The Power Of Seven Become A League Of One

That's the tagline for LXG, aka The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. How fucking meaningless and cheesy can you get? And why abbreviate the name, you fucking studio executive scum?

Mina Murray is now known as Mina Harker, despite specifically reverting to her maiden name in the comics. Presumably audiences are too stupid to get the reference unless it's flagged up in big fanged letters. She's also a vampire. Maybe this is something that turns up later in the comics, but in the first book at least, she is anything but a combat bunny, instead being more of a human character to contrast with the larger than life gentlemen.

Quatermain (Sean Connery) is now the leader of the party, and Mina (lesser well known Peta Wilson) appears to have been relegated to the rear ranks. They're missing the point a bit here, aren't they? Mina is supposed to be the leader rather than a mook, so that there's the contradiction with Victorian attitudes at the time.

Harley Griffin, serial rapist and invisible man, is now a thief called Rodney Skinner.

There's a COMPULSORY AMERICAN INTEREST, Secret Service Agent (Tom?) Sawyer, from Mississippi. He's an all-American hero, by the looks of it, with nothing to add to the League except that he has a Winchester repeater rifle, the gun that won the west. Hmm, let me guess, he's going to as central to the story as they can get it without completely shafting the plot. (Or does he turn up anyway in later stories? Somehow I doubt it, since League's intrinsically English, with no room for those damned tea-dumping colonials.

Nemo has a car. Yes, a fucking car. Yes, it coincidentally even looks like a fucking car, with all the modern bits of technology (1926-ish, actually). Well, that showed imagination and effort. Why not design something slightly more outlandish than a fucking limousine?

Jekyll, rather than being a wasted, pale wreck of a man, is actually rather dashing. And Hyde's just fucking stupid looking - a swollen version of the actor. I can see what they were trying to do, but the comic strip did it so much better.

As you can tell, it looks like some twat in a suit, who's never even read the comics, has tried to make the film more marketable, as opposed to being, you know, good. I hope like hell that I'm wrong.