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Re: "V" for Vendetta

MacFall — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:26:12 GMT

I never saw it. I heard it ran the gamut from "cheesy" to "overwrought", and decided not to pay for it. But now that it's been recalled to my attention, I think I'll torrent it tonight.

Re: "V" for Vendetta

DrunknMunky — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:07:39 GMT

Extremely Overrated in my opinion.

Re: "V" for Vendetta

JAlanKatz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:42:05 GMT

Yes, there are absurdities - many of which are not in the book, but some are. So what? A movie is a symbol, not a truth claim.

Re: "V" for Vendetta

Twirlcan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:31:17 GMT

I thought he sent it DHL? Or something like that.

I think the excuse for the unrealistic bits (asside from a superhuman mutant who survived a fire) was that he spent 20 years hacking the system and learning how to fix trains and master fireworks. If the movie would have been realistic it would have shown a clumsy loner blowing himself up by accident on the way to The Old Bailey. No one wants to see that on the big screen.

Re: "V" for Vendetta

BWF89 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:55:21 GMT

I liked the idea behind the movie but not the movie it's self.

One thing that was kinda unrealistic is how V was able to mail those white masks to a thousands (possibly millions) of people and the Post Office didn't catch on to this. Thousands of packages shaped in exactly the same sized boxes and going to every single house one right after another. I think they'd catch on.

Re: "V" for Vendetta

Twirlcan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:23:33 GMT

I liked the movie as well. I liked the subtle and realistic things like when he was making the grilled sandwich for Evie and we find out that real butter has been banned for use by the general public.

In real life bombs are fast, loud and leave boring puffs of white smoke and messily throw stuff everywhere. Not very Hollywood and it would never have the inspirational potential like it did in the movie.

"T" for Ted Kaczinsky would not have sold many tickets.

"V" for Vendetta

jason4liberty — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:59:43 GMT

I recently watched this movie for the first time, and it has immediately become my favorite. I do like it as a movie, but what really gets me is that V perceives what is going on, and (basically) single-handedly inspires a revolt to "fix" it. The fact that he sees that in addition to violent resistance, the people need symbols and education to unlock their desire to resist.

Yeah, it is a comic book movie. Yeah, the explosions are hokey. But I bet if V had to pick his favorite economist, it would be someone the folks that read this site would applaude. And if there was ever a movie character that was an anarcho-capitalist, V is the one.