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strangestcase · 1 year

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Not sure if you've ever made a post like this/someone has already asked this and you've answered but I was wondering if you had a list of J&H adaptions (of any kind and as well as other fans making things that are just online stuff rather than big professional things) that you really like and think people should get into if they haven't really explored or even know of just yet? I'm curious because I've only branched out a little bit and got some stuff that was fairly. Meh.

I have made a few posts about the matter but! I’ll gladly repeat myself.

the trick with finding good J&H adaptations is to forget about 1:1 plot accuracy and instead focus on theme accuracy. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover a lot of adaptations (including crossovers and pastiches) understand the book and what it’s getting at.

Here’s my personal list of recommendations:

-MazM Jekyll and Hyde: a Korean visual novel that adapts the book to a T. The main timeline (chapters 1-8) are free to play, but chapters 9-10 and a few other tidbits are very cheap. Since it’s styled like an RPG, you can talk to NPCs that will give you some insight in the historical and cultural context of the novella. It has a spin-off game called Hyde and Seek in which Hyde is one of the antagonists, if you’re interested.

-Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier aka The Doctor’s Horrible Experiment: originally released as a TV movie in 1959 but later released in cinemas, this Jean Renoir production tightly follows the book plot with very small changes. The biggest change is that the story is set in 1950s Paris rather than 1880s England, with all the characters having different names. It has a budget of five dollars and a shoestring but it’s very well written and well acted, with a professional mime playing Jekyll and Hyde. My friend @nemeyuko has a copy with English subtitles. WARNING: there is a rape scene near the end.

-I, Monster: a 1971 Amicus production (basically a knockoff Hammer movie) with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the leads. Some character’s names and events are changed, but the plot is very much recognizable as a Jekyll and Hyde adaptation. The setting is also changed to the Edwardian period. This adaptation focuses on the psychological element of the story, including overt references to Freud and modern psychoanalysis, and putting the spotlight on Jekyll’s addiction to the serum.

-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 2003 Norrington movie that has almost nothing to do with the comics it was adapting from, but it’s considered more enjoyable by most people since it isn’t as dark and gritty. I specially recommend the movie for its take on Jekyll/Hyde, since it doesn’t shy away from the addiction angle. Hyde is entirely done with practical effects. The movie novelization is available in the Internet Archive, and it has a bit more focus on Hyde.

-Jekyll and Hyde at the Old Vic: a dance adaptation that reimagines Jekyll as a dorky botanist in 1950s England. It doesn’t have any dialogue and it’s mostly about an angsty love story but I really liked it (basically imagine Jekyll and Hyde meets Little Shop Of Horrors, and I’m not exaggerating!). It was available for free on YouTube a while ago but it’s been taken down- if anybody has any recordings let me know!

I have a rather lengthy list of adaptations I’m watching on YouTube, a lot of which I haven’t even started yet (and a lot of which aren’t particularly worthwhile) but here’s a little documentary and a couple of funny sketches.

#jekyll and hyde #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde

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steampunkforever · 7 months

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's film adaptation is a mixed bag for me. Is it camp? Yes, sort of. Is it very bad? Absolutely. Is it one of the best current examples of steampunk cinema? Unfortunately.

When people talk about steampunk, there's often a bit of a dismissive bent to discussions of the genre's social critiques. The consensus seems to be that steampunk lacks the biting criticism of modern society that genres like Cyberpunk contain, and this conclusion isn't 100% wrong. Steampunk overall is the Ren Faire of genres, more of a costume variant to throw on your favorite superhero in 2013 than a proper literary movement. It's a sort of fantasy AU with gears and steam-powered robots for your average star wars cosplayers, and really has been since the steampunk explosion spread out from Portland in the mid 2000s.

This is the steampunk context I really grew up in, but this evaluation fails to look past the ugly top hats and examine the roots of the genre, which is firmly couched in anti-imperialism and critiques of industrial society. The first volume of LXG which the film loosely (and I mean LOOSELY) adapts is about a former colonist soldier and an anticolonial freedom fighter teaming up with the malformed ceations of new horrific industrial processes to prevent the British Empire from bombing its own citizens in its struggle to maintain hegemony. Not exactly devoid of critiques here are we.

Other examples of steampunk cinema like Sucker Punch (also bad but at least fun), City of Lost Children, Dark City (kind of) and Hugo tend to stick closer to the Industrial Society Has Consequences angle, but the LXG movie takes an anti-imperialist bent, critiquing the military industrial complex with a plot revolving around a scheme to start wars of imperialism in order to benefit capital. For a film that came out in 2003, this was a timely movie. Unfortunately it is also very bad.

