Alan Moore is a hilarious madman.

I wonder if they talk about the "Watchmen Babies: V for Vacation".

He's a little more of what I expected than I expected, if that makes any sense...

I highly recommend avoiding his Voice in the Fire book. I have no idea how it got 4.5/5 stars on amazon.

[www.amazon.com]

the only accurate review:

"I've been reading Moore's comics writing for 15 years, and sought out a copy of this book based on its intriguing premise: A look at the darker history of the world over 5000 years from a single place in England.

Unfortunately, the book is all style and almost no substance. There's the "mangled English" chapter, the "no punctuation" chapter, the "told by a dead man" chapter, and everything is told in first person present tense. The final chapter introduces another hoary and annoying literary trick, and none of these tricks are in the least interesting. They just make the book harder to read.

The book itself is a collection of tenuously linked short stories, usually involving characters who come to bad ends. The story suggests an obsession with sex and death, and it often does its best to get in as many erotic and/or scatalogical references as it can. There's no overall plot or even theme to the stories, and at one point the text itself suggests that anyone looking for meaning or redemption is going to be disappointed.

And disappointing it is. Other than the clever second chapter about a woman who impersonates a woman she murdered to gain a dying shaman's riches, Voice of the Fire is a struggle to get through all the way. Even if you find a copy of this book, I wouldn't bother with it. I was bitterly disappointed with it. "

Allan Moore has just issued a press statement wanting to take his name of this film adaptation of his life story.

Alan Moore knows the score.

He did "live the dream" for a few years there.

What?! They filmed Alan Moore and a portal to Hell didn't open in a small, unsuspecting town?! I'm disappointed :(

@lizfu: That portal was opened 55 years ago.

@engtech: While I can't really argue with any of the criticisms in that review, I still rather enjoyed Voice in the Fire.

Perhaps you were really hoping to finally read Fogdancing?

We should all practice the same form of Anarchy as he does.

@gods-n-clods:
You mean you aren't?

Moore is a shaman and I'd read anything he writes. That said, Lost Girls was a slog. I was glad to fight the good fight by buying it (and how weird that a book that faced such censorship came out of Atlanta, the boringest large city in the USA?), but felt creepy reading it. I'm sure that's what he intended, but it stretched the definition of "entertainment" to the breaking point.

Excellent, the one time I found this DVD for sale it was ridiculously expensive.

Sounds like someone's been playing Alpha Centauri.

As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary and enter a new state. No longer a solid or liquid, we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available space. And like a gas, we shall not be easily contained.

Sister Miriam Godwinson
"But for the Grace of God"

Anyway, I always find Mister Moore an interesting man, even if I don't agree with what he says that much.

He's so tiring.

I don't really get this whole Moore fandom thing. All he makes is comic books, after all, and he doesn't even draw those. Plus he'll license his stuff at the drop of a hat, but you can be sure he'll condemn and disown it in the next breath.

Thanks for all the interest in this film.

The quality on here is obviously very bad as it's a direct bootleg from the DVD and not seen as intended on Dolby 5.1 sound with a sharp picture.

We produced it independently and shot on film, so all of these costs we're hoping to recoup through your support. If you would like to see this film with all the extras please visit www.shadowsnake.com

We respect the free spirit of the internet, but intellectual property is also a concept that should be respected as it is the basis of most modern commerce and without selling DVDs, it simply means that we as film makers spent years producing this film, borrowing and begging money of third parties without the fair chance to recoup it back.

Radiohead gave people the option to get the album for free or pay, but they can tour and still make a living. Most artist, especially filmmakers can't.

Best regards,

Charisse Vyzelman
Associate Producer
Shadowsnake Films

A last note on free digital content:

It's interesting to see that traditional distribution models obviously are crumbling and especially for film makers (with huge costs when it comes to cinema screenings and DVD production) it is not clear where they will get their revenue from. So the fact that this film is mentioned here as "Free documentary" means that in a few years from now, we'll be looking at mostly cheaply produced reality TV or material from Major Studios because it's otherwise not worth the years of effort. Artists have to pay bills too.

Meanwhile a lot of these sites playing the "free" films are hypocritically getting revenues from all the clicks they get online without having to produce any content at all. Nice.

"AlterTube has posted a 2003 documentary about him, which you can watch for free after the jump."

Or you might equally say, "AlterTube has posted a rip of a commercially available DVD". Would io9 post a rip of a recent Hollywood film in this way? If not then why is it okay to do so with an independent movie?

Okay, so it appears my mild complaint yesterday wasn't sufficiently sympathetic enough to be allowed in here. Everything is free now apart from speech, right Kevin? In that case I'll have no qualms about deleting you wretches from my blogroll, despite my friend Geoff Manaugh being on the staff and getting a link here to my Hugh Ferriss posting back in December. Comic Mix at least had the good grace to link to the filmmaker's site as well.

Fo the full story behind the AlterTube posting of the movie and subsequent DOS attacks, go here:

[www.alterati.com]

You can make up your own mind.