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The V FOR VENDETTA Director Is In For A REVELATION!!

First by The Brains	May 9th, 2008 08:41:10 AM
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OK by FlickaPoo	May 9th, 2008 08:41:26 AM

by The Brains	May 9th, 2008 08:44:25 AM
amn I have a headache.
Here I thought it was going to be . . . by SkidMarkedUndies	May 9th, 2008 08:45:04 AM
about the Bible. Oh well.
Ain't it Bland News by Darth WickedChicken	May 9th, 2008 08:47:07 AM

by The Brains	May 9th, 2008 08:49:01 AM
I can't read those Crystal Skull reviews. I did a little and regretted it.
Actually, Oliver Hirschbiegel... by Knuckleduster	May 9th, 2008 08:49:54 AM
... is responsible for the good bits of The Invasion. But most of what he did was never shown, since Joel Silver decided to fuck him over and get James and Wachowski's to "spice things up".
hopefully... by doodah	May 9th, 2008 08:55:44 AM
he'll cast ellen paige and make her shave her head
Next year's Little Miss Revelation! by Motoko Kusanagi	May 9th, 2008 08:59:20 AM
V for Vendetta was brilliant!
V FOR VENDETTA... by mode_7	May 9th, 2008 09:03:36 AM
...was fucking awful. Rarely have I seen an adaptation miss the entire point of it's source material so completely. I suppose it's indicative of the times we live in though, people are so invested in this right-vs-left argument they can't see the forest for the trees.
Pros and cons by spud mcspud	May 9th, 2008 09:04:08 AM
Pros: this sounds like a great concept. Cons: There were GOOD bits in THE INVASION?!?!? Though this does sound like the epic DTV classic PROGENY, by my hero Brian Yuzna and the immortal Arnold Vosloo ("I don't get angry. I'm a professional." in the only decent Van Damme flick EVER). Could be very cool though. Remember THE FORGOTTEN? Those abduction shots still freak me the fuck out, and now the open sky makes me very nervous.
V for Vendetta by board shitlez	May 9th, 2008 09:25:44 AM
Was very good indeed. Didn't wimp out, got a lot of the British touches right, great non-Hollywood casting for the supporting players and a note perfect dig at bird flu and panic media. Quality popcorn.
V for Vendetta by Series7	May 9th, 2008 09:31:03 AM
Thought the movie was ok. But a bunch of people I know say its there most favorite movie ever? IDK I always thought it was funny how the British celebrated Guy Fawkes day. Then again they also celebrate boxing day. With that said, I reiterate my philosophy that foreign directos need to stay PUT! If they do make the trip to hollywoodland they get one chance to proove that they can work it American Style with the big budgets and fancy cars. If it sucks (Invasion, Derailed) then they have to go back to there homeland and continue making great movies there. I know there are success stories (Del Toro, Paul Verhoven) but Oliver Hirschbiegel please go home. Lets see how Timur Bekmambetov fares this summer, though if there was anything else I betted on besides black, it would be his ability to make a decent big hollywood movie.
sigh Merrick, Merrick, Merrick by DerLanghaarige	May 9th, 2008 09:32:08 AM
Everybody knows that it was McTeigues stuff that kept Invasion away from being watchable, cat hater. BTW, I love the first half of V For Vendetta, but then it falls apart and becomes an annoying piece of crap.
board shitlez by Series7	May 9th, 2008 09:36:50 AM
Who was non hollywood in V?
mode_7 by Durendal	May 9th, 2008 09:42:38 AM
No, I think you missed the point completely by viewing it as a right vs left movie, meaning that YOU can't see the forest for the trees. V for Vendetta was an excellent flick. The only downside is that now every stupid teenage psuedo-anarchist runs around in that Guy Fawkes mask. I think they're the ones that really missed the point of the movie.
V For Vendetta was a disaster by kwisatzhaderach	May 9th, 2008 09:46:43 AM
but that's what happens when you get a hack in to direct.
What's with the V for vendetta love? by SUPERJIM	May 9th, 2008 09:51:41 AM
Surely it can't be just me and the other 2 or 3 people that have posted above that think it was, ya know, shit? Guess I am not intelligent enough to "get it" or something.
Poor nutjob Whitley Strieber... by Kid Z	May 9th, 2008 09:59:47 AM
...looks like they plagiarized another of his goofball novels (actually, this time a graphic novel called The Nye Incidents).
V for Vendetta: Masterpiece by Sithdan	May 9th, 2008 10:06:03 AM
Pure and simple.
Durendal by mode_7	May 9th, 2008 10:12:22 AM
While the book was government-vs-anarchy, the movie had clearly been re-engineered into some kind of bullshit allegory for the times we live in under the current administration. Ground that had already been covered, I might add years earlier by the starwars prequels. I'd talked V up for months prior to release and felt genuinely embarrassed as me and my friends shuffled out of the cinema in complete silence after watching it. V For Vendetta is to political debate what Crash is to the race issue.
