Rated PG for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo. Did you know Edit. According to Wilson, this was a last-minute addition to the scene, and she felt nervous doing it, since Connery impersonations were considered a no-no on the set.
Before the shoot, she called Connery and offered not to do the accent, but he insisted she should. Afterwards, she asked him what he thought. He replied, "You were great! He said, "Yeah, it's terrible! It's the worst impersonation I have ever heard, and it's perfect.
Goofs When the League first sees Nemo's transportation, no one knows what to call it until Nemo tells them that it's an "automobile. Actually, in British dialect "car" is used to mean any wheeled vehicle, and the word's usage pre-dates the invention of the automobile by centuries: c. So it really is not surprising that Quatermain would refer to the vehicle as a car. Quotes Mina Harker : You're sweet Crazy credits The 20th Century Fox logo fades into a sign on the London skyline.
Alternate versions For the Swedish release, approximately 33 seconds were cut from various violent scenes in order to receive an 11 certification. User reviews Review. Top review. Really Good Film. This is a really good film. I went to see it not knowing many of the details. I really enjoyed it.
I believe that in order to appreciate this film, you need to have an open mind and not take it so literaly. I've read reviews of it in which the authors claim that not of the characters, or cars, or Nemos Sub, could work like they did. It is a movie based on a comic book. It naturally wouldn't be for real. I wonder what these people take us for. The other great thing about this movie is the characters. Some reviews stated that people wouldn't understand this movie because the characters are not that new.
That they've been around for a while and no one will remember them. But I would like to know more about them. So that in itself is good. It makes you want to know more about the characters. This provides a more straight-forward story for readers, similar to the first two Volumes and after reading this straight through in one sitting, I'm very eager to see where the rest of Volume Three winds up going.
Chronologically speaking, this book falls before the Black Dossier but I'd still recommend reading the prior work first before entering into While not outright requi Alan Moore provides another consistently high-quality League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with the new volume. While not outright required for enjoyment of this story, it'll flesh out some background on several of the new faces such as Orlando.
One bit of warning though However, if you're a veteran reader of Alan Moore's works, this isn't something you'd be wholly unprepared for.
All in all, it's an excellent new entry in the series and like all of the other League books, leaves me with a desire to delve into the existing historical works of fiction that Moore draws his cast of characters from. The League books are an English major's dream to read for certain! Jun 07, Michael J. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are gone, as is the Invisible Man. On a good note, this does not end in a cliff-hanger.
The story is self-contained, although elements of it will come back in the next chapter. The youthful Allan Quatermain and Mini Harkness are back, but this time Allan is passed off as the son of Quatermain to avoid questions since he was very elderly in Volume 2, which takes place twelve years before this. As annoying as he is, his frequent interruptions and historical memories add some spice to the proceedings. An occult order are attempting to create the Moonchild, and are under investigation by the new League which now includes master thief Raffles and the psychic Carnaciki.
Jul 16, Steve rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Raffles, and Alan Quatermain, Jr. During the course of their investigation, Mina and her team accomplish fuck all and resign themselves to the fact that the foreseen apocalypse will most likely appear at some point in the future, along with an across the board consensus that they are useless as a functional entity.
Following that bit of thankfully off-panel brutality, Janni signals the Nautilus crew and unleashes them upon the neighborhood in a horrifying orgy of bloody plunder and vengeance that reduces what appears to be several city blocks to flaming rubble as she saves her assailants for last before accepting her destiny as their pirate queen.
Meanwhile, scores of innocent people unrelated to her violation are mercilessly and pointlessly wiped out, presumably to provide some action for the reader, but I found it merely depressing and utterly gratuitous. So, great. Another heroine motivated to power and greatness by rape. But, fuck it; it was seventy-two pages, and even though I was able to read the entire thing over the course of a half hour subway ride, it was at least a meaty disappointment. I await the next two chapters before I pass full and final judgment.
Jul 31, Sam Quixote rated it it was ok. The League has always been Moore's best work in my opinion. Vol 1 was great and even though Vol 2 got slated I really enjoyed it. I tried with Black Dossier but in the end it just collapsed under the weight of its own references. Moore's prose is very weak. He ma The League has always been Moore's best work in my opinion.
He may try to write like Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie but the plain fact is he just can't. Comics is his medium soley because the artwork catches the lack of imagery his words can't express. Dossier tried to mimick the styles of Shakespeare, Fleming, Cleland, and Wilde and failed each time. Cash in! Thankfully Moore's abandoned his lugubrious prose and settled to collaborate with O'Neill as equals. So what do we have? A very slim volume. Nemo's daughter wants a different life to the one her father lead so she runs off to London.
