V For Vendetta
 

Looks pretty good. Has anyone had the chance to see it yet?

Sounds interesting. Hopefully, it won't be like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Yeah looks good, been getting good reviews as well so far.

I'm praying the Wachoskis don't fuck up Moore's work. I loved the GRaphic Novel.

I'm interested. Hugo Weaving is the man.

Who is the hero supposed to be? Never heard of it until this movie.

He's based on a Brit named Guy Fawkes, who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605.

Hopefully will be seeing this soon, looks pretty decent.

it looks amazing

I cant wait to see this movie it looks like the Cats Pajamas and the Bee's Knee's rolled into 1

V for Vendetta is an Alan Moore comic book/Graphic Novel about a "hero" who strikes fear into the hearts of a government which more or less rules by fear. Apparently, the Wachowskis are really playing up theterror aspect, and people are whining that V is a terrorist.

V is a terrorist. One with a flair for theatrics.

Moore is most famous, perhaps, for Watchmen. Both are awesome books. He did League of Extraordinary Gentlemen too...I hope they do a better job than THAT.

I hope they don't fuck this up.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11769182/site/newsweek

http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/a...172195,00.html

Some of the things they complain about are laughable.

Yeah League was pretty dissapointing.

Seems like this movie was chosen to be made because of the current political climate in the West.

I think it looks good, but this is what a user of IMDB had to say:

Gone is the comic's oppressive atmosphere- the film's Britain doesn't even seem to have spy cameras, while the comic seems to choke you on all sides. Gone are the social interactions between the main government agents that show corruption on the inside. Gone is the rising narrative tension as V's attacks pace along with the story, building up over time. The central villain of the story, initially, seems less like an oppressive government and more like a super-powered Fox News. Gone is the vicious cabaret. Gone is any mention of anarchy. This is a Kinder, Gentler V, and he fights a Kinder, Gentler Totalitarian Britain.

I was honestly surprised that the movie even dealt with Evey's imprisonment the same way that the comic did, by the time it got there. I was prepared for it to totally ruin her character's most important moment and take the last bits of V with it.

Politically, the story and atmosphere are loaded down with unsubtle knocks at the current American administration. This is not to say that such a message shouldn't be expressed- but it's not supposed to be "V for Vendetta"'s message. Here was a chance for a film to go after what should be the real target: A social system that would allow such poor representation and leadership in the first place. I just wonder why the filmmakers wanted to use ten-dollar cuss words all the way up to an R rating without bothering to give being actually subversive a try, given their source material. "Ideas are bulletproof," to be sure, but where are they?

Good acting and costuming, but otherwise a pretty sloppy film, and entirely unlike the original comic.

It's the Wachowskis. The limit of their depth is naming "the one" "Neo" and badly copying old cyberpunk novels.

Oh, and totally ripping off White Wolf (Who stole their ideas from old cyberpunk novels anyway).

Hey wait, One spelled differently is Neo!

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lol fuck me, I've just noticed that :$

Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else think The Matrix has some subtle Christian undertones?

























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Really? Must be a coincidence.

Hey, I think you might be onto something there. Come to think of it, there are a couple of biblical similarities.

Hopefully Padme gets naked. :naughty:

But she's bald.

lol Didn't you get into a huge argument with someone once over The Matrix and how "deep" it is? Who was that?

In the preview she isn't. :?:

-edit- or do you mean real life?

She's not bald, just had all her hair shaved off.

Like 250 people. Seriously. Thousands of people think that shit is like, totally deep because they anagrammed "One" and threw in some Biblical references.

Jesus Christ, Vampire Slayer did more or less the same thing, but it doesn't make it, you know, deep.

In 99% of the preview shots, she has a GI Jane look.

it got an absolutely shite review on film 06

Yeah but come on. Jonathan Ross.

I'd still tap that. Don't be jealous tho KK, you're still my #1. :kiss:

Yeah Jonathan Ross slaughtered it, as did the reviews in The Sun.

But then again, it is The Sun, and they think games like FIFA Street are fucking amazing.

They're panning it in the US papers, but I take comfort in the fact that a lot of people panning it are MAtrix fans.

Man, Portman has a large fucking head.

Or perhaps in spite of it.

Just saw it. Good stufffffff.

Might go see it tomorrow after work. Take some time to get away from this addicting shit. :mad:

That was a really entertaining movie. What I like is to see the movie's vision of England under a totalitarian regime.

Has anyone here who's read the comics seen it yet? Because I was kinda wondering what to expect (In terms of whether it's similar or not). I'll probably be seeing it monday, and I rarely perform a direct comparrison (I treat the movies as separate from the source), but I'm kinda wondering how faithful non-critics saw it.

BTW

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...html?th&emc=th

You probably have to be a subscriber to see it, but it looks at the scene that intros V and shows some of the storyboard work and shit. Pretty cool.

Ahaha, you've actually seen that?

It was filmed here in town, I actually also used to spend alot of time at the bar they filmed at in the movie.