"Remember, Remember, the 5th of November....

[the mongoose]

Well, I remembered it. :D

:cool:

[cured]

heh. Nice catch. Hated the movie, though.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

What rhymes witthh tthe 7tth?

[BeautifulBurnout]

I loved this movie (http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/), I have to say. My son did too, and made us watch it on Guy Fawkes Day cos it was the "right" day to watch it. Aside from Batman Begins, one of the best comic book adaptations I have seen, IMO.

[adam]

Alan Moore disagrees with you. I haven't read it, but his complaints certainly sound well-founded.

SPOILERS...?

He was complaining that in his original work, he was trying to portray fascism vs. anarchism, but he wasn't really trying to present one as inherently morally superior. He felt it was crucial to present some of the fascists as doing the wrong thing out of well-intended motivations, and, conversely, not presenting the anarchists as the cut-and-dried heroes that the movie did.

Hollywood doesn't really do moral ambiguity well. Confuses the test audiences. Villains must be bad, etc, and so we get a dumbed-down movie that loses the key theme of the book.

You can argue that it's a good movie, but I don't think it qualifies as a good adaptation.

Spider-Man 2 and Sin City, I think, fairly nailed the spirit of their source material.

[gambit]

There's no comparison between the movie and the comic book beyond the names, mask, and a good portion of the events. As is the case with most adaptations, the book is better than the movie, and in the case of V for Vendetta, the book is vastly superior to the movie. Adam and Mr. Moore are correct.