V: For Vendetta (Debbie Schlussel Updated Review Alert)

Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 03/08/06 | Debbie Schlussel

[goldstategop]

Hollywood's moonbat view of the War On Terror, on Bush's America, on evil Christians and on those conservative fascists cracking down on beautiful Muslims. A movie only Osama Bin Laden could love. This is what the Far Left thinks of the future: terrorists good, America (with the futuristic dystopian UK as an allegorical stand-in for Bush's America) bad. Skip it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Potowmack]

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised- the graphic novel was written in the early 80's by a leftist who feared that Ronald Reagan would start a nuclear war and that Maggie Thatcher would turn England into a fascist dictatorship.

That being said, V for Vendetta is one of the best-written graphic novels I have ever read. I roll my eyes at is politics, but it's a heck of a story. If the movie adaptation is half as good, it is certainly worth watching, politics aside.

[goldstategop]

In view of your comments, I'm not really surprised Hollywood made it. It fits their current view of America. To the Left, America IS the enemy.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[BadAndy]

This has Academy Award written all over it.

Defund Hollywood, if you must see or listen to their trash, download it.

[frogjerk]

Here we go again into "Farenheit 9/11" mode...In the movie "The Devil's Advocate" Satan played by Al Pacino came to earth in the form of a lawyer...very appropriate...but he could have easily been a Hollywood Director/Producer...

[Cyclopean Squid]

I think it looks promising. If it's a good movie, I can tolerate blatant propaganda. One of my favorite movies is Alexander Nevsky (of course, the film isn't contemporary in impact, nor does it target my viewpoints).

[The G Man]

The fear that ensued garnered Sutler the chance to rule England, along with the Marshal law powers the English parliament gave him.

I think that should be martial law, Debbie.

[goldstategop]

And this phobia about Christians? Tsk. Christians are portrayed in our movies in a negative light while Islam is either whitewashed or ignored. The reality about the religions are exactly the reverse but you won't know it from watching "V: For Vendetta" or any of the other Hollywood movies in which Christians are presented as a perpetual menance to all that is great and free in America.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[MplsSteve]

Speaking of "The Devil's Advocate", what did you think of it?

I enjoyed it immensely. I loved the scenes of dialogue between Pacino and Keanu Reeves.

[Potowmack]

In view of your comments, I'm not really surprised Hollywood made it. It fits their current view of America. To the Left, America IS the enemy.

The funny thing is, in the graphic novel the US wasn't even mentioned. There was a vague reference to a nuclear war, but all of the settings and all of the characters were British.

[apackof2]

If the movie adaptation is half as good, it is certainly worth watching, politics aside.

Sure why not?

Give the producers your money so they can more of this crap

After all its only a movie, movies don't have ANY culturally influence do they?

[goldstategop]

The only people the Left lives in abject terror of are conservatives. I'm so pleased I'm thinking of getting a Guy Fawkes mask to scare the living daylights out of the moonbats!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[mvpel]

Was 1984 a left-wing screed too?

The total-surveillance state that Orwell predicted is coming about only a couple of decades behind schedule in England. Guns and any other means of self-defense is banned, cars are tracked by satellite, and cameras blanket the streets.

George Washington observed that "government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master."

We as patriotic Americans should not be allowed to be stampeded into enslaving ourselves to government for the sake of the illusion of "keeping us safe."

[apackof2]

Give the producers your money so they can MAKE more of this crap

[Potowmack]

I think it looks promising. If it's a good movie, I can tolerate blatant propaganda.

Agreed. My complaint with Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn't that it was blatant propaganda. It just wasn't a very good movie (I hesitate to use the term 'documentary').

'Reds' is a movie worth watching, for example.

[Potowmack]

Speaking of "The Devil's Advocate", what did you think of it?

Compared to some of the partners from large NY law firms I've met during my practice, Pacino's character was a fuzzy bunny.

[neutrality]

Someone needs to tell this "reviewer" that it's based on a comic book. a pretty decent one actually. The movie probably won't be any good, however.

[goldstategop]

That's true but they needed a way to blame America so what the next best thing to do than to blame our ally? Tony Blair is a good whipping boy for the Left's screwed-up mindset in which the Anglosphere's actions against Islamic Terror is making the entire planet go to pot. For the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell is wrong with those people. Its like they live in a parallel universe.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[neutrality]

Oh, and it was published in 1982

[billbears]

BWHAHAHA!!! It didn't take long did it? I expect more 'conservatives' to come out against this Hollywood 'garbage' as the release date gets closer. It's all about Bush and Republicans, it has to be!!

Unfortunately the work this movie is based upon was released as a comic book in Great Britain in the early 1980s. The author even addresses the concerns, 20 years ago, of surveillance equipment (cameras) on the streets of London. And what do we have in some cities overseas today? And what do cities here in the US advocate? It doesn't have a damn thing to do specifically with Bush. What it does have to do with is an intrusive government that takes away the freedoms of the citizens in order to protect them.

Conservatives shouldn't have any problem with this movie. Republicans in their partisan beliefs may though