The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Nostalgia Critic
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- Sean Connery's last movie is...well, his last movie for a reason. The comic book flop gets a lot of hate and Nostalgia Critic takes a look at why. The NC reviews, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 steampunk-dieselpunk superhero action film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
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What should the Nostalgia Critic review in the future
Channel Awesome Terminator Genisys.
Channel Awesome Fred the movie
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Channel Awesome Great Gatsby 2013.
Ok, to be clear: The reason Hyde was making faces in the mirror during the recording scene was because he could hear the high-frequency signal being given off by the record that would activate the bomb on the ship. It wasn't pointless... except he told no one, and the bomb still went off. So yeah, not pointless, but it was.
So it is pointless?
@@DBDRFzero
...Maybe.
Like Schrodinger's Cat
@@mr.bojangles2580 what if he had xplosive dhiarrea and he was holding his rectum with enough pressure to make a carbon a diamond
Fun Fact: Dorian Gray frequently looked at his portrait throughout Oscar Wilde's novel, but in this movie they made it his kryptonite for plot reasons.
And it doesn't even make sense; in the book, damaging the painting is his kryptonite, not looking at it, which would make far more sense in the film as he only works for the villain because the villain has his portrait. If the villain has his portrait, he will never look at it, so why work for the guy? The threat of destroying the painting would make far more sense.
And it would have looked even cooler for Mina to stab or burn the painting in the final battle instead of just showing it to Gray.
@@matthewmuir8884 plus when you see the empty spot on his wall, its in a place you would look at every single time he went up the stairs
"So the villain's plan is to... you guessed it! Taking over the world."
M. Bison turns around: "Of course"
Damn I miss this one.
And then bison says " fuck this joke , I'll go get drunk . "
I miss him "MANNNN!!!" moments.
I dont get why a person wants to take over Canada it's nice, alot of food and plants, there is barley any covid
@@cowboy557 I'm from Canada and we just hit 200,000 cases. France has been having over 20,000 cases a day for the past few weeks
There is more in America
This movie and Van Helsing are my unabashed guilty pleasures. It's grand and silly and I adore it. Plus, Dragonheart was pretty good. Not spectacular but pretty good.
Same. Me and my grandpa have regularly watched this my entire life.
Don't you dare forget speed racer
Those two along with Hellboy form a trifecta of early '00s supernatural action movies.
@@GuideZer0
I’m with you. I’ve loved all 3 of these movies
Same! My parents and I would always watch these movies on rainy movie days growing up. They're not great movies, but the level of camp and grand visuals make up for it 😁
I didn't believe he turned down John Hammond, Morpheus, AND Gandalf until I looked it up... Holy shit...
omegafan101 He needs to play a Terminator and voice a Transformer.
Both him and Wil Smith turned down matrix roles
Most likely his agents convinced him otherwise, in comparison to the skit in this video. Hence why you see good actors do bad films for a few years then BAM great movies, reason? Firing agent.
@@ImmaLittlePip Will Smith chose Wild Wild West instead.....lol
That really gives an _entirely_ new mental image to "I know Kung Fu." "Schow me."
How Would Sean Connery Have Known That Malcolm Had The Same Haircut For Several Years?he Was on The Phone
He was being sarcastic, as he always is in his films.
Sam Kresil he Was Sarcastic in The Last Crusade?
@@cjhs2006 I've not seen it but i assume he was. You can tell by his face when he says "I'm sorry, son. They got us" after Indie's plane is hit.
Sam Kresil oh,I Couldn’t,I’m Autistic so I’m Not That Good at Reading Facial Expressions
@@cjhs2006 Oh, thats ok. So am I. I usually ossaccisionally pick actor's facial expressions when it seems like they says specific things just for themselves, like RDJ in the marvel films for example.
This movie is still a guilty pleasure
ImmaLittlePip amen. 😊
Yeah same
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing i love them!!!!!!!
The comic was better.
I read the comic this was based on, and oddly, this is one of the few movies that was better than the book.
So hilarious how Sean's accent flips from Scottish to Russian to Italian within less than five minutes.
The Steven Seagal of his time
R.I.P Sean Connery.Both him and his career
Makesh shenshe.
@@obiwankenobi9141 you are shingle you shay
@@NashmanNash that ishn’t poshible! Now shit down!
It really sad that he bashed his own career with a shovel when he turned down those roles.
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So let me get this straight, they say "Bomb Voyage" in this movie and you DON'T make an Incredibles reference? Then you say they are building Supersuits and you STILL DON'T MAKE AN INCREDIBLES REFERENCE?!
Mike S It would be too easy.
Derek Stronf Even though Nostalgia Critic does easy targets.
To be fair, a ladder can actually appear that formidable in a movie if they have Jackie Chan in it.
A broken stick is formidable in a Jackie Chan movie. Have you SEEN the crazy shit he does in The Foreigner?!
Never fight Jackie Chan in a room full of furniture. And never give the guy a disadvantage. That only makes him stronger.
Chris Chen and by God do no have any form of alcohol near the fight, else your just dead. Probably even worse than dead
Basically, if there's something, anything, in the room, you're dead.
Chris Chen in fact, just don’t fight him. Bad for your health.
I'm gonna be honest. I thought Nemo was cool AF.
He was
He was a hundred times cooler in the comic though..
Let’s be honest we all want his car
Jacob Rengen You mean his Au-to-mo-bile ;-)
I liked this movie
This is the kind of movie that needs to have a reboot bcause of its amazing concept but horrible execution. Maybe there could be a few lesser known characters as well and have their being alive dictate the relevancy of their stories. Like, it could be established early on with a character from a completely forgotten (or even original) story killed after being established with everyone else as "oh yah, them! Everyone knows them!" Other characters remember then but real life people are all "who? Ive never heard of that story before" after their death.
Eh it was based off a comic so they stuck to the characters just made a few changes
Like Skinner
They did good with Skinner
Be careful what you wish for. I heard rumors just that is happening and it appears to be taking the ghostbusters 2016 approach...
In the original comics they actually added some characters, in the second volume the league actually face an attack from the Martians from War of the world's. They also meet Dr Moreau.
