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V For Vendetta Anyone here seen it?

#1 Lord Aquaman

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 10:50 PM

I saw it last night. Neat film, kinda weird. Probably should have read the graphic novel by Alan Moore before seeing the film adaptation. Natalie Portman was kinda flat; I'm starting to wonder if she's just naturally flat or if it was that she had trouble with the British accent (you know how tricky it can be with accents).

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 05:01 AM

QUOTE (Lord Aquaman @ Mar 25 2006, 10:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I saw it. It is pretty faithful to the graphic novel, with some differences to make Portman's and Rea's characters more sympathetic. The film's issue of fascism is more cartoonish, and easier to sell in a film. It's a pretty big idea to do in a movie, and was ultimately too big for the comic series as well. Poor sales or whatever had caused it to be reduced from a planned ongoing series to a miniseries, and as such many character plots were truncated to the point of questionable relevance. The movie resolved this by cutting some characters out altogether.

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 08:33 AM

The planning says, "somewhere next week."

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 09:31 AM

V had that teaser trailer for Superman Returns. It doesn't look very promising. The suit looks like crap and the actor playing Supes, Brandon Routh, looks too young to be returning from anything.

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 08:03 PM

Why do they need to make a superman movie. Superman sucks.

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Posted 31 March 2006 - 07:18 AM

Saw V last night. I liked it pretty much.

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Posted 05 April 2006 - 02:44 AM

much like the matrix 1. this film had some great takes on modern society, although blown out of proportion (only slightly really) it's annoying watching people see a movie like this and walk away from it thinking it was a wierd concept, and tommorow they'll go back to not questioning anything.

it's really to bad films like this don't inspire people...

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Posted 05 April 2006 - 01:22 PM

QUOTE (barend @ Apr 5 2006, 12:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah. I blame it on the fact that modern society finds the idea of being inspired "lame".

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SPOILER: in real life no one would have shown up in the end...

well maybe me and two other people, and then we would have been shot.

Good thing "V" isn't set in reality then.

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Posted 05 April 2006 - 08:01 PM

Atleast we'll die illuminated and for something we believe in, mate.

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Posted 06 April 2006 - 12:09 AM

right on!

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i made 'eggs in a basket'

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Posted 07 April 2006 - 11:23 PM

I thought the start seemd a bit over the top, but once things got going it worked out quite well.

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Posted 08 April 2006 - 04:10 PM

QUOTE (Revan-47 @ Mar 30 2006, 10:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why do they need to make a superman movie. Superman sucks.

Superman rules. He's super!

And back on topic, I loved V for Vendetta. I'm now planning to buy the graphic novel.

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Posted 09 April 2006 - 08:49 PM

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Remember, remember the 5th of November.

there'll be some explosions so bring an umbrella!

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Posted 11 April 2006 - 12:38 AM

Explosions! Where?

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Posted 16 April 2006 - 09:17 AM

QUOTE (Revan-47 @ Mar 30 2006, 08:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why do they need to make a superman movie. Superman sucks.

Revan-47 go squish now with a sunshiny super smackdown.

Now that's dealt with... V for Vendetta was excellent. I am a little baffled as to the reason for changing the name of the "Chancellor" from the Graphic Novel when everyone else got to keep theirs. I also felt that the general state of living of the people wasn't sufficiently supressed when comparred with the novel. But I also understand the reasoning for the shifts given the slight shift in the fascist tonality and the more 4 colour approach taken.

It's also a shame that we have to wait for the movie to come out in order to make us think about a topic that was depicted in a grahic novel almost 25 years earlier. Or is it more concerning that it is just a relevant today and can make such a mirrored social commentary. Im torn...

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