What was the last movie you've seen?

[REPO Man]

Rewatched this last night.

[REPO Man]

Had another Child's Play double feature yesterday.



Child's Play 3 is definitely the weaker of the original three films. Bride of Chucky is definitely a worthy sequel to the series.

[REPO Man]

I can't tell if this is better or worse than Child's Play 3. Definitely leans far more, possibly too much, into comedy than horror.

[marurun]

I was astounded my wife hadn't seen Bram Stoker's Dracula. What I know of her is that high school her would have absolutely loved it. I saw it in high school and thought it was atmospheric and awesome. And the amount of bared breasts didn't hurt. So we watched it this weekend after sending the kid to a "parents night out" thing. I still love the atmosphere and there were some inspired performances, and my god the costuming, but it's also clear it was very much a product of the 90s, Coppola film or not. But there are also some questionable decisions, like pairing up 18-year old Winona Ryder with 28 year old Keanu Reeves and 33 year old Gary Oldman. Reeves at least was reportedly a gentlemen and he and Ryder have remained friends, but I've heard nothing but creeper vibes about Oldman (who was an alcoholic at the time) and Coppola (who seems to have earned a reputation around his interactions with young actresses). There are stories of him pulling 18-year-old Ryder into his lap on set.

It's weird, it's still a pretty awesome film, but time and age have me reflecting a lot more on its flaws and questionable decisions and just how frikkin WEIRD the film is. I still love it, but I love it very differently now, with perhaps a touch more cringe than I did before. My wife's reaction was also quite a bit different than it would have been when she was in high school.

[REPO Man]

Started watching this while doing laundry but a smoking washer and three non-functional dryers made me finish the remaining two-thirds at home.

Definitely a return to form for the franchise.

[Raging Justice]

The Last Wish and Godzilla Minus One are must watch movies. Extraordinary Gentlemen is very underrated. I found it to be a perfectly enjoyable movie. I am not familiar with the source material though so I'm judging it as a standalone thing and not comparing it to the original work. So keep that in mind. Wolverine and Deadpool sucked and is not worth your time.

[Limewater]

Extraordinary Gentlemen is very underrated. I found it to be a perfectly enjoyable movie. I am not familiar with the source material though so I'm judging it as a standalone thing and not comparing it to the original work.

Yeah, I didn't think The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was as bad as people said.

Then I read the source material. I don't hate it now, but it was inferior to and incredibly disrespectful of the source material.

It wasn't great, but at least it was fun. So much better than the unfairly praised V for Vendetta film, which was stupid crap on its own while also being really disrespectful to the source material.

Also on the topic of Alan Moore adaptations, I thought Zac Snyder's Watchmen film was about as good as a film adaptation of that story could be. Of the three I mention, it's the only where I had read the source material before seeing the movie.

[Raging Justice]

Extraordinary Gentlemen is very underrated. I found it to be a perfectly enjoyable movie. I am not familiar with the source material though so I'm judging it as a standalone thing and not comparing it to the original work.

Yeah, I didn't think The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was as bad as people said.

Then I read the source material. I don't hate it now, but it was inferior to and incredibly disrespectful of the source material.

It wasn't great, but at least it was fun. So much better than the unfairly praised V for Vendetta film, which was stupid crap on its own while also being really disrespectful to the source material.

Also on the topic of Alan Moore adaptations, I thought Zac Snyder's Watchmen film was about as good as a film adaptation of that story could be. Of the three I mention, it's the only where I had read the source material before seeing the movie.

That's the tricky thing about adaptations. When you take too many liberties or deviate from the source material too much you're going to upset people, and that seems to be what happened with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. However, not having the source material to compare it to in my mind, I struggled to find much to complain about. I thought the action scenes were very well done. I thought the movie had a really cool and interesting cast of characters. The dialog was fine. The acting was fine. The plot made sense and held together pretty well. I even liked the little swerve in the story that happens in the movie's second half. The overall music, visuals, and direction of the movie were all quite good. Perhaps if the source material didn't exist, this movie would have received a better reception.

I probably will check out the source material eventually though out of curiosity, but I kind of wanted to see the movie first to see if it's as bad as people say on its own merits. I saw a youtuber casually mention that it was underrated while discussing an entirely different topic. It was just a brief mention of the movie before he went back to the other subject that he was talking about, but it peaked my interest. So I watched it and enjoyed it.

[Limewater]

That's the tricky thing about adaptations. When you take too many liberties or deviate from the source material too much you're going to upset people, and that seems to be what happened with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. However, not having the source material to compare it to in my mind, I struggled to find much to complain about. I thought the action scenes were very well done. I thought the movie had a really cool and interesting cast of characters. The dialog was fine. The acting was fine. The plot made sense and held together pretty well. I even liked the little swerve in the story that happens in the movie's second half. The overall music, visuals, and direction of the movie were all quite good. Perhaps if the source material didn't exist, this movie would have received a better reception.

The thing that really ticks people off about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the addition of the Tom Sawyer character. He was not and should not have been in that story. Alan Moore specifically built his story around characters from classic British, not American, literature. Shoving Tom Sawyer in there, and setting him up with a passing-the-torch story with Allan Quatermain was crapping on a core part of the author's intent.

So in that sense it's kind of like the worst aspects of both the Resident Evil movies and Starship Troopers. Resident Evil adds a Mary Sue protagonist never included in the source material and makes everything about her. Starship Troopers is explicitly a satire of Heinlein's novel.

I enjoy all of these movies, but I understand why others hate them.

[marurun]

There's also an element of what could have been. Perhaps League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wouldn't have made a solid straight adaptation, but there are many ways to have adapted it which would have been far better than what we got. LXG, even if entertaining for some, was still a weak effort and a waste of a good license. And its existence nearly guarantees a better work will never be made.