the Hulk, and Daredevil. As a result, League of Extraordinary Gentlement looks like a poor ripoff of those movies. It's terrible marketing.
The title screens should have victorian font. The trailer should not be action packed but mysterious, gothic... -victorian-.
The trailer should TELL the audience who these characters are. As it is now, the audience knows nothing except it has action and sean connery. Why not include the names of the characters? "Alan Quartermain", "Invisible Man", "Dr. Jekyll"... one of these names will hit a chord with someone in the audience, and generate curiousity, and interest in the movie. Which is exactly what this trailer ISN'T doing.
I am a big fan of Alan Moore's work, and I like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen a lot. Mina Harker, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Captain Nemo team up to fight crime on the subway. Frankly, I just love the idea behind it, and, like everything Moore does, it is smart and snappily written.
But this trailer looks like garbage. From what I've heard, they've moved the venue from London to New York (thus removing a lot of atmosphere and taking ALL the characters out of their environment), and added a grown-up, two-fisted Tom Sawyer, because you need an American in this mix... for some reason.
The comic book was clever and had a very nice high-adventure, pulpy Indiana Jones kind of feel. This looks like more Matrix knock-off garbage. When I saw the big steely letters "L X G!!!" I groaned aloud.
I'm not a huge comic book geek, and I do think that League would definitely need some punching up to make the transition from comic to film -- but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that the film at least be vaguely recognizable as being somehow related to the comic book. If I had seen this trailer without knowing what it was, I would have had no clue it was based on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
In short, it looks really bad. But, when I heard what they were doing to "adapt" it, I figured it would be, so this trailer doesn't come as much of a shock.
I just look for a decent cut of meat and really good mustard.
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. -C. Coolidge
When a I first read this I thought it was referring to the 1960 'Caper film', The League of Gentlemen directed by Basil Dearden.
Not to be confused with the later 'The League of Gentlemen' nor to be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. No doubt the latter two are making reference to the *original* starring Jack Hawkins (Ben Hur, The Cruel Sea, a favourite - The Plantation owners wife - curiously renamed, 'Outpost in Malaya'.)
You can read the detailed description here.
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This is CmdrTaco we're talking about. I'm sure he has access to faster connections. My guess is he's on the road using a cellphone or something.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Is it just me, or did it seem like the audio was way off in this .mov? It just seemed really bass heavy, and quiet.
The comic book it's based on looked pretty cool, actually, but to me it seems that a lot of Hollywood people, when they want to make a movie based on a comic book seem to think that they should make it comic-book-like, which to them means cheesy and simplistic. They seem to be forgetting that comics actually can contain strong plots. Marvel has got it right, in that they try to create films based on the soul of their stories, not just the name. (the opposite would be DC with the horrible batman movies)
The other interesting thing this movie brings up is the idea of public domain. I mean, all (I think) the characters in this movie ripped right from old works, Capt. Nemo, Dr Jeckle/Mr Hyde, etc. Imagine the films and stories that could be coming out if copyright expired at a more reasonable time? It's pretty fucked up that the only cultural references we can really use have to be so old that they came from a whole other culture, really.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Indeed. But really, it has always been this way. Taco has always been a sheepish moron with little real substance. He just attracted the right people by following the right fad at the right time. And now the faddish boor has relapsed into watching cartoons.
Obviously an attempt to imitate the big X in the X-men ads...
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
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Read Epic the first RPG novel.
You imply that Aliens and Predators are not from the same creative universe; that's quite wrong. If the endless supply of creative works won't change your mind (I'm talking Dark Horse: Presents, not Batman vs. Predator), then maybe taking a closer look at the end of Predator 2 will. Yeah, that's right, there's an Alien head hanging on the wall of the trophy room Danny Glover enters.
"rich exploration of diverse characters bound to a common fate" is something that isn't decided by subject matter, but script, director, and actors. A story is only as good as the storyteller.
In general, the 'aliens' series of comics are about man's struggles against himself, overcoming his technological errors and failures (attempting to capture aliens/use them as biological warfare/harvest their 'honey'/etc) with the suffering of men and women placed in extreme circumstances. They occassionally represent man vs. nature, too, but under different plot devices.
