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	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse : film review
		Initially it seems like an odd decision to focus on these three, but one of the League's many joys was the way they gave depth and shape to all their characters as the series progressed.
		This is a film that works within its own parameters, necessarily ditching some of the show's fler elements and instead humanising previously one-note characters, a process that is made possible by the not inconsiderable acting talent of the central trio, especially Gatiss as the repulsive but commanding Briss.
		The League have envisaged this as a stand alone film and, while it has no real narrative connection with its TV counterpart, it's hard to imagine what you'd make of it without prior knowledge of the characters and their world.
	www.musicomh.com /films/league-of-gentlemen.htm (564 words)

	Encyclopedia: Film
		When films began to tell stories, instead of just record brief events, exhibitors sometimes provided a commentator to narrate the action, but this became unnecessary with the development of printed intertitles containing the actors' dialogue and other written, descriptive material as part of the visual experience.
		A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue.
		MÃ©liÃ¨s filmed a mock coronation of Edward VII and it was presented in theaters the same night as the actual ceremony.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Film (10446 words)

	The League of Gentlemen (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League Of Gentlemen was a 1959 British crime film, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick with Terence Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Norman Bird, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesey and Kieron Moore.
		The film was made through Allied Film Makers in just two months and was distributed by the Rank Organisation, premiering in 1960.
		This film is not to be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a 2003 film based on a comic book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen_(film) (196 words)

	ipedia.com: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The League is then convened at its headquarters in the British Museum, where they are sent to recover a sample of cavorite from the clutches of Fu Manchu (who is not mentioned by name).
		A film starring Sean Connery and directed by Stephen Norrington was released on July 7 2003 in the United States.
		This film is not to be confused with the film of The League of Gentlmen, which was a 1960 British heist film.
	www.ipedia.com /the_league_of_extraordinary_gentlemen.html (1086 words)

	The Film Asylum - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film review
		The basic story element is a decent one and the start of the film does a good job of establishing the evil plot that the mysterious 'Phantom' is intent on executing.
		When the League is in Paris, the camera passes by a wall with a poster for a carnival that is coming, there are two names: Dr. Alan Moore and Dr. Kevin O'Neill.
		Further into the film he pulls his collar down and the makeup is only partially on his ears.
	www.thefilmasylum.com /reviews/lxg/lxg.htm (1124 words)

	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LXG: THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is based on the brilliant premise spawned in the graphic novel by Alan Moore (FROM HELL).
		It's 1899, the turn of the century, and the world (not unlike today) is riding the crest of a technological tidal wave raging toward the rocky shore of utter doom and damnation.
		Its plot is tedious and disconnected; its attempt to cohere and bond the LEAGUE as a heroic force to love, admire, and be reckoned with is nonexistent; and even its marginal attempt to bring character to the characters is stilted and drab.
	www.rumourmachine.com /Reviews/League_Extraordinary_Gentlemen.htm (521 words)

	Movie Review for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 2003-07-11
		The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is not exactly a wham-bang superhero spectacular in the same vein as Spider-Man or Daredevil, but it is an undeniably interesting experience for a mid-July blockbuster.
		Both films use the technological ideas of Jules Verne to move the story forward by placing advanced mechanisms such as automobiles, submarines, rockets, and bulletproof vests in the late 1890's and making them clunky yet so advanced.
		A nice time-warp affect propels the viewer into this faraway time while entertaining with some nice summer blockbuster clichés: a villain who wears a silver-mask and carries a scary-looking scepter, an army of foot soldiers who cackle during their evil deeds, and an early confrontation between the heroes and villains to establish each other's goals.
	www.filmhobbit.com /cgi-bin/movies/movies.cgi?action=showreview&review=lxg (810 words)

	DrBacchus’ Journal » The League of Gentlemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The League of Gentlemen has nothing in common with the League of Extradinary Gentlemen except that both the comic and the tv-show is penned by Brits.
		Hi there, the league of extraordinary gentlemen and the league of gentlemen are DEFINATLY not connected.
		The League of Gentlemen might be the best piece of comedy (it is much more than “just” perfect comedy!).
	wooga.drbacchus.com /journal/archives/000208.html (269 words)

	THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (FILM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The League Of Gentlemen was a 1959 English crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick with Terence Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Norman Bird, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesey and Kieron Moore.
		The film was made through Allied Film Makers in just two months and it was distributed by the Rank Organization.
		The film was the most successful in Britain of 1960.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/THE+LEAGUE+OF+GENTLEMEN+%2528FILM%2529 (160 words)

	League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Film Cell Presentation - Black mount, Gold ... from eDirectory.co.uk online shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Film Cell Presentation - Black mount, Gold...
		This highly collectable filmcell presentation is a limited edition and features a strip of hand selected original 35mm film, mounted with a photo.
		We are showning an example image of a piece of Film Strip as they do not scan well.
	www.edirectory.co.uk /pf/static/880/mi/327/p2257327.html (98 words)

