V for Vendetta

[IamtheRock3]

Ammazing Film

Two Thumbs up for me


Never read the book so don't know why moore piss but hey I loved it.

[ThatTalkingGuy1]

Ammazing Film

Two Thumbs up for me


Never read the book so don't know why moore piss but hey I loved it.

He's pissed because they took a complicated work and dumbed it down for the masses.

Worst experience I've had at the movies probably ever.

[Justin D.]

He's pissed because they took a complicated work and dumbed it down for the masses.

Worst experience I've had at the movies probably ever.

I just saw it and liked it. How'd they dumb it down?

[shades of eternity]

yes, how could they have told this tale in 2 hours?

[Legato]

Well Im not gonna hate a movie just because a famous comic writer hates it . I'll see for myself if the movie is as bad as Moore says it is.

[IamtheRock3]

Well Im not gonna hate a movie just because a famous comic writer hates it like. I'll see for myself if the movie is as bad as Moore says it is.

Well love it. So got to get the book if the book THAT MUCH supererior

Moore may just be a perfectionnist

To me it may be like Costantine where people who read Hellblazer hated it..but people who didnt read the book general enjoyed it.

[Pepsigirl]

I just saw it and liked it. How'd they dumb it down?

They took out a lot of intricacies of the plot and the characters and made it more of "dictators = bad, freedom = good" story. I still liked it, though. There were a few key parts of the story that they took out, but I can live with that. I don't think anybody expected them to stay completely true to the GN. The only thing I really had a problem with was the ending.

As a "thinking man's" action movie, it was good. As an adaptation of the GN, not so much.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

i put off the book for a long time,and didn't decide to read it till college.needless to say i felt bad i put it off (especially sense my uncle gave it to me).having said that i LOVED the movie and its my first favorite movie of 2006.

[ThatTalkingGuy1]

I just saw it and liked it. How'd they dumb it down?

By taking out all the subtlety and replacing it with cheesy rhetoric.

The original story was written by a writer with liberal beliefs living in a country that had a conservative government. He used the writing as a parable.

Instead of using that story, the Wachowskis decided that it would be better to add in a bunch of stuff so that us retards will know it's supposed to be about today.

"Hey, don't get subtlety, we'll add a bunch of lines about persecuted Muslims, homosexuals, banning the Koran, the war in Iraq, and add stuff to reflect Abu Gharib. That way you'll all know what we're talking about without having to think about it for more than two seconds!"

Come on...let US connect the dots, don't connect them for us in the most cheesy way possible.

[bert]

He's pissed because they took a complicated work and dumbed it down for the masses.

Worst experience I've had at the movies probably ever.

I've never read it either. .

and also loved the film (Justin Davis and I saw it today in a PACKED theatre)

so, they made a good decision. I'm sorry, but Mr. Moore, once he sells off the rights (which is what he once did) , has no more say in the work. He needs to approach it like Stephen King does -- the work still exists. . . just pocket the money, and don't worry about the film.

In this case, the film was fantastic. didn't feel "dumbed down" at all.

I'm amazed at how great Portman was. . considering how bad she was in the Star Wars films (yeah, she was great in most of her earlier films, but the SW films killed her ability).

[sheets]

so, they made a good decision. I'm sorry, but Mr. Moore, once he sells off the rights (which is what he once did) , has no more say in the work. He needs to approach it like Stephen King does -- the work still exists. . . just pocket the money, and don't worry about the film.

He did do that until the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film came out and he was roped into a plagiarism lawsuit despite taking a hands-off, "the work still exists" approach. Once that happened he realized the only way to truly be free of Hollywood is to take his name off the films and utterly reject everything about Hollywood.

[Dos]

No dumb down, me understand good. Me liked

[clayholio]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. If it was dumbed down, the book must have been absolutely impenetrable. Besides, it wasn't a short film by any means. You can't make four or five hour films just to be completely faithful to the source material, a movie is a movie and a comic is a comic. I thought the movie was a good movie, and I'm curious to read the comic book now.

[Magneto_X]

He's pissed because they took a complicated work and dumbed it down for the masses.

Worst experience I've had at the movies probably ever.

You never saw Batman & Robin?

[Aggie]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. If it was dumbed down, the book must have been absolutely impenetrable. Besides, it wasn't a short film by any means. You can't make four or five hour films just to be completely faithful to the source material, a movie is a movie and a comic is a comic. I thought the movie was a good movie, and I'm curious to read the comic book now.

the book is pretty dense...as is most of moore's stuff...you have to approach it the same way you would an oaky scotch...you can't just guzzle it, you have to sip it and savor the flavor...i just got back from the movie and it was pretty f'n cool...there are cheesy moments...but it's more like gouda and less like velveeta...i'm in the middle of the book now and it's kinda like reading "1984" only w/ pictures...which is funny since john hurt is big brother in "v" and was winston in the film version of the book...that aside...i think the movie had enough of the book in it, and had enough of its own elements to stand on its own merits too...and let's face it...league of extraordinary gentleman was a celluloid abortion of a great comic...i'd be way more pissed about that than about "v"...