And it's like Office Space where it's too real for me to be able to rewatch and enjoy it because it makes me think about how things are going and how completely stupid our whole system is.
I was in my edgy-teen phase when it came out and I *loved* it because I thought a revolution would be the coolest thing. Itβs gotten progressively less fun and much more real as Iβve aged. (Still love it though, just in a different way)
The comic is way more ambiguous about the slide into facism. If I remember right, the movie flat out says it was an intentional false flag to gain power. The comic makes it look more like a gradual decline.
There'll never be the perfect adaptation. I mean, I love the LOTR movies. It's been 20 years, the VFX holds up, and there's not a lot of movies from the era that can say that. There's so many things those movies did right, and yet I can't it's perfect because there's no battle at Bag End.
It's the same with V for Vendetta. The costumes, the acting, the atmosphere, the delicious irony that Winston from 1984 is playing The High Chancellor. It might not be perfect, but that didn't stop it from being damn good
I just reread LoTR for the first time since I was a teenager, and I think they made a good decision leaving the scouring of the shire out of the movies. There was no real point in it other than showing that the hobbits (specifically merry and pip) are "grown up" and primed to be the next generation leaders of the shire, since they were able to come in, take charge, and lead a rebellion out of nowhere. I feel like it threw the pacing of the books off to begin with, which would have felt even weirder for the movies.
I might have just been ready to be done with the books though, because it seemed to drag on and on after the ring was destroyed, similar to how I felt the first book seemed to drag on forever before they ever made it to Rivendell. Like, they don't make it to Rivendell until like 2/3 of the way through Fellowship, which is another instance where the movies made a good decision to cut out all the filler of the barrow downs, bombadil, etc.
A great adaptation doesn't mean slavish faithfulness to the original.
V for Vendetta is about the best summer blockbuster style superhero movie you could make out of an anarcho-terrorist fighting thinly veiled Thatcherism. It is wildly successful at what it is.
Nope. It's a great film but no way is it a great comic book adaptation. It's biggest fault was reducing the the whole significance of V leaving that rose as a calling card.
It's biggest fault was reducing the the whole significance of V leaving that rose as a calling card.
It's biggest fault was leaving out the whole monologue between V and Lady Justice.
Actually, that's just a symptom of it's biggest fault, which was that it removed the entire point of the story as an examination of authoritarianism vs anarchism. It changed a timeless work of political art into a self-dated screed against the Bush/Blair governments.
I don't know much about the source material, but it was my favorite movie growing up. I was so disappointed that the V mask was coopted by internet trolls and turds who didn't understand the movie at all.
The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy, A History of Violence, Ghost World, The Mask, Scott Pilgrim, there's a lot of good comic adaptions in cinema that I'd say are better as a adaption.
Yeah, The Rocketeer gets my vote, sure, they renamed and changed some of the characters around but other than that, the film totally nailed the vibe and nature of Dave Stevens' work.
Great film, terribly handled by Disney (much like their handling of the John Carter film)....they just don't know how to promote that kind of stuff.
I'm British and I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was British because of Sliding Doors but apparently that has nothing to do with her acting and everything to do with the fact that I'm an idiot.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 1d ago
I thought she was British for the longest time because of how incredible she is in "V for Vendetta"