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Originally Posted by Hunterboy55
I read the graphic novel a year or so back and it was amazing. Alan Moore is a really great writer and he is often heralded as someone who has "validated" the comic book scene, because he brought actual thought and intellect to comic books.
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Actually, infantilism in comics is a purely American phenomenon, probably due to the code of self-censorship the industry adopted during the Cold War. The Japanese or Europeans have a fine tradition of comics catering to a grown-up audience, with sophisticated plots, mature themes and often gorgeous artistry. Even in the US, there are quality comics to be found outside the DC Comics wasteland, just look at the work of Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman or Joe Sacco.
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Originally Posted by Hunterboy55
As far as the movie goes... I thought it was OK. If you've read the book then you will surley love the book more than the movie. Its just that the movie sort of left things out that would have made the experince deeper. And a lot of little events and things get twisted around.
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I went to see it today (in IMAX, no less), and it is pretty good, the two out of two reviewers I read who panned it were clearly churlish. I guess that's why I usually don't pay attention to critics in the first place.
The movie is not entirely faithful to the book in the letter, but it is in spirit. It is also far superior aesthetically (to be entirely frank, the drawings in the book are very poorly executed). There is a logical discrepancy that isn't there in the book: the experiments on V were used to develop the virus used to impose totalitarian order on England, but it is this totalitarian order that made it possible to send blacks, homosexuals and Jews to the death camp in the first place, so there is a chicken and egg syndrome in the movie's chronology.
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Originally Posted by Hunterboy55
I thought Natlie Portman was good.
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Just OK in my book. Not atrociously bad as in "Revenge of the Sith", but nowhere near as good as in "Leon". Weaving is also stiff in the movie, but the stilted dialogue he has to work with certainly doesn't help. No, I think the really outstanding acting is by Stephen Rea (Inspector Finch), a decent man working for a monstruous regime. Actually, this sorts of reminds me of his performance in "Michael Collins".
Update: I checked Rea's bio on IMDB, and wow! The guy is Irish and Protestant, yet also a Republican, and was actually married to a convicted IRA bomber, Dolours Price, who planted a bomb in the Old Bailey (among others) with her sister Marian in 1973. The marriage was
after she was released from prison in early eighties. The intensity of both performances ("V" and "Michael Collins") makes much more sense now.