V for Vendetta

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:12 am

Great film, loved every minute of it.

Jumi2 · Post by **Jumi2** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:37 am

Nice to hear, or is that sarcasmn? I really thought it might be crap, just from the titel and what i heard of it

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:51 am

Definatly not crap. this is a great film. The idea of having a Terrorist as the hero and the government as the bad guy is very poinient for our time I feel. It does have a tendance to be a bit English centric. One needs to understand (or at least of some knowledge of) Guy Fawkes to understand some of the deeper cultural meanings within the overall message of the film. Its also not a film that treats the audience as stupid. It assumes you will understand some high concepts, and doesn't seek to dumb these down at all. All in all a really great film.

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:07 pm

Yes i can confrim, it was a good movie

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:58 pm

Jumi2 · Post by **Jumi2** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:00 pm

Yes, i saw it and its really a good movie.

Sarsippius · Post by **Sarsippius** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:09 pm

Yeah I saw it over the weekend and really enjoyed it, even at a bit over two hours it just seemed fly by without a wasted or un-interesting scene. Like Nige says it's very relevant to our times and I found it totally believable as a possible future to our current world state. It also contained the most flagrant use of the word bollocks I've ever seen

Pinger$ · Post by **Pinger$** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:26 pm

Bollocks!!!

I thought it was great too. Definitely some deep messages in there.

Not keen on the Sinead O'Conner look

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:19 am

Interesting thing is, a lot of the US audience does not get it, nor do they see the film as particullary poinient to our society.

Barge · Post by **Barge** » Mon May 01, 2006 7:07 am

Apparently they delayed the release coz of the London bombing a while back.
But i thought it was great.

Sarsippius · Post by **Sarsippius** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:01 pm

Pinger$ wrote:Not keen on the Sinead O'Conner look

Yeah I was a bit worried about Portman there early but the later scenes made sense as to why she was so thin. Nothing worse than a hot chick who turns into a waif in my opinion.

About the yanks, maybe they can't see the forest for the trees or maybe it was just the fact it was set in Britain and they couldn't relate. My other theory is, hearing the fate of the US early in the movie put them into a state of disbelief they never recovered from