Despite having a solid cast, the direction and delivery suck. The art direction is fun, but distinctly less charismatic than the graphic novels the film is based, to the point that reading the book and watching the film back to back will only lead to disappointment. It's really quite a shame that this is Sean Connery's final onscreen performance.

Yet it's fun. The performances and editing and action and the un fortunate rest of the film all fall into campy if not outright camp, and I can appreciate that. For as much as this is not a good movie I can't hate it, and if I wanted a good anticolonial film about superpowers I'd watch Disney's Atlantis again.

Not saying watch it or anything, but the six wheeled steampunk car DOES go hard.

#filmposting #league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg #steampunk #sean connery #film

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spoilertv · 23 days

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tenaflyviper · 3 years

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Heya, my partner and I have gotten into pulpy movies and we were wondering what we should start looking into next. We enjoyed Barbarella, Flash Gordon and Battle Beyond the Stars.

You're an expert on all that is pulp, I was wondering if you have any choice few that we should watch next? (more obscure the better)

Well, "pulpy" by definition would be anything whose material is derived from pulp magazines/comics, serial radio dramas/thrillers, and the older kind of cheap, black and white b-movies from the 1920's-1950's that were cranked out by smaller studios, and often referred to as "Poverty Row" films.

I feel like I should separate these a bit into categories, as some have a different flavor than others, but are still part of the broader definition. I'll start with the outliers.

Giallo:

For the sake of technicality, I can't really go over pulp without mentioning giallo. Giallo films are kind of the pulp films of Italy, and are even named for the distinctive yellow covers of the novels from which they're derived. I've actually gone into detail about giallo before, with many notable examples.

Krimi:

Think of krimi as the German cousin of giallo, except with less sexuality. Sadly, this is an area I have not yet delved into myself, but I have found an excellent list to start with:

Notable Pulp Films:

This is going to be more along the lines of what you're looking for (though I'm including the three you mentioned as well).

The Rocketeer (1991)

Sky Bandits (1986)

Red Tails (2012)

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)

The Green Hornet (1940)

The Shadow (1994)

The Phantom (1996)

The Spirit (2008)

Dick Tracy (1990) (Tubi TV has a lot of the old films, if you're interested in those)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Sin City (2005)

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Flash Gordon (1980) (Tubi also has a lot of the old serials)

Barberella (1968)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

Starship Troopers (1997)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Allen Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

Other:

I decided to add a couple of films that weren't literary-based, but that I felt would make a good fit with this list:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Darkman (1990)

Six-String Samurai (1998)

It took me a while to differentiate exactly what a pulp film is due to the definition being skewed by people like Quentin Tarantino, but I hope this list gives you some good entertainment.

(As always, Tubi TV is free to sign up, but permanent link availability is not guaranteed)

#list #recommendations

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therealmrpositive · 3 years

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

In today's review, I get the literary gang back again, as I attempt a #positive review of the 2003 blockbuster ensemble The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #SeanConnery #NaseeruddinShah #PetaWilson #TonyCurran #StuartTownsend #ShaneWest #JasonFlemyng

Before the commonplace intertextuality, that became conventional in both cinemas and streaming platforms, there was a time that franchise mix-ups were a rarity. In 1999, Alan Moore drew upon some of the tallest tales of the public domain, to fashion intriguing graphic novels dedicated to their interlocking exploits. In 2003, the cinema-going public got a brief taste of the future, by looking into…

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paraphernaliawagon · 5 years

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this is the song that would play during the credits of the AWESOME dr strange i daydreamed about being made some day when i was 13. keep in mind i was only up to date with his stories through 1965 or so. there were almost no comics published after 1970 in our house. except the league of extraordinary gentlemen. hoo boy my parents had no idea what i was reading. but i’m actually glad i read it at that age because of orlando, a character who made the idea of being trans or genderfluid seem cool and not scary or weird, which was a positive and comforting influence on me at that age. and led me to read the novel “orlando” by virginia woolf and see the movie based on it. which were equally if not more inspiring and meaningful to me. although alan moore’s version of orlando is really a completely different character who just happens to share the general traits of being immortal and changing sex. but pretty much nothing else from the book.

