V for Vendetta

[GomJabbar]

Anyone else here watch V for Vendetta with Natalie Portman? I found it one of the more interesting movies I have seen lately. Rather timely I would say...

Normally I don't care for these types of movies, but I found this one rather intriguing.

[tfflivemb2]

I have been wanting to see this for some time, because I am a fan of Natalie Portman....but, i just hadn't gotten the courage up to rent it yet, since it aopeared to be such a different movie.

[ryengineer]

I saw that movie in theater because few years ago when I was in Europe I had an experience to go to a real bonfire and get to know about it's history.

Personally, I think the tactics used by Guy Fawkes is somewhat resembled to those used by certain groups today against certain other governments and that's what I didn't like. But it's just my opinion, no need to get political here.

[dsvochak]

I love the wikipedia comment "The story of V for Vendetta can be viewed in the tradition of the other cautionary dystopian stories like It can't happen here The Handmaid's Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Four". "Dystopian" is an interesting word and concept.

I thought it was OK, but only enjoyable on a single level, unlike Soylent Green or the Mad Max films to cite a couple other "dystopian" films.

My favorite of that genre is still "High Noon". It's artistically subtle.

[Manarius]

I thought V for Vendetta was a great movie.

[after a hail of gunfire doesn't stop V]

Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

[GomJabbar]

My favorite of that genre is still "High Noon". It's artistically subtle.

I know I must have seen "High Noon" at some point, but I can't recall the details. Looking it up on IMDB, it seems somewhat similar to "High Plains Drifter" - another western.

I do believe that Natalie Portman is moving up into my 'A list' of new generation of actors and actrices. I have not seen many of her movies, but in the ones I have seen, she has done a fine job acting. Hugo Weaving I am not familiar with by name, but looking on IMDB I see he has been in several movies I have seen in the past. He equally did a fine job in this movie playing the part of 'V'. I especially liked his part near the beginning of the movie where he is introducing himself to Evey. [I wonder how many times he practiced that scene!] Kudos!

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V.

Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?

V: I'm quite sure they will say so.

[wadswerth]

V for vendetta was one of the better films ive seen in a while, you can see how with freedom being taken from you bit by bit could lead to a goverment like that, trading liberty for "saftey" beacuse of the fear they spread.

and plus natalia portman makes a hot bald chick

[GomJabbar]

and plus natalia portman makes a hot bald chick

I agree!
Somehow though, Britney Spears does not quite pull it off.

[wadswerth]

haha no bald head britney don't even come close, she was at her best during the first video she made, while on mute so you didnt have to hear her

[BlueDevilTide]

A fun movie, one that stuck with me for a moderate while, but I can't help but feel that it could've been so much more. It played out a lot more formulaically than I expected, and besides its moments of clever writing and its subversive themes, it was more or less a classical Hollywood action picture. I had expected something much more cerebral, rather than merely a very smart film--for an action movie.

Children of Men is another interesting story along tenuously similar lines. Among its technical innovations is an ~six minute long scene without cuts through a futuristic wasteland/battlefield...extremely well done. I wish they'd change the ending, but I guess you can't have everything.