V for Vendetta
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dictator555 and classicaljunkie. I liked it, and indeed enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It gets a general recommend from me.
Now I will complain!
* I was kind of WTF at the "good" talk-show host thinking he'd be able to get away with that show. I mean, this dude was basically Hitler. You'd think that the TV guy could have thought to satirize him with a little more subtlety? That said, the unexpected Benny Hill nod was welcome.
* In the comic, V doesn't pull his TV stunt until he's done bumping off all the people from the prison camp. This makes the detective think that he's merely fulfilling a personal vendetta, when in truth he's also eliminating anyone who could reveal his past and identity upon his public debut. It takes everyone by surprise when he reveals himself to be a revolutionary.
In the movie, he goes on the air right at the start, and then starts hunting people down, which appears to reduce his motive in the killings to plain, cold vengeance, something to pass the time until the next November. This is unfortunate.
* I apparently missed the fact that we see several dead characters among those taking off their Fawkes masks at the denouement. If I had noticed this I wouldn't have thought the one-shot of the little girl taking off her mask to be a weasely cop-out from the shocking and effective scene where she died.
* I did notice that one of the unmasked people was Hugo Weaving. Cute.
My least favorite scene was some knifework at the end that could have been kung-fu clever, but was instead made merely gratuitous by being shot on high-speed film and decorated by colorful animated blood-sprays at every slashed neck and wrist, of which there are many. For me, it managed to evoke both the zero-g assassination scene from Star Trek VI as well as Monty Python's Flying Circus ("And the blood comes out, psssssss! Slow motion!")
And as with The Matrix, I actually rather despise these nastily dance-party scenes of police getting killed in whoah-cool ways. It's not like they're orcs or even villainous men... they're just some poor sods taking their pay from the wrong side. If you've got to kill them to further your intriguing Machiavellian plot, Mr. anti-hero, fine, but don't get all snuff-fetishy about it plz.
dictator555 and classicaljunkie. I liked it, and indeed enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It gets a general recommend from me.Now I will complain!
* I was kind of WTF at the "good" talk-show host thinking he'd be able to get away with that show. I mean, this dude was basically Hitler. You'd think that the TV guy could have thought to satirize him with a little more subtlety? That said, the unexpected Benny Hill nod was welcome.
* In the comic, V doesn't pull his TV stunt until he's done bumping off all the people from the prison camp. This makes the detective think that he's merely fulfilling a personal vendetta, when in truth he's also eliminating anyone who could reveal his past and identity upon his public debut. It takes everyone by surprise when he reveals himself to be a revolutionary.
In the movie, he goes on the air right at the start, and then starts hunting people down, which appears to reduce his motive in the killings to plain, cold vengeance, something to pass the time until the next November. This is unfortunate.
* I apparently missed the fact that we see several dead characters among those taking off their Fawkes masks at the denouement. If I had noticed this I wouldn't have thought the one-shot of the little girl taking off her mask to be a weasely cop-out from the shocking and effective scene where she died.
* I did notice that one of the unmasked people was Hugo Weaving. Cute.
My least favorite scene was some knifework at the end that could have been kung-fu clever, but was instead made merely gratuitous by being shot on high-speed film and decorated by colorful animated blood-sprays at every slashed neck and wrist, of which there are many. For me, it managed to evoke both the zero-g assassination scene from Star Trek VI as well as Monty Python's Flying Circus ("And the blood comes out, psssssss! Slow motion!")
And as with The Matrix, I actually rather despise these nastily dance-party scenes of police getting killed in whoah-cool ways. It's not like they're orcs or even villainous men... they're just some poor sods taking their pay from the wrong side. If you've got to kill them to further your intriguing Machiavellian plot, Mr. anti-hero, fine, but don't get all snuff-fetishy about it plz.
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Date: 2006-03-27 07:26 am (UTC)Even though I can't quite bring myself to be an anarchist, I think that policing is only justified because it serves justice; when it is reduced to serving order, it is oppression.
You misread me, suh
Date: 2006-03-27 07:55 pm (UTC)It's made worse because while all these guys are dying in slo-mo it gives me all the more time to feel really bad for them (and their families and so on). There's ways to make this work... the way the movie did it didn't work.
Re: You misread me, suh
Date: 2006-03-27 08:04 pm (UTC)I should also point out that I don't disagree with the political claim that it's bad to kill even villainous people.
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Date: 2006-03-27 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 07:56 pm (UTC)You would not like this movie.
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Date: 2006-03-27 09:46 pm (UTC)(and yes, we all know what Knowing is. *grin*)