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I'm still salty about League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Literary Avengers is such an awesome concept, but what we got was so fucking bad Connery walked away from acting forever.
But it did give us one of the most beautiful movie cars ever which, you know, is nice.
Read the comic. It does so much better with the concept. Goddammit, can we get at least one good Alan Moore adaptation?! Look at the mans run of Swamp Thing! It'd do well as an animated movie, at the very least!
The swamp thing TV show for kinda close
I thought the little bit we got with that marvel mini-movie thing was nice. The main character and plot were a little cliche, but the acting was good and the execution hit well.
You didn't like the watchmen tv show?
Not OP, but I wanted to like it only I couldn't bring myself to keep watching. I can't remember if I stopped before the end of the first episode or part way through the 2nd. I completely failed to connect with any of the characters, the setting, the premise or the politics.
I don't mind fiction that's a vehicle for political statements - I like Alan Moore - but it felt like a transparent vehicle for needlessly edgy politics, rather than a beautiful vehicle for needfully radical politics like Alan Moore's stuff is.
But I barely watched it so I know this is a pretty hot take.
It's one of the best single season shows ever done.
It's also mostly Damien Lindelofs work, not Moore's (for the show).
Fair enough. I enjoyed it but there's so much good television out there these days that there's not much point forcing your way through something you're not enjoying.
I really don't think we can and I'm fed up of them trying, why don't they let old things be old and comics be comics?
You want to make a good film in the twenty twenties then write a film to be a film in the twenty twenties.
Just like Sandman, it could only be good if the man himself was at the helm, but he hates comics now.
I know it's bad but for some reason as a kid I loved that movie lol.
You, personally, are the reason Connery quit acting.
11 year old me would be devastated to hear that.
Are you me? As a ~~kid~~teen I fucking loved LXG and Connery was my favorite actor so not seeing him again after that did devastate me a bit
edit: time is weird
Sean Connerys last movie, too. He did not deserve that.