Just saw it last night on teevee. terrible movie, but a very interesting plot line that mirrors current U.S. politics in a pretty controversial way.

Has ken hanke seen it?  I was hoping to find a review, but it appears he didnt review it…

It’s a gutless parable about the Bush administration set in England made by cowards who couldn’t write a parable of their own.

Jason Bugg - 28 June 2008 02:15 PM

It’s a gutless parable about the Bush administration set in England made by cowards who couldn’t write a parable of their own.

hunh? Can you elaborate on that a bit, jasysun?  What do you mean ‘couldnt write a parable on their own”? IS is stolen?

The original was a rather ambiguous story about fascism and anarchism set in Thatcher’s England in the mid-Eighties. The writers of the movie took a story that made readers ask themselves questions about Freedom over Security and direct action’s place in our world and boiled it down to a rather simple and incredibly stupid point so that all of the Bushtards too lazy to read and make a point on their own can watch it on their idiot box and blithely say “yeah” at the screen. It’s bottled rebellion that takes Alan Moore’s original work and bastardizes it.

But don’t take my word for it, read up on it.

Jason Bugg - 28 June 2008 07:36 PM

The original was a rather ambiguous story about fascism and anarchism set in Thatcher’s England in the mid-Eighties. The writers of the movie took a story that made readers ask themselves questions about Freedom over Security and direct action’s place in our world and boiled it down to a rather simple and incredibly stupid point so that all of the Bushtards too lazy to read and make a point on their own can watch it on their idiot box and blithely say “yeah” at the screen. It’s bottled rebellion that takes Alan Moore’s original work and bastardizes it.

But don’t take my word for it, read up on it.

This is true. Alan Moore wrote the comic, but disowned the movie version. I actually enjoyed the film, and thought it made a few good points about the nature of terrorism, but I can’t deny that it was something of a wank-flick for the black-hoodie/bandana crowd.

Interestingly, I was never able to finish the comic. Generally speaking, I like Moore’s work, but I thought it was kind of dull.

It was dull. The movie was made for drones who just nod and go “yeah” when told to do so.

There was a great quote from the investigating detective that I really like that went someting along the lines of: “If you knew your government was responsible for an attack on our homeland that killed thousands, would you want to know about it” that I really liked.

I had no idea about the comic, though.

Thanks for the tip, Jason. You are my superhero.

Thanks dude.

The only virtue of the movie’s existence is that it might interest more people in reading the book. I feel the movie actually does the book a great disservice, by blunting its message and diluting its ideals. The movie is essentially reformist, a call for (the right kind of) democracy as a defense against tyranny (the many V’s). The book is revolutionary. Read the book.