It’s, um, different.
But perhaps not totally devoid of interest. I’m having the devil of a time trying to reconcile the tech base with the 18th century, though. Looks a lot more like late Victorian/early Edwardian, and don’t get me started on that damnable League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie.
It’s “FRAHNK-EN-STEEN”.
Which one? The bad adaptation, or the forthcoming girl power obnoxiousness?
…’forthcoming girl power obnoxiousness?’ Wait, what?
http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/08/17/producer-says-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-will-be-female-centric
That … might not manage to completely suck.
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The odds aren’t *good*, but .. it’s possible.
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Mew
Hard to pin down the year. The bank of gauges at the 0:12 mark is obviously post 1880 (d’Arsonval movement amp guages), the clothing style looks about there too (I spent more time than I should have researching that). If the movie isn’t set in 1885-ish, then they’ve got their tech all wrong.
League of Extraordinary whatsis? There is no such movie….
Same category as the mythical “Starship Troopers” movie.
I maintain “Edge of Tomorrow” is “what ‘Starship Troopers’ should have been” + “Groundhog Day”.
I consider it a lesson in “how not to make an action/adventure movie” .. in the same league with the prior “Fantastic 4” iteration. (I understand the current iteration is no better …)
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Any filmmaker who wants to make a buck at this needs to study Campbell’s “hero’s journey” concept .. and any studio that green-lights a film without quizzing the filmmaker to *confirm* he or she *knows* Campbell .. is flushing money that they’d be better off putting in an envelope and mailing to me.
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Mew
I’m cautiously optimistic, and agree with my wife, that this has a RDJ/ Jude Law Sherlock feel.
Her exact words were “you know, humor and explosions”
Clothing is mid/late 1880’s – but an exaggerated, not very accurate version. So is this a sort of alternate fantasy type of period movie? We shall see. (I know A LOT about historic dress – gifted amateur level.)
I assume that it’s fantasy, given that they’re resurrecting bodies and suchlike. Gothic horror, at the very least.
It could well venture into Van Helsing/Brothers Grimm/Hansel and Gretel territory, though…
Just how many different eras have they dropped Sherlock Holmes into?
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(and, I’ll note, the Frankenstein myth has been time-shifted many *many* times as well …)
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Mew