Things don't go well and she winds up working in a brothel. Instead we get the annoyingly double entendre spouting idiot Orlando introduced in Dossier, basically Virginia Woolf's character who can changes sexes. Allan and Mina are wandering about mostly in this volume not doing much, they encounter a mysterious time traveller who says mysterious things then disappears. Then Nemo's daughter has an experience that changes her mind and the "book" ends in a bloody slaughter. Dull stuff. As part of a larger narrative, say if Parts 2 and 3 of Vol 3 were together then I'd say it was a weak if intriguing first act but as a single book I'd say it's Moore on autopilot.
To be honest, the main story is Nemo's daughter and to have her go off like she did is so contrived as to be unnecessary. With a premise that didn't need to happen and could simply have started off as it ended then I might have a different opinion of the book but as it is, it's a lazy effort from Moore who should've done more than this. O'Neill's artwork though is as brilliant as ever. The bloody battle in the end offers up some great drawings and save this weak effort from becoming a terrible book.
I'll probably keep reading but will use the library next time instead of handing over cash for this in case it's more drivel. View 1 comment. Jun 07, Adam rated it it was amazing Shelves: steampunkery , literature-fantastique , black-comedy. The new League storyline seems written for me and my personal obsessions Working up to be a metatextual rewrite of the last century.
Looking good so far. The next episode will involve Rosemary's Baby and Jerry Cornelius I can ask for nothing more. Appearances by characters from Iain Sinclair and looking exactly like Iain Sinclair and Hodgson among many others add to the referen The new League storyline seems written for me and my personal obsessions Appearances by characters from Iain Sinclair and looking exactly like Iain Sinclair and Hodgson among many others add to the reference spotting fun something some people tire of, but I never ever will Oct 25, Alabaster rated it did not like it Shelves: comics-manga-graphic-novels.
I never thought I'll ever come across anything Alan Moore that I'll dislike but this issue's non-existent storyline concluded with a rape-revenge trope, so here we are. Feb 23, Brooke rated it liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-read. Better than the Black Dossier debacle. Not as good as the original books, partly because the members of the League are pretty blah this time. Can we get some personalities here?
Storywise, I'm not sure what the point was. While I know that this is part 1 in a trilogy, it should still feel like it moved the narrative forward. Jun 03, Mir rated it liked it Shelves: graphic. Crammed with gratuitous allusions and gratuitous female, of course nudity.
The larger apocalyptic plot arc seemed interesting, the actual contents of this book not so much. Not a fan of O'Neill's art. And was all that extensive cabaret singing really necessary? Shelves: borrowed. A little slower then most Leagues, but kind of liked this one. More with Orlando my favorite character and liked the Penny Opera feel to it too. Liked the Alister Crowley reference as well. Feb 21, Edward Taylor rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels , fantasy. Finally, a LoEG story that is straightforward, well written, and solid from end to end.
We follow the life of Captain Nemo's daughter "Jenni" as she comes to England to see her aged and dying father. She is offered the Nautilus but decides to live a normal life until a terrible fate intervenes and she is forced to raise the black flag and start slitting throats no, really Trigger Warning - Rape Parental Warning - FF Nudity and sex scenes Finally, a LoEG story that is straightforward, well written, and solid from end to end.
She is offered the Nautilus but decides to live a normal life until a terrible fate intervenes and she is forced to raise the black flag and start slitting throats no, really Trigger Warning - Rape Parental Warning - FF Nudity and sex scenes Jul 19, Tim Pendry rated it liked it Shelves: alternative-histories , horror , graphic-novels. As usual, Moore assumes an in-depth knowledge in the reader of the highways and byways of past popular and esoteric culture, but whereas, in the past, the jumbling of images and themes appeared to be both coherent and instructive, here it is just showy.
It is as if Moore was making sure that he got in all the references in '' that were left over from previous works. Wha '', the latest in Alan Moore's 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' is a bit of a potboiler by any standards. What next '' with cute references to Crowley, Rohmer and Buchan. Und so weiter This Moorcockian conceit is in danger of becoming tired without the offer of some deeper message behind it.
As with early Moorcock, it is more style and self-indulgence than substance and meaning. Moore's work is here much like his character of Orlando, a gender-changing immortal but also a thorough bore who drops names from the past like the worst sort of metropolitan socialite. The graphic novel is saved by the illustrator, Kevin O'Neill, who takes this relatively lazy material and creates some arresting images - the naked daughter of Captain Nemo more at home at sea than on land is creatively transformed into victim and then brutal heir to her father's domain as much through draughtsmanship as penmanship.
Not great but good. But, as always, with Moore, we are judging him here by the high standards of his own past. He is still a cut above most graphic novelists even when he fails. This story is consciously Brechtian and bleak, one in which a localised catastrophe is mistaken by these paranormal investigators, who strike me as rather bumbling compared to previous incarnations, for the one yet to come: the holocaust that started in We know it is coming.
They don't. And yet they are supposed to be more prescient than us. This leads us to the strange mood of the piece - one of despair. Alan Moore has always been quintessentially British in his sensibility.
