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[minervasolo]

It's a good film. No really, it is. The actors aren't half as bad as the media claims, the plot is just fine and the effects are pretty good, especially when you take into account that a lot of them aren't CGI.

Maybe it's the director, maybe it's the producer, maybe it's the writers... Someone got lazy. There are two periods of history I'm relatively well versed in: Roman and Victorian. Normally I miss most continuity errors, and will hapily take every leap of faith a film demands, but some of this really was just laziness, and a desire to make it Look Good.

WW1 tanks. Walking pace. Bloody useless machines, hardly got used. But this pre-ww1 tank can hit a good 30mph. because it would be a very slow action sequence if the poliemen had to keep stopping to wait for it.

Then there's the car. Which shouldn't pass more than thirty, and ought to look like a normal horse and carraige minus the horse, rather than a white version of Lady Penelope's famous vehicle. I know it's built by Nemo, but what on earth out of? It crashes through stone pillars, stone walls, stone bridges... Not a scratch in hte paintwork. Looking a the Nautilus, i could forgive a bit of odd endurability, but there wasn't even a dent.

Ihe Nautilus. Loved it. Loved every shiny inch of it. Loved the Colonial Indian inside. However, first thing I thought upon seeing it "That thing must have brilliant straight line speed, but it's turning circle must be huge" (I watch too much F1). It very long and very straight, and the rudder (?) has very limited movement. And yet it manages to navigate through the canals of Venice. Not just corners, but right angled corners in canals so narrow the Nautilus touches the walls on both sides. Oh yes, and the electrc sparks raining from the ceiling after it gets bombed and almost sinks. Of course, all lighting is gas and hte thing is powered by huge furnaces (steam?), but how are we, a modern audience, to know that the submarine almost sank without seeing gratuitous electric sparks bursting from every wall.

Automatic rifles. Right, because the Gatling gun was a shiny new invention, so of course people would be carrying around handheld versions before it even really got used. Again, gratuitous use of modern weaponry to give a scene more suspence and mae it look more like a 'real' action sequence.

Mina's clothes. Putting aside the vampire thing, since she isn't supposed to be one and oh, coincidentally, you shouldn't have her both drinking blood and wandering around in the daylight, the clothes, are, well hardly victorian. Within half an hour they're getting rather masculine, and then this black leather corset appears. Oh, and she lets her hair down, which looked distinctly unvicotiran in style, though I'm not certain there. Then they go to Mongolia. Apparently, in Mongolia, you can get PVC trousers, even in the victorian era. And it's fine for women to wear them, no one raises an eyebrow. She turns into the girl fom Underworld! Oh, crossover theory: maybe she is the girl from Underworld.

Dorian Gray's self-repairing suit. Almost certainly a continuity error, but easily explained away. It's the same suit as in the picture. Apparantly has the same quailities as himself. He rips it open, five seconds later it's back in it's former glory. but then, why has no one commented that he's wearing clothes 50+ years out of date?

Actually, that's the problem with most of the continuity errors: they can be explained away. They shouldn't be, but they can. It's just the props, the vehicles and weapons mostly, that show how lazy someone got. They wanted it to look like a modern action film, so they completely overlooked when it was set so they could shoot the sequences they liked.

Honestly, i did like it. Tom Sawyer was a good choice for an American insertion. Mina's powers were random, but just about fit. Shame they felt obliged to recap 'dracula', but not '40,000 leagues under the sea'. Liked hte gratuitous references to other contempory characters, both fictional and real. Loved the Natuilus (so much it deserves too mentions). I prefer the invisible man from the comics, but this one was cool too. Actually, I prefer the comics all round, apart from teh Nautailus, though if they'd stuck to hte comic it would have been 15 bordering on 18.



Is there anyway to ensure only vertical scrollbars in a frame? I keep getting horizontal ones, and no matter what i do to the page content they don't go away. I've increased the margins, changed tables, changed test alignment... nothing workd. It's really irritating me. Last thing to sort out before Fleursdelamort update, and I just can't get it working.

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[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

Want me to have a look at it? I don't know what you've changed, but I had a look at the current Fleursdelamort and nothing seemed wrong, so yah. O.o'

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

been shunting stuff about mostly, getting rid of some of the tables (I hadn't ralised how many there were!) and fixing some of the fics. I'll send you an example. i thought chaniging hte table widths would help, but no.