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V for Vendetta

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I thought it was fantastic. It wasn't perfect, but it was definitely fresh movie-making at its best. Yeah yeah, the Watchowski Bros are weird and the Matrix sequels sucked blah blah, but V for Vendetta was as imaginitive and inventive as any film I've seen recently.
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Originally posted by: Windexed
Yeah yeah, the Watchowski Bros are weird
Weird isn't strong enough a word, and as I heard, it won't be the Watchowski Brothers for long. They'll have to be called the Watchowski Siblings.

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I have a Brithish friend who seems to be against it, but he hasn't even seen it as far as I know. I'm definitely looking forward to/wanting to see V as soon as I can.

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I saw this at an early screening at Wondercon. I really liked it and how much it actually stuck to the graphic novel rather than deviate from it. I saw it again opening night in IMAX.

One thing to look out for, the credits say, based on the graphic novel Illustrated by David Lloyd. Not writen by Alan Moore. I guess Alan didn't want anything to do with the project, but at the same time isn't speaking out against it either, which is probably as good as we're gonna get. I'm sure after the mess of things like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he won't have much to do with movie adaptations anymore.

Dang, my 100th post and it has nothing to do with Star Wars...
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This flick was really damn good. Best movie I've seen in a while.

Alan Moore has never seen any film adaptation of his work and never will. He even divided up his paycheck on this to the other members of the creative force of the book.

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I'm gonna go to Denver this week to watch the 70mm IMAX print !!!



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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly

Alan Moore has never seen any film adaptation of his work and never will. He even divided up his paycheck on this to the other members of the creative force of the book.


What is his deal? Sure, the plot of LXG was largely mangled, but I've heard good thigns about From Hell and V. It seems to me he is just being difficult about it.

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Originally posted by: Rikter
I'm gonna go to Denver this week to watch the 70mm IMAX print !!!


lucky you, the imaxs ariound here never get anything that cool
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
What is his deal? Sure, the plot of LXG was largely mangled, but I've heard good thigns about From Hell and V. It seems to me he is just being difficult about it.

It's not really that hard to see his point of view. He wrote a story intended for a certain medium, and that medium was comics. It doesn't seem that strange to me that he just isn't interested in seeing his work manipulated into another medium, whether the end result may be good or bad.

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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
What is his deal? Sure, the plot of LXG was largely mangled, but I've heard good thigns about From Hell and V. It seems to me he is just being difficult about it.

It's not really that hard to see his point of view. He wrote a story intended for a certain medium, and that medium was comics. It doesn't seem that strange to me that he just isn't interested in seeing his work manipulated into another medium, whether the end result may be good or bad.

Yeah, I can see the frustration and embarrassment one might have from seeing a book, comic book or graphic novel you worked hard on being turned into a pile of garbage on the silver screen. Of course, everything's a gamble in Hollywood. That which looks great in a screenplay sometimes just doesn't work well when you try to turn them into flesh and blood imagery, or CGI imagery for that matter.
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Two things on Alan Moore-

1) He's basically the poster boy hermit/dedicated creator in the comics world... one of a dying breed of brilliant, wacko artistic types. It can be fun, it can be annoying but he's certainly one of a kind. (oh and I AM a big fan of his). The media, knowing he doesn't watch TV, most films, etc likes to essentially pester him about his work getting made into other forms- as in 'V'... its my underatanding that he made no effort to speak out against it UNTIL the media sought him out and said 'So what do you think of *this*' and he gave his opinion.

2) The works of his that are getting made into films are at various levels of creator ownership so he generally has very little say over what has the movie rights sold and what liberties the productions take with the works. He knowingly signed the contracts for every work he has done and he isn't stupid so though he may not like the films made of his works but he has very little choice in the matter. Though if he was really clever in film lore he should have made them put 'Based in the Graphic Novel by Alan Smithee'!
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
What is his deal? Sure, the plot of LXG was largely mangled, but I've heard good thigns about From Hell and V. It seems to me he is just being difficult about it.

It's not really that hard to see his point of view. He wrote a story intended for a certain medium, and that medium was comics. It doesn't seem that strange to me that he just isn't interested in seeing his work manipulated into another medium, whether the end result may be good or bad.


Hm... I guess you could come from that perspective. I on the other hand, would be thrilled to have anything I wrote adapted into a [good] movie, so I guess it is just a different perpsective on things. If the media is really harrasing him about it and he honestly doesn't give a flip, then more power to him, I say.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I have a Brithish friend who seems to be against it, but he hasn't even seen it as far as I know. I'm definitely looking forward to/wanting to see V as soon as I can.
How dare they make a movie about bombs in London mere months after the terrorist attacks. I am outraged. This is disgusting.



Just kidding. Don't give a shit. Looks like a good movie.

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No, he seems to object to some of the changes they made from the Graphic Novel, not the London Bombings.

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I saw this Sunday and thought it was brilliant. It had some great action sequences and, unlike most generic action movies(Firewall-I'm looking at you), it had a brain. It reminded me of Munich and, like Munich, I think people in charge of government should watch it and think about it. Of course they won't because it looks like a silly action/comic book movie rather than an allegory.
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
Originally posted by: WaragainsttheCouncil
So Firewall sucked? That's a shame... poor Harrison.


Sorta. I think it sucked a lot less than it could have...


it's not that it sucked, so much as it was just too generic to be any good.

i mean really, was Firewall so different from Air Force One that it deserved its own multi-million dollar budget?

...and Air Force One, i might add, wasn't exactly original when it came out either
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Just saw "V For Vendetta" last night. Neat film, kinda weird. Probably should have read the graphic novel beforehand. Natalie Portman was a little flat. I'm starting to wonder if she's just naturally flat or if trying to hold that British accent and still emote at the same time was just too much (you know how it is with accents). The bald look does not suit her at all.
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Hm. I thought it was good. Weird, yes, but this is Alan Moore we are talking about here. I thought Portman was great, and looked good bald or not. And of course the ending was tight. KABOOM.

I don't understand why so many conservatives are complaining about this thing. It is basically saing what conseratvies have been saying for years: big government = BAD. Security at the price of lbasic iberty = BAD.

At least that seems to be the message it was trying to state.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Hm. I thought it was good. Weird, yes, but this is Alan Moore we are talking about here. I thought Portman was great, and looked good bald or not. And of course the ending was tight. KABOOM.

I don't understand why so many conservatives are complaining about this thing. It is basically saing what conseratvies have been saying for years: big government = BAD. Security at the price of lbasic iberty = BAD.

At least that seems to be the message it was trying to state.


Conservatives say that for real? I would've thought not given the Bush administration's Patriot Act and so forth (an American Conservative seems to be quite a bit different from an Australian one, so I wouldn't really know...).
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What does the Patriot Act have to do with the size of government?

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