V For Vendetta?

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2006)

I will start out by saying that this movie was actually an OK movie. It got really dull around the middle of the movie when it was very clear that they were no longer reading the book for advice. many of the characters do not fulfill the roles they play in the story and many of the stories best scenes are taken out, to be replaced by scenes that actually take away from the emotional dexterity of the movie.
There are two characters in the movie who are done very much like in the graphic novel, they are Evey Hammond and V, other than that, almost everything is different. Some scenes are similar, but small changes are made. In stead of playing Billie holiday in the shadow gallery he plays Diana Krall. Nothing major, but you also lose out on seeing how he gets away with all the stuff he does, you don't see all the artwork he really has and you do not see the emotional attachment to v and every that was clearly displayed in the book.
This movie was, at best, an OK movie, but it was a horrible adaptation. I do not see why people take a work they respect and mutilate it beyond recognition. I realize there are things one must change from one medium to another, for time or because simply it would make a boring film to watch people listen to a radio, rather than watch TV. How ever, there are some things that need to be left in tact, things that are crucial to the plot and characters.
I can see why Alan Moore was unsatisfied with the movie. you would think that after seeing the success Sin City had, that directors and such would want the movie to be as the original material was. What is the point for adapting a story if, in the end, you are not telling the same story?