The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Corrected entry: Not only does Quatermain sometimes need glasses to shoot and sometimes not, on the Nautilus he puts on the same pair of glasses to look at the Venice blueprints. There were no bifocals in 1899, and if they were bifocals, you would be able to tell.

Ioreth

Correction: Bifocal glasses were invented in the mid 1700's. They were around more than long enough for Quartermain to have used them.

Corrected entry: Mina Harker's hair goes from being straight on the Nautilus to curly when she confronts Gray, and back to straight after Gray thinks he kills her and she comes back up and kills him.

Correction: Her hair is curly when she is in full vampire mode.

Osky #13

Corrected entry: When the Nautilus travels the canals of Venice, the body of the submarine barely fits under some bridges. But in this case, the conning tower should just take these bridges down.

Correction: They show the bridges being broken.

Osky #13

Corrected entry: The Nautilus travels down the watery canals of Venice on the surface of the water. The ship is massive, yet the ship makes no visible wake as it moves. The smaller boats it passes should be noticeably affected, but they sit in the water virtually undisturbed.

Correction: The Nautilus is moving very slowly. Anyway they do show some boats moving.

Osky #13

Corrected entry: In the scene where the actors are outside on the Nautilus' conning tower lounging around, the ocean in the background doesn't appear to move as it should if they were really on a moving vessel. When the shot then moves to the ocean level it shows the Nautilus cutting rapidly through the sea. For a vessel this long moving at such speed the actors should have their hair blasting straight back and should be holding on to the rail.

Correction: Actually, the ship was not moving at the time. Nemo said the Nautilus was finished powering its solar cells, and it was conserving its power by not using its engnes.

Corrected entry: Aboard the Nautilus, objects suspended from the ceiling (like lights) should be rocking from side to side due to ocean current. However, they are always seen hanging perfectly still save for the scene where the Nautilus is sinking after the explosives detonate.

Correction: Ships the size of the Nautilus are not as affected by wave motion. The lights, etc. should only visibly move during dives, surfacings, and when the ship is bombed.

Corrected entry: When the league goes to recruit Dorian Gray, Skinner helps himself to a drink. As he drinks it, you see it briefly running down his esophagus. Now, whether or not food would be visible inside an invisible man is up in the air, but if food CAN be seen inside of him, wouldn't the food he ate last night be sitting in his stomach, and the food from before that be worming through his large intestine? He'd be a walking digestive tract, and fairly visible.

Correction: Considering that everything that is a part of his body is invisible, his stomach acid would be as well. Therefore one could assume that after food had been in his system long enough, it is broken down and possibly turned invisible by his stomach acids and what not. As for newly introduced liquids (like his drink), they would mix with any invisible liquids in his stomach and become near-invisible to the naked eye.

Corrected entry: The Invisible Man is badly burned by the soldier with the flame thrower during the final battle. Yet at the end, all of his charred skin is healed. Granted, time has passed, but I don't think the amount of time passed that was necessary for that kind of healing.

DenizenZERO

Correction: You never actually saw his skin at the end, he had a coat on. Also, he put makeup on his face, so that was impossible to see.

Corrected entry: When Dorian is impaled against the wall, with Mina wielding the portrait that Dorian cannot gaze upon, why didn't Dorian just close his eyes?

Correction: She would have just ripped his eyelids off if he had closed them. To someone who has lived an eternity, what's the point of living another five seconds? This act is typical of Dorian's style and grace.

Corrected entry: If Tom Sawyer is supposed to be Mark Twain's famous character, he should be far older than depicted in the movie. Twain set 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' circa 1836-1846, and Tom Sawyer was about 12 years old in the book. The literary Tom Sawyer would be at least in his mid-sixties by 1899. All of the other liberties taken with the original literature are neatly explained. What happened with Tom Sawyer?

MoonMan

Correction: While this may be true, keep in mind that the movie is set in an alternate time where, most of the characters might not have ever existed with the others. Therefore, the moviemakers can make anything happen in this movie such as canals in Venice would be deep anough for the Nautilus, or the league would be able to know each other, whether they existed in the other's time or not.

Correction: The original vampire Dracula was technically like Blade - he could go out into daylight. And it's stated that she was from the original vampire, Dracula. The whole 'can't go into the daylight' thing is only modern vampire myth. They're supposed to be able to go into the daylight like everybody else, they're just not at their strongest.

DenizenZERO

Corrected entry: If the Invisible Man was really walking through the snowy mountains naked, I can't imagine that he'd have gotten all the way to the cave without dropping dead from hypothermia.

DenizenZERO

Correction: This man dances around rainy ol London nude all the time. I imagine his temperature tolerances are quite sufficent to prevent him from passing on outright.

Corrected entry: When the league is tracking Dorian they receive a record to listen to. As they listen to the words, we see a black and white movie or flashback. At the beginning of that flashback Mina Harker is the one sitting next to the record player and tells M that he can now record. If she was there during his speech, she would have known that Dorian was in on it and his full plan all along.

Correction: It's not. If you read the credits, you will find that it's another woman - she looks a lot like Peta Wilson, but it's not her. I thought it was her, too, at first, until I read through the credits at the end and saw a listing for 'M's secretary' or 'transcriptionist', something like that.

Kaite13

Corrected entry: When the members of the League go to recruit Dorian Gray at his house they notice that a painting has recently been removed from the wall. It is subsequently explained that this was the famous portrait that ages so he can remain eternally young and it has been stolen. It is also explained that if he looks at the portrait he will die. If this is so why would it have been hanging in plain sight in his house where he would have to see it?

Correction: Its not known for sure if the painting was recently removed, it is possible that he could've had someone else remove it for him, or even have removed it himself without looking at it.

Corrected entry: What makes Hyde decide to do good? It seems really out of character to want to save people (especially on the Nautilus when it's sinking) when he got exiled from London for killing people.

Correction: Earlier, Quatermain told Hyde that if he helped the League, he would receive amnesty from the Queen and he could go back to London, because Hyde had said "Home is where the heart is".

Corrected entry: It seems to be implied that the death of Allan Quatermain's son occurred quite some time ago. If so, then why is it that during the final scene the earth over the son's grave is freshly dug?

Phil C.

Correction: The son's grave has also noticibly moved. Perhaps it is freshly dug because he was reburied in order to remain next to his father.

Paul Plesser

Corrected entry: After the Phantom's men break into Dorian Gray's house, one of the soldiers shoots an amazing amount of bullets into Gray. We can see that his skin heals, but right afterwards, his clothes have magically also repaired any damage from bullet holes.

DenizenZERO

Correction: He changes clothes and returns after the fighting is over.

Continuity mistake: When the assassin takes Mina as hostage and holds a knife to her throat, Mina's scarf is under his arm. Two shots later the scarf is hanging over his hand. (00:27:50)

Mortug

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Dorian Gray: Ah, the bedroom. Does it give you memories or ideas?
Mina Harker: Ideas. [Stabs him in the lower parts.].

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Trivia: Richard Roxborough played Sherlock Holmes in the Hound of the Baskervilles movie. In the LXG movie, Richard Roxborough acted as Moriarty, Holmes's arch enemy.

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Question: I don't get what happens at the end. Does Sean Connery come back to life? Someone please explain.

Answer: After Quartermain is buried, we see a witch doctor performing magic above his grave and the clouds darken indicating something is about to take place. The witch doctor is chanting "Return" and the grave begins to shake. Although we do not see Quartermain come back to life it is most definitely hinted that he did and left room for a sequel which never came to pass.

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