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TrimChris
03-16-2006, 11:51 AM
I'm pretty psyched about seeing this movie this weekend. Alan Moore material, Natalie Portman, and the Matrix team: sounds like a winning combination!
Stojakovic
03-16-2006, 01:29 PM
tell me how it is it looks good and crappy at the same time so I can't make up my mind. The ads from tv make it look good but the online ones are ughhhh
tell me how it is it looks good and crappy at the same time so I can't make up my mind. The ads from tv make it look good but the online ones are ughhhh
yeah, I'm not as psyched about V than I am about Night Watch...
What is the movie about? I am wating for X-men III
TrimChris
03-17-2006, 06:39 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2006-03-15-v-for-vendetta_x.htm
koops
03-17-2006, 07:10 AM
yeah it looks good, but being directed by the washowski "how to mess up a fantastic film with to wank sequals" bros I'm a wee bit sceptical. I'm hoping its good, the whole guyfawkes and houses of parliment thing and portman with a shaved head, move over alba woman i have a new crush.
koops
03-17-2006, 07:12 AM
yeah, I'm not as psyched about V than I am about Night Watch...
night watch comes out on dvd this month over here, its a mental film, not bad though.
TrimChris
03-17-2006, 02:24 PM
portman with a shaved head, move over alba woman i have a new crush.
Now that's just blasphemy!
boylermaker
03-17-2006, 05:42 PM
Note to Natalie Portman: Shaved head was a bad move. It makes you look frighteningly like Vin Diesel. :eek:
Krieghund
03-18-2006, 04:19 AM
Note to Natalie Portman: Shaved head was a bad move. It makes you look frighteningly like Vin Diesel. :eek:
Dude, you seriously need glasses! :eek:
RuHurt
03-18-2006, 04:45 AM
No, he's actually right, Krieg... get two pictures and compare them, and you'll see ;) :D.
I think it could be pretty cool, but I'm more excited about X-Men III and The Insider.
Moderator Sinister
03-19-2006, 08:51 PM
Great Movie!
Enjoyed it!
A sort of 1984 meets phantom of the opera meets superhero for man.
Also just saw it and it was great. Better than I had first thought.
I like the fact that you never see V's face; it's like he isn't a human, he is but an ideal...nothing more. :D
Iron Warrior
03-19-2006, 11:57 PM
It was great! Very 1984-ish. I was afraid it would be a bit anti-American the way War of the Worlds was, but it wasn't. I enjoyed so much I might see it again!
koops
03-20-2006, 12:24 AM
Oh my god how cool was that film.
koops
03-20-2006, 12:25 AM
Now that's just blasphemy!
May the big G strike me down because I will not repent
nerdx
03-20-2006, 09:18 AM
I'm taking my girlfriend to see it this weekend! Looks great.
Ps. When is X men III suppossed to come out?
CrazyStraw
03-20-2006, 11:52 AM
Yikes, that movie was utter dreck.
Aside from almost falling asleep twice, it had simplistic politics and dumb characters. Sure, Portman's character would THANK the main character for the torture and imprisonment...
If we've learned nothing else from comic book movies like V and Ultraviolet, it's that Christians are the worst people, all gay folks are persecuted heroes, and it is conservatives that are the real villains. Having a point of view is one thing, but mindless parroting of liberal mania makes for a crummy movie.
It would be a better use of the film this movie was printed on if it had been cut into small pieces to provide free banjo picks for the poor.
Sorry boys, I must dissent from your favorable reviews.
On a related note, I just rented Lord of War and I was surprised by how good it was. It was close to being a documentary with only a few fabricated events to make it a commercial film.
Stojakovic
03-20-2006, 12:29 PM
Well it was the talk of the school today for most so I think I will go see see. All I heard was good things about it.
Moderator Sinister
03-20-2006, 12:32 PM
Spolier Alert!!!
Yikes, that movie was utter dreck.
Aside from almost falling asleep twice, it had simplistic politics and dumb characters. Sure, Portman's character would THANK the main character for the torture and imprisonment...
If we've learned nothing else from comic book movies like V and Ultraviolet, it's that Christians are the worst people, all gay folks are persecuted heroes, and it is conservatives that are the real villains. Having a point of view is one thing, but mindless parroting of liberal mania makes for a crummy movie.
It would be a better use of the film this movie was printed on if it had been cut into small pieces to provide free banjo picks for the poor.
Sorry boys, I must dissent from your favorable reviews.
On a related note, I just rented Lord of War and I was surprised by how good it was. It was close to being a documentary with only a few fabricated events to make it a commercial film.
well without getting political here (discussing liberal and conservative politics in the film) and avoiding the topic of politics as per the code of conduct, I WOULD thank V for the torture. The point was never the torture it was the liberation from the fear spread by the government, a very important and central theme to the movie. The courage gained from a complete loss of fear, her character is now free from the tryarnny of a dictatorship. The government holds nothing on her now.
what I love about this movie is the contrast with orwell's 1984. Winston learns to live without fear (by rebelling) from his government is captured, tortured, and then the fear is instilled in him to completely "love" his country, even when they shoot him. Where as portman's character begins the movie with the government "fear" and is liberated from it.
