I didn't think the ship was unrealistic, it was rather believable in the context of the movie. If the ship was unbelievable, you'd have to discount the majority of the weapons used (automatic weapons?), as well as the other modes of transportation (Nemo's Automobile?). They were all simply years (approximately 20) ahead of their time. The ending was only mildly ehh, and I liked the first enough that I'll see a second movie, only to see what literary heroes they'll grab and put in. I liked it simply for that reason, that it's a hellified nod to an extensive literary history that was just fantastic. Dorian Gray and Captain Nemo were the shit. I especially liked seeing Nemo fight, although I think the movie had mild orientalist aspects of it (it had a victorian love-affair with itself), watching him fight up there and produce high-end technology was something else. I agree with alex's statement that it's good to see more mature alternative to the wave of comic book movies, but I disagree in your classification of this movie as mature, relative to the Hulk or X-men 2. This movie is probably a little more relevant than spider-man or daredevil, but it only hints at anti-imperialist sentiments. The comic book though, I have not read, and that is a lot less tamer than the movie was, in many regards. The movie has piqued my intersest, and now I think I might pick up an issue of it.
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