If you can go along with the updating of V for Vendetta... by rbatty024	May 9th, 2008 10:19:57 AM
then it's a really good film. I can understand if you, like myself, read the comic book before the film but were unable to go alone with the updated issues. Personally, I went along with it and had a good time. It's the best adaptation of Moore's work to date, and judging by what I've seen of The Watchman, it will remain the best adaptation for some time.
V for Vendetta was OK. by Smerdyakov	May 9th, 2008 10:25:59 AM
It was beautiful to look at but oddly unmoving. There have been so many of these lone revolutionary against the totalitarian system movies (like Equilibrium) that V kind of gets lost in the crowd.
by the way	May 9th, 2008 10:26:00 AM
Is TDK out ,yet?
V for Vendetta was brilliant by Mr Gorilla	May 9th, 2008 10:26:29 AM
I recommend it in a double bill with CHILDREN OF MEN. Both have similar TV propaganda inserts ('Only Britain Soldiers on' etc) But amazingly different in texture. Much as I think CHILDREN is pure movie heaven, V FOR VENDETTA stands up as equally enjoyable, and full of exhilarating ideas...
CHILDREN OF FUCKING MEN = MASTERPIECE. by Gilkuliehe	May 9th, 2008 10:33:00 AM
V FOR VENDETTA = V for WHAT?
I love V for Vendetta by godzillasushi	May 9th, 2008 10:40:00 AM
Doesn't mean I put absolute faith into the guy. But V was so great.
V for Vendetta... by Kid Z	May 9th, 2008 10:44:08 AM
...about as good an adapation as you're gonna get from Hollywood. The only really stupid thing they did was have V use f***in' Fed Ex (!), complete with a Fed Ex product placement (!!!), to mail V-Masks to everyone so they could have their big street protest outside the exploding House of Parliament. Pretty dumb.
V:The Final Vendetta by Lashlarue	May 9th, 2008 10:48:14 AM

Hugo Weaving saved V for Vendetta by Sepulchrave	May 9th, 2008 10:54:17 AM
It had serious problems. Stephen Rea's policeman had absolutely nothing to do but look miserable and plod about. He didn't really solve anything. And why the hell was HE one of the inner party? Why did they cast the hideous, snaggle-toothed John Hurt as Chancellor (urgh) Sutler (double-urgh) when they had Roger Allam, who was the dog's bollocks for about ten minutes and then was boringly dead. Stephen Fry's comedy skit was agonisingly bad, so awful that you actually wanted Mr Creedy (Tim Pigott Smith: excellent) to black-bag him. The whole shiny new London of Tony Blair just didn't work. New Labour is NOT fascism. You can't have proper totalitarianism without the filth and grime of economic catastrophe. What, the USA is a leper colony and London still has waste-paper baskets and water coolers? Please. If they had got Curaon to do V like Children of men, it would have been a classic. The problem was that it was a movie about fascism, concentration camps, nerve gas, murder, anarchism, bombing, rape and terror that was filmed for a PG13 audience. You can't do that.
And Americans can't talk about Left versus Right by Sepulchrave	May 9th, 2008 10:59:41 AM
Because they've only ever had centre-right governments. They have NO experience of communism, socialism or fascism. Sorry, but that is the case. I'm tired of having to listen to the 'difference' between Hillary 'obliterate Iran' and John 'Bomb bomb bomb, Iran' from American voters. They're all the same. and they will be, until the US collapses as a viable state.
DONNIE DARKO SEQUEL????? by mooseaka	May 9th, 2008 11:10:53 AM
Can we get a post about this travesty in the making so I can flame? In the meantime - I loved V for Vendetta and the Matrix Reloaded.
Kid Z by Series7	May 9th, 2008 11:11:36 AM
What about Hamlet/Requieme for a Dream/Fight Club/Purfume, just to name a few? And all those books didn't have pictures as an aid.
In 5-10 years, you'll wish Vendetta was real... by Cletus Van Damme	May 9th, 2008 11:12:27 AM
...go Google "North American Union," and then cringe as we switch from the dollar to the Amero and slowly move toward one world gov't.
X for X Files by Pondscum	May 9th, 2008 11:44:26 AM
Revelation sounds exactly like an X Piles episode. I hope they find out that Jesus was from Jupiter or some shit like that, then it would tie in nicely with the pseudo-religious title. Then finish the film with a 30 minute Rowdy Roddy Piper alien ass kicking courtesy of Michael Bay. If they do that, then I'm there on opening day...with a gas mask and anthrax.
Last good alien conspiracy movie was... by drewlicious	May 9th, 2008 11:47:06 AM
The Arrival. Not a bad fiendish plot, really. Now will the aliens have actual personalities or be collective again?
