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[learnedax]

Saw V for Vendetta. Have some generally minor philosophical differences with their interpretation, but I think they did quite a good job. Certainly better than any previous Moore adaptation, though that is weaker praise than I intend.

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[new-man.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's a good movie and I like it better than the graphic novel -- but it's not the same story. It's not simply Moore's V brought to the screen. Moore's V would have been a bad movie; long, slow, and incomprehensible, with no sympathetic characters. This movie would be a mediocre comic book; predictable, plot light, and derivative.

But I haven't read V for Vendetta in many, many years, so I'm able to disassociate the two.

[sagawizard.livejournal.com]

I loved the graphic novel and thus I've been very hesitant to see the film...too many people told me if was just hollywood shlock that followed the same formula as every other hollywood action film. learnedax is the first person I've heard that's praised it. If I hear a few more, I may actually spend some money on the ticket...

- SW

[jducoeur]

too many people told me if was just hollywood shlock that followed the same formula as every other hollywood action film.

I think that's too harsh. I don't agree with every decision they made -- in particular, a few tweaks that make the political message a bit more palatable but a bit less interesting -- but I think that the result is a *good* movie, if not quite as good as I'd been hoping for. (But much better than I'd been dreading...)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I perhaps should have been more clear and said "unlike LXG, this didn't suck."

The political part of it I didn't see as terrible, although it is blunted. It seemed like the original message was there in what V said, but was not strongly supported by how the government was characterized. Basically we were told rather than shown those elements.

I was more bothered by Evey and her relationship with V being pushed more toward romantic love. Because she doesn't get the apotheosis that she does in the book, the point of That Sequence is muted, and V's importance as an idea is, I think, muddied by putting so much weight on their personal connection.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Certainly better than any previous Moore adaptation

I translate that as "Won't make you consciously attempt to black out in your seat to make the pain stop".