Oh, why am I even bothering? If you've never read the book, I don't see how it could be comprehensible; if you have read the book, you can only shake your head as the plot rushes by, like twitchy semaphore, while the point is completely missed. (For the non-readers: Everything that's kept as a secret or a plot twist is revealed in the first couple chapters.) Filmmakers: if you don't have the guts to do the skyscraper scene, why are you bothering to use the title "From Hell"? If you just wanted to make a stupid serial killer movie, why set it in 1888 London? Set it in modern day L.A., cast a Busey or a Hauser, be done with it.
Where we saw it: dvd | We deign to rate it: outta 100I agree completely, but I would also really encourage people to read the book as it gives one a comprehensive history of the architeture of London, which I wish I had had when I visited there many years ago, and "From Hell" does so in a way in which while I couldn't care less about architecture, I felt passionate about it after I read the (comic) book. I think it's probably, with Alan Moore's other works as well as Frank Miller's incredible stuff, the work that makes comic books into graphic novels. Mind you, I'm ignoring Neil Gaimen and Warren Ellis (and Dave Simm, though he's an incredible prick), and others that do such incredible work as to defy expectation.
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Posted by: Daniel Jensen at January 17, 2004 11:18 AM