If one were to read the graphic novel, one would discover that Mina Harker as portrayed there isn't a vampire.
Then again, Quatermain's a raddled opium addict, Griffin's (The Invisible Man's) an utterly amoral rapist, Hyde is a monster with no redeeming features whatsoever, there's no Dorian Gray or Tom Sawyer, and the plot revolves around stolen Cavorite and an underworld battle between Fu Manchu and Moriarty, who is not protrayed as a comical serial villain.
Nor does the graphic novel include clockwork cars everyone knows how to drive, a Nautilis that is half a mile long in the open sea and small enough to get into a Venetian canal in the next shot, 1917-era tanks in 1899, Venice (in any way, let alone collpsing), Carnevale held in october, or any of the other selections of badly-polished turds that were used in this film in place of plotting, characterisation or, for instance, dialogue.
It's shit.
Go thee, read the graphic novel, and weep. This is the worst GN-to-film adaption since Tank Girl.
I could go on at some length, but I would just be repeating myself. See my journal passim ad nauseam.
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Date: 2003-10-25 02:27 am (UTC)Then again, Quatermain's a raddled opium addict, Griffin's (The Invisible Man's) an utterly amoral rapist, Hyde is a monster with no redeeming features whatsoever, there's no Dorian Gray or Tom Sawyer, and the plot revolves around stolen Cavorite and an underworld battle between Fu Manchu and Moriarty, who is not protrayed as a comical serial villain.
Nor does the graphic novel include clockwork cars everyone knows how to drive, a Nautilis that is half a mile long in the open sea and small enough to get into a Venetian canal in the next shot, 1917-era tanks in 1899, Venice (in any way, let alone collpsing), Carnevale held in october, or any of the other selections of badly-polished turds that were used in this film in place of plotting, characterisation or, for instance, dialogue.
It's shit.
Go thee, read the graphic novel, and weep. This is the worst GN-to-film adaption since Tank Girl.
I could go on at some length, but I would just be repeating myself. See my journal passim ad nauseam.