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I was pretty obvlivious to all the polical overtones having not really read the news behind the movie.

We had a screening of it at my school and for what it's worth, it's a pretty cool movie. I haven't read the graphic novel, so I'm not sure how well fans will like it, but it seems to appeal to the average audience pretty well. It's fun, original, and spends more time on the story than with action.

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Seriously, where is this hatred for Alan Moore? I keep reading about it in Cinematical posts, but haven't read or heard anything elsewhere...

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It must not be too well know since I've never seen anywhere that Alan Moore made such a statement.I've heard him say he doesn't want to be involved in a movie projects. I've heard him say his stories aren't written to be made into movies. He just ignores the movies. I've never heard him say he hates his project being made into movies. I think you are putting words into his mouth.
Here's an excerpt from an article last year

:: Alan's oft-repeated stance on this is that the original comics remain untouched. "As long as I could distance myself by not seeing them, enough to keep them separate, take the option money, I could be assured no one would confuse the two. This was probably na? on my part."

This has changed. Speaking to me on Friday, Moore added to this sentiment, telling me "after the films came out, I began to feel increasingly uneasy, I have a dwindling respect for cinema as it is currently expressed." This came to a head when Alan Moore was sued as part of a suit against 20th Century Fox for plagiarism of the screenplay "Cast Of Characters" which bore heavy resemblance to the movie version of "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" starring Sean Connery.

However, by 20th Century Fox settling the case, Moore felt this was almost an admission of his guilt.

Moore felt that enough was enough and decided that if something was worth reacting to, "it was worth overreacting to." He stated "I'd have nothing to do with films anymore. If I owned the sole copyright, like with 'Voice Of The Fire,' there would not be a film. Anything else, where others owned copyrights, I'd insist on taking my name off future films. All of the money due to me would go to the artists involved. I'd divorce myself from the film process, the film industry and any adaptations. And I felt a sense of moral satisfaction." ::

The full article is here http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2153

I think Steven is right, Cinematical post are speaking for and involving Alan in something he has taken no part in, and his main outburst involving this film was an untrue claim that he was involved with the film. Since he is not supporting the movie, posters here are trying to make him the bad guy. Yes he did trash an early version of the script, but that was just his opinion. Like everyone here he's entitled to one. But I haven't heard Alan hims say anything about the film that he didn't say last year, which basically was I have no interest in it and was not going to see it.

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