"V" Is For Propaganda (NOT The 80s Classic Sci Fi Allegory) Alert

Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 03/07/06 | Debbie Schlussel

[goldstategop]

This "V" has nothing in common with the 80s allegory on Communist/Nazi totalitarianism, the celebrated V miniseries. This one takes places in a future England and in reality its a Bush-bashing, Christian-bashing and Evil Amerikka dystopia ruled by repressive Republican fascists. If your politics are the moonbat variety, you'll love this movie. As Debbie Schlussel says, if you're like the rest of America, its more Hollywood garbage to avoid. Skip this far-lefty rotgut of a production.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[USNBandit]

Sounds like the remake of the Manchurian Candidate. Instead of a Commie conspiracy they did Halliburton conspiracy.

[HitmanLV]

If by 'classic' you mean impossibly cheezy and cliched, then you are right. :-)

[goldstategop]

America as the DU moonbats see it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[A CA Guy]

It looked to gay Spanish for my taste anyway.

[goldstategop]

What is it with the Left's fetish for Abu Ghraib fashions? I'm surprised Hollywood didn't make them Oscar evening outfit ensembles.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Tanniker Smith]

The 80s Classic Sci Fi Allegory

"Classic" in the sense of "old", right?

Seriously, I loved the original miniseries.
However, the conclusion blew major league chunks. And the TV series looked like it was being planned from week to week.

The novelization tried to fix some stuff (and along the way condensed a half-hour of screen time into 2 or 3 sentences), but the ending being totally unexciting and anticlimatic.

Granted, it was better than the proposed second season of Battlestar Galactica.

[jude24]

Unless Ms. Schlussel has seen this yet-unreleased movie, her opinion is worthless.

I'll reserve judgment until I see it for myself.

[goldstategop]

"Classic" in the sense of timeless. The story never gets dated. It still holds its own 20 years later. In contrast, the "V" just put out by Hollywood reflects the Left's rage at everything America is doing to defend herself. It will not even be remembered a year from now and will be forgotten by the time Bush leaves office. Its that provincial in character.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[A CA Guy]

It looked to me in commercials like Big Brother meets Zorro's gay cousin Vaseline Man.

Portman looked unappealing in the film as well.

If it is unAmerican enough, it could get an Oscar nod and send Hollywood deeper into insignificance.

[goldstategop]

She's a movie critic and watches every film so you don't have to. She's a female version of Michael Medved. Yeah baby, Jews invented the movies and are now its best critics!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Billthedrill]

Agreed. The first season of V was a fun shoot-em-up (Michael Ironside with teflon-coated bullets in a submachine gun - Ooooorah!) but the second season got PC and by the time the climax rolled around it was hot-air balloons spraying pink Peace Dust all over the world. At that point being eaten by the aliens would have been a kindness.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Duh, the movie "V for Vendetta" is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, which was originally published as a 10-issue limited series between 1982 and 1985. Read and learn.

[dead]

I don't think most people are confusing this movie with the television show "V" since most people don't know that there ever was a television show called "V".

Was that the one with the guy who had a big veiny head?

[ozoneliar]

Have you seen the movie? As of right now I plan to see it. I really don't think this movie is leftist propoganda. From what I've heard from other sources it sounds Ok.

[goldstategop]

I made the point in the title the two are NOT the same. The only similarity is the title but that's all. The subject matter between the two shows is as different as day and night.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Paul C. Jesup]

First, "V" is about a tyrannical U.K. government, not the U.S. and the way things are looking in the U.K. right now in real life, banned on guns and knifes, all they need is a public crackdown on free speech and the U.K. will be a tyranny.

[Tanniker Smith]

I almost didn't mind the pink dust. I didn't (and don't) like accelerated growth children who suddenly stop growing when they reach an appropriate age and then they suddenly save the world, inexplicably.

Btw, I knew that Diana checked the child's hormones or something to stop the quick aging... and then the series started and she was suddenly 16, but then she stayed 16.

[Gordongekko909]

I kind of figured this about the flick when I saw previews for it.

Then again, I'm the guy who thought that the Agents in The Matrix were good guys right up until Neo gave them "the finger" and demanded his phone call... at that point, I was like, "oh, these are supposed to be bad guys." Because until then, I knew the following things: 1. Trinity was a cop-killer. 2. Agent Smith had advised the police not to go in after her, for their own safety. 3. The Agents were offering Neo a deal if he would help bring in a "terrorist" who was associated with the cop-killing Trinity.

That always surprises people whenever I tell them that.

[goldstategop]

Its really an allegory about Bush's America. But not to detain people further, the movie doesn't address the real threat to the West: Islam. If there's tyranny in store in our future, its from those who want to impose the Sharia on us. I'm sorry to have to tell the Left despite their twisted fantasies, that's not coming from Republicans.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")