movie review
If I was better-read, I could tell you if there are as many novels worthy of adaptation as their graphic counterparts, but I am not very well read.
"V for Vendetta" is a good movie, and a polarizing one. It is the meterstick I will now use to guage the worth of film critics.
Enjoy the long monologues. The simple metaphors that feel both broad and personal.
Enjoy the cruelty of the hero and enjoy...character development, as you may not see it again this year.
This week, Sarah has no right leg and I have no left, but we walk everywhere and we dance as we always dance. To the best of our abilities. In basements, where the sun will never wake us. In pain.
looked back upon, our week will smell like whiskey. like polyurethane and eucalyptus. A million other words I'm too dumb to spell and worlds I'm too dull to describe, all copped and pursed from place to place.
In the lights, we do not belong. we are ghosts watching tourists watching screens where people watch people on screens where people watch people on screens where...ad infinitum like MC Escher or Mtv.
A mouse has joined us in the apartment. He's not great company but he's happy to get fed. It's hard to find a spot to lay your head in the city and everybody's happy just to get some sleep. It's good to know that we'll wake up tired even when we make our own schedules.
Today, we held hands and watched fish die. We ate like Jews and rode the subway. We popped pills and Tic Tacs and limped up stairwells. We let our mouths drop at the same stupid moments and didn't get into any arguments.
We went to a Chinese gun store today. To be sure it was more for kitch than protection, but I can't let go of the idea thatI shold be taking up arms. That's how they got the Panthers, though. That's how they get everyone they can't get for tax evasion, and now they can't get their names on a streetsign. Not that that's anything, martyrdom is the romantic part, not honour, and definitely not an honorary parkway.
I wish I could tell my story in pictures, like French cavemen and Jack Chick, but I haven't got an outline yet. I haven't even sketched the characters.
Here though, is a list:
My personal opinion on the top threebest comic book movie adaptations to date (in no real order):
1. V for Vendetta, based on the comic by Alan Moore
2. The Maxx (actually a miniseries developed for television), based on the comic by Sam Kieth
3. Sim City, based on the comic by Frank Miller
Very-close-but-not-quite honorable mentions:
1. Ghost World, based on the comic by Daniel Clowes
2. Batman Begins, based on the character created by Bob Kane
3. X Men 2, based on the characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first film and none of its successors), based on the comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
5. Heavy Metal, based on a number of comics from early issues of Heavy Metal Magazine
6. American Splendor, based on the comic by (and life of) Harvey Pekar
7. The Crow, based on the comic by James O'Barr
The worst adaptations of the best comics:
1. Spawn, based on the comic by Todd Mcfarlane
2. Tank Girl, based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett
3. Hellboy, based on the comic by Mike Mignola
There is one line in the movie that I feel relevant:
"A revolution without dancing, is a revolution not-worth having."
it's good to know that the girl I like gets as teary-eyed as I do,
to scenes of an armed peoples revolution.
confidential to Peanut Butter Jenny: thank you for the conversation over pancakes last week. we have many more comix to discuss and bootlegs to trade. I eagerly await our next chance encounter
"V for Vendetta" is a good movie, and a polarizing one. It is the meterstick I will now use to guage the worth of film critics.
Enjoy the long monologues. The simple metaphors that feel both broad and personal.
Enjoy the cruelty of the hero and enjoy...character development, as you may not see it again this year.
This week, Sarah has no right leg and I have no left, but we walk everywhere and we dance as we always dance. To the best of our abilities. In basements, where the sun will never wake us. In pain.
looked back upon, our week will smell like whiskey. like polyurethane and eucalyptus. A million other words I'm too dumb to spell and worlds I'm too dull to describe, all copped and pursed from place to place.
In the lights, we do not belong. we are ghosts watching tourists watching screens where people watch people on screens where people watch people on screens where...ad infinitum like MC Escher or Mtv.
A mouse has joined us in the apartment. He's not great company but he's happy to get fed. It's hard to find a spot to lay your head in the city and everybody's happy just to get some sleep. It's good to know that we'll wake up tired even when we make our own schedules.
Today, we held hands and watched fish die. We ate like Jews and rode the subway. We popped pills and Tic Tacs and limped up stairwells. We let our mouths drop at the same stupid moments and didn't get into any arguments.
We went to a Chinese gun store today. To be sure it was more for kitch than protection, but I can't let go of the idea thatI shold be taking up arms. That's how they got the Panthers, though. That's how they get everyone they can't get for tax evasion, and now they can't get their names on a streetsign. Not that that's anything, martyrdom is the romantic part, not honour, and definitely not an honorary parkway.
I wish I could tell my story in pictures, like French cavemen and Jack Chick, but I haven't got an outline yet. I haven't even sketched the characters.
Here though, is a list:
My personal opinion on the top threebest comic book movie adaptations to date (in no real order):
1. V for Vendetta, based on the comic by Alan Moore
2. The Maxx (actually a miniseries developed for television), based on the comic by Sam Kieth
3. Sim City, based on the comic by Frank Miller
Very-close-but-not-quite honorable mentions:
1. Ghost World, based on the comic by Daniel Clowes
2. Batman Begins, based on the character created by Bob Kane
3. X Men 2, based on the characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first film and none of its successors), based on the comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
5. Heavy Metal, based on a number of comics from early issues of Heavy Metal Magazine
6. American Splendor, based on the comic by (and life of) Harvey Pekar
7. The Crow, based on the comic by James O'Barr
The worst adaptations of the best comics:
1. Spawn, based on the comic by Todd Mcfarlane
2. Tank Girl, based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett
3. Hellboy, based on the comic by Mike Mignola
There is one line in the movie that I feel relevant:
"A revolution without dancing, is a revolution not-worth having."
it's good to know that the girl I like gets as teary-eyed as I do,
to scenes of an armed peoples revolution.
confidential to Peanut Butter Jenny: thank you for the conversation over pancakes last week. we have many more comix to discuss and bootlegs to trade. I eagerly await our next chance encounter
1 Comments:
watched V for Vendetta recently, good effects, they packed a lot of a character into a man wearing a mask.... then again, maybe he was more than a man in a mask...
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