Considering it was a book distilled into a movie and all, I thought it was a pretty good adaptation. Faithful to the feeling of the book, even if some of the nuances were lost.
The obligatory Wachowski fight scene was... I don't know. As a mass-market film, it needed something to indicate 'the ending is approaching.' If it had gone the way of the book, it might've seemed too abrupt.. so it's not entirely worthless, but it is a concession to the medium.
It's also worth mentioning that it is suggested he is somewhat superhuman in the book, and that the movie downplays this... of course, it also omits some of the 'everyman' reinforcement. I think this is really the first work where Moore displayed himself as something more than a comic-book writer, but as an early work, it has some imperfections.
I don't know, in theory you could control all television in the US from one station; wasn't that how the emergency broadcast system was supposed to work?
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Date: 2006-03-26 07:34 am (UTC)The obligatory Wachowski fight scene was... I don't know. As a mass-market film, it needed something to indicate 'the ending is approaching.' If it had gone the way of the book, it might've seemed too abrupt.. so it's not entirely worthless, but it is a concession to the medium.
It's also worth mentioning that it is suggested he is somewhat superhuman in the book, and that the movie downplays this... of course, it also omits some of the 'everyman' reinforcement. I think this is really the first work where Moore displayed himself as something more than a comic-book writer, but as an early work, it has some imperfections.
I don't know, in theory you could control all television in the US from one station; wasn't that how the emergency broadcast system was supposed to work?