|
by Bill Dungsroman 07/11/2003, 12:07pm PDT |
|
 |
|
 |
|
Or so my brain blares loudly quite often.
Top Ten and League (ugh, LXG? D00d x-treeeeme!) are awesome. But then so are Promethea and Tom Strong (and his related books). He and Warren Ellis are easily the two best mainstream comic writers today (Moore, maybe EVAR). I love my comic book owner geek guy, he has a Moore and an Ellis section, and gets every goddamn thing they make and keeps it stocked. Moore wrote the intro for Ellis' Planetary's first TPB (I believe, and Joss Whedon wrote for the second). He talks about comics in general. I'd love to reprint it here, but copywrite and all that.
Man, when I first saw the League trailer, I crapped myself. OMGOMGOMG. And then, no advance previews for critics. Uh oh. No surprise, I guess, that it sucks. Moore has said in an interview, somewhat sheepishly, that he'll sell the rights to one of his books and then walk the fuck away, rationalizing that whatever they end up doing is the movie studio's product, and not really his. It's not Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in theaters, mind.
It's a real shame, League is a great concept that could translate well to film, since all the characters are pretty well-known. But, you knew they had to Hollywoodify it, removing Quatermain's history as an opium addict (I'm sure), the Invisible Man's intro, probably even Hyde's. Pity, too, since the previews show Mina using vampiric powers, which I think is pretty cool. I wonder if they'll go the whole bit and have a bunch of fictional characters make cameos (like the Artful Dodger, the Holmes brothers and Moriarty, etc); I doubt it.
BDR
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT'S EXCITED FOR THIS PIRATE MOVIE? NT by mrs. johnson 07/08/2003, 4:41pm PDT 
IT'S RATED ARRRRR NT by Please, someone shoot me 07/08/2003, 4:48pm PDT
Holy fuck NT by Entropy Stew 07/08/2003, 4:55pm PDT
NO YOU ARE NOT I AM EXCITED TOO by Fullofkittens 07/08/2003, 4:52pm PDT
SOUNDTRACK FACE OFF: 28 DAYS LATER vs. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN by Alternate789 07/10/2003, 8:14pm PDT
WHY NOT? IT'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! by Damocles 07/10/2003, 1:51am PDT
"LXG" by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/10/2003, 2:23am PDT
Fucking ouch by SBDMT 07/10/2003, 3:43am PDT
Re: Fucking ouch by Lizard_King 07/10/2003, 11:10am PDT
my favorite quote by FABIO 07/10/2003, 12:18pm PDT
mine too, that will now and forever be my default way of referring to Connery NT by Choson 07/10/2003, 4:18pm PDT
Shame of it is they cut the best part of the comic by jeep 07/10/2003, 4:28pm PDT
League vs. Top Ten (Shameless ass-waving fanboyism ahoy. Also, OMG spoilers) by Damocles 07/10/2003, 7:17pm PDT
Re: League vs. Top Ten (Shameless ass-waving fanboyism ahoy. Also, OMG spoilers) by foogla 07/11/2003, 7:47am PDT
READ EVERYTHING BY MOORE by Bill Dungsroman 07/11/2003, 12:07pm PDT
Holmes & LoEG by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/11/2003, 12:29pm PDT
Re: Holmes & LoEG by Bill Dungsroman 07/11/2003, 2:14pm PDT
His interpretation of the "Death of Holmes" scene was fucking GENIUS, by the by by Damocles 07/11/2003, 3:46pm PDT
Re: READ EVERYTHING BY MOORE by already old joke guy. 07/11/2003, 1:32pm PDT
Re: READ EVERYTHING BY MOORE by Bill Dungsroman 07/11/2003, 2:18pm PDT
Re: READ EVERYTHING BY MOORE by Forensic 07/11/2003, 4:46pm PDT
Ennis' Preacher and Bendis' Alias and Powers are all great. NT by jeep 07/11/2003, 6:47pm PDT
CHUCK AUSTEN MUST DIE A TERRIBLE DEATH!!!!!! A POX ON COMICS!!! NT by TheVacillator 07/11/2003, 6:49pm PDT
Re: Ennis' Preacher and Bendis' Alias and Powers are all great. by Bill Dungsroman 07/12/2003, 12:50pm PDT
Re: Ennis' Preacher by Lizard_King 07/12/2003, 2:38pm PDT
Re: Ennis' Preacher by Damocles 07/14/2003, 10:59am PDT
I guess. I think I only really liked his fucked up family. by Lizard_King 07/14/2003, 8:07pm PDT
Re: Ennis' Preacher and Bendis' Alias and Powers are all great. by Moab 07/14/2003, 8:24pm PDT
Re: Ennis' Preacher and Bendis' Alias and Powers are all great. by Bill Dungsroman 07/15/2003, 3:14pm PDT
Speaking of Powers by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/12/2003, 8:29pm PDT
You would like Neil Gaiman by obviously 07/11/2003, 7:06pm PDT
That was a classic review by Damocles 07/10/2003, 7:02pm PDT
Re: That was a classic review by Oscar Wilde 07/13/2003, 3:28am PDT
Pity the previews tell the whole story. by Lizard_King 07/10/2003, 11:10am PDT
3d remake of "Pirates!" Sweet! by Fullofkittens 07/15/2003, 12:16pm PDT
|
|
