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League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« on: May 23, 2003, 08:20:15 PM »
Okay, I've been salivating over this movie since i saw the trailer before X2.
I mean its got Connery for gods sake! My hero!

So, anyone have any news, gossip, anything -- we cannot wait until June!
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2003, 04:11:33 AM »
I also think this could be pretty cool.  But I know a lot of things that have seemed like they were going to be pretty cool an dthen they ended up stinking.  So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2003, 08:13:05 AM »
Sean Connery is the man.

Although his accent is strange - i was born in, and grew up in, the same city as him, yet i have never heard an accent similar...
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2003, 05:43:34 PM »
Which city is that? Don't accents vary across cities sometimes too (I was talking to a guy in Glasgow that commented on how many different Glaswegian accents there were).

But I would think it's more a function of his training as an actor, having to pick up so many different accents for different roles, and of living in so many different places over the years. I mean, was his accent more like his home accent in the 60s, say, than now?

I wonder, because I grew up in western Illinois, went to school in Utah, lived in Chicago for a couple years (which is a completely different accent than the rest of the state of Illinois), and now live in Boston. I've had several people comment on my accent, wondering where the heck I was from. I think I picked up several Utah-isms while living there, and I KNOW I picked up some Chicago-isms, sad to say (that nasal A is so bad).
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2003, 06:23:22 PM »
Edinburgh, capital of scotland.

I'm like that... lived in edinburgh until i was 10, then lived in Aberdeen (another scotish city) for 2 1/2 years, and then lived in yorkshire, a very heavily accented part of England, for 5 1/2 years now. My accent is all over the place - it confuses the hell out of people. They can work out i am scottish, and that they cannot understand me...
« Last Edit: May 24, 2003, 06:24:05 PM by Charlie82 »
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2003, 10:17:08 PM »
The first comment I usually get when people find out where I'm from is "you don't have an accent." In some ways it saddens me. But a huge function of it is the part of Virginia I live in. Another part is that my accent very quickly adapts to the local area. You should hear me after 5 minutes in Round Hill, VA. Fortunately, Utah never got to me that bad.

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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2003, 10:23:47 PM »
Man, Yorkshire is a place I want to see. I loved the James Herriott books growing up. Stereotypical, I know, especially because I grew up on a farm. But my dream was always to grow up and become a vet, so my grandma gave me the books, and several years later, my other grandma gave me the same books plus one volume. Right before I went on my trip to Scotland I was on this kick with Netflix (you can rent the strangest DVDs from them that you'd never find in a movie store), watching all the All Creatures Great and Small tv shows.

Of course, then I found out they had Till There Was You on DVD, too, so I had to watch all those, too. I think that was the name of it. It had Judy Densch in it and ran throughout the 90s, about this couple that was in love in the 50s and then separated when he was sent to the Korean War, and were reunited all those years later. Then again, it might be still running for all I know.

Anyway, I was on a big British TV kick, but we get them about 10 years later over here.   :'(  There were a couple shows I saw in the hotel I was staying at that I thought would be pretty cool to see over here while they were running, like Wire in the Blood. It seemed to be a cool cop show with a running mystery in the storyline, something you don't get very often over here.
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2003, 11:54:46 PM »
Well, getting back to Chaosman's question, I think that the best thing to do to get yourself psyched for the movie is to actually read the two series.  From what I hear, the film will be quite different from the first series and thus reading it should not spoil the movie for you at all.  Not only that, but the comics happen to be pretty damned good: far better than most superhero tripe that poses as quality adventure these days.  

And don't be shocked if this turns out to be Connery's last foray as an action hero.  I love him, but he's so old that he needs a stuntman just to eat a salad.
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2003, 06:43:32 AM »
I tend not to watch much TV now.

You might want to check out "Heartbeat" - a cop series set in rural yorkshire (its filmed very near me actually) during the 50s. My mom swears by it.

Oh, and you do realise that yorkshire is one of the most urbanised areas in Britain now? you can pretty much travel for 150 miles from my home in one direction and never see country side - just a continuous contraurbanation. Huddersfield, Leeds, bradford, halifax all merge into one another.
« Last Edit: May 25, 2003, 06:45:14 AM by Charlie82 »
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2003, 01:04:01 AM »
Sad! That's the way it is everywhere, though. My grandpa grew up about 2 hours' drive west of Chicago, and in those days (the 30s and 40s) it was farmland pretty much the whole way. Now, it's solid suburbia, with an airport thrown in (O'Hare). The estate that my ancestors were tenants on in Renfrew up in Scotland is now the Glasgow airport--wasn't even part of Glasgow back in the 1830s when they lived there. The only vestige left of that area is the road the airport is on, Inchinnan Road, which is the name of the parish.

So, back to League of Extraordinary Gentleman: not being too much into comics (I read my uncle's Archies and Beetle Baileys, but that's not quite the same thing), where would I find them? Libraries generally don't carry them, right? I don't want to buy them, so any suggestions?
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2003, 01:08:17 AM »
I just found a copy on the Boston Public Library's website. It's a graphic novel by Alan Moore.
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Re: League of Extrodinary Gentlemen
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2003, 01:17:03 AM »
Hey, what're you doing, looking up my library like that?  ;) Actually, it won't be my library till next week, when I move closer in to Boston. Right now I'm out in Arlington, which is a suburb on another library network. But that's good to know--I can plan for summer reading. Thanks.
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