extraordinary gentlemen and the league thereof

oh my god, i used to love this movie.

now i'm distressed, as i'm slowly realizing that it's terribly shitty. i mean, it's like certain works of art or pieces of clothing: the creative design foundations were brilliant, but the execution was terrible!

• the art direction is awesome'lafd'lajgepi4i4 kd6jb]ju9kmfg
  
• the effects were considerably good
• the design was awesome: the nautilus? and the nautilus car??!!!amazing. etc. it's hard to believe that it was made seven years ago and didn't get as much visual credit as other films (a certain disney epic involving pirates, perhaps) and the concept art shows an interesting flair for macabre victorian motifs/shapes that weren't seen as heavily in the comics.
  

but everything else was awful! THE ACTING WAS SHITTY! for the most part. you could tell that they had good intentions in regards to casting BUT THE ACTING WAS SHITTY! not even teh charming seancon could negate some of the terrible, terrible afdkasjfafdhaeoith scenes.

it seemed to suffer from the curse that doomed watchmen: great book, great intentions, great effects, bad fucking movie. it's really too bad.

my motto is "lower your expectations, and you're bound to enjoy yourself". i can and did enjoy league of extraordinary gentlemen, but today i'm feeling rather critical, so that is that.


in other news: RIVER MONSTERS is one of the best shows ever, and downloading it fills the void in my heart left there when discovery channel stopped running austin stevens.