Predator is another traditional stuggle; man vs. nature. The Predators represent the top of a universal food chain - they are bigger, stronger, faster, have seriously advanced technology, and are interested in hanging us on their walls. In their society, a Predator must successfully kill Kainde Amedha - literally hard-meat, their word for Aliens (Gieger's, not general) - to be acceptd as an adult. They hunt humans - called soft-meat, Pyode Amedha - as one of their favorite sports, because we make good prey (we're intuitive, have a strong will to survive, and shoot back). Their society is harsh and complex, but emphasises honor. In many ways, they're more civilized than we are.
I fear you've dismissed a very well-told, well-written, and beautifully drawn series just because it has 'vs.' in the title.
The PC games are quite excellent, as well.
Finally, don't forget that movies aren't strictly about 'art' - they're entertainment, first and foremost. I, for one, would love to see 'the perfect' Aliens vs. Predator movie, I just don't think it could be pulled off and released in the U.S.
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World without hate or war, invaded. Tragic?
If they had a link to the .mov file, I could just save the target.
As it is, I have to find the location in the page, copy it and add it as a link, and then I can save it.
As it is, it's too much work, and I don't want to install the plugin.
The "original" AvP set on the planet Ryushi was a great read, and would make a great movie, if they followed it exactly... but even the similar script that was floating around was too bastardized to do it justice.
Ohh, looks like I pissed off a fanboy!
You imply that Aliens and Predators are not from the same creative universe; that's quite wrong. If the endless supply of creative works won't change your mind (I'm talking Dark Horse: Presents, not Batman vs. Predator), then maybe taking a closer look at the end of Predator 2 will. Yeah, that's right, there's an Alien head hanging on the wall of the trophy room Danny Glover enters.
The issue here is not so much coming from the same creative universe as throwing two popular critters together as a marketing gimick. Perhaps I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the massive marketing crossovers that generated such ugly messes as "The Secret Wars" that threw together 80% of the Marvel creative universe on a distant planet to have them duke it out. At times crossovers and cameos are a good idea, but come on here. I read the Aliens vs. Predator stuff and recognized it was a gimick by an up-and-comming publisher from the beginning.
"rich exploration of diverse characters bound to a common fate" is something that isn't decided by subject matter, but script, director, and actors. A story is only as good as the storyteller.
Which is my point. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen largely failed to do what Alan Moore had done so successfully with V, The Watchmen or even his work on the Swamp Thing. In terms of story, I found it to be the least promising to translate into the silver screen.
Predator is another traditional stuggle; man vs. nature. The Predators represent the top of a universal food chain - they are bigger, stronger, faster, have seriously advanced technology, and are interested in hanging us on their walls. In their society, a Predator must successfully kill Kainde Amedha - literally hard-meat, their word for Aliens (Gieger's, not general) - to be acceptd as an adult. They hunt humans - called soft-meat, Pyode Amedha - as one of their favorite sports, because we make good prey (we're intuitive, have a strong will to survive, and shoot back). Their society is harsh and complex, but emphasises honor. In many ways, they're more civilized than we are.
I fear you've dismissed a very well-told, well-written, and beautifully drawn series just because it has 'vs.' in the title.
Oh, come on here. An entire paragraph of rationalization for putting together two of the best known sci-fi monsters of the last two decades into a comic book! Sounds about like Godzilla vs. Mothra or Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman. (Both of which also had elaborate rationalizations to get the title characters on screen together.)
Well drawn I will grant you, but well written? I might conceed that may have been possible in later issues for someone to spin gold out of the wretched shit-poor gimick of the premise. However the issues I've read were at best mediochre. Even with your description I see at most an "Outer Limits" episode (and that isn't doing justice to the genre of short science fiction film.)
The PC games are quite excellent, as well.
Strike three there. So far only about half of the video game movies made to date have been worth watching (and then, only if it was at a $2 theatre AND I was too broke for something better AND the other three screens were playing teen dramas.) The other half you could not pay me to watch and I regret paying money the first time.
Finally, don't forget that movies aren't strictly about 'art' - they're entertainment, first and foremost. I, for one, would love to see 'the perfect' Aliens vs. Predator movie, I just don't think it could be pulled off and released in the U.S.
You can't have one without the other. Well, you can but then you fall into the class of film of which Ed Wood was a master: unintentionally funny. By all means, now that you have enlightened me about the qualities of Alien vs. Predator, I would love to see it made because we can use a few more unintentionally funny films out there.
