[You shoot] like an American: fire lots of bullets and hope one of them hits the target.

One of the great advantages of Netflix is the marginal cost for watching a movie is zero. So I'm not afraid to rent movies I expect to be terrible. Now, I don't just go and rent any bad movie - it has to have another draw. Typically they're the ones from genre's I try to support, like Science Fiction or Comic Book movies.

In this spirit I got The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen today. Wow, what a bad movie. The biggest problem for me is they were just making things up as they go along. I don't mind fantastical premises, but if you're going to do fantastical things you have to set up your premises and stick with them. This movie just kind of does stuff because it thinks it will be cool. I guess there are times I can deal with that too, but the movie has to be good and engaging to make me ignore that stuff. Let's just say I had no interest in suspending disbelief for this one.

Of course I could have missed some things, as I made liberal use of the fast forward button in the second half of the movie.

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