Whats your take on this?

I love it. It's like 1984 fanfiction with a happier ending.

>It completley missed the point
How so?

OP here, I don't know if you like reading comics online, but here's the link for V
archive.org/details/VForVendetta_201507/page/1

i like how there's a little bit of character development for all the different people in the movie from V to everyone v had killed. character development for villains is something we rarely see now and it's even more rare when it's done properly.

I interpret it as "what would a supervillain look like in Airstrip One?"

Pretty dull and boring. V is nonsensically overpowered and is a complete Gary Stu. All of the antagonists are one dimensional mustache twirling douchebags that aren’t interesting in the slightest. Fan base is made up of notoriously terrible larpers.

The comic was about two extremes, anarchism versus fascism. The movie was about American Democrats versus a caricature of Bush-era Republicans.

You're talking about the movie, right?

>All of the antagonists are one dimensional mustache twirling douchebags
>t. only watched the movie

Watchmen is, partially, a deconstruction of silver and golden age capecomics, as well as cold War fear. It lost importance because those aspects are lost if you didn't grow up on that era.

V is still relevant because totalitarianism and big brother state are still relevant.

I only read the comic. How are the villains likable in any capacity? They are all Nazis.

Are hot serious?
"one dimensional mustache twirling douchebags" is not the opposite of likeable.

Nice observation, I am actually 22 years old and never understood why watchmen was so hyped beyond the philosophy and political criticism, its really a generation thing.

They're still shown as human beings. They've done bad things, but they're more complex and fleshed out than Star Wars stormtroopers.

Detective Finch even manages to turn around and quit the system. That last panel of him walking alone up the highway is more moving than that scene at the end of the film where everybody takes off their masks.

well, it goes beyond the philosophy and politics, it's the multilayered worldbuilding and character development, the experimetation with the medium to serve the narrative, the masterful use of the art and composition to emphasize the narrative, etc.

I loved it, but not as much as Watchmen.

I like that Alan Moore considers it to be a relatively immature comic. mostly because he thinks it's laughable now that it would take such big changes to push a country into fascism.