They should remake Clones of Bruce Lee as a Horror comedy , perhaps Burton could do it :p
Debi Burke dorian grey and Tom Sawyer don’t exist in the comic, they’re movie original
To be fair, in the comic this was based on he's also called "M". And also like in the comics Captain Nemo is Indian. You know, I'm personally glad Connery didn't get the role of Gandalf. Because we wouldn't have had Ian McKellen, who just IS Gandalf. Also you have studied history right Doug? As we've seen in actual history during World War I when Europe goes to war the whole world gets dragged into it thanks to the colonies they have all around the world. And Moriarity's goal isn't to "take over the world", he wants to profit from it. He's an arms dealer and he's sparked the war to sell these weapons to the highest bidder. Also, no, Moriarity wasn't revealing that Sawyer was his son. He was referencing Quartermain's actual son who was killed on a mission with him in the past. They talked about it. I know you said the conversations were boring but paying attention to them may have come in handy.
GeneralKenobi75
Ooooo, BURN! Yeah, right on all counts. I hate it when critics don't bother to even pay attention.
Yeah Doug needs to either take better notes, stick only to stuff he really knows or just quit. Yes I said quit cause if you repeatedly can't correctly remember things so we don't have to then you have no business trying anymore.
Just stay home and enjoy your family, the world won't end if we're sad...this isn't Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Speaking of which, am I just now noticing the supervillain-creates-the-circumstances-leading-up-to-World-War-I-in-order-to-profit-from-arms-dealing is a semi-popular cliché now?
Moriarty does the EXACT SAME PLOT in Sherlock Homes: Game of Shadows.
GeneralKenobi75 cough cough america cough cough russia cough cough asia cough cough
If you have to listen to expositive dialogue to understand the character, and if necessary dialogue can't be made interesting, the movie fails on 2 counts
Wait... Sean Connery turned down those other roles? Dayum son, lol.
He turned down The Matrix because he thought it was a silly idea.
He turned down playing Gandalf because he didn't understand the Tolkien books.
I don't know why he turned down Jurassic Park.
@@neilprice513 So the matrix was silly but the avengers with the bear suits was smart?
@@InvestedGman Sean Connery said the Matrix was silly, it's what he said when he turned down the role.
@@neilprice513 but how did he accepted the avengers with bear suits? Even that was more silly
@@InvestedGman well it might not have "sounded silly" in script form, but in reality was absurd.
Mind you, Hollywood liked the idea of Moriarty being behind war on an industrial scale so much that it was the plot to Game of Shadows.
But that movie at least did it better
Hollywood liked the idea? It’s an idea at least as old as the ‘40s Basil Rathbone Holmes series of movies and radio shows, if not older. It’s not original or good, so I see the appeal for big Hollywood.
Actually Sawyer isn't his son. That's not a twist at all. M says he can't save Sawyer, just like he couldn't save his son.... I'm not sure that you were really paying attention to that part of the film XD
Seriously, did he even watch this movie?!
Well he HAS kind of a point that the movie does a LOT of exposition through dialogue and of course that means a lot of things can get lost. I guess the subtleties of that bit of the "climax" would count ....
Also THOMAS Sawyer is the weakest amongst the already weak main characters as he is not even from the comics... Yankception, cause of course we cannot have a Hollywood blockbuster without a single American in it... *sigh*
And actually i waited for a LOST pun on Sawyer for the whole review and was disappointed ;-)
Maybe Douchey McNitpick will correct him on that.
So? This movie is clearly very bad and very boring, I think you can be excused for not paying attention.
he never said he is his son you moron
Every conversation in this movie should just end with “indeed”
Oh, really indeed?
I feel like that would make it even more gentlemanly, indeed.
It's quite a decent idea, indeed.
Indeed!
Teal'c approves.
*bane voice* OF COURSE!!!
Indubitably. /chin stroke
You know, you should really do a month of bad James Bond movies. There are so many out there, and you could do each one with a different James Bond!
Trygve Plaustrum yes
Bad James Bond month? You mean every single Daniel Craig James Bond movie then, 'cos good god is he bad at it, and he looks nothing like a Bond.
Actually I feel like he should do a "Viewer's Choice" month....I mean come on...there are SOOOOOOOOO many requests out there for reviews, why NOT take it on?
Kona Chibi Uh huh, I don't know who in their right mind would call Casino Royale a bad James Bond movie.
So that would be; Quantum of Solace, Die Another Die and Moonraker. At least those are the ones I thought were the worst. I know Diamonds are Forever is pretty bad, but that's a guilty pleasure.
Okay so, I saw this as a kid, and I loved it (mostly for Mina and Skinner) but when I was younger, I actually thought the awkwardness was intentional. Like, you throw a bunch of random people, who don't know each other, with super powers together to do some save the world mission, I felt like it'd flow about as well as an awkward elevator ride. At least, that's how my kid brain processed it.
Now that you meantion it, that makes perfect sense. You get a bunch of people who have basically been living as loners for years all together, its not going to be a lively gathering.
The way those policemen at the beginning behave is absolutely how an early 20th century British policeman would behave.
Yep! They most likely never saw anything like that before so didn't know what the heck it was. They were brave to stand in front of it, actually.
@@LadyOnikara That seems kind of strange, seeing as the British were the ones to invent tanks (or landships as they were called during their development)
I think the one Bobby kept doing the same thing because he had to at least figure out that there has to be people inside in order to drive it.
At the very least, The League doesn't try to be any other film. It is unique in its own right.
It's got quite the cult following.
Of mentally handicapped
As does "The Room." Does that make them good films?
Nope. Actually it's opinion. Opinions make films good or bad.
You may think something absolutely sucks. And you're in your right to. But it's still just your opinion, and not a fact.
I may think something is the best thing I've ever seen. And the same rules apply.
Opinionism is a form of extremism that disregards the actual facts in favour of opinions. This has been a public service announcement.
