Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Oh, my hero! *swoon*
If Alan Moore speaks I must listen. Follow this here link to read the words of the man himself (read it aloud in deep rumbling Brummie tones for the full effect). I’m looking forward to finally reading the complete 'Lost Girls' after reading the first two issues way back when. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is fun (please ignore the appalling film version) but Lost Girls was clearly where this kind of story first took root and seems far more interesting.
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LEG looked good to me, buggery, I wanted to see it but brain said it looked like kaka.
It was "kaka". It had potential but as always the film company ruined it.
The LEO film was steaming kaka, with big fat flies buzzing around it. From Hell was also a rubbish adaptation, the original book shining with a hard diamond brilliance as Mr Moore's best work does.
I enjoyed From Hell, but I had nothing to compare it with. I found the acting poor at times and a little cheesy, but overall it was a good film.
From Hell the film was full of cheesy to bad acting, it had some lousy characterisation, absurd ploting and it was just another rubbish Jack The Ripper whodunnit. From Hell the comic (which the film bears only a passing resemblance) is masterly ploted, beautifuly characterised and is not remotely concerned with whodunnit. It is a holistic examination of a time and place and the impact violent murder has on it. It'll by the best 20 quid you ever spent if you bought it.
You've sold me.
No, not actually sold me - I mean, not like solicitation or anything!
See, once a bookseller, always a bookseller, it's in the blood.
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