As long as I am posting movie reviews, here is one of a movie I rented last night.

If you haven't seen League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, DON'T. It was horrible. I can't find anything good to say about this movie. The character development relied on knowing who the characters were from literature. I didn't care about any of them or their problems or 'secret past' that they all seem to have but didn't explain. The story was minimally interesting and formulaic. The drama was melodramatic. The special effects were crappy. A lot of it was just unbelievable. The 'high tech' of 1899 was anachronistic. Radio? Tanks? Missiles? The automobile was invented, but the style in the movie was about 1920. How the hell did they fit a submarine the size of a nuclear sub in the canals of Venice or the Amur River? Why was it snowing in Mongolia in summer? Even the action scenes were unbelievable. It was painful. Halfway through, I was hoping it was going to be over soon.

It finally did end with a closing scene that reminded me of the Dungeons and Dragons movie. The scene started off seeming like a opening to a sequel and ended up making no sense. Is Alan Quartermain going to rise from the dead for a sequel? Let's hope not. The movie should have been buried with him. It was so bad, I didn't even want to sit through the special features on the DVD. I 'm the kind of guy that always watches the special features. I even watched the special features on the Beyond Reanimator DVD. The only thing that kept my interest through League was wondering what movies I had seen Peta Wilson in before because she looked familiar. It turns out she was La Femme Nikita in the TV show.

I am so glad they decided not to use Stuart Townsend as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. It is ironic that he was cast as Dorian Gray when the reason for not using him as Aragorn was that he was too young.

Of course, all the main characters were drawn from 19th century literature.

If you want to read more about Dorian Gray, read 'Picture of Dorian Gray'.
Also:
Captain Nemo: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Jules Verne
Mina Harker: "Dracula" Bram Stoker
Tom Sawyer: obvious
Alan Quartermain: "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard
Jeckyll & Hyde: "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Invisible Man: "Invisible Man" H.G. Wells. Not by Ralph Ellison; that is a completely different book about race in America.

Spending a week reading any of these books or even the comic book has got to be a better use of time than the two hours I wasted on the film.