So which is it, is it opinionism that makes a good film? Or is that just a bs cop-out way of saying "well, I think it's good so therefore it must be?" I'm pretty sure a personal opinion only makes a film good or bad to the one who holds it. But a personal opinion on whether or not camp is a good thing to have in a movie doesn't make Tommy Wiseau's tin-eared dialogue sound anything close to actual human characterization. Whether something has a cult following or not just means other people share your personally held opinion about something: it doesn't change what's up on screen. And what's up on screen is a movie whose colors are so washed out even the fire works are half grey, a blandly characterized group of supposedly interesting main characters who mistake speaking in a level half whisper for intensity and a cliche-ridden plot that only manages two halfway decent action sequences and maybe half of a surprise over the course of nearly two hours of film.
I'm actually surprised you manage to find any similarities at all between The League and The Room. Except for the "The" in the beginning of the title. (That's a lot of "The"s). It really just tells more about you than about the actual films themselves. You see before you something you think is bad. And you'll go to hell and back, typing until your fingers bleed if you have to. You just h a v e to be right, no matter what the cost.
And sure! You find the arguements. You make your points.
But is it really worth all that effort just to prove that my opinion about something is wrong?
What if I like "what's up on screen"? It's an artistic choice. Check out the Nostalgia Critic's review of Sleepy Hollow, the movie! They do the exact same thing. Only red shines through a vibrant colour.
Lastly: You don't have to fight me, for the right to think something is bad. It's your taste, your choice. Let me have mine!
The opening was hilarious, however hindsight’s a wonderful thing. Every single movie mentioned that Connery turned down were very risky and not guaranteed to be a success before their release. And Lord of the rings especially was certainly NOT guaranteed to be a ‘sure fire blockbuster success’ at the time. In fact, many people were anticipating it to fail dreadfully because they couldn’t see how it could possibly live up to the books. However, it is a shame that Connery couldn’t take up at least one of these roles in his career. He was a phenomenal actor.
From what I’ve heard, Connery turned down those roles because he said that they didn’t make sense for him. But because those movies he turned down were a success at the box office he took the role of Quartermaine in this movie thinking it would be a success.
Jrad Heisenkirk But he should realize who was making it before saying no no matter how much a role doesn’t make sense on paper. He passed on Spielberg, The Wachowski Brothers who were already getting recognized with Bound and Peter Jackson who was already getting fame for his small indie hits. You have to be a delinquent to say “No” to such talent like that.
Probably not his point of view. I read that Connery is a disgusting snob who thinks he's superspecial (kinda like Brie Larson, but without the gender commentaries). So he probably thought those directors were beneath his special skills as an arthouse movie actor. @@supermariofan03
Part of being a great actor is having the ability to pick good scripts. With a few notable exceptions, most of Connery's career is dud after dud. Compare that to someone like Hopkins, who rarely puts a foot wrong. Even Michael Caine, who never turns down a paycheck, knows good from bad.
Also Connery was a mediocre actor. Charm isn't the same as skill.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 Even though he's worked with Spielberg in the past but what-the-fuck-ever Mr. Connery.
Sadly if they stuck closer to the original graphic novel, instead of the complete bollocks story they went with, they would have had, a non vampire, Willowmina Harker as the leader of the group who kept them all together due to her incredible diplomatic skills and who even got Mister Hyde to behave and work with others.
The Graphic novel was a very interesting character study, where these iconic fictional characters actually work together and combine their skills.
Just like Doug wished for in this review.
Yeah, but it also had a drug addict, anti-christ, Harry Potter pissing ligtning, talkung like an idiot, and getting killed by Mary Poppins.
I'm not kidding.
@Will Mangrum Well, I’d call that extraordinary.
@@willmangrum3686 the frick?!
@@willmangrum3686 Yeah, the last part of Century and the Tempest were...odd, to say the least. My personal favorites were the first two volumes and the Roses of Berlin.
@@willmangrum3686well that was the third volume… we don’t talk about the third volume
I forgot today was Wednesday, which means.... NOSTALGIA CRITIC DAY!!!
It's not great by any means, but I've got a huge fondness for this movie and the Hugh Jackman Van Helsing.
So do I. Van Helsing, Blade, Hellboy, and Underworld were childhood classics of mine.
Hanbei Hood yeah, it’s kinda wild how those two go hand-in-hand. I thought I was the only one who looked back fondly on those two movies, but so many people loved them both, lol
So do I.
I'd rather watch Van Helsing over LXG. This was just a disappoiment on so many levels
Van Helsing had its downsides BUT its pretty much the only movie in many many many years that has werewolves in it that actually LOOK LIKE GODDAMN HUMANOID WOLVES!!!! So yeah, that makes up for alot
Nemo: This is my invention. I call it an au-to-mo-bile.
Karl Benz: Ahem, you’re infringing in my 1986 patent. I’ve been making cars for 13 years now.
1886. As a carnut i absolutely hated how this movie treats the car, to be like that, they should have set it in 1850
They look nothing like each other (the 'Motorwagen' that Benz patented, and the 'au-to-mo-bile' in the film). Not taking away from the obvious historical significance, do you really think the technology in the 'au-to-mo-bile', or any modern car, actually infringes on that patent?
I loved this film as a child. It had everything I wanted to see as a kid, vampires, superheroes, an steampunk vibe and characters from books I was reading at the time.
Excited to see this video.
Ended up watching it in middle school and ended up checking out the comic. I wasnt expecting extraordinary goofiness and entertainment
U read the books, Jesus there hardcore with what happened with jackal/Hyde and the invisible man.
That explain ecerything
They get an r rated comic and made a film for children
Vicente Ortega Rubilar same I love this movie
agreed
This is one of those movies that, to me, just doesn't warrant being called bad. It doesn't warrant being called good either. It had a few good bits, and honestly, I was expecting LESS of it, because until Marvel's Avengers, most movies like this had even LESS action and charm. To me, this movie does enough things right to be worth seeing at least once, and personally, I liked it.
Could it have been better? Oh yeah. And it really should have been. Pity that it wasn't.
And let's not forget that The League actually gave all the characters some sort of character arc and have every member actually do something to serve the plot, compared to most of the Avengers movies, where maybe two or three characters gets to do something cool while the rest just hangs around and maybe takes out a lowly henchman or two and could easily have been cut from the story.