my 14 or 15th birthday (can’t remember which):

meemaw (yes i really did grow up calling my grandmother meemaw. meemaws are real. she’s from northeast louisiana) sent me some money! mom and dad took me to barnes and noble to spend it! there’s a NEW league of extraordinary gentlemen book called “the black dossier!” i’m so excited to finally read it! it’s a hardcover with a fancy ribbon bookmark (just like those “dear america” books i used to read when i was a dumb little kid many many years ago. like in the distant year of 2003 which was like 6 whole years ago.) so cool! it’s sold in plastic wrap for some reason and on the back it says “recommended for mature audiences!” ooh good thing i’m REALLY mature for my age right

(gets home and takes off the plastic wrap): oh i understand why it had plastic wrap on it now. it’s because of these sections which are literal pornography. like, WAY more than the original series. the way kevin o’neill draws nipples looks kinda weird. they don’t look like they do in real life. i suspect these cocks are not very realistic either. ooh the Cornelius family gets a cameo. (i’m exited about this because i’m a huge fan of michael moorcock. elric lives in the special interest part of my brain where he is currently causing the most significant adolescent sexual awakening since i realized i also liked girls when i got a huge crush on leah in 8th grade. i mean it’s INTENSE. there are psychosexual plate tectonics going on here that are going to form permanent mountain ranges.) oh so jerry and catherine and frank were already doing the incestous murderous love triangle thing when they were little kids. interesting. also there’s a section which is a pastiche of beat novels and it’s unreadable stream-of-consciousness nonsense and i don’t get it. and the cover of the pretend in-universe novel has mina naked on it so there’s more boobies with uncomfortably large and dark areolas. ALSO the literal golliwog is in it, which is going to lead me to erroneously believe for a couple of years that that isn’t racist because alan moore is like, SUBVERTING the racism right? i think he is cool so therefore something he wrote must not be racist because i think if a writer i admire is sufficiently cool that means they are incapable of racism and must generally have only correct opinions because otherwise they won’t be cool but they ARE cool so quod erat demonstrandam not racist. yes that is REALLY teenage me’s reasoning process laid bare. we are informed (in dutch) that the golliwog has a really big dick. this part at the end that they thoughtfully included 3D glasses for is neat. also james bond was in it but he’s called jimmy for copyright reasons and they make it clear that he is an evil rapist brute who works for a basically fascist government. and emma peel from the avengers! i think it’s cool she is in it even though in this story she’s a bad guy. yes this comic is really like that and almost everything i mentioned makes sense in context. oooh AND there’s a parody shakespeare play about characters called shytte and pisse!

mom says i gotta write a thank-you note to meemaw. i shall inform her of my purchase and she will have no idea what i’m talking about and go on her way blissfully unaware because she will never ever read this comic

alan moore ALSO brought me the cherished memory of unexpectedly seeing my dad and little sister in my little sister’s bedroom reading a swamp thing trade paperback that i got from the library together.

i wasn’t allowed to read comics or do anything else fun until i finished my homework and to my undiagnosed adhd ass that effectively meant i wasn’t allowed to read comics or do anything else fun ever so i read in secret while lying in the bath pretending i was just taking a bath. read some sandman and some classic new mutants that way. read some good stephen king books that way too. but my hair didn’t get washed. which it really needed to because this is when i developed what i thought was trichotillomania but is really just a particularly uncontrollable but harmless stim which only rarely leads to me actually pulling my hair out but does result in hair of uneven length because bits of hair get so tangled they can’t be combed out so i gotta snip them off. (cue mom angrily slapping my own hand away from my own head) (i’m doing it RIGHT NOW. it feels REALLY GOOD. i actually kinda like the look of all my random shorter bits of hair that sometimes end up with a sort of crimped texture.)

#racism mention #this is my personal diary and i'm mentally ill and have a psychological dependence on cannabis #so i dont' care if this is weird or confusing to read or something #it's nobody's business but my own

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rassembleur · 5 years

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So is Tom Sawyer like the book Tom Sawyer, or is the name coincidental?

OUT. || The character is based off of the literary Tom Sawyer, yes. HOWEVER, the character I am playing is from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is a graphic novel series and a film from 2003. Tom doesn’t show up in the graphic novel, but his character is brought into the film, and I am going to be inspired by this universe more than the Mark Twain universe.

For League… just imagine the Avengers, but it’s set in Victorian/Steam Punk era and it’s all with Victorian literary characters like Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray, etc.

