v for vendetta: the movie

[Bob]

i got alan moore's V for Vendetta for christmas (having loved watchmen), and it says on the cover, "now a major motion picture". i'd never heard of it, so i looked it up on imdb.com, it says 2005, but it also says "in production", so i guess it's not out yet, even though it's 2006. looks interesting though. the wachowski brothers are writing the screenplay, which could either be great or horrible, i'm not sure what to think. but i mean, the plot is pretty much already written, so what could they do to it? natalie portman as evey, hugo weaving (agent smith, elrond) as V, that's interesting, very interesting indeed.

why am i always the last to hear about these things?

[Qdrop]

i got alan moore's V for Vendetta for christmas (having loved watchmen), and it says on the cover, "now a major motion picture". i'd never heard of it, so i looked it up on imdb.com, it says 2005, but it also says "in production", so i guess it's not out yet, even though it's 2006. looks interesting though. the wachowski brothers are writing the screenplay, which could either be great or horrible, i'm not sure what to think. but i mean, the plot is pretty much already written, so what could they do to it? natalie portman as evey, hugo weaving (agent smith, elrond) as V, that's interesting, very interesting indeed.

why am i always the last to hear about these things?

the trailer is already out, man.

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/vforvendetta/cmp/trailer_int_quicktime.html
(japanese version)

yeah, i got if for christmas too.....wierd.

[Bob]

always the last to know!

i can't watch it here at work, how does it look? does it look cool? i bet it looks cool

[Qdrop]

always the last to know!

i can't watch it here at work, how does it look? does it look cool? i bet it looks cool

pretty fuckin bad ass...

natalie portman as the main 16 year old chick.

but she doesn't get naked in the "roof top rain" scene.

[Bob]

that wasn't terribly erotic anyway so it's ok i think (if it's the same scene i'm thinking of...i'm only about halfway through the book so far, in fact i'm going to stop reading my own thread just so i don't spoil anything)

when's the movie supposed to come out?

[Qdrop]

that wasn't terribly erotic anyway so it's ok i think (if it's the same scene i'm thinking of...i'm only about halfway through the book so far, in fact i'm going to stop reading my own thread just so i don't spoil anything)

when's the movie supposed to come out?

yesterday.



kidding...i have no idea.

[Auton]

it looks terrible. the Wachowski (however that's spelled) brothers are talentless and uber gay.

[ToucanSpam]

The bald head thing is extremely unsexy.

[SobaViolence]

The bald head thing is extremely unsexy.

and you're a connoisseur of what is and what is not sexy... (n)

[ToucanSpam]

:confused:

[guerillaGardner]

I heard they are making Watchmen into a movie. Heard bad things about it though - like the ending is totally different, more Hollywood. Did these people even get the point of the ending?

In a post 9-11 world I think the ending is the most relevant part of the book. Did anyone else think of The Watchmen when they watched the twin towers fall?

I know a few people who did.

[Qdrop]

I heard they are making Watchmen into a movie. Heard bad things about it though - like the ending is totally different, more Hollywood. Did these people even get the point of the ending?

In a post 9-11 world I think the ending is the most relevant part of the book. Did anyone else think of The Watchmen when they watched the twin towers fall?

I know a few people who did.

the ending was such a downer, but fantastic.

i bet the atomic guy goes back in time and stops the whole "monster-explosion" from happening.


yeah, Alan Moore has pretty much denounce ALL of the attempts at bringing his work to the big screen....Swamp thing, League of EX. Gent., V, and Watchmen...

[Qdrop]

here's a much better trailer, bob...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/v_for_vendetta/trailer/large.html

and it opens march 17

[Echewta]

They've kept pushing the release date due to certain worldly events and it being in poor taste to release such a move on the Americans tender hearts.

[Bob]

They've kept pushing the release date due to certain worldly events and it being in poor taste to release such a move on the Americans tender hearts.

but it's not even about americans

[Echewta]

We are so fragile when it comes to Hollywood. Sure, we bomb places that we can't see etc. but hey! If a building is going to be blown up in a movie or on TV, we have to think twice for the next 20 years because of 9/11.

[roosta]

this is EXCELLENT.

First of all, i enjoyed how unwatered down it was (i mean in sentiment, i havn't read the comic). The fella is a straight up cold heart k-i-l-l-a.

