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01/14/09
He cares deeply for the quality of his art, and when he sees the crapfest which have been every single one of his film adaptations, he becomes understandably incensed. He's also been screwed over by the big companies, little companies, colleagues, mouth-breather fanboys, high sheriffs, and the ever-present censorship christitard asswipe brigade. I'd be a little miffed myself.
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My problem with V for Vendetta is manifold: Transforming Evey's character from a waifish semi-urchin to an far more self-satisfied career woman dilutes the character and removes some of the motivation required to drive her decisions; the loss of the Helen Meyer, Derek & Rosemary Almond subplot; the lack of the grand epic sweep needed to see the UK fall into anarchy; and the chopped up exposition of the Larkhill visit by Eric Finch. That said, Hugo Weaving was brilliant and I enjoyed the updated mass media manipulation presented in the film.
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Alan Moore may be a genius, but he's also kind of a madman.
Which, I guess, lends credence to the proposition.
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Also, would you please sign my beard?"
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The Godfather. But yeah, freak occurrence.
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I've yet to see any kind of concrete sourcing on that one.
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Beaver Patrol RULES.
01/14/09
It comes from that Pop Will Eat Itself song (Can You Dig It?). The song just lists things from pop culture that they like. It has lines like:
"We dig Marvel and D.C"
and
"We dig Optimus Prime and not Galvetron, We dig The Leader of the Pack and the Do-Run-Run, Spinderella and Bruce Lee, The Bad and the Ugly,
V for Vendetta, and Into the Groovy"
and finally
"Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn, Dirty Harry, Make my day,
Terminator, hit the north, Alan Moore knows the score"
I've just always thought of the song as a nerd anthem. Plus it has samples from The Warriors. You really can't go wrong with that.
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@Mount_Prion: hell yeah bitch! my sister turned me onto them way back when. i can't hear "Def.Con.One." without thinking of her and giggling.
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I haven't heard anything about the Watchmen film adaptation and whether he despises that, probably does knowing him. It's just annoying as hell. As brilliant as he is, he has the ego of the world combined.
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and his issue with Watchmen, as stated in interviews many times, is that the comic was written with that medium in mind, the story and how it is executed are dependant on the structure/form/limitations/unique opportunities only available in comics - so to adapt it to film rejects many of the, to Moore/Gibbons, essential elements of the work. The point, I think, is not that the makers of Watchmen will fuck it up (see From Hell, LoEG, VfV) but that it's not supposed to be a movie at all.
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and the McTeigue/Wachowski 'house style' was inappropriate IMO...
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"He shows me his altar to the Roman snake god Glycon. "He was exposed as a glove-puppet in the second century"."
- [www.guardian.co.uk]
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I like what Terry Pratchett does: He starts every Q&A with: "The answer to your first question is a corner shop near charing cross." Which of course answers the first question...
On a completely non sci-fi related note, I met the author Mal Peet today, and he was completely awesome!
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