V for Vendetta

[Diff-chan]

Um, just see both? The way me and DJ do it, is I see shit he would find boring either with my girlfriends or by myself. No need to subject him to chick flicks. Luckily we have pretty much the same taste in movies. You guys have me hopeful for this movie, got to get the bad taste of Ultraviolet out of my mouth.

lol!

[Port]

They should have done that after Revolutions.

QFT!

[Drewbacca]

That is an understatement. It would be the worst moment in all cinematography.

You do know that cinematography is the fancy term for direction of photography in a movie, right?

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...VIEWS/60308005

EBERT LIKED IT SOME.

[Regus]

The way the movie started, with V's rediculous V-filled diatribe had me figuring it was going to go down that path, too, but luckily it lightened up later (though it still occasionally got on the rediculous side).

Yeah, I actually loved that, but in my mind I knew that this would not fly well with the hayseed rubes in my town.

Regardless, it was absolutely one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had at the movies in years, despite having seen dozens of movies which I would call better "films." As an action movie, this stands with Batman Begins as the best I've seen in a long, long time, I can't even remember the last action movie I liked as much as either. And I think I liked Vendetta even more than Begins.

I think this movie pisses all over begins, in fact, the more I think about begins the less I like it. I haven't seen it since it came out, nor do I have the desire to see it again, which is a shame because I am a huge Batman fan.

I love you Regus. Agreed on every single point.

~ 787 ~


I can't remember the last movie I saw that satisfied me on so many levels. This movie was entertaining, exciting and thought provoking. I walked out of that theatre pumped.

I want to start talking more indepth, but more people need to see it.

[YellerDog]

Catchin' it on Sunday.

[EvilMog]

I seen it last night. Its was ok. Its not the joygasm some people are making it out to be. But its worth seeing.

[Kev]

Is this like The Crow, where the liberties taken don't necessarily detract from the film and source material, but the differences are fairly significant? Or is this like Resident Evil and Super Mario Bros., where the faithfulness is really stretched? How faithful is it with its source material compared to Hellboy or Sin City?

[Regus]

Is this like The Crow, where the liberties taken don't necessarily detract from the film and source material, but the differences are fairly significant? Or is this like Resident Evil and Super Mario Bros., where the faithfulness is really stretched? How faithful is it with its source material compared to Hellboy or Sin City?

This is taken from wikipedia, this is only a sample of it, you can read the rest there, but there are spoilers:

Some fans of the original comic and graphic novel expressed concerns about the film adaptation, based on less-than-faithful film adaptations of Moore’s work such as From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. However, Vendetta has been described as "easily the most faithful and literal adaptation of an Alan Moore graphic novel to date".[7] As noted previously, Moore severed ties with the Vendetta film project during post-production.

The original adaptation written by the Wachowskis during the end of their Matrix saga was “almost a blow-for-blow retelling of the graphic novel”,[8] director James McTeigue recalls. So the screenplay was rewritten to move the story forward, making present day London around 2020. Evey Hammond's background was apparently altered and she appears older than she originally did in the graphic novel. Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, read the graphic novel after reading the screenplay said that “it really keeps to the graphic novel, it keeps the integrity of the story and a lot of the dialogue is directly from it”.[9]

The plot has also been updated to current 2006 times/heavily adapted (depending on the audience's point of view).

Here is the interview with Alan Moore in which he talks about why he had them take his name off of the credits of the movie:

http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/...oore.html#more


One of his main points was that he didn't like how they changed the book's them of totalitarianism vs. anarachy to liberalism vs. conservatism in the movie.

[g0zen]

I've read From Hell and I love the film. I don't see where there were drastic enough deviations from it for Moore, or anyone, to be so pissy about. League I understand entirely, but not From Hell.

[Frogacuda]

Is this like The Crow, where the liberties taken don't necessarily detract from the film and source material, but the differences are fairly significant? Or is this like Resident Evil and Super Mario Bros., where the faithfulness is really stretched? How faithful is it with its source material compared to Hellboy or Sin City?

There will never be another comic book adaptation as faithful as Sin City. Period. That was above and beyond the call of duty.