10 Superhero Films That Abused Us Worse Than Fantastic Four
2. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Otherwise known as the movie that killed Sean Connery's acting career, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (adapted from the hit comics by Alan Moore) sees a number of heroes from classic literature join forces to stop a great evil which threatens to destroy the world. Like Penny Dreadful except, well, dreadful. You can probably find it for a penny too, on eBay. Very little is carried over from Moore's comics - not Alan Quatermain's opium habit, The Invisible Man's evil, nor Mister Hyde's eventual redemption. Instead, it turns Alan into James Bond MKII, Mina into a vampire, Hyde into the Incredible Hulk and adds Tom Sawyer to the roster, just so American viewers have someone to root for. A boring, ridiculous mess that throws away everything which made the comics good, it's a depressing failure which robbed us of what could potentially been something quite wonderful. Thankfully we have Penny Dreadful now, so it all (sort of) worked itself out in the end.
A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.
