Posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:32 AM PST by beaversmom
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | The new movie "V for Vendetta" qualifies as only mediocre entertainment, but offers a brilliant illustration of today's warped leftist mindset.
The film unequivocally glorifies a terrorist bomber and portrays his ultimate triumph with the cataclysmic destruction of the Houses of Parliament in London.
The Wachowski brothers, who previously made the "Matrix" films, feel such hatred for the film's fictional government — described as both conservative and Christian, persecuting Muslims and gays — that they treat V's anti-government mayhem as heroic.
"Blowing up a building can change the world," V proudly declares, while his police adversary discovers that previous terrorist outrages were actually staged by the government in order to seize more power.
Regarding this irresponsible, poisonously pro-terrorist fantasy, USA TODAY fatuously declares that "Vendetta examines the balance between national security and personal freedom" — as if its comic book romanticization of leftist lunacy constituted serious intellectual inquiry.
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He gives away the ending!
The trailers were lame. It's a movie I won't see.
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I believe Satan gets stronger in times of peace.....
that's why war is the natural human condition.....and it's been that way forever.
You have some Freepers out there who will likely appreciate this movie with their theories about the government taking over their souls.
I saw V for Vendetta in Imax in NYC and was a little bored, in fact depressed. This is a heavy heavy movie, not an exciting action flick. For the record the Upper West Side NYers clapped at the end of this movie, but I dont see it playing very well across America. Imax usually makes any movie 20% better in my book. in this case, it made the movie tolerable.
The over the top totalitarian society depicted is somewhere between that of George Orwell's 1984 and your typical LW moonbats current vision of America. I found zero resemblance to our current America, and in fact the London depicted in 2020 seemed much more like Soviet Russia circa 1980 or more accurately, Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 80's and 90's, or Castro's Cuba.
The ending was pathetic and unbelievable, I wont get into it and spoil the anticlimatic ending, but it was just plain ridiculous. All of a sudden everything is better?! Yeah right. This was not the Matrix trilogy, the Matrix was entertaining.
The references to blowing up buildings as a legitimate method to affect change for an idea very unnerving. I dont think it played very well, and sensed the NY audience was uneasy with the blatant 9/11 references. I also think there was an intentional hit on memorials as propaganda devices. In fact one scene were the grand conspiracy is revealed is within a memorial to 100,000 dead, featuring a circle of dancing children. Subtle huh?
Any sex you ask? There was one gratutitous lipstick lesbian kissing scene to balance out the films closeted unattractive gay tv host, who has a secret art vault of banned items including a Koran and Maplethorpe graphic photographs. BTW, in this universe you get killed not for insulting the president in a comedy satire on television, but for owning a Koran.
The 9/11 conspiracy theorists will love this movie, paging Charlie Sheen. THAT alone says a lot about V for Vendetta.
They were focus testing the movie Saturday night in NYC handing out surveys to fill out. Now, they cannot be that confident about the movie if they have to focus test AFTER the movie is out.
I refused the form that 95% of the lemmings took. I asked "what are you going to give me if I fill this out?"
My guess is they will mess with the advertising. The movie is billed as action/explosion filled when it's really quote slow and chatty.
BTW
the best part of seeing thr movie was seeing the previews for Poseidon and Superman Returns in Imax.
Superman will be great and be a traditional good vs. evil family movie.
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Wow! You would think New Yorkers wouldn't be cheering on a terrorist.
Interestingly enough, when I saw it, during the final scene...complete silence in the theater.
Actually FReeper mnehrling started the show thread last week.
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I saw it in Boston, and the end was greeted with scattered applause. Personally I thought it was okay, but leaning on the lame side. The awful alliteration section with the letter V, the slow motion action sequence with "NOOOOOOOOOO!", the pitiful attempt to social commentary on the MIHOP theory of 9-11, even Natalie shaving off her tresses. As a warning for the future, it flunks. As entertainment, it scrapes by with a C-.
great writeup.
My review of this crap simply consisted of posting.
It SUCKED!!
Yours does a better job of explaining why...
**bowing to you**
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1599470/posts?page=67#67
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1599596/posts?page=63#63
Oh yeah--that satire bit on the late night talk show was really awful and unfunny. I'm not revealing too much by saying that the Leader is shot, and it's supposed to be humorous. It made me very uncomfortable, especially as the Leader was supposed to be Bush (and Crede was supposed to be Cheney, etc.--all that was pretty obvious as far as I'm concerned).
Nope.
They do focus tests sometimes when a movie gets released. It's generally looking for a different type of info than test screening forms, I've filled out both types. Focus tests after release are looking for info on why you chose to watch the movie (one of the stars, the story, what the story was based on, ads, yadda yadda) and if the movie fulfilled the expectations you had coming into it. Had you filled it out you would have gotten to complain about the ads. I didn't see it billed as action because I've read the graphic novel so I knew going in it should be (depending on how well they stuck to the story) a fairly down think piece that happens to have a couple of good booms in it, didn't pay much attention to the ads because of that other than a reminder of release day.
I liked the movie. The ending really didn't say what you said it did. There's no indication that all of a sudden everything is better, just that the totalitarian government has been over thrown, maybe that makes things better, maybe not. They did drop one of the messages of the book that often after getting rid of fascism the next phase is anarchy which in many ways is no better, but they really didn't say it was all better just that the evil government is gone.
It won the weekend by a healthy margine, whether or not it'll turn a profit is still in question, but it's looking fairly good.
any idea how much it took to make this drivel? any idea how much it made so far?
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