> It's time for me to do this again.

You know what's cool? This year, I'm actually in a country where I can see these movies BEFORE things get to the stage where everybody else on this forum has already seen them, rented the video, rented the video again it hits the $1-a-night bin, and has started to anticipate the sequel.

> July 11 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
> Despite the heavy-hitting hype for this movie, I don't know of anybody -- either those who have read the graphic novels or those who haven't -- who is impressed with the trailer.

Having only recently heard of the graphic novel and read the first volume (thank you Stephen), I was simultaneously thrilled and horrified that they were making a movie of it. "Horrified" quickly won out, after I saw the trailer. I think the reason this movie offends me so much is that, to me, the story is simply the greatest concept I could ever have imagined. I have always been a huge fan of 19th century adventure fiction, and finding out that somebody had actually written a book that brings together Captain Nemo, Alan Quatermain, the Invisible Man, Jekyll/Hyde, Wilhemina Murray et al to fight crime (that cad Professor Moriarty has stolen some Cavorite, no less!) made me feel like I'd died and gone to heaven.

Finding out from the trailer that the whole thing had been reset in what appears to be the 1930s, and seeing martial arts stunts, explosions and Wilhemina Murray dressed like she just fell out of The Matrix made me feel like somebody out there needs to be hurt. A lot.

It probably isn't too much to say that I find this movie offensive for much the same reason that Sam and Grishny don't like comedies about God.

Brunnen-"going after whoever's responsible with a steam-powered elephant gun ... or ... something"G