This movie just weirded me out at first and add to the fact than Portman is bald here makes me even more weirded out but I get the whole vigilante who just wants justice or what not.
it's so wow...remember remember the 5th of november, gunpowder, trison, and blood...
very nice intrigue, very nice character, very nice story, very nice ending, n incredible action...two thumbs up...
violent revolution - who needs it? i don't competely agree with the politics or mythology of this movie, but part of what makes it great is how i nonetheless am inspired and compelled and made ecstatic by it. i want to see it again.
yeah I was lost in this one and didn't think the storyline was worth it. Just my opinion. Won't bother to watch it twice to get a better understanding, disappointed
V For Vendetta is tricky. It's one of those movies where one conventionally has to make a choice between the source material or the film. Alan Moore's graphic novel was a great parable pitting two extremist forms of government, facism and anarchy, against each other through incredibly complex characters. The film simplifies the ideas, and turns Moore's story into a metaphor for American politics at the time it was made. This is wrong a juvenile and stupid, and as an adaptation, V For Vendetta fails miserably. But, looking at V as a stand alone film, everything is completely different, so lets analyze it that way. As a movie, V is very well done. The visual style is cohesive and interesting, the effects tactfully innovative, and the action blissfully engaging. Performances all around are completely solid. John Hurt is a menacing Chancellor Sutler, Stephen Fry is exactly the right kind of charming, Natalie Portman effectively bridges her characters naivety and rebelliousness, and Huge Weaving is a scholarly and sure of himself V. The plot (which keep in mind, we're pretending isn't a bastardized, watered down version of the graphic novels) is well set up. We get the analogy, it's not hard, and they don't drive it in too hard. It's not burdened with a lack of subtlety we might expect from Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, it creates its own world, parallel to ours granted, and lays it out, giving the audience the polite respect of recognition that we DO INDEED understand metaphors and don't need every similarity pointed out to us directly. Really, V is a fantastic film up until about the last 10 minutes. Its exciting, it marches forward without leaving us behind and keeps us completely engaged in the exposition, the characters, the mystery, and the action. Seriously, its really fun. But the problem at the end brings us back to the main point. Moore's graphic novel brings us to an ambiguous and frightening conclusion that doesn't spell out any clear happy ending and illuminates the craziness of all sides. If you're gonna change your source, at least try not to lose the point that makes the material so fucking good while you're doing it. The film does. The final line, as delieivered by Evey Hammond, reads as: "No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me." And with those words, everything that might have been built up becomes undone. Gone is the wonderful uncertainty of the political future and the rebellion, gone is the mystery behind V, and right out the window go the points earned for keeping V an enigma, a message, an idea. Everything is spelled out Hollywood happy for us and everything is undone. So is V a good movie? Yes, but it remains a bad adaptation, and while this doesn't directly effect its standings, the bastardization of the message cannot be overlooked, and the relation between source and film has to shine through.
Most people were expecting another matrix in the action category but I knew this was going to be more than just fight scenes and bullet time camera movements. Great Story.
stupid story with a bad ending. maybe it would have been better if the also changed the ugly natalie portman for someone hotter. she looks like a 14 year old boy.
One of those movies that puts an interesting idea into the future, one that scares you but keeps you intrigued. All the ties with both the past, present and future make this film.
Great movie but it really didnt quite cut it for me. I think its the politics that did it in. Portman played a good role, as did Hugo Weaving but the niceties of the movie end here.
V for Vendetta was amazing. I got confused for two minutes, I was like Kev? Why is V wearing flowery gloves? anyways those were his hands...But this movie was awesome! you have to see it.
this lasted forever and the whole concept of the movie was beyond me the first time i watched it although the second time i eventually realised the pure beauty of this movie and the messages it sends.
I liked this film a lot for a couple of reasons. First and foremost it was a very good story, very well shot and had some good performances. Most notably from Natalie Portman. Secondly the parallels between the government depicted here and the one under which I live.
I've never read the graphic novel but a quick search on Wikipedia found that Alan Moore had this to say about the film.
"[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives---which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England."
V: "People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people".
Evey: "....and your going to make that happen by blowing up a building?"
V: "The building is a symbol. Just as the act of destroying it. Symbols given power by people, alone this symbol is meaningless but with enough people...."
I found this next statement very eye opening.
".....blowing up a building can change the world."
As soon as I heard this line I knew this film wasn't as much about England as it was the United States.
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