Wparker6804
No, she was needed to the catfight and girl power! 😆
Yeah. It's not that bad, and it's also not that good. If anything, it's just passable.
TheGuardDuck Well said! It's not a great superhero movie but it is fun. My friends and I used to watch this fairly regularly back in the day...I kinda want to watch it again now! Haha
In some alternative universe, there's a Matrix starring Will Smith and Sean Connery.
THE RED PILL WAKESH YOU UP FROM THE SHIMULATION... DOG. AND THE BLUE PILL FLIPSH YOU UPSHIDE DOWN!
Yo, why are you both yelling and lisping?
Abe Wallard
Or
Sean: If u take the blue pill, the shtory endsh and u wake up in bed. U believe whatch u want to believe. If u take the red pill, then I’ll show u how deep the rabbit hole goesh
What about Jurassic Park
Sean: Dr Grant. My dear Dr Shatler, welcome to Jurasshic Park
The Lord Of The Rings
Sean: You cannot pash! I am a shervent of the shecret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You shall not pash!
@@Blitzo8390 What's going on at Blue Base?
Joseph Randolph Nothing much. Church is practicing his aiming skills, Kaikaina has been talking to her parents and Tucker is busy in his room
OMG that has to crossover into our universe!
I will never apologize for loving this movie.
*RIP* Sir Connery.
Sawyer wasn’t Alan’s son. M was bringing up his already dead son to emphasize Alan’s care for Tom. Does it help the plot? No. But I’m just pointing out your inaccuracy.
I kinda figured. I mean, Tom is an AMERICAN literary character, and Quartermaine is obviously British, though he resides in Africa. If Tom WAS his legitimate son, then he would've gone to America for...some reason.
The idea was he took sawyer under his wing as his surrogate son.
the dvd commentary indicates the reason why a young tom sawyer was used...the directors did not have or could not obtain the rights to use the original character which was Fu Man Chew
He's constantly inaccurate. Nothing really new though I doubt we'll get another fuck up video. Even when he's broken several rules of his.
David Knapp they could’ve gone for it, they had a certain chemistry and the characters dynamic worked
But they pushed it down out throats the whole movie without any character development
21:42 Sawyer wasn't Quartermain's son. M said that Quartermain trained Sawyer about as well as he trained his son, who died on a mission with Quartermain years prior and who Quartermain is buried next to at the end of the movie.
I actually loved this movie because it made me realize several of my favorite books all technically could have a shared an universe and I found that idea fascinating.
Most people, including our host, are from a time where plot and dialogue takes a back seat to death, explosions and sex
@Johana Struve
Same! I even have it on DVD 📀
Me too!
Harry Potter and huckleberry Finn in the same universe? Along with IT? Which of course brings in Tom Sawyer canon and the dark tower into jt
@@pqcowboychanel I meant characters from Victorian Era adventure stories, like the ones in this movie...
He told Peter Jackson he would have done the Lord of the Rings if he understood at least one thing in the book. He never read the script apparently.
Probably wouldn’t have understood the script when he got it with the offer
“Sam, sam... you’re a good boy, and I don’t like you.”
Christopher OBrien I was cracking up when he said that. I literally spit out my drink when he said shut up. Lol
I was laughing and cringing at the same time, considering Sean Connery is calling Sam (a black man) "boy." I'm wondering if that was intentional.
... Wtf is wrong with someone calling anyone - black, white or fucking purple - "boy?" There's absolutely no racial connotations to that.
Me talking to my friends
Glass Wolf I didn't know for the longest time why it was considered racist to call a young black man "boy", either; but apparently it traces back to before African-Americans had equal rights, and even carried over afterward. White men refused to consider African-American men as being on equal ground as themselves, and would call even men their own age "boy" as a slur toward their intelligence -- viewing them as being on the same mental level as a child, no matter their age or social standing or educational background. That's why it's considered a racial slur today -- because white men back in the day used every conceivable way possible to insult African-Americans.
Was I the only one who liked this movie as a kid lol?
You're not alone, I think it's an underrated movie. It might not be deep or realistic, but it's a great movie if you just want some dumb fun.
I did
I sort of liked it. It inspired me to start a layout for a Horror Cinematic Universe.
I really liked this movie
I still like it. I don't know what Doug is complaining about.
Well, Doofenshmirtz wanted to take over the Tri-state area only.
Maria Spin no he was starting small then he planned to expand bit by bit
lol
BEHOLD!!!!!
Behold, my Bad-Movie-inator! It can make any movie idea instantly bad! Though it needs to recharge forever basically, last time I fired it it hit some sort of league of justice or extraordinary movie director or something. So... I don't really have anything for you to thwart Perry the Platypus... Wanna help me run some errands? Come on, we can get schwarma on the way.
I so read that in his voice.
Dragonheart was amazing.
Sean Connery was a legend. He shall be missed.
It was but it got REALLY overshadowed by lord of the rings not a good time for it to come out tbh.
@@Demicleas
Huh. Dragonheart came out 5 years before LotR so... interesting.... 🤔
A part of me wishes this movie was successful , cause it did have some pretty awesome source material that it was based on .
Nathaniel Foga The source material was great, but this movie...
Rather, it need to get a new movie adaptation, the one it deserves. Seems unlikely though.
Am I the only one that liked the movie more than the comics?
Needs to be a TV series where each season goes into a different era of the League.
I love elements of the movie. Interesting characters, the Victorian era, fairly okay CGI. And from the brief look of the source material, it would've fared much better as an R-rated film. BUT NOOOO we need to market the movie to ALL audience. A movie that sets out to please everyone often ends up pleasing no one.
Sean Connery's rejection of the LOTR franchise must look especially insane to Stuart Townsend, who was filmed as Aragorn for a while until Peter Jackson decided he looked too young and had to be replaced.
This is one of those that deserves a reboot as a HBO or Netflix series. The Alan Moore comic was fantastic and needs to be done justice. Now that Daredevil and Handmaid's Tale has shown how properties that had lackluster cinematic adaptations could get a second chance on the small screen I think the League can go the same route. I can see it as a four to five season affair where each season is an adaptation of each volumes.
agreed
William Wong Given a good script and dircector I'm sure Netflix would go with it
I agree, if Disney has the film rights by the time the Fox merger is done, I wouldn't be surprised if a reboot shows up on Hulu.
