[chief_bigfoot]

"He wrote the series when he was afraid of a far-left socialist takeover of Britain."

I'm stuned, simply stuned. I caught an infomercial on M-TV about this movie. Their take was that his comic book series was in response to Magaret Thatcher's reign of conservative terror. I just can't fathom that such a solid source of information as M-TV would botch something as simple as a movie preview. /sarc off

[MadIvan]

The vendetta behind film V for Vendetta

As this article shows, he doesn't like the film. Anyway, I may have spoken too soon - he may have been anti-Mrs. Thatcher...I'll double check.

Regards, Ivan

[finnigan2]

"Their take was that his comic book series was in response to Margaret Thatcher's reign of conservative terror."

- I agree with your understanding.
I used to collect comic books and having Alan Moore's name on the cover as the "writer" of the storyline (he never did the artwork) always increased the comics value because his imaginative narratives appealed to the target buyers who were and are mostly teenagers.
Moore developed the original V series as a reaction against the then Prime Minister Margeret Thatcher whose get tough policies against British unions and their leftist supporters were very unpopular among the literati.
I was told by a comic book dealer at the time (but can't confirm) that Moore, who is famously eccentric, was openly gay which might account for the prominently bitter anti Christian tone.
Once the movie hit North America it was almost a foregone conclusion that the left leaning movie review community would pounce on it as being an anti Bush polemic as opposed to a 25 year old anti Thatcher rant and so some 70% of them have been giving it rave reviews just as they did for Fudgepack Mountain.
From the movie reviews that I have read, the movie is basically, like it's source, a Batman like fantasy only with strong political overtones.
While it seems to be doing well at the box office, I suspect it's audience, like the comic book, are mostly teenage mouth breathers and so it's political "message" will be largely lost among the colorful explosions and splashing blood which attracts them to it.