Saw it today, good movie but too short. I thought they could have done a better job with 3 main things, 1) accounting for the full year time lapse that the movie takes place over, 2) giving more history on how the present day came to be, and 3) Evey's denial and acceptance needed to be better detailed.
good effort though. When the DVD comes out i hope there's a director's cut with 30+ minutes of more of the above items. Unlikely though.
Very good movie and I highly recommend it to anyone. Stayed true to the graphic novel for the most part. I can't remember but I thought the story at Larkhill should have been a bit more.
In any case, I'm not a big fan of the brother directors but they did a pretty good job.
EDIT: I browsed through the novel and found out that the story was really altered in the movie. Other than the main plot line, a lot of the details were changed from the book. Still a good film but the book was better.
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It doesn't provoke as much thought as I was hoping for, because it's premise is a little flat.
Also, [SPOILER ALERT], the final fight scene is just ridiculus. He'd have no arms after being hit with that many bullets... so unless the diseases/vaccines make him superhuman, which defeats the idea that one man can change governments by becoming more than one man (a superhero is more than one man, IMO), it just ruins the movie's plausibility.
brewcrew4you wrote: the final fight scene is just ridiculus. He'd have no arms after being hit with that many bullets... so unless the diseases/vaccines make him superhuman, which defeats the idea that one man can change governments by becoming more than one man (a superhero is more than one man, IMO), it just ruins the movie's plausibility.
it isn't super-humanness that allows him to survive, but rather his being as an idea rather than individual action. and it is quite odd how few bullets missed the plate. just another one of several smaller parts of the movie that could've been beefed up a little that prevents it from being great and instead just good.
V For Vendetta creator Alan Moore is desperate to be disassociated from the screen adaptation of his classic comic strip - and is begging the producers not to credit him for his work. The cartoonist, who also conceived From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, hates seeing his work diluted by movie-makers, and refuses to put his name to the result. He says, "I want them to say, 'We're not going to give you any money for your work, you're not going to get any credit for it and we're not going to put your name on it.' To see a line of dialogue or a character that I have poured that much emotional involvement into, to see them casually travestied and watered down and distorted... it's kind of painful. It's much better just to avoid them altogether."
brewcrew4you wrote: the final fight scene is just ridiculus. He'd have no arms after being hit with that many bullets... so unless the diseases/vaccines make him superhuman, which defeats the idea that one man can change governments by becoming more than one man (a superhero is more than one man, IMO), it just ruins the movie's plausibility.
it isn't super-humanness that allows him to survive, but rather his being as an idea rather than individual action. and it is quite odd how few bullets missed the plate. just another one of several smaller parts of the movie that could've been beefed up a little that prevents it from being great and instead just good.
Suspention of disbelief. I knew what i was getting myself into before seeing this movie, and as long as you do as well, youll enjoy it. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Saw it last night and loved it. I'd like to have seen more of the sick knife fights, but the whole movie was simply cool.
The society reminded me nearly exactly of 1984, which made it a bit odd, but the movie was still very enjoyable. I would recommend it.
*SPOILER* why didn't they just shoot him in the face is my question. But his line "there is more than flesh underneath this mask. There is an idea and ideas are bulletproof" pretty much takes care of that complaint. Perhaps they should have just not bothered with the unrealistic plate and left it as him simply being an idea.
EW brought this up and I had already thought the same when I read the synopsis...
Isn't it rather ironic what this movie is about and promotes considering the parallels that can be clearly drawn? Just take a look at the tagline on that movie poster.
I'm rather surprised a big company actually picked up this movie.
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blankman wrote:Saw it last night and loved it. I'd like to have seen more of the sick knife fights, but the whole movie was simply cool.
The society reminded me nearly exactly of 1984, which made it a bit odd, but the movie was still very enjoyable. I would recommend it.
*SPOILER* why didn't they just shoot him in the face is my question. But his line "there is more than flesh underneath this mask. There is an idea and ideas are bulletproof" pretty much takes care of that complaint. Perhaps they should have just not bothered with the unrealistic plate and left it as him simply being an idea.
The mask was metal and you can see the ricochet marks on them.
Equilibrium is another good movie very similar storyline but with more action.
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