#Anonymous #⋆✦ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ʙᴇ ɴᴏ ʙᴇᴀsᴛs ✦⋆ ( ooc. )

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jasonsutekh · 6 years

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

A team of people are assembled to use their unique powers to prevent a world war but enemies may be closing in fast and may even have infested the newly formed league itself.

A good way to view this film is just as a fun action film with an unusual combination of characters from literature, to do much else is to expect more from this film than it can deliver. The effects are good and there’s some interesting things done with the individual narratives like showing what happens if Jekyll were to take a lot of his formula, how Gray’s portrait works, and how the bat transformation works with vampires.

A popular criticism of the film is that it’s very disappointing when compared with its source material which is a series of graphic novels, and it is. One main difference between the two narrative styles is that the comics assume knowledge of the original stories because most people have read them, seen films about them, or at least know the basic plot by reputation, whereas the film spends over half its time explaining the characters.

There are a number of small twists throughout the film although not many that aren’t mostly anticipated. The main villain in particular didn’t live up to his reputation and was defeated by brute force. Most of the camera work was decent enough to keep the story engaging and show off several of the effects but there could have been better views of the Nautilus.

A great deal of time was spent on the ship which wasn’t particularly useful for the characters because the same motif of suspicion was repeated and it slowed the pace immeasurably. Some of the actors could have been better chosen for certain roles like Jekyll and Gray since they didn’t really fit with the iconic characters. The performance of the actor playing Mina could also have used a more forceful or stylish approach.

4/10 -It’s below average, but only just!-

-Phileas Fogg from Around the World in 80 Days in mentioned although it’s not clear if this is a reference to literature or if the events actually occurred in the character’s world.

-Quatermain mentions that he attended Eton, as did James Bond whom Sean Connery has also played. In the comics Bond is also featured in “Black Dossier”, Quatermain beats him up.

-The film contains several references to literature characters but the graphic novels had so many that websites were created with panel-by-panel breakdowns to highlight and explain them all.

#Film #Review #LewisSutekh #The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2003 #Action #Fantasy #Supernatural #Sean Connery

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spider-xan · 10 months

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Okay, so I mentioned awhile ago that way back in the day, I once played as Griffin in this weird and honestly not great mixed comics/film League of Extraordinary Gentlemen roleplaying game, and I think someone was interested in seeing some of my writing - so here's an excerpt I found after digging through what managed to survive.

This is just a really brief bit of writing meant to bridge the ending of the Invisible Man novel with the ret-con in the League comics where Griffin wasn't the albino man who was beaten to death by the mob in order to have him be alive for the story; mind you, I wrote this back in August 2003 as a teenager twenty years ago, and while I'm not really a writer, I'd like to think my writing skills have improved a lot since then.

Port Burdock, West Sussex, 1897

Hmm...I can't quite seem to decide whether or not day one of my reign or terror was a success or not...

Amid the commotion and chaos that was occurring in the streets outside of the empty inn, no one noticed that a dilapidated wooden chair appeared to be scrapping across the floor out of its own freewill and settling itself neatly by the grimy window at the front of the establishment. That unusual scene was followed by another string of oddities as a disembodied sigh echoed throughout the room before a piece of bread seemingly floated off of a nearby table before being torn violently apart.

Under normal circumstances, one Hawley Griffin would hardly consider his present surroundings to be of any degree of comfort. But on this day - day one of year one of the Epoch of the Invisible Man - circumstances were far from normal. As he eased himself into the chair, which was rather hard on the back but at least relieved the pressure on his cut feet (no thanks to the glass shards he had stepped on while laying siege on Kemp's house earlier), he looked out the window as best he could and watched the scene unfolding outside. From the gasps and reactions of the dim-witted villagers, it seemed as if they had finally managed to do away with the Invisible Man.

Not himself, of course, although that was what the crowd would have thought. About a year or so ago, Griffin had whisked a not-so-particularly bright albino man off of the street outside the university to use as a human test subject for his invisibility experiments. It was just Griffin's luck though, that the same man happened to be residing in the village at the time.

"Well, that's rather interesting," Griffin mused to himself as he stuffed a piece of bread into his mouth and watched the scene outside, "one becomes visible again post mortem. Not the most pleasant way to do so though, I should think." He laughed softly to himself before finishing off the rest of the bread. It would be about an hour or so before it fully assimilated into his system, so he'd have to hide in the meantime until he was fully invisible again.

But this game of hide-and-seek wouldn't last much longer.

#lxg #league of extraordinary gentlemen

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fletchingandnock · 6 years

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Was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Ahead of its Time?

