A Confession (Stealing Post Ideas from Blog@ since 2007)

So the new Blog@ has a post called "Comic Book Confessionals" where the point is to confess embarrassing facts about yourself as a comic fan. Well, since a) I need a blog post and b) this is much too embarrassing to ever admit on Blog@, I'm going to admit mine here.

I actually liked the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie better than the comic.

Yes. I know it was objectively speaking a terrible movie. Yes, I know that.

But I really HATE the comic. I like most of Alan Moore's stuff, I do, and I like the idea/concept behind the League. But I absolutely despise the execution. I spent the whole time reading it feeling as though I could sense the smugness wafting up from the pages. If a book could have feelings, I would have thought it was far too impressed with itself.

And don't get me started with the death of the Invisible Man. There're are scenes that are shocking, scenes that are darkly funny, and scenes that just spark the comment: "Huh, well. That was unnecessary."

I'll let you guess where my reaction was.

As for the movie, well, it made no sense. The characterizations were trite. The acting was terrible... but heck, everyone got to do something vaguely cool and contribute to the end, and that's really what I like in team movies. (It's actually where I thought the first X-Men movie disappointed. I mean, that movie was objectively much better, and great if you like Wolverine and Rogue, but well...I don't really. I'd have liked to see the others do a bit more cool things too.)

So yep. That's my confession. Feel free to mock and jeer. :-)