V for vendetta

Dukat_Reloaded · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 1005

I just watched this movie, it's very good, has a 1984 theme and is action packed.

Score: 96/100, best movie I have seen in along time now.
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dinopello · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: Re: V for vendetta

I thought it was very good as well. Only, I can't seem to get anyone else interested in seeing it. Apparently it got some bad reviews and I think the marketing/trailers for it didn't really give a good sense of it.

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azreal60 · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: Re: V for vendetta

Has anyone here seen a Bad movie with Hugo Weaving in it? I mean seriously, the guys one of the best actors I've ever heard of for using his voice. I think that's why him and Laurence Fishburn made the Matrix such a kicking movie. Forget neo, everyone was listening to Agent smith and Morphous. As an actor said in something I watched once, it's all about the enounciation. I'm sure I mispelled about 30 words in there, but the point stands.
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jato · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: Re: V for vendetta

Good flick! I don't think the "mainstream" public will appreciate it though. It is too dark for most.
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Kfish · Tar Sands Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 92

If you liked the movie, read the book!

The original "V for Vendetta" was a graphic novel by Alan Moore, one of the pioneers of the 'serious' comic book genre in the English speaking world. Moore is a master of the dark stuff: this is one of his lighter works.

While the movie is glitzy, action-packed and thrilling, and it does get the basic ideas across well, it's limited by the genre. The graphic novel is much richer and more complex, and delves deeper into ideas and their consequences. (I like to think I'm normal, unlike my D&D-playing boyfriend, and yet I spent $60 on a damn comic book.)

Part of the problem, I think, is that the fans who have read / heard of the book don't want to see Hollywood f*ck it up the way they did "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - probably the main reason Alan Moore refuses to watch "V for Vendetta". Find your local comic store, look up Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and you'll discover that it's much, much more than a shitty action flick. There's subtlety, subterfuge, irony, satire ... all the things that refuse to share a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.

The movie is a good movie (unlike "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"). The book is a good book. They share a plot and a moral, but that's about it.

Oh, and "Watchmen", his other famous work, is in production at Warner Brothers. The book is a masterpiece, but even creepier than V. If they don't screw it up, it should be a good film.
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julianj · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: Re: V for vendetta

I agree with the aforementioned comments.

It had mostly bad reviews here in the UK, but I was riveted by the film. I know it has upset some fans of the book (which I haven't read) but it had to be updated, as I believe it was originally aboutthe Thatcher Era.

All the totalitarian state stuff hit home. It's not too far from reality, unfortunately, and I bet we don't have a masked knife wielding superman to save us.... Sad

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Imcal · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 14, 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Finland

Saw the movie today and thought it was one of the better screen adaptations (I have read the book). With source material like the graphic novel it had better be. I found the "mundane" portrayal of the world a definate plus. No high-tech gadgetry for the sake of it nor wallowing in post-apocalyptic scenery. There is a theatrical bent to the film which I enjoyed but some of my friends didn't.

The "V" speach in the beginning of the film was both hilarious and appropriate.

The chancellor was a bit overdone but that is the only real gripe I have about the film. Cramming everything onto the screen is simply not possible (or desirable).

Film: good
Book: simply superb