I would also call any regime under a dictator a simplistic view. Do what they say or dissappear.
Stojakovic
03-20-2006, 01:23 PM
Spolier Alert!!!
well without getting political here (discussing liberal and conservative politics in the film) and avoiding the topic of politics as per the code of conduct, I WOULD thank V for the torture. The point was never the torture it was the liberation from the fear spread by the government, a very important and central theme to the movie. The courage gained from a complete loss of fear, her character is now free from the tryarnny of a dictatorship. The government holds nothing on her now.
what I love about this movie is the contrast with orwell's 1984. Winston learns to live without fear (by rebelling) from his government is captured, tortured, and then the fear is instilled in him to completely "love" his country, even when they shoot him. Where as portman's character begins the movie with the government "fear" and is liberated from it.
I would also call any regime under a dictator a simplistic view. Do what they say or dissappear.
I think you would get along very well with my friend "bunny"
Podlet
03-25-2006, 12:01 PM
Is anyone else besides me heartily tired of films about black-clad, rag-tag bands of rebels effortlessly whomping on hordes of black-clad security guys serving fascist regimes? I realize I'm definitely in the minority here, but the few times I happen to see scenes from films like this, my sympathies are with Joe-Average the conscript grunt being thrown into hopeless battle against Death-Finger the Master of Every Martial Art There Ever Was. Seeing an expert warrior slaughter faceless hordes of unequally-matched opponents isn't inspiring or fun for me, it's just cliched and sad.
Moderator Sinister
03-25-2006, 12:48 PM
Is anyone else besides me heartily tired of films about black-clad, rag-tag bands of rebels effortlessly whomping on hordes of black-clad security guys serving fascist regimes? I realize I'm definitely in the minority here, but the few times I happen to see scenes from films like this, my sympathies are with Joe-Average the conscript grunt being thrown into hopeless battle against Death-Finger the Master of Every Martial Art There Ever Was. Seeing an expert warrior slaughter faceless hordes of unequally-matched opponents isn't inspiring or fun for me, it's just cliched and sad.
Welcome to hollywood. I can't say that they "expert warrior" theme is anything new in this movie as it is scores of troops falling to jedi. But then again this trick was used in many Errol Flynn movies as well.
In this movies case I at least found that after the first 20 minutes it became a dramatic and not action movie.
Is anyone else besides me heartily tired of films about black-clad, rag-tag bands of rebels effortlessly whomping on hordes of black-clad security guys serving fascist regimes? I realize I'm definitely in the minority here, but the few times I happen to see scenes from films like this, my sympathies are with Joe-Average the conscript grunt being thrown into hopeless battle against Death-Finger the Master of Every Martial Art There Ever Was. Seeing an expert warrior slaughter faceless hordes of unequally-matched opponents isn't inspiring or fun for me, it's just cliched and sad.
There are many different genres of movies that appeal to many tastes. Clichés can be good if that's what you're looking for. The classics are classics for a reason. This is a hollywood type movie, after all, with a flair of drama. I don't mind seeing this type of movie in the theater, but they aren't the kind of movies I watch at home. V was a great movie to watch on the big screen, but it's not the type of movies that I keep in my video library.
Sometimes, people just don't want to use their brain for a movie, and sometimes they want substance.
By this day and age, most dramas and themes in movies (like in books and plays) have already been played soooo many times over that it's hard for any movie to be truly unique. Nowhere must it be written that every movie redefine movies. There are a few movies that stand out from the rest and those movies will set trends. We just have seen everything that hollywood type movies can offer and we want more diversity. Especially true now that independent movies are more common than ever.
It's like fast-food; if you want more, you'll have to eat somewhere nicer where the ambiance is better. ;)
boylermaker
03-26-2006, 12:20 PM
Clichés can be good if that's what you're looking for. Very true. How did you get the accented e, by the way?
Very true. How did you get the accented e, by the way?
I use a french keyboard :)
sking500
03-26-2006, 11:20 PM
Very true. How did you get the accented e, by the way?
Holding ALT and typing 130 on your 10-keypad will also work, see: é (ASCII 130).
I just saw V for Vendetta today with my son. I loved it, despite the "beware the right-wing Christian extremeists" message. In lieu of the characterization, the message the movie pushes can be applied to a variety of political and religious views (substitute homosexuals for Jews, and the Chancellor for Hitler, Muslims and Milosevich, Kurds and Hussein, etc.), substitute your favorite. I enjoyed the irony of the storyline...instead of a coup, the citizenry slowly turned over their liberties to the government in the name of "security". I have heard many complaints that this is exactly what it happening in the U.K. today. If we in the U.S. are not careful, we may be going down this path as well, in the name of the "Patriot Act".
I give it 4 stars.
boylermaker
04-02-2006, 11:22 AM
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Sweet!
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