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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Stephen Norrington
FantasyActionThrillerScience Fiction
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a bad movie that is curiously extremely entertaining IMO.
I went to see Manor at opening night. I thought it was OK, I was entertained. Was weird to find out (just now!) that it had got an absolute mauling in the press. It makes me wonder if I have terrible taste, and to what extent the 'quality' of a work of art is constructed after the fact by a social in-group (the critics).
Relatedly, I've started watching movies at random, without reading reviews before or after, to try to develop a sense of what I actually enjoy. Whether I have any real critical faculties at all. Perhaps it is all just received opinion. I re-watched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night though, and can confirm that it is in fact bad.
Whenever someone of this stature goes, I tend to gather together their films, what I have of them, and work through them. So here I am looking at Outland (which isn't as terrible as Harlan Ellison said but goodness it isn't great), Zardoz, In the Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (it's fun, I will grant it that), Time Bandits and was left wondering: what films had his iconic performances? What's a good sample to understand the range he had?
I grew up with the Bond films so they're very much background to me, almost hard to notice in a way. Any recommendations?
Doesnt help that it brings to mind that stupid movie starring old farts, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
No, but trademark protections are very limited compared to copyright protections. For instance, if you wanted to make a movie like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but with cartoon characters, once Mickey Mouse's copyright has expired you would be free to use his character in the movie, you would just have to avoid using him in advertisements for the movie in a way that would mislead people into thinking the movie was affiliated with Disney.