That and her using a mirror to wipe the blood off her face the first time she fed onscreen.
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.
Well, you see, Captain Nemo grew up as a shy gondolier in Venice, and he always took a shortcut via SPLAT Corner…
No reason to assume that the blood wouldn’t show up in the mirror in an horrible Invisible Man effect.
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.
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.