>You're either watching the movie and picturing the comic, or
>vice versa. The key to enjoying both is your ability to
>compartmentalize. The book is the book, and the movie is the
>movie. I think a lot of people have resigned themselves to
>this fact and that's why the hate level is staying nice and
>low for now. Expectations have been re-calibrated, if not
>lowered.

>You know, this is going to be my first time seeing an Alan
>Moore comicbook movie having actually read the book first. I
>saw V before I read the book (and actually preferred the
>movie), and the same with 'League of Extraordinary
>Gentlemen'... which I probably would have hated had I read the
>book first. But I didn't so I actually found the movie kind of
>tolerable. That's not a bad strategy really, to experience the
>crappy version first.

But LXG the movie was so bad I didn't even want to read the book afterwards. I mean the make up on Hyde? I thought it was a joke.