ok, not really. but i saw "
v for vendetta" last night.
note: my opinion doesn't matter...
i don't really like comic book movies (except for maybe the christopher reeve superman movies - note 2: i thought the sin city movie was horrible), but this movie was better than i thought it would be. it has some absurdly cheesy moments like all hollywood comic adaptations, but as a movie it was better than most of them (note 3: not that i read comics). i found the terrorist as hero theme of it kinda unsettling coming out right now (kinda like if fight club were to come out today - just seems like they want to cause a stir with it - seeing as the original story came out in 1983 - which in itself is kind of scary that it holds up today), and of course i don't like the violent parts cos, believe it or not, i hate watching overly violent scenes and usually think they're more an excuse to display blood ejaculation than anything (note 4: i hate movies like kill bill). There really weren't that many violent scenes though. I heard the writer of the comic damned the movie and didn't want to have any part of it, probably for good reason. A lot of the dialogue in the movie, which I'm guessing is pulled straight out of the comic, is that masturbatory nerd rhetoric, written in that "nerd-hero dialogue" where the hero says all these things that sound like what I imagine a comic nerd would wish he woulda said after the big kids at school beat him up. Those who i saw it with who read the comic said the movie was awful in comparison...
i think it was worth a night of movie-ing. More than anything, it put me back into "I'd like to watch more good movies" mode, which I haven't been in in years. After I left the theater, I went home and flipped through channels and saw
Casino was on TV.
Sweet sweet casino (hurray for violent scenes that illustrate a story instead of stopping it for a second to show you a slow motion mortal combat music video!).