Poll: V for Vendetta

[TopHatTim]

it stands for alot. throws down a message in the end.
good movie.

 

[Kiefer13]

I for one though it was a rather good film. Granted, I haven't read the comic, though I would like to.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I liked it simply for V's alliteration speech and dispatching of Creedy.

I think some people were expecting too much from it and tried to read some deep meaning from it, which wasn't there, so they got pissed. It's not the graphic novel, there's not enough time to cover everything that happens in the graphic novel, so what's wrong with taking it at face value as a rip-roaring daft movie based loosely on the novel?

The decision to move it to the near future instead of the 80's was probably not the best decision, but it made it more accessible to an audience unfamiliar with the comic series. It doesn't HAVE to be in the 80's, dictatorship is a constant threat...

 

[Baonec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEIwEc1dxY&feature=channel_page
Then you'll love this.

 

[wewontdie11]

Haven't read the comic but bloody loved the film. Loved the setting, the political commentary, writing, directing... hell pretty much everything about it. Especially the writing. I enjoyed V's command of the language and frequent use of metaphors and philosophies immensely.

 

[BubbleGumSnareDrum]

The graphic novel was better than the film but I like them both. The politics in the movie are pretty shallow, yeah, but are you really suggesting that modern real-world politics are not?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Comic was better, movie had none of the homosexual undertones the book carried.

The "split" guy mentioned it first.

There has got to be a stereotype or something for this situation.

 

[eggdog14]

I didn't like it.

I thought its politics were incredibly sophomoric and immature. It didn't have anything important to say about authority and didn't inspire anyone to be critical of their own governments. Since that was really all there was to the movie, there wasn't much left to appreciate.

The music was also louder than the dialogue, which drove me fucking insane.

Pretty much this. I thought the movie was pretentious and immature, certainly not worth another watch.

Yep.

V for Vendetta essentially consists of the wachowski brothers masturbating into your face in turn, and then together at the end with Padme's little "he is me, he is you, he is edmund dantes, he is the end of my acting career" speech.


Mr (and Ms?) Wachowski suffer from early-onset George Lucas syndrome, symptoms of which include making a film or films which essentially reinvent their respective genre, influencing every movie made thereafter, (see: Star Wars, The Matrix,) and promptly shitting on the prior masterpiece(s) with every single subsequent work. (see: Phantom Menace, Matrix Sequels.. and V for Vendetta.. and Speed Racer.)