V trailer - if you've given the Wachowski's money, get colon cancer IRL PLZ.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Well, I was/am a huge fan of V for Vendetta, and I liked the trailer.  I'd give it a 8/10.  However, I loved all 3 Matrix movies.  That's right, all 3.  So ... put your own qualifications on my rating.

[schild]

Did you just "score" a trailer? That's hardcore.

The last trailer that got me excited about a movie was Eternal Sunshine, but that's only because it had fantastic music and did something new within the boundaries of a trailer. Well, not new, but the first time the 'infomercial" thing had been done efficiently.

[Hanzii]

Did you just "score" a trailer? That's hardcore.

Read the first post - that's what the angry dude is requesting.

[Daydreamer]

Meh.  Neither amazing, nor depressing.  My guess is that I'll see it at release, hope for the awesome and get something mediocre.

For those who have read the comic though, just imagine - what will the rain scene be like?  Drool.  I find it doubtful that even the Wachowski's can screw that up too bad, though I have overestimated their skills in the past.

[Bunk]

I have no knowlage of the book/comic(?) it is based on.

I thought it was a remake of the French movie/remade US movie about a girl who gets trained to be a killer after being arrested. Then it seemed to become a normal comicbook movie. There seems to be no daylight shots. Based on the trailer, I will pass.

La Femme Nikita - great movie.

I know nothing about V, so I really don't have an opinion here. I thought the thread was about '80's Marc Singer series...

[WayAbvPar]

I would like to nominate bob for "Best Thread Title EVAR".

[Signe]

No.  I won't read any of them, although the husband has quite a few old Brit comics.  They make my fingers dirty and comics have a funny odour.

[Velorath]

No.  I won't read any of them, although the husband has quite a few old Brit comics.  They make my fingers dirty and comics have a funny odour.

Those are old comics.  Modern day graphic novels are made of much higher quality paper and will neither get your fingers dirty, nor smell funny.  On the other hand, if you just don't feel like it, I'll accept that as an excuse.

[Pococurante]

They make my fingers dirty and comics have a funny odour.

Are we still talking about comics?

[Llava]

No.  I won't read any of them, although the husband has quite a few old Brit comics.  They make my fingers dirty and comics have a funny odour.

It's spelled ODOR you loopy foreigner.

Also, it's ZEEEE not, ZED.  And ARRRR, not OR.  HAICH instead of AICH I'll give you.  But that's it.  I've had about enough of your shenanigans.

[HaemishM]

The trailer wasn't bad. A bit too Matrix-y for me what with the spinning knives and shit. I'm sure Bob will hate it with the white-hot passion of the sun. I still haven't read this one oddly enough, so I've no idea how close it is to the original.

[Daydreamer]

Hard to say from just the trailer, but it looks at first glance like the only thing they did was up the size of the action pieces a bit, which was to be expected.  All of the dialogue used in the trailer is taken almost verbatim from the comic as far as I can tell.

[MaceVanHoffen]

I am a huge freaking geek.  With that out of the way:

Ok, so after watching the trailer I got nostalgic, and picked up a new copy of the compiled V for Vendetta (I had the old Warrior issues, most of which have long since disintegrated since I had bought them new as a elementary schooler).  I reread it this evening and fell in love all over again.  The only story of its general bend that comes close for me is Transmetropolitan, which I am now forced to reread for comparison.  But I digress ...

So, the trailer.  I watched it again, and had the graphic novel open to compare.  A huge amount of dialogue and imagery from the trailer is right in the comics.  Evey's head shaving and interrogation, the 'ideas are bulletproof' line, and V as a human bomb all come to mind.  I'm now much more confident that this movie will be true to the novel, as confident as anyone can be given a few seconds of film.

But after rereading graphic novel, I have to admit that I'm less sure that this should be made into a film.  So much of the novel's appeal to me lies in the fact that huge swaths of story are nothing but stills.  No sound effects, dialogue, thought bubbles, or words of any kind.  Just the artist conveying the story in its purest, silent form.  That's not exactly what the blockbuster movie crowd typically makes or wants.

I really hope I'm wrong, but I think no matter how good the filmmakers are, they're going to have to contend with source material that inherently resists translation to the big screen.

[stray]

That's not exactly what the blockbuster movie crowd typically makes or wants.

I doesn't look like they're shooting for that anyways. Anything with Stephen Rea and John Hurt is subdued, downplayed, and most of all, unexciting for anything resembling a popcorn crowd. Because of those guys, you can almost count on this not being a Summer type movie. That's what made me not hate the trailer at least.

[Shockeye]

V Pushed Back To 2006

V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March, a Warner Brothers spokesperson told SCI FI Wire. In a statement, Warner said: "We have moved the release date of V For Vendetta to March 17, 2006, to accommodate the movie's post-production schedule."

The spokesperson, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, denied that the delay had anything to do with the movie's subject matter or the current political climate. V for Vendetta has come under scrutiny for the coincidence of its subject matter and the recent terrorist bombings in London.

V for Vendetta, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is set in an alternate universe in which the United Kingdom has a fascistic government, and the film centers on a self-styled anarchist terrorist who bombs London, assassinates government officials and models himself on notorious British traitor Guy Fawkes, who is burned in effigy in the U.K. every Nov. 5. In Moore's graphic novel, which was written in the 1980s, a climactic scene deals with a bombing in the London Underground.

At Comic-Con International in San Diego last month, producer Joel Silver told SCI FI Wire that he was unconcerned about the film's themes and called it a controversial movie for controversial times. "I mean, it's a difficult time, but I think that it's a smart movie," Silver said in a news conference. "It's that horrible word: intellectual. I mean, you have to think about the movie. ... It isn't just a teen slasher movie."

The movie is produced by The Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski and stars Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.

[Trippy]

V Pushed Back To 2006
V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March, a Warner Brothers spokesperson told SCI FI Wire. In a statement, Warner said: "We have moved the release date of V For Vendetta to March 17, 2006, to accommodate the movie's post-production schedule."

Well jeez why not just delay it till May then instead of releasing during the quarter when all the crap movies get released.

[WayAbvPar]

Well jeez why not just delay it till May then instead of releasing during the quarter when all the crap movies get released.

I think you answered your own question.