V for Vendetta review

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:00 PM

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Originally posted by JubelLate:
we call this "post-Serenity" syndrome

No, I don't think so. I think that the movies have really gotten worse. I mean I don't have the highest standards, hell there are some things I like that I will proudly admit are utter crap.

I don't know what's happened, but there just seems to be a lack of good movies, I'm not looking for great, though I'll take it if it comes by.

I'm sure that post-Serenity as I am if I went into something expecting greatness I would be let down, but I think that there is a shortage of stuff for people like me these days.

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On a different subject I've been out of it for a bit, what's happening on the Serenity front? Is it time for me to admit insanity (though not defeat, never defeat) or is there still a sane hope?

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:11 PM

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
Thanks to all for saying your thoughts, I've been planning on seeing it but have been let down my so many movies recently that I wasn't sure if it was a good idea.

Don’t waste your money. Read the comic instead. It will cost about 20($/₤) but that’s not really anymore then you’d spend on the movie and it is a much better, more mature and enjoyable story, in my opinion.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

JUBELLATE

Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:13 PM

I'll tell you one thing. Of the movies I've seen since Serenity

Lion, Witch and Wardrobe
The Producers
V for Vendetta
Constant Gardener
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

I didn't like Constant Gardener and absolutely loathed Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, was mildly entertained by the Producers and V, I really only strongly enjoyed Enron, but its probably because of my ties with the industry and Houston. Sometimes I think people in the industry saw that coming moreso than the general public did.

Anyway, I think there are good movies, but winter and spring is rarely the time when they show themselves. The next movie I really want to see though is "Cars", I'm really hoping Pixar did a good job with this.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:20 PM

Curious. I think Narnia was the only one worth seeing out of all those.

(Although I didn't see Enron or the Constant Gardener. And now that I think about it, The Producers wasn't all that bad.)

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

SPIRITWOLF

Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:35 PM

I recently went and saw Beowilf and Grendal.... I didnt mind the movie but I have to complain about this some where. The acting was good, the story was worth a myth, however I had a hard time getting over the fact that the Norsemen were riding ponies to war. I really had a hard time with that. It just didn't look right. It wasn't cool.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:07 PM

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
Don’t waste your money. Read the comic instead. It will cost about 20($/₤) but that’s not really anymore then you’d spend on the movie and it is a much better, more mature and enjoyable story, in my opinion.

The problem here is a common one, and I shall tell a story.

Long ago I saw the movie Starship Troopers and enjoyed it for what it was, it was a great movie for it's genre (which I affectionately call crap-sci-fi.)

After that I was told to read the book, by someone who had no idea I'd seen the movie. Eventually I did and I discovered that the two were nothing alike. I still like the movie but I know now that if I had read the book first I'd have hated the movie.

You can never compare a movie to it's book or a book to its movie unless you want to be let down. Sometimes the book is better (as with Starship Troopers). Sometimes the movie is. Sometimes they are so different neither can be said better.

But no matter what if you compare them you'll be let down, where if you don't you could very well enjoy and cherish both.

I can't speak for this movie in particular but I stand by what I said, never judge one based on the other.

(How many dollars are there to a pound now?)

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:17 PM

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
I can't speak for this movie in particular but I stand by what I said, never judge one based on the other.

I can respect that. You might like the movie. Obviously many did. I read the book before I saw the movie, so maybe I doomed myself?

(About $1.75=₤1.00)

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

KAYNA

Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:56 PM

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Originally posted by Spiritwolf:
I recently went and saw Beowilf and Grendal.... I didnt mind the movie but I have to complain about this some where. The acting was good, the story was worth a myth, however I had a hard time getting over the fact that the Norsemen were riding ponies to war. I really had a hard time with that. It just didn't look right. It wasn't cool.

Arggh!! I'm a huge Gerry Butler fan and I really what to see that but it's not released in the US. It's in Canada. I don't live in Canada. F

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Sorry. I'm a little on edge right at this moment

And CTC, I get what you're saying about comparing movies and books. I read The Queen of the Damned years before the movie came out and when I went to see it all I could do was scream in my head. "NO this wrong, all wrong! What is that?!? What is going on here?!?!". I saw it with several friends who had never read the related books and thought that it was a decent type of Vampire flik. I thought it was horrible. To this day, I can't make any kind of judgement on it without getting upset.

Either way, I still want to see V for Vendetta.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SADLITTLEKING

Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:33 PM

I thought V for Vendetta was good. Not epic or anything, but it doesn't try to be. It is what it is.

I also don't think they overplayed the way the government officials behaved and the things they were willing to do to have things their way. I honestly felt a lot of familiarity in it with an event happening and the government using the media to cover it up. Also, with the way the talk show host kept blabbering on about how his views were right reminds me so much of political shows, both on radio and TV. I thought the whole thing was believable.

Overall, I really liked the movie. Natalie Portman was a strong yet unbelievably cute female lead. And V was the type of hero you just don't know what to think of sometimes. He does what he feels is necessary even if it's not really what someone would view as "nice". He goes as far as he believes he needs to go and doesn't make any apologies for it.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:49 PM

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Originally posted by SadLittleKing:
Natalie Portman was a strong yet unbelievably cute female lead.

Her presence bothers me, I hope when I see it I will think, "This is the girl I remember from The Professional," but that was a long time ago and there has been Star Wars since.

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