V for Very interesting...

[orangerful]

the reviews for 'v for vendetta' are decidely split down the middle, though most of them say the same thing. Strong performances from Hugo Weaving as V and Natalie Portman (though her accent is crap, why WHY couldn't they just hire a british actress? I mean I love Natalie but there's plenty of attractive british girls who could have played the part...perhaps she was the only one who agreed to shave her head). Sounds like it flounders a bit with some of the subplots. And, as always, the ads try to make it look action-packed, when in fact a lot of the film will be V talking politics and setting stuff up like a crazy domino game.

So, to me, it sounds like they were relatively faithful to the graphic novel while updating the politics a little bit to make it fit in with our post-9/11 mindsets. I remember reading the last page and being like "WTF?" and having to take a step back and digest everything I had just read. It's not a simple read, I can't imagine it's a simple movie.

Which is another thing the reviewers seem to be hinting at - "average" audiences are not going to "get" the movie. The fact that the main character/protagonist is a terrorist blowing up London who wears a mask that covers his face (the entire film too) will probably be off putting. It does sound like they beefed up Evey's character a little bit, which is fine by me since I felt like slapping her a few times in the book.

Many are saying that this is the best film adaptation of an Alan Moore comic yet...though that's really not saying much since the others (league of extraordinary gentlemen, from hell) were just flat out meh.

My interest is peaked...and I have a giftcard from christmas for Muvico from blu_harvest that we still need to use...hm...

Comments

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Swamp Thing and Constantine.

I think they should just make it illegal to adapt Moore's work.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

oh i knew I was forgetting something...

wait, swamp thing? OMG not that swamp thing movie...not the one from...oh god...that was horrible!

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which came first, the movie or the comic, but they definitely made a sequel after Moore made the comic legendary...

I actually have an episode of the tv series on videotape, if you can believe it...

[jellibean.livejournal.com]

there's plenty of attractive british girls who could have played the part

I mean, if they wanted someone who looked like Natalie Portman but was British, they could have gone with Keira Knightley. ;)

I'm looking forward to "V for Vendetta," but I've noticed some interesting marketing techniques w/the commercials... the two I've seen are like montages set to music, and one of them is really angry-sounding, heavy metal music, and the other is really sweet, melancholic stuff. It's interesting.. like they're pushing the action to some people and the more "serious" stuff to others. Clever, clever marketers.

I never saw "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Once I heard that Dorian Gray had essentially been turned in to Wolverine, I refused to see it. Last time I read the novel, all the picture did was keep Dorian pretty.. it did NOT absorb his wounds so that Dorian was magically healed. Unless Wilde snuck that in there somewhere and I missed it.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's definately a hard film to market because of the whole terrorist angle and the fact that it will take a bit of explaining since it's an alternate reality story.

And I'm shocked - the rating actually went up on rotten tomatoes! When I was typing last night it had a 68% and now it's at 75%! I think we might go see it tomorrow.