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 film directed by Stephen Norrington, based on the graphic novel by comic book powerhouse and amateur Rasputin impersonator Alan Moore, is a film that I’ve always held quite close to my heart. As fledgling little hipster, I was enraptured by the films gothic aesthetic and ornate victorian design. However, what really made my heart race and my eyes sparkle, unblinking at the CRT screen until I could no longer process colour and shapes properly, was the premise: all these different characters, from all these different works of victorian fiction, all coming together to fight evil. The very concept of it was groundbreaking to me, and it made a young me chitter with excitement.

Despite this, and despite it making a $100,000,000 profit, the film was critically panned, Roger Ebert calling out the ‘inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy.”

As well as this, being made in the the cinematic dark age that was the early 2000s, it’s evident that a lot of the film just doesn’t hold up. The special effects are often laughable, and the acting is often off kilter, which is a shame considering how beloved the source material was.

However, looking back now, I can’t help but think that League was not an inherently bad movie, but rather a good idea executed poorly, or more to the point, executed at the wrong time.

Just five years after League was released, Marvel released their first self funded film, Iron Man, which I’m sure I don’t have to tell you was an unimaginable success, changing the entire film industry, not least because it was the start of something both creatively and financially incredible, that being the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a series of films featuring already iconic characters, set in the same world. I still remember the sensational feeling I had, and I’m sure many others had, watching Avengers in 2012, seeing these heroes finally meet and interact with each other, and it was the exact same feeling I had watching League as a child. And so I wonder, would League have been better recieved if it was made in the 2010s?

I don’t think I’ll blow anyone’s minds when I say that shared universes are hot shit right now, with many movie studios gawping green-eyed at Marvel’s unparamounted success, which has collectively made so much money that I’m looking at the number right now and I’m not quite if I can even read it. As such, so many studios and creators are scrambling to create their own shared universe, including but not limited to Universal’s Dark Universe, Sony’s Venomverse, the Cloververse, whatever the hell Ghostbusters 2016 was trying to do and of course, the DCCU, which I’m happy to report has finally made at least one good film.

So I ask you, why not a League reboot? Each character could have their own fleshed out movie based on the book they first appeared in, finally culminating in an epic united front against Moriarty or super Dracula or something. Well, if any of that tickled your fancy, well I’ve got possibly good but more accurately anxiety inducing news for you: there are rumours that Fox are planning an all-new, female-centric adaption of the graphic novel. Just rumours, mind, and of course, there are some worries that it will clash with Universal’s Dark Universe, which also features Dr Jekyll, the Invisible Man, etc. However, I really wouldn’t be worried, for two reasons: one, if 2017’s The Mummy was anything to go by, the Dark Universe will crash and burn like the Hindenburg, and two, I sincerely believe that in these times, there’s a far bigger market for a film about Tom Sawyer teaming up with a vampire to fight Kaiser Wilhem or whoever the villian will be than a film about Tom Cruise being useless for 110 minutes. Besides, we know damn well that at the very least, a Dorian Gray movie would be a success, because if Marvel and more to the point, Tumblr has taught us anything, it’s that the world loves a dark, bougie twink.

#theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen #film #movies #marvel #cinema

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lxcrimcsx · 6 years

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I decided to list the works I’m familiar with and might show up on this blog. The works in italic are not part of this blog, but I would interact with characters from these fandoms or with verses based upon these works. Strikethrough means that yes, I’m familiar with, but I’m not compelled to take it into consideration.

Dracula (1897 novel)

Dracula's Guest (1914 short story)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 movie)

Dracula 2000 (2000 movie)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003 movie)

Van Helsing (2004 movie + PS2 game)

The Batman VS Dracula (2005)

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Hellsing (anime and manga)

Vampire Hunter D (both OVAs)

Fate/Apocrypha (anime series and manga )

Fate/Extra (PSP game )

Fate/Grand Order (mobile game, has both Apocrypha and Extra versions)

Castlevania/Akumajo Dracula ( NES, SNES, GEN, PSX, PS2, GB, GBA, DS, PSP, ARC games (IGA verse))

Netflix Castlevania (animation)

Fables / The Wolf Among Us (comics and game)

Code : Realize (game and anime)

Now on more in-depth for the Castlevania games I’ve played. The ones under the same bullet are the same game/history. Strikethrough is not part of the canon so it’s not being considered; The italic means that even if it’s not canon I don’t mind having it considered here; and bold means Soma Cruz related (except for HOD, which has both) I think the only Castlevanias I haven’t played was the PCE version of Rondo , Encore of the Night and the Japan-exclusive pachinko and arcade.

