Was it really that bad?

I could go on and on about about Shaun of the Dead, instead I'll post AVGN who says it best.

youtu.be/PG3t6gszvaA

Guilty pleasure.

the souce material isn't that good either.

Van Helsing was actually good though.

>. If the execs hadn't assumed Americans were all clinically retarded and made Tom Sawyer a pointless write-in character, it could've been good

To be fair I think Alan Moore kind of fucked up with the lack of (north)American Characters in the comic version, desu i wish he had made "ripping JK Rowling a new (labor) asshole" last longer than "Century 2009".

Van Helsing was good in the sense that it was stupid and cheesy and basically just kate beckinsale in a corset and tight leather pants.(like the 'Underworld' films). the CGI is terrible when re-watching the film, doesn't hold up at all, but the guy playing "Dracula" is clearly having a good time with it.

the antichrist should've become the next "Bond", and not been defeated by marry fucking poppins..

the "magical school shooting" was interesting but it was entirely kind of "meh" as it read more of the sorts of grumbly/grumpy thoughts one feels when waking up on the wrong side of the bed, far more interesting was the characters critiques of the setting being "overly safe" or "nostalgic"/"quaint".
(also the UK doesn't have the school-shooting trend that the US does, so it doesn't make much sense to have a mass casualty event like that at a british wizarding school as it would an american wizarding or whatever school).

And also if the execs hadn't been clinically retarded Americans and realized that if Tom Sawyer was 10 years old before the Civil War, then in the setting of LXG he'd be in his mid-fifties.

No.
>Compared with the source material it's fucking awesome
Fixed.

Maybe he should haven't learned not to be an idiot who doesn't know what roles to pick.

ironically I think alan moore would hate to have an entire comic bashing JK rowlings work as he'd think it benieth him or like "missing the point of what should be read as be representative of wider trends" (or shit like that).

Though I think he's a bit disconnected given that most of the actual "youth" violence in the UK seems to be less "mass shooting" and more "shanking"

Still not sure why he had beef with Harry Potter and James Bond

he thought they were boring, derivative works which were in their own way signs of cultural decay. (I guess Moore is more bothered that they're doing it unironically or without trying to do much "new" with the derivative material in question).

James Bond (at least in the Fleming Novels, and from an uncharitable modern watching of the films) is a Tool of Imperialist Western Powers Professionally, Personality wise he's a fucking sociopathic rapist (or at least kind of a scumbag/sleaze).

Harry Potter is basically junk food as far as reading material goes. with everything designed around replicating a comfortable aesthetic of "quaint old Britain, with steam-engines, brick buildings, and 3-piece-suits", which is revealed as a facade for some sinister antichrist-brainwashing-plot in "Century 2009".

idk, mostly League of Extraordinary Gentlemen turned into "interpretations of an old-man yelling at a cloud" at some point.

Damn, I’d hate/love to see what he would think of Steven Universe and Gravity Falls

How different was from the comic?

I think he'd actually be a little bit nicer to them, at least gravity falls.

Steven Universe he'd basically see as Rose Quartz pretending to be steven after centuries of being traumatized and "RAPED" by humans or some shit.

Or just being Orlando..

It´s just formulaic schlock with a bunch of nobodies gravitating around Sean Connery playing Sean Connery.

Shut the fuck up.

>Connery could have been Gandalf but he passed, so he signed up for this to get a piece of the blockbuster pie
>Dorian Gray was also cast as Aragorn but left for whatever reason and they got Mortenson at short notice

I am the only one who liked Dorian Gray?

Ahab was based at least

I actually kind of liked his death scene.
wish they had sometime more of that in the graphic novel.

I thought it was okay, bit I can never remember the ending.

It's a very loose adaptation

Mina is the leader
Quatermain is a drug addict
Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray aren't members
The Invisible Man is the original one

The plot is completely different

It was neat at points.
I didn't mind the Invisible Man, and Nemo was pretty nifty.

Plus Hyde is Hyde all the time.

I know Potter is said to follow in the British school fiction tradition but what is Bond derivative of? Wasn't it loosely based on Fleming's own spy work?

bond is derivative of bond, the fact there's been so many "bonds" and the film industry won't let the character fucking die is sort of the criticism.

from what I've gathered he feels similarly with regards to Marvel and DC and the constant recycling of superheroes rather than making new characters or new IP

>Personality wise he's a fucking sociopathic rapist (or at least kind of a scumbag/sleaze).

You have never read a Fleming Bond novel in your entire life have you?

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Reminds me of when people say a sociopathic asshole Sherlock Holmes is closer to how Doyle wrote him.

If anything this thread makes alan moore look really bad

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