Remember, remember, the fifth of November... · 3:25am Aug 18th, 2014
the Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Hi, this is Pinkie Pie connecting again.
And here's the Great and Powerful Trixie being dragged to this meta madness again.
But this time, she's clean of drugs.
Tell Trixie again how is she able to see the creatures from beyond the wall without those zebra herbs.
Easy, the writer says so.
What a lazy explanation.
It's a fourth wall breaking explanation, it could be worse.
Like?
I haven't got an explanation for myself yet, and I've been doing it since day one.
Anyway, lets get this over with. Blaster was impressed by how interesting was to write us commenting about a movie he watched.
He lost a rib after reading it out loud.
And decided to have both of us, the Pink Headache and the Great and Powerful Trixie, to do it again. Trixie didn't wanted to do it but he was very convincing.
That means he was holding a cougar holding a chainsaw.
Trixie thinks he was still mad from when we hit him with his violin.
You think so? I mean, we repaired the violin and apologized and all.
Again, let's just forget it. So, the last movie Blaster watched and put him on reviewer mode was V...
For Vendetta:
What can we say about this movie?
It's awesome!
Although Trixie prefers epic fantasy, her great and powerful senses are not blind to the marvelous acting and the amazing set.
But the ending is so sad, I mean [overly long spoiler]
Come on, Pink One, at least there's hope in [more spoilers]. And what maters about the film is the scenes individuality, then as a whole pattern. The ending is just a small note for a full symphony.
I actually liked the romance between V and Evey and, oh boy, I think I laughed for a week after the Benny Hill scene.
Trixie actually believes that, although the Pink One doesn't need an excuse to do that. But to be honest, Trixie enjoyed it too.
*ring ring* Oh, hello? *telephone talk* Aha. *more telephone talk* A-ha. *even more telephone talk* Aaaa-ha. I'll tell her.
Tell who? Who was at the phone? Come on, answer Trixie.
It was Wave, he says he wants us to stop getting out of tract and give the movie an actual review.
Well, Trixie supposes that we should tell straight our favorites parts of the movie. For Trixie it was V's introduction. Hugo Weaving's use of the theatrical arts and expressions besides being hidden behind his mask . Actually, every scene where Weaving and the cameraman are able to give expressions to the Guy Fawkes' mask counts as a Trixie's favorite scene.
If you're going that way then I'll say... the next scene following the introduction. The use of the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is so awesome and the explosions just make it more epic.
Michael Bay has an orgasm every time this scene is played.
Wait, didn't you just used Blaster's catch words without the full capitals and exclamations?
Yeah, so?
Trixie hates what is going to happen.
*EPIC! DOOR-KICK! (volume two)*
HEEEEERE IS WAVE!
*puts radio on THAT song. Sounds of ponies being chased around the room, again.*
Seriously thought: Alan Moore, stop complaining. This movie is good on its own terms and the reason of the comics being so well know today. Also, the actors, director, writers and everyone else work here was flawless.
Disclaimer: No ponies and/or cougar were harmed before, during or after this blogpost writing. Wave Blaster doesn't recommend the use of felines or motorized tools as instruments of intimidation and fully condemns say intimidation in any sense that isn't comedic.
One last note: Do you guy like this? This whole Trixie and Pinkie commenting a movie? If so then let me know, and if you don't let me know why.
My MAIN complaint, and really it's just a very small thing. More of a minor nitpick.......... V was clearly the good guy. I mean yeah he was still kind of sketchy, but still you could say he was the good guy.
In the comic? He was NOT supposed to be the good guy, or at least not seen as a good guy by everyone. Moore wrote him in a way that made it hard to tell and everyone had their own ideas about him. Was he a hero in trying to topple this horrific government for the good of the people like he claimed, was he an anti-hero and letting his own desire for revenge drive him, was he a villain in causing so much destruction and death, or was he an anti-villain doing evil with an end goal being making things for the better?
I came away from the comic seeing him as an anti-hero, but I still like that people can discuss and debate if V was a hero or not in the comic. The movie...... I think that you could do the same in a movie.
But that's just me, as far as adaptations of Moore's works go? I'd put this ABOVE Watchmen, since while Watchmen was fantastically good, this managed to get the story perfectly unlike Watchmen.
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I think that the ambiguous morality isn't that lost in the movie. Sure the POV's and actions are driven to make it look like V is a good guy, but if we apply some fridge logic there's some things to consider:
Innocent bystanders: Okay, the Old Bailey and the Parliament seemed empty, but in a riot like the one from the November fourth there must be causalities. I say this in the knowledge of how destructive are those kind of events (here in Chile we've seen some street action).
Evey's torture: I don't care if it served to a purpose, he outright tortured a scared little girl just to make a point. The thing becomes worse when you remember that Sutler uses the 'the end justifies the means' idea as his main motivation. Now, what V just did?
Not saving Gordon: In various scenes it's obvious that V can win a fight against various targets without breaking a sweat (the fingermen, the broadcasting building). He was there and could have saved Grodon too, but he chose to not do so. This serves to have Creedy alive to fulfill his roll as the Starscream (again, using the end to justify the means).
I admit that film!V isn't as ambiguous as comic!V but the idea of being as bad as the government is still present.
And yes, alongside Sin City, V for Vendetta is one of the most accurate movie adaptations ever (Watchmen is accurate too, just except for the ending).
Btw, what do you think of this review? Should I do more or stop right here?
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Man, I love that scene too.
To be honest, V is a walking Crowning Moment of AWESOME! His death has to be a worth end.
Now that you say it. Watchmen and V for Vendetta being Moore's most well know works, gives me an idea:
Rorschach versus V. The objective man against anarchy incarnated. Who would win?
2378897 Fair points. I always say V as an anti-hero if only because, he was fighting English versions of Nazis. And when you're fighting Nazis, that makes you AT LEAST an anti-hero.
Also Sin City was naturally the best adaptation of a comic. It had it's original writer and artist as a co-director! I still stand by my statement that Sin City is Miller's BEST if ONLY because the way he made Sin City, makes his BAD writing work. He's only a BAD writer when he's working on something OTHER than Sin City. Sin City is still good and I look forward to seeing A Dame to Kill For.
Also yeah keep these coming
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Fighting Nazis always makes you an instant hero.
Sin City is how Frank Miler's mind works now. Every time he tries to do anything else, it ends being Sin City with another setting, which totally destroys said setting (for example, All-Star Batman and...)
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Yeah, V is some kind of failed super soldier meanwhile Rorschach is just a street fighter (an incredibly effective street fighter but still).
And yeah, now every Moore fan will cry for blood because of that statement, but to be honest I knida agree with you (I'm so dead right now), but the squid ending works too, only that it needs all the build up from the comic to have any sense, meanwhile in the movie they don't have that space to explain all the backstory and so, the changed ending makes more sense in the silver screen (I wonder what does Moor thinks about it).
2378972 Now you could KINDA see some beginnings of Sin City in The Dark Knight Returns, but it was NOWHERE near the level it's gotten too now.
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I know, it was very gradual, from Daredevil, to Year One, to Returns and so till getting in that dark place, in a hidden alley between the buildings of Basin City.