After watching “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, I was convinced “V for Vendetta” was going to be another brilliant work by Moore completely butchered by Hollywood. Probably due to my low expectations, I thought the movie was actually good. Still nowhere near the original, but not a steaming pile of ”#!$ that LOEG was.

I know I’m not supposed to say so, especially since I’ve never read the graphic novel, but I loved it anyway. I really did. I thought it was excellently done. Hugo Weaving is always a pleasure to see in action, and it’s good to know that’s true even when you can’t see his face. I could’ve done without Natalie Portman’s poor excuse for a British accent, though.

Scary to think a totalitarian regime like that isn’t such a far-fetched idea these days.

Wow. Yet another one of Alan Moore’s works completely slaughtered by Hollywood. I was seriously amazed at how just how bad this one was.

When Watchmen comes out in 2008, I think I’m just going to shoot myself in the face.

Can’t say it was disappointing since I didn’t expect much of it.
I reccomend you use your time for the graphic novel instead.

Satisfaction of seeing this “un-american” and politically incorrect novel made into a movie still made it worth it for me.

I hope it will inspire some people and get them to think.

A good action movie, a great political commentary.

Prior to seeing this movie, I had never thought of blowing shit up as an effective means of fixing societal problems.

Good job guys!

In its defense, though, it could be argued that the movie attempts to counter-act the demonising of “terrorists”, and get people to merely consider their point of view, to try to see some motive beyond the somewhat tired ”they hate freedom” rhetoric we’ve all come to know and love. However, if that was the idea, it was far from obvious. The movie seems to actually condone terror attacks rather than trying to ask any questions.

If you’re looking for something with knives, explosions, and great special effects, then this is worth consuming. But if it’s the message behind a film that matters most to you, it would probably be better to skip it.

I went into this movie almost totally blind. The only thing I “briefed” myself with was a quick skim of Ebert’s review. The movie was NOT what I expected but I also enjoyed it for that very reason. I thought at times it was a bit self-indulgent (maybe that’s not even the right term), i.e. where he asks her dance, when she kisses the mask, etc. Except I wanted all of those things to happen and so I was happy that they did, but surprised because I didn’t think it was “that kind of movie”. I liked all of the talking. And did you ever stop to think—we see terrible things happen to our national monuments in movies but never really see these things happen to British things? So it was interesting to see everything that happened in this movie. #1 thing I was grateful for: she didn’t look under the mask.

... is it as good as the comic? Of course not!
Next!

I could write a lengthy review but this guy: http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/23265 already said most of it.

All I have to add is that I don’t see why this movie should take over two hours to tell its tale, and that I didn’t enjoy having the rather blunt ideas behind this movie shoved down my throat.

I haven’t read the graphic novels (remember back when we used to call them comics? good times!) but I hope they are better than this batch of hot air.

Some more fun tidbits? Alan Moore, co-creator of the “V For Vendetta” comic, has publicly disassociated himself from this movie project (which is based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers). This actually speaks well for the comic. I might read it sometime.

What Moore found most laughable however were the details. “They don’t know what British people have for breakfast, they couldn’t be bothered. ‘Eggy in a basket’ apparently. Now the US have ‘eggs in a basket,’ whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought ‘eggy in a basket’ was a quaint and Olde Worlde version. And they decided that the British postal service is called Fedco. They’ll have thought something like, ‘well, what’s a British version of FedEx… how about FedCo? A friend of mine had to point out to them that the Fed, in FedEx comes from ‘Federal Express.’ America is a federal republic, Britain is not.”

I’m a fan of the dystopia as a form of fiction – and I thought this made a great movie. Timely as well – the implications were unsubtle.

The cinematography was brilliant in this film. Great acting job by Portman and Weaving. Story of course never follows the book so don’t ever just assume it will. This movie was still well written, and the artist of the graphic novel was apart of the movie although the writer of the novel wanted nothing to do with this. His lost.
Warning, Kinda lengthy, but if you enjoy the movie it doesn’t matter how long it is, right?
What I recommend, watch the movie then read the graphic novel.