Posted March 18, 200619 yr I know its based on the graphic novel of the early 80s, has anyone seen it yet, I've seen a few trailers, it looks good, and I'm tempted to go and watch sometime.
March 18, 200619 yr I want to see this, I watched a programme about on ITV after CD UK, it looks very good. Execllent actors too, like Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman.
March 18, 200619 yr I like the look of it and i'm highly considering going to see it at the cinema, it should have amazing effects been made by the creators of the Matrix.
March 18, 200619 yr The wachowski brothers havent introduced any new graphics ideas or anything, they were only minimally involved in the making of the film, but using there name is something the producers hope will promote the film better. It looks good anyway ill defo go and see it :)
March 18, 200619 yr I think I'm off to see this on firday night with some mates. Its got good ratingd and it looks good.
March 20, 200619 yr I know that I've got V in my sig but that doesnt mean I like this film; I was a huge fan of Moore's 80s Graphic Novel - which was a critique and a response to the evils of Thatcherism and growing surveillance society; when one looks at the current situation and what "New Labour" is up to with its various "Anti-Terror" legislation, ID cards, Bellmarsh, the tinkerings of the Criminal Justice system, the shoot-to-kill policy of the Metropolitan Police and other things It's still a remarkably relevant work in this day and age... The film, however, has absolutely NONE of the complexities or subtleties of Moore's work and I dont blame him in the slightest for pulling his name off the credits. This is a ludicrous film, unconvincing on every level, and an insult to those of us who are Moore fans, some things are best left on the printed page in my opinion, and this is definitely one of them.....
March 20, 200619 yr The character looks really cool grim. Is there any reason why he has to conceal his identity? and why that costume if he is?
March 20, 200619 yr The character looks really cool grim. Is there any reason why he has to conceal his identity? and why that costume if he is? Well, in the film he's concealing his identity to disguise the fact that he's horribly disfigured..Hmmm, yeah, how very Phantom of the Opera.... In the comic his identity was never truly revealed (he is in actual fact an unnamed black man - someone who escaped the concentration camps - who is killed at the end of the book. In the book, 'V' dies, but Evey takes up the mask and submerges her own identity to continue the struggle - E-V, get the word play....?) because in the comic 'V' is not actually a man or a woman as such, he/she is a concept, the spirit of Free Will against the totalitarian regime; Moore was trying to put across the subtle idea that a spirit of freedom has no identity as such, it is in us all... That very subtle theme that the comic puts across so sublimely gets the usual Hollywood sledgehammer-in-the-gob treatment, because we're all so obviously bloody thick that we wouldn't understand otherwise.... <_< The mask itself is actually a variation on the Guy Fawlkes masks - Guy Fawlkes being the man who originally tried to blow up the houses of Parliament...
March 31, 200619 yr This film looks very good. I wanna see it, but I'll have to wait for the DVD ... :(
March 31, 200619 yr I read very average reviews of this. Shame as the concept looked very appealing. The film's not really that great, you should read the Alan Moore/David Lloyd graphic novel, simply amazing. Interestingly, Moore had his name taken off the author credit of the film, so disgusted was he by the way the film turned out. All the credit reads now is "Based Upon the Graphic Novel Illustrated By David Lloyd"....
April 4, 200619 yr I saw it at the IMAX on Sunday :o What a fantastic film! I loved it, and recommend it hearitly :)
April 4, 200619 yr I know that I've got V in my sig but that doesnt mean I like this film; I was a huge fan of Moore's 80s Graphic Novel - which was a critique and a response to the evils of Thatcherism and growing surveillance society; when one looks at the current situation and what "New Labour" is up to with its various "Anti-Terror" legislation, ID cards, Bellmarsh, the tinkerings of the Criminal Justice system, the shoot-to-kill policy of the Metropolitan Police and other things It's still a remarkably relevant work in this day and age... The film, however, has absolutely NONE of the complexities or subtleties of Moore's work and I dont blame him in the slightest for pulling his name off the credits. This is a ludicrous film, unconvincing on every level, and an insult to those of us who are Moore fans, some things are best left on the printed page in my opinion, and this is definitely one of them..... well where's alan smithee when you need him :lol: :lol:
April 5, 200619 yr I saw it at the IMAX on Sunday :o What a fantastic film! I loved it, and recommend it hearitly :) Read the graphic novel, is all I can say....
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