V For Vendetta: The Movie

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― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 10 February 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess there's a still small fanboy living in me because that trailer left me all excited, wanting to see the film. Then again, the anarchist in me will probably be disappointed, because I that's the aspect of the story they'll most likely fuck up. All they have to do is make V a real person rather than a symbol.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

the vanity fair article on this last month made it sound excellent

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

That trailer looked GOOD.

Will Natalie Portman return to her adolescent brilliance? I mean, same basic setup as Leon the Professional. I don't have audio @ work so can't tell if she's being totally boring again or what else is going on.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 February 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Her accent sounds too posh, that's for sure. I think she drops a 't' in one trailer as a minor concession to working classness.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

EXCITED!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

DEEPLY SKEPTICAL!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

RESERVING JUDGEMENT!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

FLYING DAGGERS N SHIT!

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

MOVIE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

WHEN

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

SELF-SERIOUS CRAPOLA!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Story by Alan Moore, directed by the Wachowski Bros -- of COURSE it's going to be self-serious. But I'm still looking forward to seeing it.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll see it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. a 4 month delay for reshoots & whatnot is never a good sign.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Harry Knowles likes it it - rather he FUCKING LOVES IT WHAT A FUCKING AWESOME MOVIE. Not a promising sign.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

HARRY HERE FOLKS! CHRONICILES OF RIDDICK IS THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN SINCE LEVIATHAN

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not directed by thew wachowskis?

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore has totally disavowed this movie and has tried to get his name off of it. Also donating all his personal profits from the film to the artist of the comic book. Just, y'know, for the record...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

eccentric writer in authorial intent fussiness shockah

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

the reviews that RT has posted so far

includes this (inadvertantly?) amusing one

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Two points of some relief for me: according to the trailer, he actually blows up Parliament. According to Kurt Loder, we never see his face.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I think that if Shakey Mo and I ever meet and shake hands, the resulting collision of matter and anti-matter will annihilate the universe.

― Dan (Dibs On Anti-Matter) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

WHEN IS THIS MOVIE COMING OUT

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Early March, ain't it?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

17 March 2006

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Right after Larry finishes his sex change. He wants to look good for the premiere.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2003_11_larrywachow.jpg

Larry Wachowski in 2003 (in the middle)

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore has totally disavowed this movie and has tried to get his name off of it. Also donating all his personal profits from the film to the artist of the comic book. Just, y'know, for the record...

For the record, he's been doing this wrt film projects for 10 years.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Admittedly though those film projects have pretty much sucked.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Though I haven't seen it, I understand that From Hell is an alright movie. Just a lousy From Hell adaptation. LXG is perhaps the worst film I've ever seen.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

From Hell is not an alright movie.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Esp. when consider it's relation to the source material.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know the source material, I just know it was a rotten film.

There was an interesting feature on V for Vendetta in Vanity Fair last month.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Excerpts here

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore's work towers over the crappy movie adaptations, and I have every reason to believe this will continue to be the case for a long time to come.

From Hell is an okay film. LXG is unwatchable.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

For the record, he's been doing this wrt film projects for 10 years

For the record, this is the first film project he's done this with.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

It absolutely isn't. There's a bit in that interview with Stewart Lee where he mentions that after LXG he decided to give his monies for these things to the artists and get his name taken off, and within 3 days people attempted to give him cash/sign him up for Constantine & Watchmen & V.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

LXG != ten years ago. And it wasn't after the film, it was after the deposition he had to give when two screenwriters accused Fox (?) of ripping off their Cast Of Characters screenplay, and said that the comic had been done in order to cover the studio's tracks. So it's been less than two years, and V was the first project to start up since then - he diverted money on Constantine, but V escalated things with the press conference where Joel Silver stated that Moore was very excited about the screenplay and they were looking forward to getting him to contribute. When Warners refused to issue a retraction he spat the bigger dummy, walked from Wildstorm, etc. His name was actually on early V publicity/posters, but has disappeared since (to be replaced by a multi-factually-incorrect credit!).

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

just because he doesn't like it doesn't mean it won't be good.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Alan Moore is essentially a formalist, and the long literary forms he employs don't adapt well to two-hour screenplays -- it's almost that simple. Structural issues aside, I agree with kyle that just because Moore doesn't like it doesn't mean it won't be good, but then again, it might be an altogether different story the way the Wachoeski Bros. tell it.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Saturday, 11 February 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This bit from the Hollywood Reporter review sounds interesting:

If the film's look and feel refuse to flee from the real world, its dialogue takes every chance to connect to it. We are told about the recent past, that "America's war grew worse and worse, and eventually came to London." Hot-button terms like "rendition" are sprinkled about; dissidents are handled as in a third-world dictatorship; and our hero (who calls himself V) lectures citizens who have surrendered their liberties to a government that promised to protect them from terrorism.

So it looks like the "what if Nazis won WWII" story might not be the basis for the film after all. If they've actually tried to make the films future sort of a logic continuation of today's situation (just like the comic was), that should prove interesting. Also, the word "terrorist" was used right in the trailer - so if this film actually tries comment on the current world politics too, I think that'd be a better approach than to try to adapt Moore's obsolete dystopy of the early eighties down to every detail. Then again, perhaps I'm placing too much trust on the Wachowski Bros. screenwriting abilities.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's what happened, fan kiddies. Alan Moore has never wanted his name associated with any movie adaptation, ever, because he himself would never sell the movie rights to his comics, but as is almost always the case, he does not own the rights to his comics. The reason "V for Vendetta" was a bigger deal was because someone at DC was trying to associate Moore's name with the project ("Alan Moore is very excited about this project") when he knew that Moore would shit. And shit he did -- he left DC. Now, this has nothing to do with the quality of the "V for Vendetta" movie, it's just the principle of the thing.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Joel Silver isn't an employee of DC, and Alan and Eddie own the rights to From Hell.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I just wanted to share this awesome picture of Alan Moore from Wikipedia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Alanmoore.jpg

I hope your days have been brightened.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a dream last night where I went to see this movie and it had a viking in it that kept saying "wendetta." I walked out.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 12 February 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

the comic book is terrible. jackoff material for faux-revolutionary male teens

the end

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Alan and Eddie own the rights to From Hell

And League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Why so patronising and so wrong, Kenan?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

psyched

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it looked worth seeing -- good action combined with balls enough to actually make thinly-veiled criticism of the war on terror. Never read the comics though.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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