Day Three Hundred and Seven - More V

Yesterday Joseph and I succeeded in actually renting a film. This in itself could be considered an ET for me as apparently we never rent us up some movies [I noticed this because we had to pay a late fee from when we rented Ringu on my birthday last year...so yeah...we rent like one movie a year, which I think is a bit unusual]. Generally speaking we will go see a film @ the cinema when it's released if we are interested in seeing it...so there is no point in renting unless it's something old or foreign or weird. This film was really none of the above, but I was frustrated that we missed it on Teletoon and I have no patience to wait on it to re-air. So tonight I watched V For Vendetta. Yes, it's the graphic novel that just keeps on giving. It was...okay..okay-ish...not terrible? Yeah, something like that.

There are extremely rare occasions when the film is better [or can stand on its own] than its original source material. I can think of...I dunno...let's say three films that are good examples of this: American Psycho [the book is better, but a totally different animal and the film is solid on its own], Gone With The Wind [though Joseph would say the movie is terrible too] and Brokeback Mountain [the short story has its charms, but has nothing on the film. I think Bladerunner might also be a good example, but I've not read the book. The thing is - V For Vendetta is a very manageable [in terms of size, if not content/language] graphic novel. One could easily do it up Robert Rodriguez/Sin City style and just rip the source directly and beautifully. It would still come in around two hours. Why make silly and arbitrary changes? If you don't want to tell that story [and the film does tell a very different story and has different themes] then write the story you want to tell. Don't bother pissing off Alan Moore - he really seems to be generally pissed off enough. Those Matrix brothers are really...quite something. I would be greatly amused if they could make a film that would sincerely entertain me.