What's the /tv/ consensus on this? Just reshown on SyFy

>>82802463
What was bad about the casting? I thought everyone did a great job.

I haven't watched it since High School but it's way better than most capeshit.

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>I've read the screenplay, so I know exactly what they're doing with it, and I'm not going to be going to see it. When I wrote "V," politics were taking a serious turn for the worse over here. We'd had [Conservative Party Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher in for two or three years, we'd had anti-Thatcher riots, we'd got the National Front and the right wing making serious advances. "V for Vendetta" was specifically about things like fascism and anarchy.

>Those words, "fascism" and "anarchy," occur nowhere in the film. It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.

>Alan gave some details about bits of the V For Vendetta shooting script he'd seen. "It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."

>What Moore found most laughable however were the details. "They don't know what British people have for breakfast, they couldn't be bothered. 'Eggy in a basket' apparently. Now the US have 'eggs in a basket,' whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought 'eggy in a basket' was a quaint and Olde Worlde version. And they decided that the British postal service is called Fedco. They'll have thought something like, 'well, what's a British version of FedEx... how about FedCo? A friend of mine had to point out to them that the Fed, in FedEx comes from 'Federal Express.' America is a federal republic, Britain is not."

>>82802463

casting was fine, and the writing is ok, the problem is it comes off as too goofy and capeshit-esque when it should have been a bit more serious and gritty like the comic

>>82802524
>it's full of plot holes
>can't name a single one
>can only nitpick irrelevant names of breakfast items

Sounds like he posts here desu. Also, eggs in the basket has dozens of names, and is in fact British.

>>82802524
>dude Thatcher is a dictator lmao

Sounds like the film improved his work

>>82802505

Stephen Rea in particular

>>82802524

moore is based

he's 100% right for hating hollywood's movies of his work

>>82802629

For a Britfag watching it, the writing grates a bit. We never say "cop" and seldom say "bollocks", little things like that, the pronunciation of "lever" should have been ironed out

I read the comics when they came out (probably too young). They capture something of the time, especially around the miner's strike. I just remember it being colder and darker than it gets now. Everything was worn out and all the more jarring for being 60s and 70s stuff. Its an era of pool's coupons, rented TVs and fish & chips.

Could be best remade as a period piece, Tinker Taylor style.

>>82802872
Fair cop*

*I learned this phrase from Monty Python