Netflix would be good at this, since they allready made something similar that i abslotly adore; Penny Dreadfull.
Actually Showtime made that.
As for Netflix, it's a nice thought but Disney has a controlling interest in Hulu as I understand, so this would most likely go there.
Allan Quatermain : "May this new century be yours, son, as the old one was mine."
- RIP Sir Sean Connery
You know, oddly enough, after watching (and loving) this movie. I wanted to find out who Tom Sawyer, Dorian Grey, and Ishmael were. I looked for their books. So yes, this movie did what Pagemaster couldn’t, it got me to read more.
That is something, at least.
Anthony Clay The Motion Picture 🎥 is pure gold.
Anything that gets people to read Oscar Wilde is a good thing.
Look for King Solomon's Mines on the Gutenberg Project website, if you haven't already. You can read all that for free. Original Quatermain is a really interesting character. Kind of gruesome by today's standards, seeing as he's an elephant hunter (and shoots quite a few in passing to boot), but interesting.
As bad as it supposedly is, League is at least a nice movie to relax to and easy enough to follow, even though some people apparently see family ties where there are none. Seriously, Critic, Sawyer being Quatermain's son? How did that get past your editors? And why say nothing about the whole 'old tiger' line as it relates to Connery's career? That actually kind of cut deep. Or the foreshadowing that Africa wouldn't let him die?
Anyway, if nothing else, it was an ensemble superhero film before they were such a big thing, and if it hadn't tanked the way it had, there's a good chance another attempt would have, first.
This exactly. Im wondering if he even watched the movie and paid attention, or just watched it in the background. Like, he's inventing his own plotholes by ignoring earlier foreshadowing and evidence.
I actually really liked this movie when I was a kid. Haven't seen it in a while, but I definitely don't remember it being that bad.
Me too. It was one of the first movies I owned on DVD.
I watched it recently. Let it stay in your childhood.... It's real bad lol
I’m in the same corner, but I don’t want to take my nostalgia goggles off hahaha. Great content on your channel, btw. Been subscribed for a few months now and your retail stories are incredibly relatable even after being out of that industry for years. Keep it up!
Eeh. Flawed, had too much to say and too little time to say it.
But seen worse. A lot worse. And even the worse weren't as bad as certain movies about space...
Would really watch this one twice in a row instead. And no, this wasn't great either. But kinda good. :D
Even as a kid I knew it was terrible.
Sean Connery gave up after this movie.
Nuff said
Thats not entirely true, he did a voiceover role for a James Bond game then gave up.
to be clear, he cited that the production drama and problems with the director were the causes
You're the man now dog
Jaded Crusader Also the script.
0:08 - Okay, lets play some advocate here for Sir Sean Connery! Lets give some light to his decisions and the outcomes;
1. Jurassic Park vs. Dragonheart - We have an obvious MEGA block-buster hit on one side and on the other side we have a knights & dragons story.
While Jurassic Park would obviously have been the biggest ticket, Connery did not go empty handed with doing Dragonheart as the movie proved to be a minor classic that still made a decent legacy for itself.
2. The Matrix vs. Avengers - Not going to pretend anything, this was a career devastating decision where one became an iconic classic and the other a big time forgettable movie no one wants to care for or talk about. Connery blew this one alright big time.
3. The Lord of the Ring vs. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - This is not as easily to slam against the wall as you may see or think. Why?
Sir Connery was offered not only the role of Gandalf but also a hefty 10% bonus of all profit...but Connery could not relate himself to the character as a fantasy like wizard was not something he liked. So we can argue how good the character would have turned out if we have an uninspired actor playing such a major character. Now we all know hog big success the LOTR movies became and it is easy to pick on choice...but this requires more leveling here. See L.E.G by its own potential was something that COULD have been much greater then it turned out. There was a lot of potentials here and possibilities for future sequels. Sir Sean Connery was intrigued to play iconic character Alan Quartermain and he was PERFECT for such a role. Then we have all other classic novel characters all combined in a super team. What fell off was arguably to big of a production for the director to handle and to many characters to give time and spot-light on the screen to develop + clashes with the director and staff not sure what to do made things difficult as heck.
WHat is sad is that this was his farewell movie so to speak and that leaves Sean Connery's career on a sour note not worthy of his great & iconic career.
Hide was making faces in the mirror because he could hear the bomb and it was hurting his ears.
More accurately, the trigger for the bomb. Which was a high frequency (just beyond human auditory range) being played by the phonograph.
Aye, good recall. I almost forgot that.
Foodyquest Hyde*
This movie deserves a remake
Mateusz Marciniak the idea is cool, I'm in
Only if at least half the characters get their own movie first.
germanvisitor2 like the Avengers, not the TV Show
Netflix movies of the heroes be nice
I would like them to do another story in the universe. I loved this movie and feel like it would be hard to do better honestly.
I remember liking this film when It first came out....and I LIKED Van helsing.
Nightfall Shadow I liked Van Helsing too, but only because the main character was hot. And also Hugh Jackman being the closest thing to the Wolverine that’s in the actual X-men movies.
Nightfall Shadow I really enjoyed Van Helsing too. The setting, mythos, and atmosphere alone makes it worthwhile.
you say 'liked' as if it were past tense. does that mean you dont like them now?
I like em both too...people look at me odd a lot...
It is nice as long as you don’t look into it too much.
Doug's impression of Connery made me crack up.
That wasn’t Doug in the beginning skit. It was Rob.
@@liamcullins Ooh. Was it?
Yeah, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an opportunity for greatness that missed. I remember thinking that combining all these great literary figures would create a perfect storm of awesome... and watching it in the theater with my buddies... and all of us walking out and saying "Meh, it was okay... I guess." Disappointing, to say the least.
Watch 'Penny Dreadful' instead, you'll love how they brought the greats together
The comics are fantastic, read those instead.
