alan moore gets screwed again

[rone]

LXG was mediocre. Rent it if you must see it. No sense in going into how the movie differs from the graphic novel; basically, Hollywood took the concept and ran with it... far, far away. On its own merits, the movie does not stand so much as wobble.

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[reddragdiva]

Alan Moore's opinion on the movie was along the lines of "Do you know how much bloody money they gave me?!" I think we can all concur.

[alfvaen]

I never read the graphic novel, so I thought the movie was okay, even if the Nautilus did seem to navigate in areas of improbably shallow draft. I have low standards when it comes to movies, though. I didn't even mind "Wild Wild West" that much.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Essentially, it's just like "Mission: Impossible", where they took a very neat setup, stripped it to the bone, and took it in an utterly different, and WRONG, direction. I mean, the script bothered me 10 minutes into the movie -- even M:I had the decency to wait 30 minutes before i called shenanigans.

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Just heard from a friend today (with multiple connections to theater & comic industry) that Connery & the director nearly came to blows over the final version, and apparently Connery edited the hell out of it, resulting in the screen version?

Whatever, it sounded bizarre, yet interesting.