Castlevania (NES) , Haunted Castle (ARC) , Super Castlevania IV (SNES), Castlevania Chronicles (PSx)

Castlevania II (NES)

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES)

Castlevania Bloodlines (GEN)

Castlevania: The Adventure (GB) , Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (Wii)

Castlevania: The Adventure II : Belmont's Revenge (GB)

Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy (comic)

Castlevania : Rondo of Blood (PS4), Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (PSP)

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSx, PSP, PS4)

Castlevania Legends (GB)

Castlevania 64 (N64)

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (N64)

Castlevania : Circle of the Moon (GBA)

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA)

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)

Akumajo Dracula: Kabuchi no Tsuisōkyoku (novel)

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (PS2)

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2)

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

Castlevania Judgment (Wii)

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (PS3)

Castlevania: Order of Shadows (mobile)

Kid Dracula (NES)

Kid Dracula (GB)

#. meta #. headcanon #long post

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strangestcase · 2 years

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you're obvs super well versed on Jekyll and Hyde media - I've been trying to watch more films lately - do you have any personal favourite adaptations to recommend :0 sorry if this has already been asked!

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My personal favorite adaptations, and the ones I like recommending people, are:

-MazM Jekyll and Hyde. A visual novel that adapts the story perfectly missing very few minor beats only. Every scene is peppered with NPCs that explain the historical and cultural context behind the story, and deliver fun facts! Hyde’s design could be gnarlier but it conveys “uncanny valley” perfectly, so I can’t complain.

-Le testament du Docteur Cordelier, a 1952 French tv movie that sets the story in 1950s Paris. It seamlessly translates the story to the new setting and medium, and it’s pretty well acted. I’m personally a big fan of the final stretch of the movie, in which the last chapter of the novella is retold via flashbacks through a conversation between Utterson and Hyde. Fair warning for depictions of sexual assault and rape, some onscreen, though it’s not graphic and you can skip over those scenes.

-the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie isn’t adapting the Novella per se (it’s a loose adaptation of a comic in which Jekyll and Hyde are part of the main cast). It captures Jekyll and Hyde very well- maybe not perfectly but it’s surprisingly book accurate for a mostly brainless 2003 action film. The main strong point is that Jekyll is depicted as morally ambiguous and Hyde is given a personality beyond being evil, which again is surprising for a 2003 action movie!

-while I have yet to watch it fully, the 1931 live action movie by Rouben Mamoulian is considered the best Jekyll and Hyde adaptation. It roughly follows the plot of the 1887 Mansfield play (as a lot of Jekyll and Hyde adaptations do), and the special effects, soundtrack, and the Oscar-winning performance of Fredric March are its most noteworthy features. The movie was considered scandalous since it featured “steamy” scenes and pretty graphic depictions of abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual). It got a ”tamer” remake in 1941.

-the 1920 silent movie with John Barrymore, also based off the 1887 play, is free to watch on YouTube, as is the Burbank animated adaptation (that takes a few liberties but is absurdly funny). Check them out if you can!

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Disney+ UK Star Launch: Complete List of New TV Shows and Films

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We came for The Mandalorian, stuck around for WandaVision, and, as we wait for The Falcon and Winter Soldier and Loki to arrive, there’s now a huge pile of new catalogue additions to work through, courtesy of Disney Plus’ Star brand.

Star launched on the Disney Plus streaming service in territories outside of the US (where Disney already has a home for adult drama in Hulu) on the 23rd of February. It’s added over 75 TV shows and 280 feature films here in the UK, including the entirety of Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Glee, Prison Break, Sons of Anarchy and Scrubs as well as cult favourites Firefly, Flashforward, Terriers and more. There are also some UK debuts in the form of the Star Originals listed below.

Film-wise, there’s ample reason to go back to the 90s in the form of Arachnophobia, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Con Air and a host of others, plus…well, it’s almost 300 films. Chances are you’ll find something to tickle your fancy. Households with kids should know there are new parental controls to set too, ensuring that nobody gets any unwelcome surprises.

Here’s the complete list of titles so far:

Star Originals

Big Sky

From Mr TV himself, David E. Kelley (Doogie Howser, Chicago Hope, Ally Mcbeal, Big Little Lies) comes a nine-part crime thriller starring Ryan Philippe and Vikings‘ Katheryn Winnick. Based on the 2013 novel The Highway by C.J. Box, Big Sky is the story of a series of missing girls and a private detective/cop trio with a messy personal history who team up to find them. It aired on ABC in the US last winter.

