'Beneath You'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
At lunch I was poring over the Walt Disney Co. annual stockholders' report. I see that the studio has The Shaggy Dog and Santa Clause 3 as upcoming releases.
The operating expenses section didn't itemize sufficiently to tell what we paid for Tim Allen's soul.
I just read V for Vendetta and was kind of underwhelmed by it. I liked the ideas but I thought the plot was a little scattershot. I kept thinking that it might actually work better as a movie.
Heretic!
Just kidding.
What did you think was scattershot about it? I thought it quite tight, so I'd appreciate the perspective.
As someone who was impressed with both the scope and attention to detail in both V and The Watchmen, I'm likewise interested in a contrary opinion. I can't drum up really good conversation about them, despite wanting to, because all my friends who've read them agree with me, which is no fun.
There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.
There's no "The" in Watchmen, fool.
There totally is. Watchmen. See?
Jessica, re your whitefont, now I'm making an "O" face. That sounds...neat.
The main problem I'm having with the ads now is that V is presented like a superhero with the swishy knives. Is this mostly an ad thing? Because that's fine. I keep trying to believe it is just an ad thing. I guess... I want him to be creepy. He should be creepy.
I'm hoping for an ad thing, as well, because the man was stealth-lethal-dude, but, yeah, not what he's about. The "Matrix" pedigree worries me a little, but I'll be seeing it, having heard that it doesn't suck.
If they stay true to the terrorism angle, I think he'll be creepy too.
I keep seeing trailers for Inside Man. But it wasn't until the last time I noticed it was a Spike Lee movie. Interesting. I like the leads. Plus, Chiwetel Ejiofor.
lisah:
I just read V for Vendetta and was kind of underwhelmed by it. I liked the ideas but I thought the plot was a little scattershot. I kept thinking that it might actually work better as a movie.
broom:
As someone who was impressed with both the scope and attention to detail in both V
I was slightly underwhelmed by V when I read it, but possibly for reasons slightly different than lisah. I felt that it felt like early work of an author I loved, who hadn't quite mastered his form yet, but made a good show. Like lisa, the plot felt a little.... off to me, but that may be attributable, at least in my case, to Moore pausing in between writing the bulk of it and finishing it up. At least, I had been led to believe there was a pause of some time in the middle of the original run.
Though I agree with broom that there was the typical Moore scope and attention to detail, it didn't feel as tight to me as Watchmen had.