Anyways, good movie. i loved the themes, the sentiment, the morality. i liked the fact it had a terrorist as its hero. The action scenes were great (the bullet-time knives were cool).

It was slightly slow in the middle, but made up for it with a great ending. good job all round. Portman's accent grated a bit, but she was good. Rea was great.

Good job!

[Qdrop]

i was gonna see this yesterday, dammit.

next weekend.
can't wait.

[Bob]

i dunno, i liked it, but i really liked the book alot better. i think the movie tried to cram too much plot into too short of a time frame. alan moore (author of the comic) has disowned it, actually, but i don't think it's THAT bad, i just think the movie feels a little...incomplete compared to the book.

still, it was definitely very cool, and if i hadn't read the comic, i bet i would have liked the movie anyway. they did a good job staying loyal to the general theme and atmosphere of the comic, even if they differed in a few of the particulars, but no movie is ever completely loyal to the book (although sin city came very close).

there's one part of the comic that was extremely cool that i wish they had left in the movie (it's a spoiler, so i'm going to put it in white text, don't highlight it if you haven't seen the movie);
it's when V kills the bishop; in the comic he did it an extremely badass way, he fed him a poison communion wafer. it's great, because according to the miracle of transubstantiation, the wafer is supposed to transform into the body of christ, so there's a line that the investigators of the murder say, it goes something like "when he ate the wafer, it was poison...when we did the autopsy, it was still poison"

anyway, i liked it, but i think i was expecting more. i hope they never make watchmen into a movie, i don't think they could do it justice.

also, did anyone else notice the sort-of agent smith cameo? it's when (again, spoiler, white text)evey is in "prison" and he comes to set her free, you can't see his face obviously, but the silhouette has his hairstyle and he's doing the voice, that made me happy.

also, bonus points for the use of yakkety sax

[roosta]

haha...i liked that first spoiler....

might get the book.

[Bob]

haha...i liked that first spoiler....

might get the book.

if you liked the movie i'd definitely recommend it, i enjoyed it more. since it's a comic book, it has more time to elaborate, some of the plot in the movie seemed a little rushed and confusing. the comic has more time to flesh out the plot, it can go at its own pace.

[Documad]

i hope they never make watchmen into a movie(y)

[iceygirl]

saw it an hour ago

awesome film. im left speechless by its artistic beauty. i cant really verbalize how much i enjoyed this movie.

[synch]

Saw it in IMAX today.

Me like.

[iceygirl]

i keep thinking about how awesome hugo weaving is ....

[Bob]

i've been meaning to see more things that he's been in, i've only ever really seen this, the matrix, and the lord of the rings. i had an unhealthy obsession with agent smith for the longest time, he plays that character so creepily awesomely well.

[iceygirl]

i havent seen him in anything other than those things either, but it got me thinking today about how awesome he is

i dont think many even kinda good actors today could pull the dialogue of v off as well as he did

im finding him very sexy attractive in some sort of like lethal ninja killer way today.

[CJM]

saw it a few nights ago. it was pretty good. guy was an ass for what he did to the girl, though.

[Freebasser]

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[Bob]

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[DandyFop]

This movie was dissapointing. Not enough action.

P.S. When she comes and holds her arms up in the rain after being in that dungeon thing, my friend was all "What, did he shave her armpits in there too?" I think I might write an entire essay on the possibilities of why her pits were shaved.

[checkyourprez]

i liked it.


ive never read the book or comic book (idk if its both?)


were the similarities between the movie and present day america intentional or just happened to coincide with how the earlier book/cb was written?

[Bob]

the movie did a great job of sticking close to the general atmosphere of the book, even if it did have to truncate the plot quite a bit. alan moore wrote it specifically to be about england (in 1980-something, late 80's, 87 or 89 i think), but hell it applies anywhere, really.

[hpdrifter]

I saw it this weekend. I thought it was really good. There could have been more action, I thought the knife sequences were pretty cool.

I thought Natalie Portman did a good job of showing Evey's transformation. Her whole presence had changed when she came into the shadow gallery after he broke her down.

In general it was pretty true to the book. They left out the subplots and took some serious poetic license with the ending, but all in all, the point was the same.

[beastieangel01]

I loved it.

LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED it.