	The Pulpmovies Trailer Park » The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse
		The residents of the fictional Royston Vasey are facing a flaming Judgment Day because their creators have grown tired of writing the nightmarish TV series, The League of Gentlemen.
		The film takes an extravagant detour when Geoff finds himself drawn into the script for a projected ‘League Of Gentlemen’ film, an 18th-century horror drama in which three Catholic plotters try to assassinate King William III (Bernard Hill), with help from necromancer Dr Erasmus Pea (David Warner).
		The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse has already been released in the UK.
	www.pulpmovies.com /trailers/the-league-of-gentlemens-apocalypse (274 words)

	Music On Film Reviews - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
		There seem to be two kinds of composers in Hollywood today: those who are assigned to score a terrible film and respond in kind with an equally atrocious score, and those who are assigned to said stinker and use the opportunity to write great music despite the lousy source material.
		My favorite musical moment in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a track towards the middle called “Nautilus – Sword of the Sea.” I like the way Jones establishes new ideas in a given cue, and then develops them by the end of the piece, as if he’s composing a little single movement symphony.
		With an extraordinarily horrible 19% on the tomato-meter at rottentomatoes.com, the hackneyed film is clearly DOA.
	musiconfilm.net /get_review.php?id=10 (850 words)

	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Filming took place in Dublin, Ireland as it would cost far less (due to tax breaks) than in England, where the three TV Series were filmed.
		Like so many TV to film transfers it was never going to be easy finding the line between preaching to the converted and introducing the uninitiated to the League's slick and distinct voice.
		League of Gentlemen or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0435687 (739 words)

	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		Though portions of the film have clearly been enhanced using computers (a battle towards the end of the movie is the most obvious example of this, and threatens to engulf the movie into incoherent eye-candy, Hulk style), the filmmakers do a nice job of seamlessly integrating special effects into the storyline.
		But the film's eagerness to develop these famous fictional characters results in a mid-section that feels overlong by about 20-minutes (all the members are aboard the Nautilus, Captain Nemo's legendary ship, and each character gets their own sequence in which we learn something about them individually).
		The most intriguing figure in the film is Nemo himself, but since he's played by an actor nobody's ever heard of, he barely receives any screentime.
	www.reelfilm.com /lxg.htm (671 words)

	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Movie News
		Disclaimer: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman is TM and © 2000 Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
		The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film is copyright © 2003 20th Century Fox.
		Film news is believed accurate at time of posting.
	www.bakerstreetdozen.com /lxgnews.html (870 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
		Promotion for the film has been reasonably intense and audiences, given their insatiable lust for horror films these days, should have no problem tending to it.
		The film, sympathetic to bowling's dire plight while nonetheless clear-sighted about its shortcomings, charts both Miller's efforts to reinvent the league and the day-to-day life of four pro bowlers: rude and crude Weber, buttoned-down league superstar (and horseshoe-pitching champion) Walter Ray Williams Jr., up-and-comer Chris Barnes, and down-on-his-luck faded great Wayne Webb.
		The film wisely admits—via the image of top-notch bowlers with sweat-stained beer bellies, as well as with a reality-mirroring-fiction scene featuring Odor Eaters (the tongue-in-cheek sponsor of Woody Harrelson in the Farrelly Brothers' Kingpin) actually endorsing Williams—that some of the sport's problematic stereotypes contain more than a hint of truth.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1609 (450 words)

	'League of Gentlemen' Set Visit - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Prepare to be shocked, stunned and appalled as summer 2005 will see the 'League of Gentlemen' finally hitting cinemas in their first big screen adventure.
		And it seems that Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, the masters of the macabre who both write and star in the show, are going all-out with their first celluloid effort.
		Of plot, the boys explained that three of Royton Vasey’s most popular residents (Geoff Tipps, Hilary Briss and Herr Lipp) come to the conclusion that they are fictional characters in a fictional world, and so head to London to face their creators head on.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/207.html (293 words)

	The Rundown \| Film - The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
		When BBC2 first introduced viewers to the world of The League of Gentlemen and their creation of Royston Vasey back in 1999, after several years of its founders trawling the comedy and radio circuits, it was difficult to know quite what to make of it.
		But in terms of the league's ability to create involvingly ingenious storylines and highly unpleasant yet engaging characters, they remain at their peak.
		Whether people unfamiliar with the league's idiosyncratic comedy and characters will be able to acclimatise themselves quickly enough to the humour and horror is another matter, but for anyone who has ever been entertained by any of the previous escapades of these highly inventive comic creations, this film will satisfy and surprise in equal measure.
	www.therundown.co.uk /ents/film/1119976776 (506 words)

	Filmtracks: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Trevor Jones)
		The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: (Trevor Jones) It is difficult to describe the sheer magnitude of failure committed here by 20th Century Fox.
		The film was universally despised by critics and sparingly tolerated by a few audiences.
		Thus, while Jones was attempting to score the League as a whole, the personality of each individual talent in the group is musically neglected.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/lxg.html (1458 words)

