V For Vendetta Trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/mirrormask.html

Uncharitable? Me? Never!

There's no way to make that look right.

I really hope it turns out OK. I read the DC edition of V for Vendetta when I was, like, ten or eleven, and I loved it, probably my favorite thing by Moore. If they manage to make good adaptations of things like "Valerie" this might turn out to be a wonderful thing. Nevertheless, "bullet time daggers" is something that doesn't go well with the atmosphere of the V for Vendetta I remember.

I presume you're saying this because "From Hell" omitted so much of the interesting stuff that you don't count it as an adaptation.

I dunno about this one. I have absolutely no faith in the Ws ability to get the important stuff right, but this isn't by them, it's by their henchman. And he did seem to get the unimportant stuff right, totally-wicked-awesome-dude spinning knives aside.

i thought the bright red looked striking, in a Schindler's List way.

From Hell wasn't really an adaptation, i don't think. it took the book as a starting point but did its own thing (you couldn't ever hope to faithfully film the book).

on something of a tangent, it also occurs to me that if Constantine had been called something else entirely, with different character names, i would never have thought to link it with anything Hellblazer, and i probably would've enjoyed it.

not unlike Batman Begins/Year One.

and lest we forget:

He indicates his mask

V: "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

"The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Evey: "Are you like, a crazy-person?"

BOLUCKS

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/paulisaacs/oc.jpg

As opposed to, say, an actor in a William Shatner mask?

Did you feel the same about L! X! G! ?

how 'bout the Dolph Lundgren Punisher one?

how low can you go?

But masks are just boring to look at as a cinemagoer. (See Green Goblin, say.) You can at least anthropomorphosise them in the comics.

It's probably just my problem, but I just can't get over the queasy campiness of comics movies. It's not a quease I feel when I'm reading comics, no matter how dorky they are.

On the other hand, I'm dying to see this and I hope it's good.

note that this tolerance does not extend to the Hoff playing Nick Fury.

Moore should stop throwing fits

Why?

My 'stupid and lame' criticisms aren't because the movie isn't going to be a direct and faithful adaptation of the comic as drawn, it's because those changes described go against or undermine the actual themes and intent of the text.

Saying 'give all my money to David Lloyd' is an awfully nice fit to be pitching. I'd like my workmates to pitch fits like that.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Frankly I quite like Moore's regular fits - it makes a change from all the other stories I read about creators who are so very EXCITED!!!! to be doing a series that will blow up the ENTIRE DCU/MARVEL/IMAGE!!!! over an eight-year period. It's quite refreshing to come away from that to Moore chatting amiably to Stewart Lee or someone about how he wouldn't piss on such-and-such-a-company if they were on fire.

Till... V FOR VENDETTA. I was not prepared for V FOR VENDETTA. This is the most intense cinematic cry for Anarchy since A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. They made the comic. Alan Moore is a bitch for even thinking of bitching about this. It is fucking PERFECT! When you see them promoting it as UNCOMPROMISED VISION. That's absolutely right. This thing doesn't give two shakes of a pecker what the modern world is going to think. THEY NAILED IT! You never see V's face. The voice - PERFECT. Natalie Portman - BRILLIANT. Everybody PERFECT. Adrian Biddle's last film as DP is a revelation and a revolution! This was my favorite film of the festival. They finally fucking nailed ALAN MOORE! Wachowski's - do WATCHMEN! PLEASE! When this film opens - this will be a political molotov cocktail. Absolutely fucking great! It isn't the action film that the first MATRIX was - but it is easily a vastly more important and brilliant film.

I would love to see AICN's take on Catwoman. But I ain't gonna browse their site for it. So I'll make it up:

CATWOMAN is fucking FANTASTIC! Halle Berry is SO HAWT in that leather suit - folks that want to see the traditional cat suit need to GO GET LAID or STOP WITH THE GAYNESS! Sharon Stone in the PERFORMANCE OF HER LIFE! Benjamin Bratt - THE NEW HOLLYWOOD STUD! LOOK OUT Brad Pitt! The script - BRILLIANT with a nice side of WITTY ONE-LINERS! Pitof - THE NEW MICHAEL BAY! Get him to direct the Transformers flick - IT WILL ROCK! This movie was so good, it makes Tim Burton's Batflicks look like the Roger Corman FF crap! MAKE A SEQUEL RIGHT NOW! FUCK YEAH!

(I am so bored right now.)