Let's Play Soup-Heroes, My Cousin Used to Say When He Was Four and I Was Eight

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I watched this movie last week because I suddenly got interested in Alan Moore after hearing about The Watchmen/Minutemen, and he wrote comic books (I mean graphic novels; what's the difference?) that the movies are based on. My TV isn't very big, and it's a movie that has characters and objects that are supposed to be big, big, big, so it would have helped if my TV didn't make everything look small.
I didn't fall asleep on this one, though, so that says a lot for the movie. Overall, it wasn't a waste of time. I'm glad I saw it.
It was amusing how the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen consisted of an eclectic mix of characters from other stories -- Tom Sawyer, a vampire, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll, Captain Nemo, and Dorian Gray ... I kept thinking Dorian Gray sounded like Oscar Wilde's creation that I read a long time ago, and it turns out that I was right, but I was sure I was wrong (Oscar Wilde influencing a comic book story? How could it be possible?) ...
That vampire was a woman and she was part of the league, too. No one mentioned the insult to her gender in the name of the group, The Extraordinary Gentlemen. That's the one thing I disliked about comic books, always. They're sexist (Crumb?). Women are typically objects. Sometimes they're clever and they do good things. But mostly they're there for the benefit of the men. That's why boys tend to like comic books more than girls do.
Anyway, combining the mismatched characters is just funny, because it's characteristic of all the comic book and superhero fans and their imaginations that have taken off as a result of reading them -- maybe it's a classic superhero story move, where eccentric characters come together to fight evil, but these characters are odd because they're creations of other artists from various times, banded together. Going back to when I was very young, my cousin's impassioned plea upon the passage of every 20 minutes: "Let's play soup-heroes; you're Wonder Woman, I'm Superman, she's The Great Shark, she can be Flash ...." Then we'd have to go over all the superpowers each of us would have before we got started with the story .... I miss being eight. Sometimes.