FuNkeNsteiN said:

Oh. Cool that there's a preview then. Hope you enjoy it.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Finland always gets movies late. Everytime I go, all the movies are old. Better than it was years ago though.

andykeen said:

I'm actually really glad we never got to see him.

GangstaFam said:

Hmmmmm yea i guess it ruin the feeling, but at the end when he is dying in her arms, i was screaming "TAKE OFF HIS MASK" lol
but good movie 6/10 for me

I was hoping that the person behind the mask was the woman writing the letters.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I thought the same thing when we saw her shrine.

I just saw it.
EXCELLENT.
The similarities between the evebts in that story and our modern-day post-9/11 hysteria is frightening.

Natalie Portman was GREAT!
All you buzz-cut haters take note: she loses her curly locks towards the end of the story...stop frettin'.

Question: did anyone notice that it appears as though the TV guy (who was arrested and allegedly executed for that parody of the Chancellor) appeared to have been a face in the crowd gathered by Parliament at the very END???

PurpleJedi said:

I noticed that to, but it wasn't just him, it was the little girl who got shot, and the lady who got executed and showed through out the movie, were all at the end, i found this strange, but could it have been a metaphor?

PurpleJedi said:

Oh yes. They also showed the lesbian couple and the young girl with glasses who was shot. I think that was just a poetic, metaphorical message as Natalie was saying that V represented her mother, father, brother, friend, you and me. Showing that the events of that night were for all those in attendance and those who went before and helped in the struggle.

The movie was great. I'm glad he didn't take his mask off... and besides he explained to Evey why he didn't want to remove his mask. I found Hugo Weaving's voice to be just perfect for the part. The part where he killed the doctor, the woman who had changed her name, was cool.
Are you going to kill me now?
I killed you ten minutes ago while you were sleeping *takes out syringe*

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Yeah, that part was pretty touching.

I just wanted to say...i'm SO not reading this thread!

Until later today, once I've seen the movie

endorphin74 said:

Same here!

CarrieMpls said:

Hope you guys love it.

GangstaFam said:

Saw it last night, SPOILERS forthcoming: I thought it had a lot of really interesting ideas, and I love that a movie this blatantly critical of the US and British government got such a mainstream studio release. But...I thought it was also kind of a mess of a movie. You never really got a sense of why people picked up V's fight. I also was pretty disturbed by the fact that Evie was so thankful for his having tortured and imprisoned her to "free her." How about trying therapy first?! For a movie that was about separating people from ideas, it didn't do a very good job of it with its own characters, and that has the risk of just coming across like propaganda (even though it's propaganda I agree with!).
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The movie was OK, but it had a really muddled message. V had no ideas except anarchy. Which is actually a lame idea.

She could get it. For days on end. But unlike V's evil ass, I'd at least feed her and let her watch TV and shower and keep her hair.

Movie was anti american and i felt offended by it!!!! But it was good and bad. So i give it a 6 and a half out of 10.

TheSmyrk said:

Damn!

GangstaFam said:

I think I'ma need a drink.


Bwahaw!

saintsation said:

I don't know that it's anti-American, per se. It definitely takes swipes at the current government, but the current government isn't America itself...

If I'd have known it was a comic book movie going into it, I think my feelings would have been different.
I think I was expecting a little more.
It was alright. But cheesy as hell in some spots. I mean downright uber cheesy. Cheese all the livelong day.
But it was entertaining.

CarrieMpls said:

Which parts?

GangstaFam said:

Well, the whole of london marching in those masks for one.
And a lot of the 'i love you' stuff. That would have gone better unspoken. It was alluded to all along. Evie's whole speech at the end was utter cheese and a bit heavy handed too.

CarrieMpls said:

While I resist using cosign, this would be the time I would use it. Something tells me that's not how the comic ended.

Moonbeam said:

Well, if people wanna believe it was 'anti-american' or get offended by it, I
suggest it says more about you than the movie. I think people forget that the
story was written in the 80's and was actually a response to Thatcherite Britain,
not America. It is kinda scary how relevant and current it still is though.

BorisFishpaw said:

I was told that the author of the original graphic novel was none-too-pleased with the way the movie was made with such relevance to the "American" situation.

saintsation said: