# Did anyone actually see LXG ? Any redeaming Qualities? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456 "2003-07-14T19:44:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/21 "2003-07-23T18:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > **Oh yeah, that’s right: Is this the first time since Bram Stoker’s original story that the vampire wasn’t bothered by sunlight? It was really weird seeing Mina out on the sun deck of the _Nautilus._** That and her using a mirror to wipe the blood off her face the first time she fed onscreen. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/22 "2003-07-24T00:24:31Z")
Hmm. If I had seen _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ before I saw _Pirates of the Caribbean_, I would have thought that LxG was a typical summer blockbuster movie. In short, nothing memorable, but not a total waste. However, I saw LxG a week afterwards, and I was totally disappointed. The only good part was the very beginning, in Africa, when Quatermain is recruited to the mission. The rest of it was just a bunch of poorly executed stunts, with exposition linking them. I thought it was a load of crap, and I’m a very easily pleased movie goer. PoTC spoiled me for LxG. ---
**Author:** ![Omphaloskeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Omphaloskeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omphaloskeptic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/23 "2003-07-24T02:43:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > **And one other nitpick: If the _Nautilus_ is three or four times longer than the average city block in Venice, _how the fuck does it turn?_** Well, you see, Captain Nemo grew up as a shy gondolier in Venice, and he always took a shortcut via SPLAT Corner… ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/24 "2003-07-24T02:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > That and her using a mirror to wipe the blood off her face the first time she fed onscreen. No reason to assume that the blood wouldn’t show up in the mirror in an horrible Invisible Man effect. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/25 "2003-07-24T03:21:34Z")
The movie was full of bad cliche and annoying gimmicks. But it was a lot of fun and Sean Connery is still the coolest actor there is, so see it at a payless theater in a month or see the matinee. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456/26 "2003-07-27T21:36:50Z")
I just remembered something else that bugged me, and that shows how little thought was put into the story: The opening scene is a big crash-and-bash as the villains, in a heavily armored vehicle, break into a vault to steal original blueprints of Venice’s foundations. Obviously, these are extremely valuable and impossible to find elsewhere, so the bad guys have to resort to this elaborate scheme. But then, later, explaining what the villains were up to, Nemo pulls out a big coffee-table book. “These are copies,” he says, opening the book and displaying exactly the same thing that was on the original parchments stolen in the introduction. In other words, if the bad guys hadn’t bothered with the big-ass tank, if they’d only gone down to the local Barnes & Noble and picked themselves up a copy of this book, nobody would have been the wiser about what they were up to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-actually-see-lxg-any-redeaming-qualities/188456.md?page=1)