The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-Long Shot

[jjparkhill]

how does he survive a fall from that high?

[windaddyflex]

@jjparkhill If you watch him fall it looks like he has some kind of wing-rig on, like a hang glider.

[jjparkhill]

@windaddyflex o

[TommieAitken]

@jjparkhill

00:50

After his landing, he put off something like a black wide spread garment.

it would help the soft-landing.

[jjparkhill]

@TommieAitken oh truuuu

[Iskall91]

Indeed, it's no shotgun in this film. It has to be a double-barreled rifle.

[JLP131]

1:40 thats such an epic happy face. I lol every time i see it

[onedeadcat]

No escape for Dick Cheney

[NoCripNoBlood]

double barrel rifle? wtf

[Freelancer591]

@NoCripNoBlood

They make em. I've seen one that looks a LOT like that rifle in person before. Double barrel rifles are friggin huge.

[Kimmy974Fortnight]

J'adore cette scène elle est tout simplement géniale ! =)

[battousaiblade]

the guy who played Sawyer, Shane West, also played Landon on A Walk To Remember

tho i perfer him as a blond

[Troyellaislove]

is there a scene in this movie where tom visits hucks grave?

[MarigoldSawyer]

No, but Tom vists Quatermains grave though.

[flickRave]

Does this film remind anybody of The Dark Knight?

[MrSherlockWatson]

@flickRave no

[flickRave]

I dont get it when the old man turns around and shoots at American kid..

[BloodyBay]

Moriarty held his metal mask up, and in it Quatermain could see the reflection of the knife held by Moriarty's invisible lackey coming up to stab Sawyer. Quatermain then turned around and shot the invisible lackey, choosing to save Sawyer's life even though it meant turning his own back on the treacherous Moriarty.

(Look closely at 0:40. The dying lackey is naked for invisibility's sake, and here you can see the dusty soles of his feet come off the floor. Quatermain's shot was a fatal one.)

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

No...the other invisiable person has a knife to Toms throat and Quatermian shoots the other person instead of Tom.

[BloodyBay]

Isn't that what I said? Well, except that I just remembered that Moriarty's invisible lackey (provided with some of Skinner's stolen potion) was indeed holding Sawyer hostage (not immediately trying to kill him), and Quatermain freed Sawyer by shooting the lackey...but yeah. Invisible goon got shot, Sawyer got freed, Quatermain got stabbed, Moriarty got shot from all the way downtown and that was the end of the stand-off to save the world. ;-p

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

Oh. ha ha. I replied to the first comment above yours. wow im commenting alot!

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

WHOOP WHOOP! Go, Tom! Go Tom!

[MrsDorianGray]

go tom, go tom, its your birthday, we're gonna party like it's your birthday. *hugs tom* and i'm your birthday gift! yaya, i wuuuvvvv tom

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

*hugs tom* And so am I! *kisses Tom* And I cant be returned. *drools*

[MrsDorianGray]

hey he's mine. dont make me go jeckyll and hyde on ur arse (well i already wnt jekyll and hyde on one friend's arse). *dips tom, and kisses* see? we make a great couple. and, oh, i also get dorian.

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

NOT FAIR! Fine I get...DAMN! YOUCAN'T HAVE BOTH! *grabs on to Tom* Tom, Darling. what do you think?

Tom- Ummm...Johanna...I need help!

[MrsDorianGray]

wait, i dont want dorian. can i have jekyll?

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

Fine. *winks at Dorian* O la la!

[MrsDorianGray]

wait.  o lala to what?

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

*winks at Dorian again* O la la I get dorian.

[MrsDorianGray]

NO! HE'S MINE

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

You  just said you wanted Henry Jekyll.

[MrsDorianGray]

i take that back i want dorian

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

Too late!!

[MrsDorianGray]

NOPE i claimed dorian first seeral months ago, he's mine *clings to dorian* you get tom

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

Good. *holds on to tom*

[BloodyBay]

What, neither of you two ladies wants that handsome devil Professor James Moriarty? For shame! The guy has brains, charisma, money, a plan to conquer the world or something...everything a woman could ask for!

Now, then...who wants to marry Moriarty? :-D

[MsJohannaRoseBarker]

Allright. You can have James Moriarty. But I get Tom!! *clings onto tom*

[BloodyBay]

Nah, I don't swing that way. I might take Mina, though.... :-p

[MrsDorianGray]

GO TOM!!!!!!

[lebronchuck]

that's not a shotgun bullet.

[BloodyBay]

It's a shotgun slug. It doesn't have any pre-cut rifling or other modern features, but I imagine shotgun slugs would have been of simpler make back in the late 1800's. Wilhelm Brenneke marketed the first effective shotgun slug in 1898--and gunsmiths were developing slugs well before that--so the time would have been just about right for Quatermain to wander down to some British-run general store in South Africa and pick some of these bad boys up.

[dormie198]

was the long rifle shaun connery used a 1800's 45/70? does anyone really know?

[humbletim]

with a shotgun???? retarded

[spamuel615]

That is not a bloody shotgun....

[BloodyBay]

It's a shotgun, all right. What humbletim there didn't account for was that shotguns can be loaded with slugs as well as scattershot. Slugs concentrate all the shot's kinetic energy into one aerodynamic mass, making slugs far superior to buckshot or birdshot at delivering power and accuracy over longer range...not as much accuracy as rifles deliver, granted, but better accuracy than most folks would think.

And, as the slow-mo shows, Quatermain's shotgun was indeed loaded with a slug. ;-)