Meanwhile, you seem to be suffering from fanboy syndrome:
1: Thinks a movie made from one's favorite work would be "cool".
2: Unwilling to tolerate any criticism of one's favorite works.
3: Willing to reference trivia for the sake of argument.
4: Thinks that the videogame makes a good argument for a feature length movie.
I'll be sure to take your comments into consideration, Coward.
Flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams
I fail to see why one movie trailer, this one, is worth slashdotting when hundreds upon hundreds of others haven't been. I guess I'm not cultured.
Actually, you make excellent points; however, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but all the "members" of the 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' are all literary creations from England... So, I'd say it's England that has the frailty problem (paraphrasing from your initial statements.)
I respect your convictions, but question the need for Hollywood-contrived heros to constantly affirm them. Do your convictions fail to hold up without such emotional support?
Also, do you believe that the media's motives are truly to affirm your deep convictions? I question their sincerity, and believe there may be some ulterior motives.
I also think such hero-worship oversimplifies reality. It's nice to escape to black-and-white/good-and-evil hero-worship for a few hours, as long as people don't project that simplicity into their views of the real world. It then becomes too easy to accept what politicans, of both sides of the spectrum, try to make us believe.
Flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams
Actually, Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns", published in 1986, started the whole anti-hero thing.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
*sigh*. Yeah, well, maybe some marketing exec weenie asked why the only girl in the group didn't have any superpowers. (Not noticing that she leads the group.)
I suppose we'll have some other guy put in charge of the group. Mina will be reduced to just another superpowered caricature, and stripped of that "take no shit from anyone, be it an opium-addicted Quartermain or Hyde himself" thing she had going.
We all have to get used to the fact that the fans alone can't support a big-budget production. A TV series, maybe, but a SFX movie, never. The flick must then appeal to anyone who walks into the theater and says "hey, that's got an 'X' in it! I sure hope their mutants are as cool as the 'X-Men'!".
Somehow, knowing that doesn't make me any less disappointed in seeing a clever and original book dumbed down like this.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
If Hollywood is nearly incapable today of producing films of distinction, one reason is they are all dipped in the shit of similarity. Gold gets untransmuted. The same noisy blow-em-up surface is smeared all over every product, until the source material is so diminished that this might as well have been plugging an adaptation of The Justice League of America. Only the tights are changed to protect the innocent.
But oh, yes. Connery's shhhhhtil guttttt ittt. May we all be so goddamn manly in our 90s, too. One glance and you can see that in Soviet Russia, Viagra takes him.
It's just a pity Connery has associated himself with another dog of a movie.
Realtime? How gauche. I just got a new internet connection that is so fact streaming media generally starts playing before I even click on the link. It is so fast I think my dick just got bigger.
How can we call ourselves geeks and clearly not read comics. And if you do read comics and you don't know who Alan Moore is then that's even worse. Alan Moore's graphic novels are consistantly the best produced.
Alan Moore seems to be a big thing among scriptwriters. In addition to "From Hell" in the works are many others. The Watchmen and V for Vendetta, are the two I can come up with off the top of my head. Doubtlessly there are many more.
As a diehard comicbook fan I'm hoping they don't mess these up too badly, but these are going to be some hard stories to mess up. Watchmen should be pretty straight forward though they might edit out some of the profanity and sex. I can see them editing that grafitti out of the moive, can't you. (For those of you who've read the comics, yes, THAT grafiti. One of the major driving things) And probably some of the sex/rape that is so gratuitious. Watchmen would be nightmare for casting though, having to have the characters at so many different ages, especially for characters like, The Comedian, who needs to be in so many different eras. The movie will also have dificulty with that ending thing that the comics had in each issue. The newspaper or section of book. As for "V for Vendetta" I don't think that mainstream audiences will understand any of it. It should be easier to turn into a movie though.
I'm still hoping someone makes a movie based on some of Garth Ennis of Frank Miller's work. I think a movie of "Ronin" or "Sin City" would be really damn cool. So would a "Martha Washington" movie. As for Garth Ennis, that would be one hell of a wild ride, get Kevin Smith to direct it as they are good friends. Can't you see it now? "Hitman" with Jay as Tommy and Silent Bob as Natt. Even a "Preacher" movie.