Helstrom

There’s very little fanfare for this comic book show‘s UK debut, which met with mostly negative reviews on release and was cancelled after 10 episodes, but Marvel completists will want to take a look. Tom Austen and Sidney Lemmon play the Helstrom siblings Daimon and Satana, the children of serial killers who hunt down the worst of humanity.

Love, Victor

Another Hulu original making its UK debut, this teen drama spins off from celebrated gay teen 2018 film Love, Simon. It’s narrated by Nick Robinson, who played Simon in the original film, and follows the story of a Puerto-Rican/Colombian-American teen living in Atalanta. Reviews for the 10-part first season were strong and it’s been renewed for a second.

Solar Opposites

Rick and Morty‘s Justin Roiland and Star Trek: Lower Decks‘s Mike McMahan are the creators of this adult animated comedy series about a family of aliens (pictured above) forced to seek refuge in middle America. Season one was enthusiastically received, and a second run is due to air in the US in March. Read plenty more about it here.

TV Series

According To Jim, Seasons 1 – 8 Alias, Seasons 1-5 American Dad, Seasons 1-16 Animal Fight Night, Seasons 1-6 Apocalypse World War I, Season 1 Apocalypse: The Second World War, Season 1 Atlanta, Seasons 1-2 Blackish, Seasons 1-5 Bloody Tales Of Europe, Season 1 Bloody Tales Of The Tower, Season 1 Bones, Seasons 1-12 Brothers & Sisters, Seasons 1-5 Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Seasons 1-7 Buried Secrets Of WWII, Season 1 Burn Notice, Seasons 1-7 Castle, Seasons 1-8 Code Black, Seasons 1-3 Cougar Town, Seasons 1-6 Desperate Housewives, Seasons 1-8 Devious Maids, Seasons 1-4 Drugs, Inc. Seasons 2-7 Family Guy, Seasons 1-18 Feud: Bette And Joan, Season 1 Firefly, Season 1 Flashforward, Season 1 The Fosters, Seasons 1- 5 The Gifted, Seasons 1-2 Glee, Seasons 1-6 Grey’s Anatomy, Seasons 1-15 The Hot Zone, Season 1 How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-9 Inside North Korea’s Dynasty, Season 1 The Killing, Seasons 1-4 LA 92 Lance, Season 1 Lie To Me, Seasons 1-3 Lost, Seasons 1-6 Mafia Confidential Maradona Confidential Mars, Seasons 1-2 Modern Family, Seasons 1-8 O.J.: Made In America Perception, Seasons 1-3 Prison Break, Seasons 1-5 Raising Hope, Seasons 1-4 Resurrection, Seasons 1-2 Revenge, Seasons 1-4 Rosewood, Seasons 1-2 Scandal, Seasons 1-7 Scream Queens, Seasons 1-2 Scrubs, Seasons 1-9 Sleepy Hollow, Seasons 1-4 Snowfall, Seasons 1-3 Sons Of Anarchy, Seasons 1-7 The Strain, Seasons 1-4 Terra Nova, Season 1 Terriers, Season 1 Trust, Season 1 Ugly Betty, Season 1-4 Ultimate Survival WWII, Season 1 Valley Of The Boom, Season 1 Witness To Disaster, Season 1 WWII Bomb Hunters The X-Files, Season 1-9 The 2000s: The Decade We Saw It All, Season 1 24, Season 1-9 24: Legacy, Season 1 The 80s: The Decade That Made Us, Season 1 9/11 Firehouse The 90s: The Last Great Decade? Season 1 9-1-1, Season 1-2