Squeaking Lion Not to mention a pretty good way of introducing people to classical literature
The fact that some of the characters in this movie have the same names as figures in awesome books, does not mean they're the same character. It means, they're pretenders that try to evoke emotions they didn't earn and using them is a cheap trick to get around the character establishment work that needs to be done to introduce original characters. Unless the authors that do it are very good at emulating the style of the author that created the original there will always be something off about them.
Building new stories around characters established by somebody else is a basic excercise given in creative writing classes. It's also what writers of fan-fic base their work on. In an amateur setting that's legitimate, but in professional setting, like creating a script for a movie (or a comic) not so much. To me this looks like an attemt to leech off the popularity of beloved characters other people created. Doing that instead coming up with new, original characters is the epitomy of lazy writing, and if the premise is based in lazy writing, why would anyone expect the execution of the other story elements to be any better?
Now that I think about it, the league of extra-ordnary gentlemen might be the origin of the crap we're getting nowadays; established characters taken out of their natural environment into pop-corn cinema plots where they become caricatures of themselves. Surround them with new bland, boring characters taken right out of the box of clichés and you end up with shit-shows like the JJ-Trek and Disney Wars.
ShinGallon seconded, even if it did get weird around the end before Moore abandoned the series.
I was binging episodes and then I see the notification. Marvelous!
That happened to me too
I never knew that Sean Connery had been offered roles in LoTR and The Matrix.
Mind blown.
When Hyde said “Not the whole thing...” the guy didn’t even drink the whole thing. He drank like 1/8 of a cup then poured the rest over his face. Wtf
Talon Stephensen well his face and body was absorbing some into his pores as it washed over him so.... 1/6th?
I ate the whole plate
RIP Sir Sean Connery. You will be missed
What if the villain was Tom Sawyer. He might actually be an interesting villain. He's a con man who con use his words to trick people into doing virtually anything he wants. Fairly Odd parents had Tom as a villain, I'm sure a movie studio could.
"Shoot I am a con man. If con is short for, con you believe you ain't at the fair yet, now GET!"
and even in that episode Tom was a pretty interesting villain. He didn't want to take over the world, he was just sick of his boring life in Missouri and wanted to use Cosmo and Wanda's magic to have a little fun.
That....makes sense actually
You know what they say in Missouri I ain't going back to Missouri
Ehn, I mean, the issue with that in a movie as trying-to-be-serious-ish as this is that...uh... well, Tom Sawyer is kind of a prepubescent kid. He’s the smoothest talker in all of the Antebellum South, sure, but... still.
Edit: Aww, crap, I forgot he WAS actually in this movie... what the crap man.
Better Idea, Instead of M being Moriarty have M be the Mysterious Stranger from the Adventures of Mark Twain
I don't think Doug gets enough credit for his impressions, that was a pretty bangin' Sean Connery impression!
Actually, it was Rob.
That was Rob.
Sham, Sham
Wait Connery turned down Jurassic park AND lord of the rings? Well at last the other actors they got to play John Hammond and Gandalf and morpheus was Awesome!
Jarod Farrant I understand why he turn down Jurassic Park, him being a grandpa that just babbles about his park and not doing much in the movie in terms of action would be awkward for Connery to play because he's more of a part of the action type of role (Connery vs. Dinosars would be amazing to see) than take a backseat type of role.
I liked this movie. Also, RIP Mr. Connery!
2:12
_Lord of the Rings_ was in NO way a "sure thing," man. Don't you remember? A whole studio was on the brink until opening weekend of the first (best) one _Fellowship,_ all the way back in December, '01. I'll never forget that winter. It was like "Star Wars" for me. It was huge.
Bijinius Cross Twin Towers is best one bud. Don’t kid yourself
Atleast it was obvious to anyone that LOTR would do a hell of a lot better than League of extraordinary gentleman. I remember being very intrigued about a LOTR movie series. I never even knew about League untill i hired a dvd once. And it sucked.
Good times. I was 10 when I saw the first LOTR in theater. I saw all three of them in theaters. Still great memories AND I still have the ticket stubs. Great souvenirs.
That was actually a pretty good Sean Connery impression for the opening.
"SHINE ME UP FOR *insert terrible Sean Connery movie here*!!"
Mr. Connery, Disney's making a CGI film based on Scottish female warriors and we want you to play-
"Dish-knee? Bah, those Americans don't know what true Scottish folklore is all about. Sign me up for Sir Billi!"
OK, Mr. Connery. I have a script for ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. You’ll play a psychopath who helps a young FBI agent-
Sean: What? Sounds too cheap. I don’t want to do some crime movie. I dress better in Zhardar than that Buffalo Bill. Shign me up for Medicine Man!
"Mr. Connery, this movie will no doubt be a massive success. It's the third in a beloved, successful movie franchise. It's called _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,_ and-"
"Bullshit! I want to do-"
"You know what, I'm done listening to you. You're in _Last Crusade_ now."
_[Agent hangs up]_
It really wasn't X''D He drops into an Irish accent part way through. lol
Honestly, this movie is a guilty pleasure for me. I love all silliness.
"I call it sport." I agree, that _is_ a cool line. Another cool one is when Nemo asked Hyde what the red abomination was, and Hyde simply replied: "It's me on a bad day."
Sawyer wasn't Quatermain's son. M was drawing a comparison to how Quatermain failed his son, resulting in his death.
Technically, this is Sean Connery's last on screen role. 9 years later, he would be voicing in Scotland's first animated film, Sir Billi.
I'd want to see the Nostalgia Critic review that!
We don’t speak of that film
which is why it would be perfect for NC
He was first pick to play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies. But after reading the book and reading the script he didn't understand it and said no
It broke my heart when I heard that he was originally going to be the mysterious old Scottish man that was living off the grid in Skyfall.
Such a wasted opportunity
Not gonna lie, that intro was one of your best yet!
Ryan Greenwood yes, had me cracking up. I truly 💖 Malcolm
It was so good!! 😅 I started it over a few times
I was laughing so hard!!
11:56 Love triangle? But Mina is happily married in the novel. Then again, she also isn't a vampire in the novel; it's her friend Lucy that Dracula turns into a vampire, so I'll just assume that the film gets nothing about her character correct.
EDIT: I found out that, apparently, the film has it that Jonathan Harker died, making Mina a widow. New question then: what happened to their son?
