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[KC_Conspirator]

I don't understand why people are portraying this as a communist's wet dream.

Oh I can tell you why...its because they communists themselves portray this movie as their own wet dream, the "real truth", more than "just a movie". Just go over to DU or some other site and you will see these wackjobs. They hold occasional protest here in DC wearing the Guy Fawkes masks.

[durasell]

A hideously bad movie. I’m suprised Pauly Shore wasn’t in it - it was that bad.

[dead]

I really didn't give a crap about the political message of the movie, I watched it hoping for a great story.

But man, oh man, it was a bore. The main character was a pretentious, dull, emotionless blowhard. I understand it's difficult to act through a mask, (though the Geico caveman pulls it off brilliantly) but even his speaking voice was about as interesting as the recorded voice of the phone company.

And the story had more holes in it than Al Pacino at the end of Scarface.

Seriously, the movie sucked balls and the ending ("We're all 'V'!") was a lame copout.

I give it two very big thumbs down.

[dead]

If "Brazil" had been made post 9-11, people would say the same thing.

Brazil was an absolute triumph of filmmaking. One of the greatest movies ever made.

I’ve seen Scooby Doo episodes that were more subtle and unpredictable than V for Vendetta.

[L98Fiero]

“Brazil was an absolute triumph of filmmaking. One of the greatest movies ever made.”

No argument here. It was the first non-mainstream movie I saw and I was blown away. It changed the way I judged movies.

I just think that id Brazil had come out when V did, people might be inclined to draw parallels. I don’t, but you can bet many people would. Here is a quote I picked up from the Yahoo entry for Brazil:

“Very cool sci-fi “chick flick”
by tealslug (movies profile) Oct 28, 2006
This movie can satisfy both sexes with its sci-fi and chick flick mix. Although this movie came out in 1985, it deals with a lot of recent politics. Seems to be a statement against conservatism and corporations. It reflects on a fear driven society and the effects of such a society. This movie has a lot of humor mixed in too.”

That’s what dim-bulbs would think if Brazil came out today. The exact opposite of it’s true message.

[willk]

Hmmm, Why do liberals like movies of people wearing masks? My wife and I started to watch the other night since it was on a HD channel. We both found it boring and stupid and switched it off after about an hour.

[mjolnir]

Of course you’re correct-— the movie was pure, unimaginative propaganda, too much a simplistic piece of left-wing agitprop even for Alan Moore, who wrote the comic book the movie was based upon in order to criticize what he saw at the time as the creeping fascism of Britain’s Thatcher period.

This kind of pro terror, pro anarchist dreck (the hero blows up innocents just so he can be heard on the movie’s version of the BBC kisses up to the very lowest elements of the left, basically the same sorts who killed President McKinley, complete with corny commie inspired lines like, “A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!”

Pathetic.

The movie is in a long line from Hollywood of crap that elevates some “hero” with a poetic sensibility to the point that he can justifiably do whatever he wants to the narrow-minded peons cluttering up his vision-— Lector from “Silence of the Lambs” having been a pioneer in that area.

But you’re not going to be able to convince too many people of that, at least not here, I think-— the Left is far better than the Right at recognizing its friends and allies, whether in culture or legislation.

Final grade on the movie-— F plus!

It passes---just barely--- but only because it inspired this tantalizing, engrossing sequel .

[DesScorp]

"That's the way I see it as well. I don't understand why people are portraying this as a communist's wet dream."

Because it is. The graphic novel from which it was based was a leftist protest against Margaret Thatcher.

"It's a story in the same vein as 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc. A warning to extremists on both sides."

It's no such thing. In the story, the good guys are the leftists, the bad guys are conservatives, and in their world, conservatives = fascists. Meanwhile, in a scene of stunning cognitive dissonance, a queer character praises the beauty of the Koran, the book of a religion that would seem him stoned to death. Even Islamists are better than their own conservtives in their twisted minds.

We complain about the crap hollywood shovels at us, and then you guys post things like "it really wasn't that bad". Well, then quit complaining about the way Hollywood portrays America and conservatives, because you're subsidizing them.

[mjolnir]

It's no such thing. In the story, the good guys are the leftists, the bad guys are conservatives, and in their world, conservatives = fascists. Meanwhile, in a scene of stunning cognitive dissonance, a queer character praises the beauty of the Koran, the book of a religion that would seem him stoned to death. Even Islamists are better than their own conservtives in their twisted minds.

Well said!

This was the main point of Dinesh D’Souza’s book-— the false messages Hollywood sends about Western culture provides rhetorical and pedagogical ammo for anti-Western whackos.

[Silly]

I also liked it. I can see how a small minded, politically challenged person would be afraid of it, though.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Red Badger:

I saw “V for Vendetta” Saturday night on HBO.

Pretty decent cast. Cool opening soliloquies by Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith) behind the Guy Faulkes mask. Though Natalie Portman was nothing to write home about.

A lukewarm, warped cross between “Brazil” and 1984.

Meh.

Jack.

[Red Badger]

I just viewed it as a movie..............

[beezdotcom]

Comparisions between the movie and the WoT, can be made...so can comparisons to the American War of Independece.

Comparisons CAN be made to a number of things. However, knowing Hollywood, and seeing the specific manner in which the story was altered from the book to the movie, I don't think you should be under any illusions about the INTENDED comparison sought by the producers of the movie.

[beezdotcom]

I also liked it. I can see how a small minded, politically challenged person would be afraid of it, though.

AFRAID of it? What, we're 'cinemaphobes' because we disagree with the intent of the producers in making this movie?

Listen to what Alan Moore, the original AUTHOR had to say about the movie - I guess he must be a cinemaphobe, too:

"It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what 'V for Vendetta' was about."

It seemed pretty obvious to him (and to me). Your Dogma May Vary.