Quint at Comic-Con: V FOR VENDETTA panel with Portman there and trailer shown!

This sounds great!

Which is when the movie actually comes out. Regardless, I'm excited to see this, even though I havent read the comic. I read Sin City a couple of weeks before the movie came out, I think I'll do the same for this.

I just assumed that Smith was Weaving's american accent and Elrond was his regular one... can't wait to hear this new incarnation.

Thats correct. No way your first. And nobody cares.

After all the crapfest movies based on his work, it's no wonder he wouldn't sign off on it.

Sort of like Sinead O'Connor. I got to wonder how this will play in the UK, although I'm there opening day whatever.

Love the introduction to the book - a perfect description of our culture. Possibly even more apt now as more people watch Big Brother than watch the news or vote in European Parliament elections. I seriously hope that this isn't toned done one iota because of the bombings as I think we Brits are (on the whole) smart enough to tell the difference between fiction and reality. Although will there have to be an explanatory monologue for the majority of American cinemagoers who won't have a clue what happened on the Fifth of Novemeber?

Heh. That would be Mark Twain and yeah, that was some good shit. "You idiot, it's a comic book by Alan Moore! Rarrrrgghgh!" So yeah, I don't know if I can trust this David Lloyd person, because the issues that Alan Moore raised on whatever website it was where they asked him about the 'V for Vendetta' script were too vague to be interpreted either way. Both are speaking in their own interests. supertoys, you're probably right about that.

A friend of mine shaved her head for a charity thing recently and I gotta tell you, she looked so goddamn hot. It's grown out a bit now and she looks even better. Mind you, she was a stunner before.

I know it's your trademark but beyond a certain point you have to accept that it's over and if you keep repeating it you move into the realm of self-parody.

"How can those Hollywood liberals make a movie like this during our urgent war on terror?"

Freedom of speech bitch! Hell yeah!

Going after someone else would muddy their message. That filthy piece of shit Roger Friedman can only irrationally and vindictively hate one target at a time. Until he's does with Spielberg, a Wachowski terrorist movie is just going to have to wait.

With over two million cameras on street corners and roads, the UK has earned the tag:

866 should point you in the right direction.

It's my birthday. Shop now, avoid the rush.

This article annoyed the piss out of me. I read the graphic novel years ago and have since re-read it a couple of times, but because you read QUARTER of it the day you go to lick celebrity ass you think you can IDENTIFY with people like me???!!! It's a fucking cheek, don't even pretend to know the tone of this fucking book, or that you know how we'll feel or what we want from this filme. Fuck you!

I love how Quint is honest about his infatuation with Rachel Weisz...I can relate and I haven't met her in person..prolly a good thing...I don't need the frustration. She is uber-sexy though. Portman is more beautiful than sexy, and looks great above.

Perhaps all the Alan Moore freaks will read this and take their heads out of their asses and realize that V for Vendetta was *CO*-created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and that if one of them (the saner one) is happy with the script it might just be good after all.

...only because the Wackoff Bros. laid two big time turds with the last two MATRIX flicks (no excuses: utter laziness on their part -- buying too much of their press) and handing this off to a first time director who's done nothing but ass't directing work. And we know how much balls movie studios have. And by the way, re: the comment about "understanding terrorists" and the middle age lady shaking her head: Even Tony Blair said today that we have to start understanding their "hearts and minds" or the war will never end.

"We won't beat the terrorists until we realize they're not all-out eveil." Frickin' Duh. Calling terrorists evil doesn't mean those who are fighting them don't use intel to figure out their motives and why they do what they do. Genre creators use the same tired poses they used back in high school and get applauded for being "controversial" by people who find absolutely nothing controversial about that they're saying. (Imagine if this guy said "Terrorists are bastards and I applaud Bush and Blair for blowing them up before they get to me!") These tough-talking movie people use as stupid a cliche as calling someone evil--"We must understand." WTF does THAT mean--you want to figure out what they "want" and then give it to them? Compromise with them? (The way you always criticize Bush for doing when you find him doing anything but wholesale killing?) What they want is for infidels to convert or die; that bullshit "they're poor and that breeds terror" crap conveniently ignores that those who flew the planes on 9-11 were not poor, and UBL is hugely rich.****This IS on topic, btw, because it addresses what this fool filmmaker said. He's one of those embarassing people in the arts who says controversial things and makes controversial movies because he lives in that rarified world where he's probably not taking a tube or bus, so what does he care if he makes a pro-terrorist movie? I do not think he IS pro-terrorist, but he isn't afraid to make a movie about all the terrorist cliches, about how it's just a matter of one's point of view, because it will be inflammatory. The purpose of great art is to inspire, inflame, get the brain working, but this is just the opposite--it's a Rocky film for the Fahrenheit 9-11 set, a big pose for fanboys who can pretend they're seeing the film equivalent of Darkness at Noon, meaning, a piece of art on a subject that could easily be the stuff of junk fiction, when all they're really going for is to see Natalie Portman, so they can fantasize about her and wearing Phantom-like costumes and do, like, radical stuff like blowing up Parliament. Hype isn't just about mainstream crap, it's just better concealed when it's about something "controversial". I mean, does anyone seriously think this movie is going to give them anymore insight to the "reality" of terrorism that they can't get by looking at the useless slaughter on the streets of London?

