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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Caravan of Garbage

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2003 was very much like today in the sense that everybody was looking to adapt comic book properties into a huge movie franchise. So in continuing our Alan Moore-athon we're taking a look at The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or LXG if you would. In Sean Connery's final live action role before retirement he leads a team of 19th Century super people as Alan Quartermaine. We've never liked it but maybe that's wrong. Doubtful though. Thanks for listening to our Caravan Of Garbage review!

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20 Comments

@bmillette 3 years ago Pinned

RIP Kevin O'Neill, probably the only comic artist to ever have his ENTIRE STYLE deemed unacceptable by the Comics Code Authority.

@TwiztidThorn 3 years ago

The working title of this movie was Blue Harvest because once Alan Moore read the screenplay he nearly blue his brains out.

@seanbell69 3 years ago

Wait wait wait, the total production cost 78 million, but Sean Connery got 18 million of that?

@Fyrmer 3 years ago

"We need to gather a bunch of superpowered people so we can steal their abilities to make supersoldiers"
"Okay, let's get an old man who can, I dunno... shoot pretty good and maybe has some vague connection to African mysticism, a guy who built a submarine, and another guy who can shoot kinda good and also convinced his friends to paint a fence for him one time."

@jonathanjoestar1938 3 years ago

Little known fact about this movie, the invisible man wasn’t always going to be the invisible man, he was initially supposed to be one of the blue men from the blue man group who had to be edited out when they realised they didn’t have the rights to the character. As a nod to the removal of the blue man, the working title of this movie during production was Blue Harvest which was coincidentally also the code name for the original Star Wars.

@davidtaylor142 3 years ago

Making Mina Harker a vampire is such a weird choice given that the entire back half of the book is dedicated to making sure she doesnt become one

@redmenace166 3 years ago

I first saw this as a child and it was one of my favorites. I still can’t make myself dislike it. I understand that it’s not great but man it’s good.

@killergrooves2438 3 years ago

I appreciate the fact that Connery had the self-awareness to go, “I didn’t understand The Matrix. I didn’t understand Lord of the Rings. I recognize that just because I don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s crap.” That’s an admirable quality to have. The irony is that he was actually right about this one and should’ve past.

I wonder if that self-awareness also played a part in retiring after this movie. Yeah, he was miserable making it, but maybe there was a part of him that thought, “I just have no idea what’s gonna be a worthy project anymore, so I should just retire. I’ve lost the ability to judge movies correctly, I don’t need the money, I don’t want to damage my legacy like so many older actors. Maybe I should quit.”

@Synetik 3 years ago

"Mason, have you ever watched a movie?"
"yeah"

This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

@ScreamingScallop 3 years ago

My favorite moment? Driving a sword-shaped submarine through the canals of Venice. The canals are apparently way deeper than I've been told.

@felipealemany2361 3 years ago (edited)

Structure/plot-wise, it's uncanny how much Whedon's Avengers (2012) owes to this movie

@TheRealNeutromancer 3 years ago (edited)

Connery: "I got fed up dealing with idiots"

"Anyway, you're gonna be this wizard and help this little guy chuck a cursed ring into a volcano."
Also Connery: "I don't get it."

@SPRSinglePlayerRacing 3 years ago

Unapologetically, unironically love this movie, I just have so much fun with seeing so many of my favourite literary characters onscreen with such great production design.

@Tehstampede 3 years ago

I did not know Connery turned down Gandalf holy shit that would've been a different movie

@steveheronofficial 3 years ago

We need a series reboot so we can get a bottle episode of Mr Hyde in the tailors, waiting on them finishing his big hat.

@scooterj.4727 1 year ago

"Here's the Rodney supercut" got me two years later, and I liked it. I liked it alot.

@fandomcorrespondents8779 3 years ago

The Rodney Supercut literally makes me laugh every single time.

@tbxvividos 3 years ago

I love that of everything Orson Welles did in his life, you remember him as the voice of Unicron

@chrissullivan6572 3 years ago

We need a Maso fashion show

@codydavis3100 3 years ago

I will always love this movie for 2 reasons. One: I love the Hyde transformation into Jekyll. Two: it got me back into reading classic novels and reading in general.