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.
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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.
any idea how much it took to make this drivel? any idea how much it made so far?
Maybe I'm missing something here.
Granted, I haven't seen the movie yet, although I may eventually. But for as long as there have been movies, there have been futuristic movies about oppressive governments and the rebels who rally together and fight for freedom. Was Star Wars a "pro-terrorist" movie? No. (Although a lot of innocent independent contractors on the 2nd Death Star were blown up by rebels) Then why is V for Vendetta being labeled as such?
It's time to crticize the heck out of so-called movie reviewers who glorify vile movies.
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There used to be a rule somewhere (movies, maybe comics) that the bad guy had to get his. Crime doesn't pay. But no one cares if the bad guy gets his, they only care if he's cool. And you don't care about the tacked-on anti-homosexual and anti-muslim aspects of the government in this movie. In fact, you don't even care that it's the government that's evil, rather than society. You only see a revoloution, by one man, against a powerful system gone corrupt.
Ping - Medved on V for Vendetta...
It may give some insight to know that one of the Wachowski brothers is an "in-progress" transsexual who decided to shack up with a hard core Hollywood S&M prostitute after the success of the first Matrix movie. Just a regular guy, huh?
"The Wachowski brothers..."
Shouldn't that be the "Wachowski brother and sister?" I thought one of them was undergoing a sex change and was the main reason for his (her?) divorce during the last Matrix movie.
"feel such hatred for the film's fictional government — described as both conservative and Christian, persecuting Muslims and gays"
He forgets that by 2020 the goverment in London will be conservative and Muslim,persecuting Christians and gays.
Persecuting? Is that what they call it when you round them up, put them in camps, and kill all of them? The government isn't conservative, it's a fascist state that rules through fear. I don't know why Medved's defending it, but I think that he's probably bashing a movie that he hasn't really seen.