Matrix trilogy rocks, Natalie Portman is very hot with a buzz cut and I have never read this comic. What the hell am I doing here? Um, sounds pretty damn cool though, Hugo Weaving is the shit.

You magnificent bastard, I salute you. Good point. Off topic---See Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it's fucking crazy.

You know what this movie needs? Vanilla Ice.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1692606,00.html***So much for the oppression of the evil westerners or whatever. Suicide bombers are thugs and murderers, not "hip" beings. Now go wash your Che! t-shirt, it stinks of petchuli.

Just the cliched terrorist-romanticizers who think terrorist movies are cool and totalitarian child killers like Che are neat, though they wouldn't if he were fat and didn't have that kicky chapeau.

I have to agree. I really cringe when I hear that sort of tired sentiment. It's like... thanks. The whole world is trying to figure out a way to stop this crisis - but you managed to solve all our problems with a single platitude. Cheers for that. Now... don't take that the wrong way. I'm all for the US and Britain and whoever else revising some of their foreign policy so as not to engender quite so much hatred(terrorist and non terrorist) for their asses. But that won't stop terrorism. Because this is about ideology, not economics. And like it or not the only way to put a stop to it is through force. Which is not to condone the Iraq war or really anything else that has been done in the name of the 'war on terror' since 9/11... the whole operation has been a right jolly fuck up as far as I can see and Iraq was never a terrorist threat. But what the west has gotten right and what posturing art school attention seekers (such as myself) get wrong more often than not is that at the end of the day, when all is said and done, these people want us dead due to ideological hatred. You can try to understand that hatred if you want, but ultimately that'll only be of worth if it helps you figure out a way to forcefully stop it's will from being achieved.

So has anybody gotten to the bottom of why James Purefoy is no longer involved?

Do they say anything before the big bang? Scream anything out, any prayer, anything? Or is it just sitting there, dum-de-dum.... bang? This probably makes me a sick cunt, but i had a thought after the london bombing of a guy on a bus turning to the person beside him and saying "Hey, pull my finger".

Pynchon6: are you stupid? Or a totalitarian yourself (and therefore a hypocrit too)? Or do you just simply have no idea about what V for Vendetta is actually about? For those who are unaware this is a story set in a Britain that is ruled by an extreme right wing military regime who have stripped the population of their civil rights and liberties and led the non-white population to extermination camps. In this context is a man who destroys political and military targets (as opposed to civiliain ones) in order to encourage a nation to rise up and reclaim their freedom a terrorist? Surely that would make your founding fathers terrorists too? The suggestion that this film is glorifying terrorists is deeply stupid.

Need to see that trailer. Leave the bullet time in.

Vanilla Ice would so work in this movie. tango fett get's my vote for directing the sequel. Put a hitload of shaky-cam in it too please! I want shaky-cam DURING bullet time, as 'nilla sings!

Nice to see one's work remembered. My favorite line out of the whole thing was "Mark Twain You Fucking Idiot" and the guy who commented that he never expected to see that sentence in his life.

Natalie Portman with buzzcut hair. I never dreamed it could be so wonderful...

What's a greater threat to democracy and freedom? Terrorism and facism? Of course right-wingers don't care. As long as they have control over the Head, Ear, Nose, and Mouth(damn those Hollywood liberals). Remember kids, you have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Whats a greater threat to democracy and freedom? Terrorism OR facism?

Yeah, it's true... as a Mark Twain fan, you just DON'T expect to see that phrase! You perfectly caught Samuel Clemens love of pulling pranks on an unsuspecting readership. On the topic, did ANYONE ask them that having the citezens dressing like V sorta missed the point of the book?

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The second anyone actually uses the term "thugs and killers" in a serious manner immediately makes any and all points they have null and void.

that made me laugh like a little school girl. who needs understanding when you have bombs.

BITCH I TOLD YOU BEFORE TO STOP USING PYNCHON AS YOUR NAME IF YOUR NOT GONNA be into conspriracy theories, write meta-fiction, be funny, and every other thing that the REAL THOMAS RUGGLES PYNCHON represents. I don't care if it's really your name, change it ya cunt! I've bitch-smacked your shit before and I'll flame you right back up yo moma's hairy twat if you don't desist.

Thanks for the kind words. I suspect Clemens would've approved. As for that phrase, I too NEVER thought I'd see that in my lifetime and it cracked me up every time I saw it. I'd like to think SC was busting a gut somewhere in Heaven as well.

I love how the big movie adaptaptations have to first weather the questions asked during a con while some panel is being is forced to answer the Q's, BECAUSE! A movie adaptation first has to win over the fans of the original to create a MAJOR BUZZ for the new film, or if the the "fan boys" of the orignal no not approve, months and months will be spent online bickering about how a new movie adpatation is going to "suck". I'm just saying....

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I saw a trailer on TV. V looks good. I hope it's a good film.

if it's consenual, i'm all for a little light bondange too. especially if it's with the lovery Natalie Portman-Skywalker. to paraphrase WEEN: "i loved her so long... since she was a child..."

Moviemack, you wrote, "NO ONE cares about this. No one." I disagree, Mack. I care about it, and so do many, many other people in the world. What you likely meant to write was, "I don't care about it." And if so, cool.

But you've got (what I assume to be) a Watchmen ref for a handle, so we'll forgive you. :)

Bullshit.

what watchmen is this you refer to? :-D Sorry i cant place your handle.