In the efforts to find something non-snivelly to write about, I saw V for Vendetta. I saw it stoned, on IMAX. And it still sucked. I mean, I wasn't considering getting up and walking out or anything, but it was a waste of Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, and a really topical subject. Adaptations are getting old. Couldn't someone have written thier own bloody kazillion dollar movie script about totalitarianism and why it's a bad thing? Or just re-shot 1984 and tacked on a happy ending about how the proles revolted because they wanted to be middle class?
Geez, it was a big old snore. And alot of the conceits that probably looked great in a graphic novel, like a V-alliterative introductory speech that lasted for about 90 seconds, sounded dumb in a movie. Still, Hugo Weaving pulled it off. Hugo Weaving has a tendency to be the best thing in shit movies these days. I expect it's for the money, but it must feel good too. Proof was a great movie all around, though, and he was still lovely in that.
Damn shame. I like the graphic novel. I kinda wish they'd stop adapting comics for films actually, especially Alan Moore's (I'm dreading the mess they'll make of Watchmen). Honorable exception: the X-Men series. Good scary fun and the allegorical elements are handled very well indeed...
RispondiEliminaI thought it was good, well I enjoyed it, perhaps coz I didn't read the comics. I wouldn't say it's the best movie of the year but I had a good time watching it.
RispondiEliminaI didn't read the graphic novel either but I had sky-high hopes nonetheless - all the critics I distrust the most had disliked it and I figured anything wherein anything gets blown up to the 1812 Overture would rock.
RispondiEliminaI was hoping for the best movie of the year, you see. Silly me.
Does anyone know any blow-shit-up anti-totalitarian films worth watching stoned?
If . . . has a sequel and I NEVER KNEW?! You're the man, Mess!
RispondiEliminaWell, it's *kind of* a sequel. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson, it features Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis and has most of the other cast members from If..., albeit in different guises. There's also a THIRD installment entitled Hospital Britannia, which is completely nuts, and plays like Carry On Sociopolitical Satire.
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