i think every superhero movie is sort of a let-down after the "becoming a superhero" scene. def for me, the climax (and best part of this film) was evey in the rain, and just like "batman begins" once that point had passed the movie wasn't so great anymore.
oh yeah, i was thinking the exact same thing about BB today... i was loving it up to the point where he becomes batman, then i fell asleep. but i think i already said that exact thing upthread so never mind!
i don't understand why they didn't have the scene of evey putting on the v mask! and i was NOT onboard for the crowd of "V"s. i hate crowd/mob scenes in movies, they're always so corny no matter what.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
-- vahid (vfoz...), March 19th, 2006 9:09 PM. (vahid) (later) (link
No, it would have been a WAY BETTER ENDING if the soldiers had just opened fire on everyone.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 20 March 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
you can say what you want about bin laden, but you can't argue with "clear-thinking" and "righteous". why should he not be clear-thinking? i mean, part of what makes him the particular superhero that he is is his singleminded doggedness about his revenge. he's a moral juggernaut! and anyway i think that "monstrous" doesn't need to mean "confused and wrong". you can be "clear-thinking, righteous" and still be monstrous! (see: bin laden, bush, etc)
See, this would make more sense if the word you repsonding to was "self-righteous". Righteous actually means, y'know, right.
Cracking heads when you're outnumbered 20/30-1: not such a bright idea. Also, cracking masks.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh? Valerie didn't act on V - the government did.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I think we were meant to assume that the regime had disintegrated from within, like in East Germany or Czechoslovakia, only in a more telescoped fashion to suit the demands of a film. i.e. the regime had been acting more and more erratically, demoralising the soldiers, and without some senior regime type shouting "shoot the fuckers" down a radio it was enough for the soldiers to just give up.
This was not the part of the film that required greatest suspension of disbelief.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 20 March 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh for fuck's sake.
― Dan (PAY ATTENTION) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Kind Of Obviously Featured) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (I Still Don't Think The Girl Is Dead) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (It's True!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
It would have made more sense if they actual people had been riddled with bullet holes then.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
maybe thats were all the bollocks in the film came from
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
e.g. the whole "order from chaos" bit.
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Let's keep in mind that everyone slamming this film for deviating from the GN is aligning themselves with Charles Manson.
― Dan (H Is For Haircut) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/images/main2.jpg
― Dan (Is That Better?) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.calendarlive.com/media/photo/2006-03/22487024.jpg
Codsarnit, i thot elves couldn't grow facial hair!
from this L.A. Times bit
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Doubtless I'll eventually see the film but I agree that this would have been a cool road to go down.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
(xp)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
y'know, that's entire possible. hmmm.
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Cum In Packs Of Twelve) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.najical.com/s-o/season2/sno/conv_intdec3.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost wtf is that?
― kephm (kephm), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
You don't know? Dude.
http://www.sifl-n-olly.com/
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Hahaha Ned!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Stephen Fry was fine, but I'm not sure the director told him what kind of movie he was starring in; nor was he introduced to the rest of the cast. The always-terrific Stephen Rea was more convincing as a man of pained conscience than Natalie-as-Falconetti. No one's mentioned Rupert Graves, veteran of lots of Merchant Ivory films, as Rea's assistant.
Anyone else think the guy playing the ranting TV journalist had modelled his look and mannerisms rather closely on Christopher Hitchens?
So OTM. I said so to my companion: "He's Hitchens turned into what his leftist critics always suspected he was."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't get what you mean... are you saying that we should take it less seriously just because it's based on a GN?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
haha excellent point.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link