Sean Connery did become his own worst enemy towards the end of his career...all because he didn't understand the movies he turned down.
His career is no more.He retired after this film.
Ο Τραπεζίτης/Τhe Banker Ergo his "end of his career" statement...
Lord of the rings was seen as a massive gamble. 3 films shot at the same time of a book/series that was said to be unfilmable. A SciFi film that honestly isn’t that well written and a tiny role in Jurassic park.
All 3 roles were also cast much better and the actors involved did more than Connery could.
Man I love Sean Connery but I think he would be as Critic would say that guy that's totally from this time period if he was ever cast in LoTR. Maybe they could have ruggedly presented him what with makeup and all but still I would have just noticed him as an actor more than a character. But the casting for LoTR was just so near perfect that if Sean really was in the big vision during casting I trust he would have done great things.
Mr. J looking back, i think it was for the best that he turned those roles down.
Okay but I'm glad Sean Connery didn't play fucking Gandalf. Ian McKellan was the FAR superior choice. Honestly the casting worked out so great I can't see him playing any of the characters well enough. Maybe as Denethor?
Tom Baker was also considered which would’ve made Gandalf charming but definitely more crazy
RIP Sean Connery 1930-2020
I honestly had no idea Captain Nemo is NOT white in the original novel. Damn casting is a powerful thing. Also HOW DOES A CONCEPT LIKE THIS FLOP SO HARD.
Tyler Chavez because it came out at the wrong time and the acting was ehhhh.
The casting was done right for nemo.
To be fair, I just recently listened to Nemo's book (I can't be arsed to remember the english name for it), and it's never actually stated what his nationality is. It's hinted at that he's indian, but he speaks perfect english, and about 6 other languages or something like that, and I believe the main character doesn't ever refer to him as looking ethnical. Buuuuut, he should most likely be Indian, so the casting could have worked with that as well. Then again, they basically got everything about the character wrong in the movie anyways. hell, he never even calls Nautilus the "Sword of the Ocean", and he would NEVER EVER go on land, even less building a car. -.- The entire point of Nemo is that he never wants to set his foot ashore ever again in his life...
Then again, Hyde is supposed to be smaller than Jekyll (a bit more robust but shorter) and it wouldn't matter how much of the potion you drink, it wouldn't make you any bigger or stronger. It's not a superserum, it's essentially a potion to allow him to live a double life. Hyde is ruthless but quite sneaky. I can't ever remember there being anything in Dorian Gray about him being immune to physical damage either, the curse/blessing is only supposed to stop him from aging.
Verne originally wrote Nemo as Polish taking revenge to Russians , but in later editions changed him to "some kind of Indian" for political/commercial reasons.
Captain Nemon is actually Indian in the original comic.
Hey, DragonHeart was a GREAT movie.
i agree i love it
Yeah that movie is one of my favorite childhood films and that scene where he kills.the dragon made me.cry.all the time when i watched it
IT WAS.... ok, I like it but I won’t go out of my way for it.
Dragonheart is just awesome. I love every second of it. Don´t know why the Critic sees it as a bad one.
kirara2516 Agreed. I also like the league of extraordinary gentleman, don't know why everything that's considered by critics and others to be bad, HAS to be a "guilty pleasure".
NC: dancing cures death
Fossil fighter fans: it’s all coming together.
Is weird, Sean Connery is one of my favorite actors of all times in movies, BUT I am glad he turned down Matrix, TLOTR, and Jurassic Park. His attitude and style is great but don't think he would done better than the actors who took those roles, specially now that Ian McKellen Is the face of Gandalf and Magneto in movies now.
The truth is we don't know how it would look like. You are saying that you are glad that he turned down those roles but we will never know if he would be better or worse Gandalf or Morpheous. The point is: you are commenting your imagination not facts.
Klempus youre right we will never know but knowing what we do its hard to picture certain actors in certain roles like ive never seen lotr or read the books but i know who gandalf and somewhat the traits of his character i cant picture sean connery playing him or playing morpheus for that matter
LOL I never knew he turned down all those roles. I had to Google all of them to see it for myself. Hilarious.
He even turned down "Skyfall".
Lol I understand why he retired
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen could have been similar to The Avengers if the Director did his job right!
Put some actual effort and some real elbow grease into this movie franchise.........it could work!
Someone really screwed the pooch on this one!
Gold Wolf I think the director chose the wrong Avengers movie
i mean,the scrip is also shit.
There were many teamups before avengers, and after, but only avengers really worked.
14:15 um, critic you do know that venice canals are at most a few meters deep, right? The actually stupid thing is that the sub can enter venice at all, that thing looks like it would need 30 meters of water just to move.
The reason that Quartemain could be revived is said in the beginning that he can't die in Africa hence his living there
Was I the only one that liked the movie? I liked the whole Avengers vibe it gave. I fee lit did the Universal monster universe better than the new Mummy movie
Abrahim Javed I did :c
I enjoyed this movie too, and I honestly don't get the hate that people have towards it. ^-^
One of my childhood favorites.
Talk to me when the movie isn't so boring
I liked it as well
11:04 Those actually aren't effects. If you watch the behind the scenes on the DVD (don't ask me why I have), the composition for Mr. Hyde is actually a full prosthetic body suit. Also, while I'm talking about the behind the scenes extras, Connery explains that he turned down both the Matrix and LOTR because he didn't understand the scripts for either.
Who else is here after hearing of Connery's death?
Came here looking for this exact comment. May he rest in peace, and his legacy live on. 🙏💐
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose He was my favourite Bond and I was born in 1994.
@@Canada1994 That's awesome; I'm sure Connery would appreciate that. 😊
He's with the stars. With the stars
Me
Hey, I actually liked Dragonheart
Gungelion good for you if u like a film all the better than hating it
I love that movie it’s what got me into dragons
Isaac Azimov's Foundaton book and series are actually good, give it a try!
I was laughing at that in the review, they are my father's favorite books.
Soon to become a TV series on Apple TV!
I dislike when it dabbles on magic with mind-readers, force-persuasion and the likes.