This means, in fantasy terms, either dystopian as in 'V for Vendetta' or 'Watchmen' or hopefully occult as in 'Promethea'. In '', there is a lot of dystopianism and very little of the occult. The bad guys are the winners, bad acts only get punished through cathartic violence and lies protect the aristocratic order. This sounds like Moore has captured perfectly the quiet rage now bubbling under the surface of Middle England in the wake of the credit crisis and political lies and failures.
This rage is sometimes palpable in England today, especially amongst the older generation of the middling sort who foolishly trusted these people in office and in the City.
It is a rage that floats between depression and violence and graphic novels do not do depression very well - the rage's impulse is thus towards violence in a comic book world where serial killers and pirates are looked on cynically as no worse than the system they declare war on, where ordinary humans are little more than rats and where apocalyptic violence seems both inevitable and purgative. What Moore has done, perhaps in a fit of absent-mindedness but as an aspect of his genius, is capture the psyche of Western culture as we move into a period of extreme scarcity for some and the destruction of dreams for many others while the system itself seems to continue with all the momentum of a steam engine whose crew has long since bailed out but which managed to leave sufficient coal in the boiler.
So, not a great work but already a work of our time and one that, more than the literary outpourings of metropolitan London society, should act as a warning that the street revolt that brought the vicious BNP into the European Parliament only a few months ago may scarcely have begun.
Sep 20, Aaron rated it really liked it. With the third volume in this graphic novel series, writer Alan Moore, who also created The Watchmen, jumps his character forward quite a few years. The League, who is still part of the British secret service has changed quite a bit. Mina Murray is still a member, though now she is in charge along with a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain.
All of their other partners have left. First their is Carnacki, a ghost-find With the third volume in this graphic novel series, writer Alan Moore, who also created The Watchmen, jumps his character forward quite a few years.
First their is Carnacki, a ghost-finder with the ability to get glimpses of the future in his dreams. Anthony Raffles, a reformed thief and the immortal Orland also are members. The league is drawn into a mystery after Carnacki dreams about an occult that is trying to bring about the creation of a Moonchild. This will some how lead to armageddon. The problem is his dreams provide little other information. Before long, they are investigating a local cult that turns to a possible evil sorcerer as their leader.
The problem is that he was supposedly killed the previous summer. It will be up to the league to sort out if the rumor is true and whether the answer to Carnacki's prophecy can be found through that cult.
As this is all happening, readers are also getting to meet Janni. She is the daughter of former leaguer, Captain Nemo. The two have never been close, and she feels the need to head out on her own as her father heads into his waning months. She slowly finds her way to London and ends up working in a dockside pub. After her father dies, she is visited by one of his most dedicated men, who is asking her to return back to the kingdom to rule in Nemo's place as queen. She initially refuses, but changes her mind once she is confronted with the harsh realities of humanity.
It is these same realities that initially made her father declare war on the nations of the world. It is clear that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It seems she becomes the infamous Pirate Jenny of lore. Mina and Allan are not the only blasts from the past to come to the fore through the course of the story.
One of the primary suspects for the role of Jack the Ripper returns to London, and a series of murders become headlines. The new Mac the Knife will bring about questions as to who was the killer and whether their were royal ties to the previous murders.
This volume is much shorter than its predecessors, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have the rich storytelling and great artwork of the earlier volumes. It is quickly clear that the story is not fully tied up and further volumes will be needed to finish up all the loose ends, but it does to a great job of bringing the story further.
Feb 26, Lincoln rated it liked it. This incarnation lasted until Gulliver's death in A 19th Century League was formed and led by Mina Murray. This League existed for only two years, but was very competent at its tasks in stopping Professor Moriarty and the Martian Invasion. In the early 20th Century a new League was formed by Murray. This League existed until the s.
The British Government, during the reign of Big Brother , attempted to mimic the Victorian League, but this new incarnation disastrously failed at their first attempts leading to the abandonment of the League by the Government. Now as an independent group of the Blazing World , the League was eventually was formed in after an unsuccessful attempt in by Mina using superheroes.
The first League was established at the behest of England's Queen Gloriana recommending that Italian sorcerer Prospero and his squire Orlando found a group of extraordinary individuals after her death who would operate independently of the government. This seems to have been done in the hope of establishing a bridgehead between her own faerie realm and the mortal world, via the ethereal Blazing World archipelago in the North Atlantic, in the wake of her successor King Jacob 's ruthless purge of faeriekind from the British Isles, and the subsequent retreat of those magical elements from everyday life.
Based on some of the portraits displayed at the British Museum HQ, there has been since the first issue of the LEG some fan speculation about the existence of midth century league. Some names frequently mentioned are:. Although there are some strong hints of its existence, no reference is made, not even in the Black Dossier issue.
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