Whether Claudette makes landfall in Texas or not, we're likely to get some rain out of it up here in the Hill Country since we'll most likely be on the side of the storm with the most rain. Of COURSE she's just sitting in the Gulf right now, gathering steam. I'm pretty sure she'll be a hurricane by the time she makes landfall.

For a quick summary of the comics, see this site.

As for the movie? It was ... okay. Visually it was nifty, but of course 20th Century Fox took a lot of liberties with the comic book itself, and the whole thing suffers for it. Of course, there's a reliance on explosions and fight scenes in place of actual story telling. Sawyer instantly knows how to drive Nemo's car with the precision of an Indy 500 contestant for the sake of an explosive scene that was never in the comics. Once AGAIN, the intelligently done comics are dumbed down and jazzed up for a movie audience and it makes for a ho-hum experience, despite all the potential. I was a bit annoyed with the Mr. Hyde = The Incredible Hulk turn, but apparently the LOEG comic series actually did that.

I do have to admit though that I came away with a "I want one of those" after seeing their version of The Nautilus. Ooooh mama.

Of course I decided to poke around and find out what other reviews thought. That didn't last long though. After reading the first few I came across I had to quit in disgust. That experience was more annoying that the Hollywood spins on the movie itself. Why? Well, for one thing, it was painfully obvious that several of the reviews I stumbled across first were written by people who'd never picked up even one book that any of these characters came from. They made comments such as "cars and tanks in 1898? That just wasn't believable!" Uh, and vampires, invisible men, and transmogrifying potions ARE? *sigh* Every one of the fantastical way-ahead-of-its-time technological bits were perfectly in keeping with the stories of Captain Nemo and even Professor Moriarty and each was presented as fantastical to the other characters. (Although they also rather quickly accepted and got used to them.) But since these reviews had never picked up a book they wouldn't know that. I wonder what any of these Beevus and Butthead type reviewers would make of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"?

Then there were the kind of reviewers who expected that the word "extraordinary" in the title mean that the characters and villains had to be "really bad ass" or "extraordinarily bad ass". There was no sense of the Victorian sensibilities of the title. As in extraordinary=unusual. After reading review after review, despite the fact that I wasn't overly thrilled with the movie to begin with, I was beginning to understand WHY Hollywood dumbs down intelligent tales when it puts then on the screen.

So far this review was the only one that showed some intelligence.

*sigh2* I think I'll stick to books. I just finished one and now I'm itching for another Sherlock Holmes mystery - a rousing tale with some *intelligence*.

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