Asimov is one of the (if not THE) greatest Science Fiction writer, but he is not that good at Science Fantasy. And while Foundation is 100% SciFi, it slowly but surely drifts toward fully fledged SciFantasy.
The best.
MrGear 1 trillion degree knife
I knew Sean Connery turnt down roles then but OUCH!!
8:44 gotta admit the automobile part was hilarious.
Imagine if the intro sketch really happened but the other way around, Sean wanted the blockbuster roles but his agent made him take the lesser roles.
Okay, I know it was just a joke but I legit really want to see a crossover between Blade, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man now.
Blade and spider-man team up in the comics, WW is DC so good luck on that
marvel and DC had crossovers!
JageshemashFTW
I saw some cartoon episodes with spiderman and Blade
One against that Vampire Moebius
I'm sure Disney will buy DC too eventually, just wait and see.
Yep. I have a copy of one where Deadpool impersonates Deathstroke.
Although I'll admit it didn't feel like a great movie, I didn't hate this one because all these fictional characters teaming-up like the Avengers or the Justice League is an idea I really enjoy.
I'd love to see a good movie about this.
An idea taken from the comic, then molested.
It’s a great idea take classic literary characters and make them team up to save the world there’s lots of potential
The difference is, Marvel uses its own characters for Avengers. Each character comes from a comic book series by Marvel. This here, on the other hand, uses other authors' characters and mixes them together. I cannot judge the Moore comic, since I have not read it, but I am generally not a big fan of recycling characters that exist in a different setting and use them for my own story. I mean... that's what fanfiction does!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Hyde_(comics) Do not even get me started on Norse mythology.
Boy, read the comic book. The Avengers and Justice League IS fanfiction compared to Alan Moore's writing.
Who's watching this after Connery died?
I Am
Thats kind of a stupid question. Everyone that will ever read this or respond to it automatically is, so why bother asking?
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5:01 “Kaua’i” sounds like Kawaii
*my Weeb side is triggered*
Sprucy Sound more like Kowai meaning scary/creepy.
Your weeb level ain't high enough.
FunkyTK ey! I may be a weeb, but I’m more of a weeb in training, the number of anime’s I’ve seen isn’t over 100... yet :3
I wasnt looking at the video and kept hearing doug say kowaii and cringed cause a lot of people accidentally say this instead of kawaii XD
Judson Joist does Berserk count from 80s and 90s?
while I agree with 90% of this review - I can tell where you really weren't paying that much attention when watching it
example - when Hyde is making those faces in the mirror - he also tries to warn jykle about the high pitched sound coming from the movie that ends up setting off the bomb
I mean, come on - its a part of the focus of the scene. adding in comedy is fine - but when youre going to review a movie don't omit parts to poke fun at a part just because
yeah but since the doctor don't do jack shit it ties to nothing. you can cut it out and it won't change a thing. that called filling, just adding thing to fill the run time. like when you just use fancy long sentence in high school so you actually reach 800 words.
@Elkayra8: You are right. But The Critic should pay more attention. It's sad when you realize he didn't pay attention.
In the original comic there's a panel where Mr Hyde rapes Hawley Griffin (the original invisible man)
Raped to DEATH, lets not forget lol
Yeah that was a weird book
I haven’t read the comics but my friend has and she says the comics have an issue with rape for the sake of rape
WTF?!?
R Rainwater he rapes Griffin because he found out that Griffin had betrayed the entire human race purely for a (likely completely bullshit) promise of power. And he's Hyde, being a rapist doesn't exactly clash with his characterization in the original novel
As a part of this movies cult following, I simultaneously agree, laugh, and disagree with your critique, awesome vid!
Yeah its shit but its entertaining shit
21:46 Sawyer isn't Quartermain's son - he just reminds the old guy of his actual son (who's dead) and becomes a sort of spiritual successor to him.
Plus, I've heard the guy who made this just used the title of Alan Moore's comic to get funding and used his own script and plot - which SO makes sense
Why would he do that? He has a celebrated series that he knows people love. Did he think his story was so superior to Moore's?
Wanna bet that Moore was trying to eviscerate the director?
@@JohnEusebioToronto with a couple notable exceptions, direct translations of comic stories to movies usually dont go over well. Plus, he did use several plot points from the source material, he just adapted them into a new story.
@@simona.9730 I LIKED The Last Jedi. So much better than anything in The Rise of Skywalker. Rian Johnson did something creative with the Last Jedi. And while the entire plot with the ship and the casino stuff was bullshit, everything with Rey, Ben and Luke was brilliant.
@@simona.9730 Except Rian Johnson made the best Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back. With characters that evolve and advancing the story instead of repeating what came before. Hard to do with the crappy foundations set by JJ Abrams though.
he was asked to be in lord in the rings and the matrix and other blockbuster movies dang it Sean XD
David Miler Sean should've uesd his brain a bit better.
Thank goodness he said no!
Otherwise we wouldn't have....
Richard Attenborough as John Hammond
Laurence Fishburn's Morpheus
or
Ian Mckellen's Gandalf!
I was wondering, was that starting bit real? Did they really offer those roles to Connery, or was it artistic licence taken by the NC?
I know for sure that he was offered the role of Gandalf. Other two are probably artistic freedom from NC.
Why are you reading my nickname? Actually he was offered the role for Jurassic Park. The Matrix one is rumoured with no solid evidence.
Anyone else see the opening skit and think of Sir Integra and Alucard from the TFS Helsing Ultimate Abridged?
Tzisorey Tigerwuf
Lol
Now I CAN'T stop making that connection.
It's only a matter of time before Critic takes an enthusiastic walk in the woods and comes back with a new busty blond sidekick.
Dammit I can't unsee it now!
a lil bit yeah
The actual comic by Alan Moore gets pretty damn dark. Especially the scene where they kill off the Invisible Man. That's going to be burned into my memory for a while.
Alright, now I’m curious.
Edit: I see what you mean.
Also the fact Alan Quartermain is an opium addict in the comic 😁
I actually liked this film on my first watch, oh well.
Can you review planet 51?
I personally liked this movie
Same here.
So did I
Krazy Larry this was my favorite movie growing up!
Not a bad flick
I liked it a lot as a kid