V For Vendetta: The Movie

Unless they feature cowboys fucking each other, apparently.

Though frankly I would watch Aeon Flux again before I watched this.

Until you brought up Aeon Flux I basically agreed with you, Tom. It strikes me that Dan and I, having not read the graphic novel, are in a better place to watch the film judging by the amount I also agreed with him on the thread, but I think that is actually true with all films based off of books.

Except DaVinci Code, that was shit no matter which way you look at it.

Natalie Portman was not terrible in this, and I thought the movie was very well done for the most part. Could've done without the fucking bullet time in the amazing ninja murder in the tube sequence.

wtf are you on about?

blanket dismissal of athletes = snobbish

WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING STUPID

allright I'm leaving this thread before this devolves into another ally/tombot internet bully gangbang - have fun

criticism can be snobbish... or not!

i think my point re gainsborough stands, though this might not be the thread for it. 'hokum' is exactly the word critics used for it; and that word is pretty much always snobbish, ie a judgement on people-who-like-the-film: it rests on unstated prejudices about what we should be enjoying.

wtf

WMBB television reporter Nadeen Yanes told her station that the man came up to the podium at the Bay District School Board meeting and said he had a motion. He then pulled out a can of red spray paint and painted a V with a circle around it.

Yanes told the station he pulled out a handgun and started talking. She said school board member Ginger Littleton hit the gunman with her purse and he pushed her to the ground and started firing randomly.

^^ a great example of why concealed weapons should NOT be legal

Ghonim, who comes from an affluent Egyptian family, said the activists who organized the January 25 protests intentionally designed their movement to be anonymous and faceless, without a clear leader. He cited the movie "V for Vendetta" as a source of inspiration.

we live in a strange world

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/anonymous-hackers-to-ben-_n_877337.html

so should I see this movie?

it's all right

this movie was fucking terrible, so no.

sadly it's still the best moore adaptation of them all.

no surprise that the graphic novel's better & I should read it first.

this just seems to have become a visual touchstone for a lot of recent protests, not just Anonymous, so my curiosity's peaked

the graphic novel is also okay

tbh I got bored and never finished it

i was never too fond of the comic - i've reread it multiple times and cant even remember huge swaths of it - i cant imagine that the movie's anything less than awful

the book is good! i mean it's still overdramatic and hokey and purpley prosed in places but its got a good vibe. (that the movie totally blew out to look like every other overlit slick action thing.)

i mean a v for vendetta movie should ideally look more like i dunno an early mike leigh film than transporter 3 but whatta gonna do.

This movie isn't awful, but it doesn't even come close to doing the source material justice either. I think it would be a lot lot better by casting someone else in the Weaving and Portman roles. I really love Stephen Fry in it and the visual presentation of the High Chancellor and his cronies was pretty cool.

strongo OTM here

the ending is really badly botched, and no one in the film ever utters the word "anarchy", which is kind of amazing given the source material

what i never get about moore adaptations is that the original stories almost always have really strong slow build suspense lines and they basically come pre-storyboarded for you in terms of things like pacing. i know there are a lot of factors that can go into botching a film, but the original build-up to the public's unrest is one of the strongest and most natural parts of the book and ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT THE PICTURES TO SEE HOW TO STAGE IT.

and no one in the film ever utters the word "anarchy"

that goes in the plus columng, imho

but yeah tacking on a trad fist-in-the-air we-the-people ending to a story that ended on a vague, disquieting, totally unresolved note was always gonna be an ugh.

haha on the plus side we were spared stephen rea's lsd revelation at larkhill

i love alan moore like a crackpot grandpa but dude never did get over the 60s