I'm just really happy that some good comicbook-based movies are being made (see: Daredevil, Blade and Spider-Man, because X-Men just wasn't very good)
I respect your convictions, but question the need for Hollywood-contrived heros to constantly affirm them. Do your convictions fail to hold up without such emotional support?
My convictions hold up well. Its just nice to see someone else with them.
Also, do you believe that the media's motives are truly to affirm your deep convictions? I question their sincerity, and believe there may be some ulterior motives.
McDonalds motivation is to make money too. But I still love their QP w/ cheese.
I also think such hero-worship oversimplifies reality.
No one said anything about worship. I can admire the qualities of a fictional or real hero without dropping to my knees in prayer.
It's nice to escape to black-and-white/good-and-evil hero-worship for a few hours, as long as people don't project that simplicity into their views of the real world. It then becomes too easy to accept what politicans, of both sides of the spectrum, try to make us believe.
I agree. I would take it one step farther and say that is can be HEALTHY to escape every now and then, as long as the individual can decern reality from fantasy. I have more faith that most people can do this.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
In that case, your thoughts on the matter are reassuring. Hopefully, everyone else is as grounded as you are.
Flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams
How about France?
I wasn't kidding when I said that I believe that they intentionally escalated their terror campaign against the largest democracy in the world (India) just as the Taliban was collapsing.
I honestly believe that Pakistan intentionally created an international nuclear crisis in an attempt to allow as many Taliban to escape as possible.
Of course, I don't think that we should invade Pakistan either. But the majority of ill-informed claims that we should target Iraq apply equally well to Pakistan.
Want to go after weapons of mass destruction? Want to go after non-democratic regimes with a history of supporting terrorists to undermine democracy? Want to go after a governement that supported the Taliban? Want to go after a government some people intentionally provided aid and comfort to Osama bin Laden after the September 11th terror attacks?
Well, that would be Pakistan. Not Iraq.
Of course, its a hell of a lot more complicated than "weapons of mass destruction" or "no war for oil" or whatever people blather about on Fox news. I'm only certain of one thing -- I'm not hearing the real reasons for the war on the news.
Well, its not like we've always been at war with Eurasia. Yet.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
I seem to recall that the league's contact at the Secret Service is actually James Bonds' ancestor (portly gent with a French sounding first name, I think). Gives another twist to the Connery casting choice.
Disclaimer: I checked out the first volume from my library a few months ago, so forgive me if I err as I don't have the copy handy. Correction posts welcome.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Not sure if this was the actual site I saw, but here's what I found today:
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Found a footnotes site for volume 1. His name was "Campion Bond." Also, the site indicates there's debate as to whether this is the ancestor of good old James.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Notice she never reveals her neck in Vol. 1. She is covering the bite marks on here neck. She represents the Wilhelmina character from Bram Stroker's Dracula who was seduced and bitten by Dracula. Alan Moore has admitted as much in interviews. He is saving the vampire unveiling for later plots.
I notice you completely avoid touching a good point the Fanboy made.
In Predator 2 there was an Alien Skull in the Trophy Room.
You have no ground to stand on when it comes to facts, and just use frothing rantery to dance around the subject.
After the Children of Israel had wandered for thirty-nine years
in the wilderness, Ferdinand Feghoot arrived to make sure that they would
finally find and enter the Promised Land. With him, he brought his
favorite robot, faithful old Yewtoo Artoo, to carry his gear and do
assorted camp chores.
The Israelites soon got over their initial fear of the robot and,
as the months passed, became very fond of him. Patriarchs took to
discussing abtruse theological problems with him, and each evening the
children all gathered to hear the many stories with which he was programmed.
Therefore it came as a great shock to them when, just as their journey was
ending, he abruptly wore out. Even Feghoot couldn't console them.
"It may be true, Ferdinand Feghoot," said Moses, "that our friend
Yewtoo Artoo was soulless, but we cannot believe it. He must be properly
interred. We cannot embalm him as do the Egyptians. Nor have we wood for
a coffin. But I do have a most splendid skin from one of Pharoah's own
cattle. We shall bury him in it."
Feghoot agreed. "Yes, let this be his last rusting place."
"Rusting?" Moses cried. "Not in this dreadful dry desert!"
"Ah!" sighed Ferdinand Feghoot, shedding a tear, "I fear you do not
realize the full significance of Pharoah's oxhide!"
-- Grendel Briarton "Through Time & Space With Ferdinand
Feghoot!"
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