Reply #52: Oh, c'mon...

[CanuckAmok]

it wasn't that bad...

In fact, for a comic-book movie (which ALWAYS suck), it was pretty fun.

1) the victorian lack of interest in the "automobile" is very true to character--I rememeber thinking at the time that the Victorian passersby would not be caught dead showing enthusiasm over anything in public.

2) Imagine, just for a moment, that the governments of the world actually got ahold of the machine guns and tanks as used by the villian--I can see them sitting crated in a massive warehouse a la Raiders of the Lost Ark until such a time as they could be researched/copied/exploited. That could explain the time schism between a tank rolling around London in 1899 and the same design 'premiering' on a battlefield in France some 18 years later. Remember, the machine guns kept jamming--I'm sure Mr. Browning spent a few years working out the bugs...

3) It was Gavarillo Princip, not Franjo!

I felt less cheated seeing this movie than I felt seeing:

True Lies
The Doom Generation
Moulin Rouge
Saturn 3
Black Moon