V For Vendetta: Crap/Not Crap

[DotCommunist]

not crap at all. Not as good as the comic, but still fucking good.

 

[Dillinger4]

not crap at all. Not as good as the comic, but still fucking good.

Especially so, for a Hollywood film.

 

[Orang Utan]

Great, but haven't read the picture book that came with the film

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's okay as an action film, and it has a decent cast, but it's not a patch on the "Warrior" strip (later published as the graphic novel).

 

[DotCommunist]

Great, but haven't read the picture book that came with the film

Graphic Novel. Anyone who blithely dismisses Moore is silly

 

[internetstalker]

Graphic Novel. Anyone who blithely dismisses Moore is silly

Moore is a god!










*I'm from Northampton and this makes me blind to any other opinion*

 

[fogbat]

Got to love anyone whose chosen deity was probably a handpuppet.

 

[Orang Utan]

Graphic Novel. Anyone who blithely dismisses Moore is silly

I know - that was just to wind up you lot
Moore is great - not a great writer by any stretch of the imagination, but a great ideas man, much like PKD

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Graphic Novel. Anyone who blithely dismisses Moore is silly

Trade paperback, it's a collection of comics not a purpose released one off...

 

[andy2002]

I know - that was just to wind up you lot
Moore is great - not a great writer by any stretch of the imagination, but a great ideas man, much like PKD

He's certainly a great *comics* writer - probably one of the best ever.

 

[internetstalker]

He's certainly a great *comics* writer - probably one of the best ever.

Oh the Irony!!

 

[andy2002]

Oh the Irony!!

Hah - very good. I'm from Northampton too, by the way.

 

[Orang Utan]

He's certainly a great *comics* writer - probably one of the best ever.

No, he really isn't a good writer

 

[DotCommunist]

Hah - very good. I'm from Northampton too, by the way.

w000t another one

 

[andy2002]

No, he really isn't a good writer

Go on then, I'll bite. Why isn't he a good writer?

 

[andy2002]

w000t another one

I live in Southend now - but that's really just Northampton with even more objectionable accents and a bit of beach.

 

[Orang Utan]

Go on then, I'll bite. Why isn't he a good writer?

He's rather awkward and grandiloquent - like he's an ex-tramp who's just done a course in Creative Writing. Full of ideas and stories though, so it's a good job he has pictures to back up his weak text.

 

[DotCommunist]

He's rather awkward and grandiloquent - like he's an ex-tramp who's just done a course in Creative Writing. Full of ideas and stories though, so it's a good job he has pictures to back up his weak text.

^^^this is a man who sneered at dickens the other day

 

[Orang Utan]

^^^this is a man who sneered at dickens the other day

me? I did not - he's our greatest writer!

 

[Gavin Bl]

Don't remember it in great detail, it had a lot more about it than most films, but wasn't knocked out by it. Not familiar with the comic.

Not sure why, but 'hollywood' films seem to be able to spend a load of money on everything except keeping the story coherent.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Crap

 

[Sadken]

me? I did not - he's our greatest writer!

 

[DotCommunist]

Don't remember it in great detail, it had a lot more about it than most films, but wasn't knocked out by it. Not familiar with the comic.

Not sure why, but 'hollywood' films seem to be able to spend a load of money on everything except keeping the story coherent.

but the bit where a fingerman kills the kid in the V mask is fucking ace. The look of dawning horror on his face when the bystanders turn on him is probably my second favorite scene.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

crap

 

[MullahNasrudin]

It's a big bag of shite -- Children of Men was so much better and certainly had some V For Vendetta like elements.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Children of Men was worse.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

bollox... CoM was wikkid

 

[Orang Utan]

Children Of Men is ace!

 

[DotCommunist]

C of M was like a Ballard novel. Crafted but essentially empty- sci fi for people with no taste

 

[exleper]

I enjoyed parts, like the Houses of Parliament blowing up, and the Richard Littlejohn character. But generally I thought it was pretty poorly executed. The baddies in that first scene, Dickensian villains in futuristic London? In fact the whole film seems to look like it's set in Victorian times, with people saying 'bollocks' a lot. The American Mary Poppins-informed view of Britain is invariably excrutiating viewing for those of us who live here.

And I thought the none-too-subtle political message was a load of bull as well. Fine if you're a 19 year old student, but it clearly thought it was making some original and important Ideas About Government And That, and wasn't nearly as clever as it thought it was. Plus dreadful dialogue, shitty acting, getting a clever man like Stephen Fry to do Benny Hill-style comedy (does America think that's all we can do in comedy?), rip offs from 1984 and an incoherent story, and I believe I'm leaning towards to 'Crap' side of the table.