V For Vendetta

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:46 pm 0

I can't help it, I'm excited. I've been splurging over the trailer and I'm getting better feelings about it since grabbing a few frames and...

Please be good, please be good... If the Wankchopski's have fucked this up, people will get hurt.

rymdimperiet · Post by **rymdimperiet** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:58 pm 0

Have you heard the rumor about the Benny Hill-style chase scene?
It's even got Yakety Sax on the soundtrack.

EDIT: If I remember the comic correctly, there's a Benny Hill lookalike-show on a television in the backround somewhere. That's probably where it's from.

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:12 am 0

rymdimperiet wrote:Have you heard the rumor about the Benny Hill-style chase scene?
It's even got Yakety Sax on the soundtrack.

EDIT: If I remember the comic correctly, there's a Benny Hill lookalike-show on a television in the backround somewhere. That's probably where it's from.

"Brenda, are those your knockers?"

Book 2, Chapter 3.

rymdimperiet · Post by **rymdimperiet** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:27 am 0

Phew! Rumor dispelled then.

I'm seeing it on a sneak preview tomorrow at the wonderful IMPERIAL theatre in Copenhagen. With David Lloyd as special guest.

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:34 am 0

Oooh, you jammy sod.

Right, friday morning, the codeword. Remember the codeword. Maize for yes, barley for no. Maize or barley. That's all we need; maize or barley. Their fate is in your hands.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:11 am 0

I wonder what they changed that made Alan Moore take his name off the credits? He's a grumpy sod and I gather V was largely David Lloyd's idea, but still. This is me just wondering. I don't wan't spoilers or nothing.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:14 am 0

teamonkey wrote:I wonder what they changed that made Alan Moore take his name off the credits? He's a grumpy sod and I gather V was largely David Lloyd's idea, but still. This is me just wondering. I don't wan't spoilers or nothing.

It's a blanket removal of all credits from any Hollywood adaptations, a decision he took prior to V entering production as far as I know.

He's particularly angry with the Joel Silver, the producer of V, who sent out a press release saying Moore was delighted with the script despite expressing ambivalence at best when they talked,

He's also assigned any royalties generated to any of the artists who drew the original comics so isn't getting a penny from this.

"V was largely David Lloyd's idea"

I've not heard that before. He's been heavily involved with the film though and made some really lovely concept art / storyboards for it.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:30 am 0

Ah right, that's OK then. I was worried that he was angry about how the film turned out and removed his name in protest.

The bit at the back of the compilation book has a bit about the making of V and it says that it was David Lloyd who suggested the Guy Fawkes character and the celebration of Guy Fawkes as a renegade. Before that Moore was going to make him more like a traditional lycra-clad superhero (which didn't sit well with either of them). The V character, that's what I meant, not the concept.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:41 am 0

Moore is on the culture show tonight apparently.

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:04 pm 0

rymdimperiet wrote:Phew! Rumor dispelled then.

I'm seeing it on a sneak preview tomorrow at the wonderful IMPERIAL theatre in Copenhagen. With David Lloyd as special guest.

Well?

saul · Post by **saul** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:14 pm 0

Pile of shite if Moore's opinion is anything to go off. Confirmed in his Culture Show interview that he wanted his name off the credits because he thought the films were awful.

rymdimperiet · Post by **rymdimperiet** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:14 am 0

Jimaroid wrote:
rymdimperiet wrote:Phew! Rumor dispelled then.

I'm seeing it on a sneak preview tomorrow at the wonderful IMPERIAL theatre in Copenhagen. With David Lloyd as special guest.
Well?

Just got back. Short review: Some good bits, lots of bad bits and some really bad bits.
I'll elaborate after I get some sleep.

rymdimperiet · Post by **rymdimperiet** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:13 am 0

Been trying to think of something clever to write about the movie all day. Let's just say I have a newfound respect for movie critics.

To summarize, it's a bit like the american version of Red Dwarf.
Everything is shiny and all the characters are wrong. The sets look great though.

Elrond does a convincing V and Natalie Portman is very pretty. Stephen Fry pops by for about five minutes and John Hurt overacts terribly.

Maybe, if you haven't read the books, you'll enjoy it in a 'Matrix Revolutions but with fewer evil robots' kind of way. If you have read the books, you'll curse the day the filmmakers ever heard of Alan Moore.

There are some nice scenes though, where they kept everything exactly like the comic. I think i'll cut those from the DVD in the future and pretend the rest of the movie doesn't exist.

EDIT: Added pic of David Lloyd selling his soul. No, that's a a bit harsh. I quite enjoyed his little chat before the movie.