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Mar. 22nd, 2006 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulyeah, so I don't think it's possible for me to top yesterdays rant of a post haha. That lady touched a nerve of mine and I just couldn't hold back. But having you all chime in made me feel very good. When people like that appraoch me, I feel like I get sucked into an alternate universe where everyone is crazy except me. But your comments made me realize, no, it's just that lady.
Uh, yes. So...I didn't realize that Snakes on a Plane was actually a movie about snakes...on a plane. I thought it was just a clever title, a metaphor, a play on words. But no, it is in fact CG snakes, slithering around a plane, getting their asses (wait do snakes have asses?) handed to them by Samuel L Jackson.
Peter David posted a little blurb on his blog about how he's sick of people bitching about 'V for Vendetta' and how horrible it was for them to change stuff, how Alan Moore hates hollywood blah blah blah. I have to agree. At first, I felt bad for the guy, he really sounds like he's hurting because they've done something to his babies. But after reading interview after interview about how horrible DC Comics was to him, how they took his comics then bought out another comic company he was working for and yadda yadda. Whatever. I'm so over it. I'm judging the movie as a movie.
And seriously, I think I prefer the movie to the comic. Most of this has to do with Evey. One reviewer ranted about how changing Evey changes everything and that is the downfall of the film because they made her too...well too smart. But the Evey of the comic drove me nuts because she was just so useless for so long. I was over her innocent act very quickly. I preferred Natalie's Evey. She wasn't some doe-eyed kid following V around, she made her own decisions.
What really makes me laugh about the entire debate is that V talks about how ideas have power, how single people really don't, but the ideas that we have can take on power so it's the ideas that truly matter. And I think the message, the IDEA of what V stood for has survived in the movie. Maybe they didn't go about it the same way as in the comic (can you blame them? I don't think the V of the comic would have satisfied a movie audience, he's kind of an ass). but the message is still there. the meaning, I think, survives, even if they didn't xerox the comic page by page. And to say that, oh the script was right there, why didn't they just shoot the comic, I think that's insulting Moore and Lloyd's work as well. That thing is incredibly complex! Like any adaptation, things had to go, things had to be smooshed down to make them fit in a movie that can only have so many ongoing plot lines.
oooh look, I did have a rant in me after all! I apologize for that. But if you've SEEN all the recent press about this movie/comic/Moore, you understand my vibe.
Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
1. having your iPod shuffle somehow tune into your mood and play songs that you really need to hear
2. turning on a lightsaber at 11pm and waving it around, then placing it right back on top of the TV
3. the smell of a brand new paperback
4. getting unsolicited icon love :)
5. introducing your friends to a fandom and watching them fall in love with it too
6. father blood drench robo crush (I really need to just scan that panel so you guys can read it...it cracks me up to no end)
7. talking star wars with a small child and watching their eyes light up when I tell them it's my favorite movie too
8. impromptu live performance of the veronica mars theme song with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimithingy and zaubervz
9. getting that perfect piece of salmon sushi that just melts like butter on your tongue....mmmmm
10. having your buddies over on a friday night to watch 'Mirrormask' ;)
aaaand I'm too lazy to tag anyone...but if you want to do this, I can always *pretend* I tagged you.
Uh, yes. So...I didn't realize that Snakes on a Plane was actually a movie about snakes...on a plane. I thought it was just a clever title, a metaphor, a play on words. But no, it is in fact CG snakes, slithering around a plane, getting their asses (wait do snakes have asses?) handed to them by Samuel L Jackson.
Peter David posted a little blurb on his blog about how he's sick of people bitching about 'V for Vendetta' and how horrible it was for them to change stuff, how Alan Moore hates hollywood blah blah blah. I have to agree. At first, I felt bad for the guy, he really sounds like he's hurting because they've done something to his babies. But after reading interview after interview about how horrible DC Comics was to him, how they took his comics then bought out another comic company he was working for and yadda yadda. Whatever. I'm so over it. I'm judging the movie as a movie.
And seriously, I think I prefer the movie to the comic. Most of this has to do with Evey. One reviewer ranted about how changing Evey changes everything and that is the downfall of the film because they made her too...well too smart. But the Evey of the comic drove me nuts because she was just so useless for so long. I was over her innocent act very quickly. I preferred Natalie's Evey. She wasn't some doe-eyed kid following V around, she made her own decisions.
What really makes me laugh about the entire debate is that V talks about how ideas have power, how single people really don't, but the ideas that we have can take on power so it's the ideas that truly matter. And I think the message, the IDEA of what V stood for has survived in the movie. Maybe they didn't go about it the same way as in the comic (can you blame them? I don't think the V of the comic would have satisfied a movie audience, he's kind of an ass). but the message is still there. the meaning, I think, survives, even if they didn't xerox the comic page by page. And to say that, oh the script was right there, why didn't they just shoot the comic, I think that's insulting Moore and Lloyd's work as well. That thing is incredibly complex! Like any adaptation, things had to go, things had to be smooshed down to make them fit in a movie that can only have so many ongoing plot lines.
oooh look, I did have a rant in me after all! I apologize for that. But if you've SEEN all the recent press about this movie/comic/Moore, you understand my vibe.
Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
1. having your iPod shuffle somehow tune into your mood and play songs that you really need to hear
2. turning on a lightsaber at 11pm and waving it around, then placing it right back on top of the TV
3. the smell of a brand new paperback
4. getting unsolicited icon love :)
5. introducing your friends to a fandom and watching them fall in love with it too
6. father blood drench robo crush (I really need to just scan that panel so you guys can read it...it cracks me up to no end)
7. talking star wars with a small child and watching their eyes light up when I tell them it's my favorite movie too
8. impromptu live performance of the veronica mars theme song with
jimithingy and zaubervz9. getting that perfect piece of salmon sushi that just melts like butter on your tongue....mmmmm
10. having your buddies over on a friday night to watch 'Mirrormask' ;)
aaaand I'm too lazy to tag anyone...but if you want to do this, I can always *pretend* I tagged you.
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:38 pm (UTC)What I really understand is that "leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen" the movie is a complete and utter piece of crap that should be set on fire and burned. And then the ground should be salted underneath it. The graphic novels are tres magnifique!
But about Hollywood... yeah. Hollywood. In all honesty, if I was a creator I would either A. do what Frank Miller did, be ultra ultra protective of the integrity of my work and hold out for the perfect film. or B. say screw it, sell out to the highest bidder and laugh all the way to the bank. But you can't do both.