V for Vendetta! Go and see it everyone (if you haven't yet)!

[Catamount]

I'm sorry if this has been posted before---but Thom Hartman raved about it the other day---so I went to see it!(I always need his approval before I do anything):)
It was really really good and VERY RELEVANT to our times!
It deserves to be seen!

[alarcojon]

1. Absolutely!

Very thought provoking on various levels. Cool fight scenes and special effects as well.

It would have been a much harder sell (in the States, at least) if the dictator had been less obviously Hitlerian - say if he had been more like Reagan or Bush - evil to the core, but with a veneer of "compassion."

[AmericanErrorist]

2. Perhaps...

War is peace. Ignorance is knowledge. And the torrent of argle-bargle coursing through V for Vendetta is a transgressive, liberating discourse set loose within the most eye-popping thrill-ride of the year!...

...If you want simulated knife-throwing, chaotically edited fight scenes, ponderous musical cliches (the 1812 Overture, Beethoven's Fifth), wholesale borrowings from 1984, strained allusions to the Bush Administration and Fox News, lengthy and yet inconsequential protests against the ostracism of gays and lesbians, a muddled girl-in-peril plot and some gee-whiz production design, V for Vendetta is the movie for you...

Revenge is liberty. I can't recall hearing that particular idea from Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama or the makers of Batman Begins. But, as the Wachowski brothers would say, that's another paradigm.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/klawans/2

[alarcojon]

3. I was a bit surprised The Nation panned it

I just happened to read that review earlier this evening. To each his own.

I also know that most British sources disliked it.

But I still think it ruled. So there! B-)

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. I think the Nation was trying to sound Really Intellectual

I notice that with most of their arts reviews. I really hate bombastic pretention. I loved V for Vendetta too, and I thought it made its point perfectly to appeal to the widest audience possible.

[alarcojon]

12. Truth be told

I love The Nation but find the arts reviews the weakest part of the magazine. I do usually agree with their film reviews, though, so I was still a bit surprised with their take on V for Vendetta. I didn't find it particularly insightful.

[Southsideirish]

16. Probably thought it was the "responsible" thing to do. How boring. nt

[NMMNG]

7. I saw that myself, but I don't care

I'm going to see it and I'll love it. (I read the novelization based on the screenplay and really enjoyed it). Screw what The Nation thought.

[WildEyedLiberal]

8. The novelization is pretty good

I am reading it now, I'm on chapter 7. I like how it fills in some background knowledge about stuff that didn't actually happen onscreen. You'll love the movie!

[NMMNG]

9. I like that it's based directly on the screenplay

That way I don't have to be worried about being disappointed when I go see the movie, as I often am when I see movies based on books.

[WildEyedLiberal]

10. That was actually why I bought it

I kept looking for the screenplay online and couldn't find it, but then I saw the novel at Barnes and Noble so I picked it up. It's 99% identical - there have been a couple lines that must have been cut from the final edit, but otherwise, yeah, it's exactly like the film.

You'll definitely enjoy it.

[Orsino]

13. A novelization?

It was originally a book--one that's prominently displayed in the big chain bookstores these days, thanks to the movie.

I would as soon read a novelization of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings as a book based on the movie V For Vendetta.

[AmyDeLune]

11. That's why I stopped reading "reviews" 3-4 years ago...

Critics and reviewers have gotten so snobby and vicious, I don't read what they have to say till after I've seen the movie.

[XemaSab]

4. Word

I am hoping to go see it again this weekend.

[Theduckno2]

5. Go see it if you haven't already.

In my opinion, shaped in part by Roger Ebert's review, this movie is about making you think not about giving you the answers.

To disagree with an earlier poster's statement "Revenge is liberty" I think the movie makes it clear that revenge is just a dead-end.

In all my 40+ years I had never seen a movie more than once when it was in its initial release. To be fair though, I am not a big movie goer. That said, I have been to see this movie 3 times and enjoyed the 2nd/3rd viewings more than the 1st.

[ZRB]

14. I loved this movie

I think it's especially satisfying for people like us, who see the direction we're headed in...
It is so nice to see a badass hero rise up and kick the shit out of a fascist government. I thought the portrayal of the totalitarian Britain was frighteningly realistic.

Also, I often find that with movies set in the near future (within 20 years) are often absurdly unrealistic in their depiction of technological progress (flying cars, interstellar travel, cyborgs, etc.). The world that "V" inhabits is very much believable, so I found that very pleasing.

Go see it!

[Catamount]

17. Thanks, you put it well!

[Southsideirish]

15. I'm looking for "V's" to start showing up everywhere - at least where the

activist type people live. So far I'm not seeing them but I think its a fantastic idea.

[Catamount]

18. Yes, that's why I thought to let people on DU know about V....

As I saw it on a day when things were really happening here and still felt even more invigorated to fight the good fight!

[Ayesha]

19. They are here

...thanks to my best friend and her red Sharpie. I'd draw them around too but because of my disability I'm not fast enough to do it anyplace where I might be seen, alas.

[Random_Australian]

20. I'll see it tomorrow. n/t

[Bassic]

21. I agree, it kicks butt.

Really good movie.

[LaurenG]

22. Another agreement

I couldn't figure out why DS1 and others had the mask as their avatar until I saw it of course. I think 3 or 4 million of us should get a mask and March on Washington wearing them. However, do you think they'd miss the point and shoot us all?

[msatty99]

23. It was not very good (IMHO) and it's relevant to our times only in

the most fantasty oriented way.

[Shell Beau]

24. I heard it sucked! But, to each their own, I guess! I will

wait until it comes to DVD!

[Beausoir]

25. Saw it. Loved it.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I appreciated the film.

It touches on some really important themes.