'V for Vendetta' haters, Freep this Poll!

The Internet Movie Database ^

[Chewie84]

Now, on the Internet Movie Database, they're requesting nominations for their polls on the Best and Worst movies of 2006. Anyone who's a registered imdb user (It's free, and I've been a member for years, so don't worry) can put down and submit what films/ actors they'd like to nominate for the Best and Worst categories. As I'm sure most of you know, one of the worst films from this year was the pretentious left- wing propaganda film 'V for Vendetta,' which portrayed conservatives as evil monsters, and portrayed terrorists who blow up historic buildings as heroes. You just know there are going to be a bunch of DUmmie potheads trying to put it on the 'Best Movie' list, so I thought if you guys were interested, we could do a kind of counterattack by nominating it for 'Worst Movie,' not to mention other 'Worst' categories like 'Worst Actor.' Anyone interested, who is or would like to be an imdb user, can just go to the link above to get to the 'Worst' section.

[Wormwood]

I've seen the movie. I read the graphic novel first. The Wachowski's should feel deeply ashamed of what they did to Moore's work.

I couldn't agree moore.

I remember reading "V" when it first came out---and I will always consider it the best "Punk" comic book I've ever read (with a nod to Transmetropolitan, naturally).

The film was gutless and safe compared to Moore's original---which is why he disavowed it so strenuously.

[stuartcr]

So

[Dead Corpse]

When the Fingermen were assaulting Evie, V kills them. He doesn't just beat 'em up. She also wasn't going to some illicit rendezvous with a co-worker, she was going out to prostitute herself because socialist economic policies had pretty much destroyed the London economy.

And on, and on, and on....

Moore's book wasn't just a screed against "Right wing" government. It was a screed against government in general. That only individuals can decide to NOT be the victim, the serf, or the slave any more. That once you decide to be free, at any cost, then the only thing they can take from you is your life. And that sometimes, paying that cost is worth it.

The founding Fathers understood this. We no longer do. Not as a society. Certainly not in the Halls of government.

[beezdotcom]

So

At least continue....La, Ti, Do, etc.

[Wormwood]

Very well stated.

[Dead Corpse]

It's a very powerful, very controversial, kinda scary message Mr. Moore was trying to get across. It isn't something a lot of people can feel comfortable with. It has been a lesson of history that people come to love the squirrel cage. Further, those comfy squirrels try and keep the other squirrels from doing anything to rock their boat.

As I put it earlier this year:
Any frog jumping out of the pot early will be rediculed by all the other frogs staying in the nice warm water. If you land in the fire instead, they will laugh at you and point out how it was much better to stay in the pot like a good little froggie. After all, it ain't boiling yet is it? - Me. July, 2006

[beezdotcom]

She also wasn't going to some illicit rendezvous with a co-worker, she was going out to prostitute herself because socialist economic policies had pretty much destroyed the London economy.

And that's my problem with the movie, vs. the book. The movie presents an overly simplistic view of a totalitarian government and how it gets there (not that the book is exactly a scholarly treatise), and focuses heavily on stereotypes that match the right more than the left. I don't disagree with the point of the book, but I don't have to like the presentation of the movie.

[L98Fiero]

Good points.

[Dead Corpse]

I don't know about that. V's little speech on the Voice of FATE came over quite well, even in the movie.

That they left things like FATE, it's Voice/Ear/Fingers/ ect... out of the movie was to the movies detriment.

[Shooter 2.5]

Greatest movie I've ever seen.

I laughted, I cried, it became a part of me.

[Chewie84]

With all due respect, yes I have seen the film. If I hadn't, I wouldn't be suggesting it was one of the worst films of the year, I'd just try to ignore it. Even liberal- biased content aside, I really didn't like it, I actually had to fight to stay awake a couple times in the theater. The only parts I kind of liked were V's monologue when he first shows up, and the 'Benny Hill' scene.
It would be rather hard to deny that the film was an attempt by liberals to insult conservatives. In fact, I believe the cartoonish dictator's (Yet another reason I didn't like the film, he was a dumb and two- dimensional villain with the depth of a puddle) political party was actually called the 'Conservative Party.' In the film, the British government did all the things that radical, paranoid leftists accuse conservatives of wanting to do to America (Homosexuals and Muslims persecuted, prisoners wearing Abu Ghraib- style torture hoods, private houses wiretapped, etc.). Pretty much every film critic I've seen who's reviewed the film, liberal or conservative, felt the same way, that it was a slam at conservative politics. Of course, the liberal critics praised this fact, while the conservative critics hated it.

[driftless2]

I agree It is a hit job on conservatives. I watched it last night for the first time. I noticed phrases like the U.S. “war against the world” and the possession of the Koran was treated as a capital crime. Naturally one of the main characters owned one and regarded it as a thing of beauty. Anyone who doesn’t get the anti-Bush and anti-U.S.bias is either dense or deliberately obtuse.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“As I’m sure most of you know, one of the worst films from this year was the pretentious left- wing propaganda film ‘V for Vendetta,’ which portrayed conservatives as evil monsters, and portrayed terrorists who blow up historic buildings as heroes.”

I just watched it with the fiancee.

We both liked it.

Her observation - “The leftists who made this movie are talking about themselves!”

Smart girl I have.

She was worried because they control the media.

I pointed out, “You didn’t fall for it, though, did you?”

[napscoordinator]

I thought it was pretty interesting. You can’t find entertainment in a movie. I definitely don’t take a movie seriously ever. Even the Catholic movie (The Passon of Christ) had some craziness in it.

[napscoordinator]

Sorry, the last movie I saw was Song of the South when I took my kids to the theater in 1980.

You took your kids to a racist movie????? Wow! Stunning! Well I never saw the movie but the media has said it was racist anyway. lol.

[napscoordinator]

American Beauty

That movie was pretty good. My wife and I liked it. Funny as hell movie. Most unrealistic. I found it very comical.

[endthematrix]

When authoritarian regimes claim power all persons are subservient to the Party. So IMO, its just an underdog flick.

[beezdotcom]

Anyone who doesn’t get the anti-Bush and anti-U.S.bias is either dense or deliberately obtuse.

Well, many of the defenders of the movie are people who liked the original 'graphic novel' (comic book format). Unfortunately, many elements got changed in the conversion to the movie - not the least of which is that in the book, it was the socialist society that wrecked things, but in the movie, somehow all the evils seem to come from the right.

[PFC]

People should not be afraid of their Governments -- Governments should be afraid of the People!

I don't have a problem with that sentiment.

[BritExPatInFla]

Comparisions between the movie and the WoT, can be made...so can comparisons to the American War of Independece. People rising up against an authoritarian governemnt, whether leftist or ultra right wing, is a noble battle of the opressed against the opressors.