I'll give it credit for having some creative and deliberately offensive deaths (three kids below the age of 10 get killed!), but yeah, the actors seemed to be actually trying (and failing) rather than just half-assing along for the fun and the paycheck like they really ought to have been doing.

I saw "Orlof" on TCM Underground as well, and my reaction was basically the same as yours.  I keep thinking I'll do some sort of Franco binge, but life keeps getting in the way.

I'd always wondered why Black Lightning became Black Vulcan.  Even in the context of a comic book adaptation, that change just seemed superfluous.

He didn't have a catch phrase.  He just had that trademark sad face for when he had his heart broken, and then his happy dimples for when things turned out ok.

Milverton was too much of a worm to make a good long term villain, IMHO.  The Jeremy Brett series tried, but didn't quite pull it off.

After looking up "The Hollow" and discovering it was a movie made for ABC Family Channel, I'd go with the other hand.

"He says he’s a “HUGE” fan of the genre and has acted in at least one other full-length, 2004’s abysmal The Hollow. He also starred in a fairly shitty 2010 short, The Pendant."
Well, when you put it like that, I feel compelled to donate!  Surely we can help Nick's new movie rise to the level of "mediocre".

There have been worse.  Brandy.  The Hoff, if we're being honest.

Actually her English is flawless.  Her cadence (for lack of a better word) is what tips you off that she isn't a native English speaker.

Or properly capitalize, it seems.

Batman Jesus: while you are correct that the "yellow peril" of Fu Manchu would probably be problematic, the character is still actually under copyright as the novels were written right into the 1950s.  You'll notice that at no point in LoeG Vol 1 is he ever actually called by the name Fu Manchu; he's "the Devil…

Hypnomatic, in copyright law, all rights to works deriving from an original work (such as a film adaptation of a book) belong to the author, and can be sold, etc. by the author.  The derivative work will then have its own copyright.  So the film is still under copyright as Wells (who died in 1945, remember, 12 years…

One of the best lines I ever saw on this (and I'm paraphrasing):

Well, let's see: we have this crazy villain running around trying to start WWI early, prompting the formation of this League of amazing people, but in a surprise twist: WWI isn't the real goal, it's getting all these people in the same room so we can steal their special powers.  Of course, now that they are all…

In the interests of fairness: The Invisible Man is one of those few instances where, while the novel is in the public domain, the film rights are still in Universal's hands.  That's why, while there have been dozens of movies and tv shows about men who are invisible, there's only been the Claude Rains movie about Dr.…

I guess "comic book adaptations" is slightly better than "film versions" or "television remakes". 

""He screwed my brains out"" is a thing you can say on CBS now, apparently."

While "think clean thoughts, chum" was a nice line in the comics, I found this exchange laugh-out-loud funny.  (Still do, actually; I kind of chortled just now—happily my assistant just stepped out of the office.)

"the aim is to hew more closely to James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel."

"Jesse Lee Soffer of The Mob Doctor"