21. "I didn't know anyone liked LXG the movie" In response to In response to 19
>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.