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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: deSelys on March 02, 2006, 02:18:27 AM
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Who else is impatient to see it?
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I'm waiting for it.
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If V was for Vagina I would be anxious to see it.
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I like the line.... "people should not fear their governments... governments should fear their people" It might be a good movie based soley on that.
lazs
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It's not from the comic book, it's from Thomas Jefferson (I think).
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Originally posted by lazs2
I like the line.... "people should not fear their governments... governments should fear their people" It might be a good movie based soley on that.
lazs
I saw the ad for it on TV. When I heard that line I immediately thought that lazs was going to want to see that movie, for sure. :)
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I wouldnt exactly say I'm impatient but WTF!!, the trailers been running since September or October, show the damn movie already, jeesssh.
besides I want to find out who's behind the mask before somebody ruins it for me and tells me or I accidently stumble acrossed it on the intardnet.
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sesleys... the line had been attributed to both Jeferson and Madison but....
seeing it in a movie made me want to see the movie soo... curval got one right about me.
lazs
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Yes, Lazs, but the big turndown for you is that it all happens in UK.
Besides, have you noticed that the hero uses daggers because he isn't allowed to have guns? ;)
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Originally posted by Airscrew
...I want to find out who's behind the mask before somebody ruins it for me and tells me or I accidently stumble acrossed it on the intardnet.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
you'll understand when you read the comic book (dunno if the movie ends the same, of course...)
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well... I can't think of a better place to fight government than the UK... Amazing that any subject there would think of it tho.
lazs
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Originally posted by deSelys
:rofl :rofl :rofl
you'll understand when you read the comic book (dunno if the movie ends the same, of course...)
Except for an occasional Heavy Metal magazine and some Creepy comics and the comic book that was printed for the movie 1941, I haven’t read any comic books since 1975. I don’t think I'm going to search out the comic book for this one. Reading the book and then seeing the movie or vise versa usually tends to ruin one or the other for me. When it comes to movies based on or derived from books very rarely have I ever seen a movie that was faithful to the book it was based on. I say rarely because right at the moment I can’t think of one that was a good book and then made into a good movie but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
The problem for me is that when I read a book I develop a sort of mental picture of the characters, the places and events that are taking place with in the story, and they almost never compare to what the director's vision of the story is.
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Alan moor wrote V for Vendetta, he is a geniouse in the medium, his "watchmen" raised the bar for graphic novels, he wasnt going to sell the rights for any of his comics but he finaly let vendetta slip since it wasnt his most cherished property.
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It looks like a zorro that kicks arse.
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I can't wait... the graphic novel is da-shi... you know what i'm going to say...
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Originally posted by eilif
Alan moor wrote V for Vendetta, he is a geniouse in the medium, his "watchmen" raised the bar for graphic novels, he wasnt going to sell the rights for any of his comics but he finaly let vendetta slip since it wasnt his most cherished property.
He had already sold the rights of "The League of the extraordinary gentlemen", and the movie turned ou to be a huge pool of manure.... I really hope that it won't be the case with this one.
IMO, the Watchmen is his masterpiece and nobody will ever be able to make a movie as good as the novel.
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"The Watchmen" was the only one of his books I read. Was pure genius in story writing and really elevated comic novels into the adult market.
From what I've seen of the trailer for "V", it struck me as a cross between George Orwell and "Aeon Flux", but in a bad way.
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Originally posted by deSelys
He had already sold the rights of "The League of the extraordinary gentlemen", and the movie turned ou to be a huge pool of manure.... I really hope that it won't be the case with this one.
deSelys, I havent read any of those so I wasnt aware "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was a book and then a movie. I enjoyed the movie, mostly because of Sean Connery and also because I didnt read the book first.
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I loved the comic book. Extremely well done. I have a feeling that the movie is going to not be that great, just because the things that make the comic book great are things that are difficult to translate to a film format.
Then again...Natalie Portman will make a good Evey. So we'll see.
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What's the word on Ultraviolet?
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Whatever happened to "Scanner Darkly" based on the Phillip Dick book.
They were here in Austin almost two years ago filming, they used some buildings behind ours.
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Whatever happened to "Scanner Darkly" based on the Phillip Dick book.
They were here in Austin almost two years ago filming, they used some buildings behind ours.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/ascannerdarkly/trailer2/
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Why does Hollywood insist on ruining the best ideas by casting...*Keanu Reeves*. He was in the Hellblazer movie too...I cannot imagine a worse choice for the character of John Constantine.
Ever since the Matrix he's seen as the "sci fi guy". Granted he was decent in that movie, since his only requirement was to look dumb and say "Woooah", which is the kind of thing he's good at. He needs to go back to Bill and Ted.
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Well, I actually think that most producers don't expect Reeves to be any good, so they don't let him be good.
One of the best scenes in Constantine was one that was cut. Reeves actually showed a good amount of emotion and pulled off the scene flawlessly.
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Even if he was a good actor I would not have chosen him. I don't know if you've read the comics, but Constantine was a great character (when the author was good) and would have made a great character in a movie. But Keanu Reeves he is definitely not.
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I never read those books either but watching Constantine and Keanu Reeves, I would have thought Rutger Hauer or Michael Madsen type actor would have been a better choice, someone a little older, a little more beliveable as someone with lung cancer, someone that looked like they smoke 4 packs a day.
Thanks for the link DMF, I wondered, I check once a month but I had a different site, a site they put up when they were making the movie, i expected to see something there when it was done.
http://www.philipkdick.com/films_scanner-061204.html
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Rutger Hauer
I definitely like this idea. A good actor, and fits the part. Too bad it didn't happen.
BTW, the comics are great, but spotty. It's a series that changed authors every year or something. It will go through some buttkicking plot/character development involving the machinations of various demons and gods, and then the next issue will be about tripping out with aborigines.