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Offline Woolie Wool

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Reply #20 on: August 24, 2003, 04:18:52 pm
Most children's roles in cartoons are done by women. That's why said characters never age after multiple seasons.
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Reply #21 on: August 24, 2003, 04:20:41 pm
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LXG is based on a comic book by the incredible Alan Moore. He's the guy responsible for such beautiful things as The Watchmen and From Hell. Every major character in the story is lifted gratuitously from other sources, though they are changed to make them more... Superhero-by-gaslight.

The story wasn't bad. The effects rocked. The character were incredible. Its totally worth seeing.


The main characters, btw, were:

-Alan Quartermain (british adventurer)
-Mina Harker (the girl Dracula had a crush on, now a kickass vampire)
-The Invisible Man (duh)
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (they also lay Hyde in as the monkey from the Murder at the Rue Morgue)
-Captain Nemo (20k Leagues under the Sea)
-Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain's little troublemaker)
-Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde's character. He didn't age, but his portrait did. Moore made him invulnerable, until he sees his portrait)
-M. (Yeah. The Bond Guy. Sorta. Well, you'll see)

Anyone who tell syou it sucked, obviously didn't realize they were watching late-19th century superhero comic book. :)


Well who M really is of course is out of Sherlock Holmes ;) Shanghai Knights sort of also did the same thing as League did to death. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlie Chaplain, etc. in addition to "John Wayne")
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Reply #22 on: August 25, 2003, 09:39:51 am
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Well who M really is of course is out of Sherlock Holmes ;)


Well yes, but I didn't want to ruin the groovy plot point, Ace.
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Reply #23 on: August 25, 2003, 07:25:30 pm
I haven't seen LXG yet, but it's currently ranking 5.7 at IMDB, 19% at Rotten Tomatoes, and low across the board at MRQE.

Yah, I think I'll catch this one on video. Or USA Up All Night.
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Reply #24 on: August 26, 2003, 01:00:59 am
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I haven't seen LXG yet, but it's currently ranking 5.7 at IMDB, 19% at Rotten Tomatoes, and low across the board at MRQE.

Yah, I think I'll catch this one on video. Or USA Up All Night.


Bah, that's just the thing! You now have very low expectations of the movie - a perfect situation to be able to go to the theater and enjoy it - you know it's mediocre at best! :p
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Reply #25 on: August 26, 2003, 01:14:51 am
Sure, I'll do that right after you tell us how Gigli is. :doubt:
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Reply #26 on: August 26, 2003, 01:19:10 am
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Sure, I'll do that right after you tell us how Gigli is. :doubt:


I haven't seen or heard of Gigli, so I'm kinda missing your point.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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