The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vs. Star Trek: Nemesis is a crapfest spectacular! What are the odds that our two worst movies would get matched up? If either of these movies went up against anything else in this tournament, both would be toast. As it is, no matter how this ends, a crappy movie is going on to the next round.
This is like the NCAA play-in game: the 64th and 65th ranked teams play each other for a chance to play in the tournament. You just know one is going home and the other is losing the NCAA Tournament in the first round.
LXG was an abominable interpretation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, taking extreme liberties with the characters and the story. In the graphic novel, Wilhemina Murray assembled the league and was the only rational one in the bunch. Alan Quartermain was an opium junkie. The movie pushed Sean Connery’s Quartermain to the front and Mina almost completely aside in favor of Tom Saywer.
Connery was waaaay too old to play any kind of action hero in 2003, when this came out; he got a lot of help from the camera in his fight scenes. It’s also looked like he was only pitted against goons with lousy eyesight and a degenerative bone disorder. If Connery shows up in Indiana Jones 4, he’d better be in a wheelchair.
The most bogus thing about Nemesis was the marriage of Counselor Troi and Commander Riker. It took him fifteen years to decide to stop banging chicks on Risa and settle down? And she bought it?? I smell marriage counseling and an ass-whupping from Worf in Riker’s future.
LXG was shiny, but I was bored by it. I’m not even sure why we have it on DVD. Star Trek: Nemesis came free with my DVD player, and despite it’s problems, at least Nemesis isn’t completely freaking boring, which is the only reason it’s winning this match and moving to the next round, where I’m sure it will be decimated.
Here’s how it works for the first PRGAAMWA Tournament: John and I each had thirty seconds to pull eight genre movies from our DVD shelf for a total of sixteen movies. Then we did random seeding with our match-ups: with eyes closed, we each grabbed a DVD from the pile. Whichever two we pulled are matched up in the first round of the tournament.
The scores so far. . .
Game #1: Batman Begins struggled past Mulholland Drive
Game #2: Serenity fed Clash of the Titans to the Kraken
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I’ve gotta say, I disagree with you on this one. LXG was a weak interpretation of the source material and bears all the hallmarks of a quick genre cash-in, but I had a good time watching it.
From start to finish Nemesis was painful to watch and I felt that it failed even as an extended episode.
A part of it, I’m sure, is that I’m closer to Nemesis’ source material then I am to Moore’s graphic novel so I’m much more likely to take offense at a shoddy interpretation of the former.
No matter which way I turned on this one, all I faced was disappointment and crap. It was like an election.
I’d have to agree with Tom. I found nothing in “Nemesis” of any interest whatsoever. “LXG” on the other hand, whilst being a travesty of the source material, succeeded on its own terms as an SFX-driven lightweight romp – not a great film but just as enjoyable in its own way as, say, “Underworld” or “Van Helsing”.
The both suck like toilet trading Dyson BUT Nemesis loses as it is a Trek film without The Shats init. This is akin to putting a baby in the microwave. Enjoyable for the first 30 seconds of fizzles, pops and splats but in the end not worth the mess.
LXG is a load of old nipple biscuits as well but at least has a bloomin great submarine init. Lovely.