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Films

The 13th Warrior 42 to 1 9 to 5 Adam (2009) The Air Up There The Alamo (2004) Anna And The King Annapolis Another Earth Another Stakeout Anywhere But Here Arachnophobia Australia Bachelor Party Bad Ass Bad Company (2002) Bad Company (Aka: Tool Shed) Bad Girls (1994) Bad Times At The El Royale Baggage Claim The Banger Sisters Be Water Beaches Before And After (1996) Belle Beloved (1998) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Best Laid Plans Big Trouble Billy Bathgate Black Nativity Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation … Boys Don’t Cry Braveheart Breaking And Entering Bringing Out The Dead Broadcast News Brokedown Palace Broken Lizard’s Club Dread Brothers In Exile Brown Sugar Bubble Boy Bulworth Bushwhacked Can’t Buy Me Love Casanova (2005) Catch That Kid Cedar Rapids Chain Reaction Chasing Papi Chasing Tyson Choke The Clearing Cleopatra (1963) Cocktail Cocoon: The Return Cold Creek Manor The Color Of Money Come See The Paradise The Comebacks Commando (1985) Con Air Conan The Barbarian Confetti Consenting Adults A Cool Dry Place Cousin Bette Crazy/Beautiful Crimson Tide The Crucible Cyrus Damien – Omen Ii The Darjeeling Limited Dark Water Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) The Day The Series Stopped Day Watch Deadpool 2 Dead Presidents Deceived (1991) The Deep End Deep Rising Deion’s Double Play The Devil Wears Prada Devil’s Due Die Hard 2 Die Hard With A Vengeance Double Take Down And Out In Beverly Hills Down Periscope Dragonball: Evolution Dreaming Of Joseph Lees Drive Me Crazy The Drop Duets The East Ed Wood The Edge Encino Man Enemy Of The State Enough Said Evita Exodus: Gods And Kings The Fab Five (2011) Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) The Fault In Our Stars The Favourite The Final Conflict Firestorm (1998) The Fly (1986) For The Boys Four Falls Of Buffalo French Connection II The French Connection From Hell Gentlemen Broncos A Good Day To Die Hard Good Morning, Vietnam The Good Son (1993) A Good Year The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great White Hype Grosse Pointe Blank Guilty As Sin Gun Shy The Happening Here On Earth High Fidelity High Heels And Low Lifes Hitchcock Hoffa Holy Man Hope Springs (2003) I Heart Huckabees I Love You, Beth Cooper I Origins I Think I Love My Wife Idiocracy In America In Her Shoes Independence Day Independence Day: Resurgence Inventing The Abbotts Jennifer’s Body The Jewel Of The Nile John Tucker Must Die Johnson Family Vacation Jordan Rides The Bus Joshua Just Married Just Wright Kingdom Come Kissing Jessica Stein Kung Pow: Enter The Fist Ladyhawke The Ladykillers (2004) Last Dance (1996) Le Divorce The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Live Free Or Die Hard Looking For Richard Mad Love (1995) The Man From Snowy River Margaret The Marine Marked For Death The Marrying Man Martha Marcy May Marlene MASH Max Payne The Maze Runner Medicine Man Melinda And Melinda Metro Miami Rhapsody Miller’s Crossing Moulin Rouge (2001) My Father The Hero Mystery, Alaska The Namesake Nature Boy Never Die Alone The Newton Boys Night Watch (2006) No Mas Nothing To Lose Notorious Office Space One Hour Photo Oscar And Lucinda The Other Woman (2014) Our Family Wedding Out To Sea Pathfinder (2007) Phat Girlz Phone Booth Planet Of The Apes (1968) Planet Of The Apes (2001) Pony Excess The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Post Grad Powder The Preacher’s Wife Pretty Woman Primeval The Puppet Masters The Pyramid Quills Quiz Show Ravenous Rebound Renaissance Man Revenge Of The Nerds Ii: Nerds In Paradise The Ringer Robin Hood (1991) The Rocker Romancing The Stone Ruby Sparks Runaway Bride Rushmore Ruthless People The Savages Say It Isn’t So The Scarlet Letter Sea Of Shadows The Secret Life Of Bees Separate Lies The Sessions Shadow Conspiracy Shallow Hal Shining Through The Siege Signs Simon Birch A Simple Twist Of Fate The Sitter (2011) Six Days, Seven Nights Sleeping With The Enemy Solaris Someone Like You Soul Food Spy Hard Stakeout Starship Troopers Stoker Summer Of Sam Super Troopers (2002) Surrogates Swing Kids Taxi (2004) Terminal Velocity Thank You For Smoking There’s Something About Mary The Thin Red Line (1999) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Three Fugitives The Three Stooges (2012) Titan A.E. Tombstone Toys Trapped In Paradise Tristan & Isolde Up Close & Personal V.I. Warshawski Veronica Guerin The Village (2004) Von Ryan’s Express Waiting To Exhale Waitress Waking Life The War Of The Roses The Watch (2012) The Waterboy The Way Way Back What’s Love Got To Do With It When A Man Loves A Woman White Men Can’t Jump William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Win Win Woman On Top Working Girl (1988) The X-Files

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