V For Vendetta by The Wachowski brothers.
With the advent of another huge comic book movie coming out this weekend I was hard pressed to find something to recommend. I know there aren't many good ones to choose from and the ones that kept battling it out in my head were V, Sin City, the recent Batman films, 300, and a few others. The Crow also had an honorable mention in there as well. In the end I decided to go with V because it's from the same author of Watchmen, Allen Moore, and this movie is supposed to be the closest adaptation to his original writing as ever. Movie adaptations haven't always been that kind to their original works especially for Moore (V, From Hell) but the Wachowski brothers did do a decent job with this one and made a good movie. Hugo Weaving does an excellent job as V and Natalie Portman was an absolute pleasure to watch as Evey. She is also one of the few women in the world that can manage to look sexy with a shaved head. Though the material came from a graphic novel they managed to shake off all the usual things Hollywoodizing does to movies with similar source material which even the most recent Bat-films haven't done yet (ie Batman's voice and the unnecessary sky diving scene in Hong Kong). I chose V because Moore's material has always been more dense than any other graphic novel author I know and this movie presents his material in a grown up way. I love Frank Miller and think he's one of the greatest authors out there, but Sin City and 300 are more of the "mature readers" sort of then when put along side with this. So fire up those lenses in your DVD/Blu-ray players (or HDDVD drives if you happen to own it in that format like me) and give this a watch this week.
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