	Shane West Interview for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - UGO.com Film/TV
		We had a chance to chat it up with the young stud, himself, to discuss his role in the film and what it was like working as and with a legend.
		I mean, there is plenty of CGI, as many action films nowadays are constituted or required to have, but [Director Steve] Norrington really wanted to do this take on it, especially since it's a period piece, to give it an old school type of feel.
		It was a piece of crap to actually drive, but it looks great, and it looks great on film, but my character in one of the scenes in the middle of the film has to drive this car around when they are trying to sink Venice, Italy.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/lxg/shanewest.asp (1250 words)

	The League of gentlemen's Apocalypse Official Film News
		The League have always had good DVD's (the only exception being the live show which had to wait for a re-release before it came anywhere near their usual quality!) their menu's are always fun and inventive and the music is as ever by the amazing Joby Talbot.
		Directed by Steve Bendelack (League of Gentlemen, Little Britain) ‘The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse’ is brought to you from the team behind the multi-award winning comedy TV series The League of Gentlemen.
		Actor, screenwriter, novelist, control freak, League of Gentlemen co-founder and creator Mark Gatiss is a man of many talents, not least his chameleon-like ability to turn himself into any one of his hilariously sinister/tragic characters from the cult BBC2 show.
	www.leagueofgentlemen.co.uk /newopen.shtml (3716 words)

	Contest: League of Ordinary Gentlemen on DVD - /FILM
		League of Ordinary Gentlemen hits DVD shelves this week, and we have three copies of this movie for a few lucky /Film readers.
		All you need to enter is to e-mail us through the linked contact form with the reason why you should get this DVD (note: you must first register with /Film).
		About the Movie: "Tracing the historical arc of the professional bowling tour, the film includes archival footage from the sport's glory days in the 1950s and '60s, through its near extinction in 1997.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20060320005100498 (291 words)

	Film \| League of Extraordinary Gentlemen excludes Edward and Tubbs
		League of Extraordinary Gentlemen excludes Edward and Tubbs
		But The League of Gentlemen's Edward and Tubbs sadly won't have a role.
		Norrington's film is an adaptation from the comic book by Alan Moore, whose Jack the Ripper saga, From Hell, was recently filmed by the Hughes brothers.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4322121-100948,00.html (138 words)

	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies
		IGN FilmForce reports that the new date is July 11th, as the film has been pushed back a month due to production delays caused by the massive floods in Prague.
		Dorian Gray was not a member of the League in their initial adventure, but is featured in the graphic novel, and does indeed join them in the second book.
		Filming will last there for 12-13 weeks, before moving on to Malta, Vienna and the U.K. (originally, there was going to be filming in Morocco and Iceland, but my guess is that the recent script changes were responsible for the changes).
	www.upcomingmovies.com /leagueofextraordinarygentlemen.html (4112 words)

	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is garbage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This film was truely a missed opportunity to bring the disturbing characters of RV to the big screen.
		And, writing a film about trying to write a film is the sort of idea you'd expect from a bunch of drama students, not supposedly incisive and brilliant writers.
		It's obvious that they think the League is the most brilliant and popular show of all time and are very smug about it, yet conversely they always seem to want to frustrate the "popular" appeal of the show by cutting out all the most loved aspects.
	www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/06/the_league_of_gentlemens_apocalypse_is_garbage.html (2500 words)

	The League of Gentlemen \| film trailers \| What's on cinema \| MyVillage.com
		Universal Studios, Film Four and Tiger Aspect Pictures in association with Hell's Kitchen International have joined together to bring the cult classic TV show 'The League of Gentlemen' to the big screen in the much anticipated 'The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse'.
		Directed by Steve Bendelack (League of Gentlemen, Little Britain) 'The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse' is brought to you from the team behind the multi-award winning comedy TV series The League of Gentlemen.
		Created by and starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is due for national release as a full length, all action movie feature on April 22nd 2005.
	www.myvillage.com /pages/art-cinema-the-league-of-gentlemen.htm (247 words)

	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: LXG Film Review/Synopsis - SPOILERS
		The Leaugue of Extraordinary Gentlemen film is copyright © 2003 20th Century Fox.
		This is the first time we see the league in action, and it is a thunderously good fight sequence, high-lighted by individual action moments showcasing the various members.
		Sure the lovable Cockney thief is a wretched film stereotype, but at least if it had been used to full effect there might have been a few more intentional laughs in the film.
	bakerstreetdozen.com /lxgmovreview.html (2942 words)

	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Originally published as a six-part comic book series in 1999, ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ gave us an ingenious look at what might have happened to some of Victorian fiction’s greatest characters, had they decided to team up.
		After all, if you’re willing to go and see a film like this, then you kind of need to be able to stretch the truth slightly.
		This film, like the sight of Mr Hyde, enraged and chained to the wall — should be approached with extreme caution.
	www.watercooler-moments.com /leagueofxg.shtml (846 words)

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