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Okay, let me just start by saying that I was really, really glad to be a film society member upon arriving at the theater today; there was a line stretching around the corner from the entrance and they were turning people away because they had sold out of tickets. Not so for us members, however, as I was instructed to walk to the front of the theater to meet the volunteer from the group who had the tickets that I had RSVP'd a couple of weeks back. Ahh, membership has its privileges.
Okay, first the good parts of the movie:
It looked good and I think visually they got a lot of aspects of the comic down pretty dead on.
There were some scenes that were dead on which was cool
It was very, very ballsy to make this movie considering the subject matter and the current climate.
The set design was nice, as well. Especially the Shadow Gallery.
Now to the bad stuff. Jason, who went to see the movie with me will probably disagree with me on some points as he liked the movie a bit better than I did. Here we go:
I have a feeling that whoever wrote the screenplay just flipped through the book and only stopped to look at the pretty pictures or the explosions.
Natalie Portman should not have been cast as Evie. They should have cast someone who can actually speak with a British accent (Keira Knightley was a good observation, Jay)
I'd have preferred if they would have cast an unknown actor in her role as the movie focused more than the book did on Evie to the point of them rewriting her role a good deal to give her more screen time.
A lot of the scenes were taken out of context and taken out of the order they appeared in the book which was a bit disappointing and kinda screwed the pacing up in my opinion. Some other scenes, characters and concepts were written out completely. It would probably be argued that they did this for time constraints but that wasn't the case as they added a lot of superfluous bullshit and characters that didn't have much place in the movie and could've been replaced with stuff that was a lot better in the book, in my opinion. One example being the train attack closer to the beginning of the story.
Oh boy was it ham handed. If you don't get that they're referring to the U.S., you probably can't tie your own shoe laces. They pretty much beat it into your fucking head that it's our current administration.
It just seemed a bit much for me and, just in case you didn't get it the first time, everything bad that precipitated the current state of Great Britain was because of America. We are so bad. Then of course there are the conspiracy theories about viruses and some other bullshit which also takes off widely from the book. Granted, in the book, the government in question arises from a post-nuclear war UK much like post WW1 Germany where a very, very large majority of the people backed them without shady conspiracy theory bullshit going on.
There's more for me to bitch about but I'm drawing a blank. I was a little disappointed that they eschewed the halluconegenics use that bought the inspector investigating V to most of his conclusions. In my opinion, this was the third case of initiation in the story with the first two being V and Evie.
All in all, I didn't like the movie, started to get antsy after a bit, and am not surprised that Alan Moore has disavowed any connections to this movie and he has cut off any and all remaining ties to DC as a result of this film being made. I'm glad that his book got the attention and I hope that people actually pick it up as a result but I think the story would have been better served if it was a mini-series as opposed to a long winded, poorly paced, movie.
Okay, first the good parts of the movie:
It looked good and I think visually they got a lot of aspects of the comic down pretty dead on.
There were some scenes that were dead on which was cool
It was very, very ballsy to make this movie considering the subject matter and the current climate.
The set design was nice, as well. Especially the Shadow Gallery.
Now to the bad stuff. Jason, who went to see the movie with me will probably disagree with me on some points as he liked the movie a bit better than I did. Here we go:
I have a feeling that whoever wrote the screenplay just flipped through the book and only stopped to look at the pretty pictures or the explosions.
Natalie Portman should not have been cast as Evie. They should have cast someone who can actually speak with a British accent (Keira Knightley was a good observation, Jay)
I'd have preferred if they would have cast an unknown actor in her role as the movie focused more than the book did on Evie to the point of them rewriting her role a good deal to give her more screen time.
A lot of the scenes were taken out of context and taken out of the order they appeared in the book which was a bit disappointing and kinda screwed the pacing up in my opinion. Some other scenes, characters and concepts were written out completely. It would probably be argued that they did this for time constraints but that wasn't the case as they added a lot of superfluous bullshit and characters that didn't have much place in the movie and could've been replaced with stuff that was a lot better in the book, in my opinion. One example being the train attack closer to the beginning of the story.
Oh boy was it ham handed. If you don't get that they're referring to the U.S., you probably can't tie your own shoe laces. They pretty much beat it into your fucking head that it's our current administration.
It just seemed a bit much for me and, just in case you didn't get it the first time, everything bad that precipitated the current state of Great Britain was because of America. We are so bad. Then of course there are the conspiracy theories about viruses and some other bullshit which also takes off widely from the book. Granted, in the book, the government in question arises from a post-nuclear war UK much like post WW1 Germany where a very, very large majority of the people backed them without shady conspiracy theory bullshit going on.
There's more for me to bitch about but I'm drawing a blank. I was a little disappointed that they eschewed the halluconegenics use that bought the inspector investigating V to most of his conclusions. In my opinion, this was the third case of initiation in the story with the first two being V and Evie.
All in all, I didn't like the movie, started to get antsy after a bit, and am not surprised that Alan Moore has disavowed any connections to this movie and he has cut off any and all remaining ties to DC as a result of this film being made. I'm glad that his book got the attention and I hope that people actually pick it up as a result but I think the story would have been better served if it was a mini-series as opposed to a long winded, poorly paced, movie.