Sepulchrave by SpiceMonkey27	May 9th, 2008 11:51:35 AM
"They have NO experience of communism, socialism or fascism" What the fuck are you talking about? ..No better yet, just fuck off.
America has no experience of Fascism?... by Pondscum	May 9th, 2008 11:58:06 AM
No...must...not...take...bait. Uuruugh.
Spicemonkey by Sepulchrave	May 9th, 2008 12:01:34 PM
I've been to 48 US states. I have family in three. I stay in the US for at least a month every year and every year it's like falling into a coma when I get off the plane. People in suburbs on meds watching TV and bleating about the political system. People who have never known a hunger pang; who are literally overfed at every hour of every day. people who measure the distance they walk every day in inches. And then I go home, to where people aren't on Xanax, obese, driving from house to mall and back again without getting a sniff of fresh air. hold on; back to my point; when was the last time that an American utility was nationalised? That's the lowest rung of socialism. WATCHING OTHER COUNTRIES DOESN'T COUNT.
V by spidercoz	May 9th, 2008 12:02:52 PM
comic - fucking brilliant, movie - well done, most themes represented, watered down but enjoyable
Merrick you are a fucking douchebag! by Proman1984	May 9th, 2008 12:04:41 PM
You suck!
People slop the word facism about like water by Sepulchrave	May 9th, 2008 12:06:21 PM
My parents won't give the car; the fascists. The police are fascists. FOX is fascist. Georeg Bush doesn't even have the guts to say ONE BAD THING about gay people and you think he's going to declare martial law, suspend the constitution and make himself Fuhrer? No, sorry; checks and balances. I agree that things are worse in the US than they've been for ages but you are still one VERY unregulated society, that politics is totally corrupted by lobbyists but the situation is closer to the hobbling sprawl of Later Rome than a proper fascist state.
Man, you'd think that a MILLION US TROOPS had died by Sepulchrave	May 9th, 2008 12:07:47 PM
fighting Hitler and not a million Soviets.
Can AICN get some spies out there... by Johnno	May 9th, 2008 12:46:44 PM
To confirm if 'Ninja Assassin' is really 'Ninja Scroll'???
Ninjas?...What is this 1985? by Pondscum	May 9th, 2008 01:04:47 PM
I thought the ninja craze had come and gone. Are we bringing Michael Dudikoff out of retirement? Are we digging up Lee Van Cleef's bones? I don't understand why some people still think ninjas are in any way cool or relevant. They all died out hundreds of years ago and (shock, horror) they're not magical. As to why the ninjas (and samurais) died out hundreds of years ago, just watch the scene from Raiders where Indy shoots the guy with the sword. Now mulitply that scene by ten thousand and whaddya know, no more ninjas.
Maybe you should look at Euro suicide rates and try Xanax.. by JackRabbitSlim	May 9th, 2008 01:27:44 PM
According to this weeks Economist magazine (hardly a pro-Yankee propaganda rag) the chart on page 52 clearly indicates suicide rates for France, Canada, Germany, Britain. and (of course) Japan are all significantly higher than the USA, Frances being 150% that of the New Worlders. Maybe they should try some antidepressants over there
sounds kinda like the X FILES by RickyShoreSingsTheBlues	May 9th, 2008 01:29:52 PM
check out RICKY SHORE SINGS THE BLUES
Series 7... by Kid Z	May 9th, 2008 01:32:24 PM
... what about 'em? What the heck are we talkin' about, here anyway? Strieber books? Something related to V for Vendetta? Sorry for my confusion... been a long day...
French suicide rates... by Kid Z	May 9th, 2008 01:39:01 PM
..."my meetress, she 'as lef' me! Now, I 'ave zyust zee wife!" BLAM!!!
alien abductions by The Old New	May 9th, 2008 02:06:48 PM
don't do nothing for me. That is all.
Kid Z by Series7	May 9th, 2008 02:19:37 PM
You said V is ...about as good an adapation as you're gonna get from Hollywood. And i was just wondering what you thought about those other movies that I feel were better adaptations.
V for Vendetta by Brunomac	May 9th, 2008 03:00:54 PM
was better than Moore's own work. The comic series is pretty much unfilmable as is (shit, was was almost ureadalbe.
For the people who pisses on Oliver Hirschbiegel by Memories-Of-Murder	May 9th, 2008 03:01:49 PM
He directed DOWNFALL. But i guess some of you haven't seen it, on account it being in a foreign language, being a serious movie about a serious subject, and having subtitles to read and all that.
Sounds like it could be good.... by Yeti	May 9th, 2008 03:22:24 PM
Hopefully more X-Files than the Invasion
V for Vendetta was laughably bad by darthvedder81	May 9th, 2008 03:30:31 PM
I cracked up at the part where Portman in her Bo Peep costume seduced the priest. Just a terrible, ugly movie. "Children of Men" put me to sleep.
I originally misread it in a much more awesome way by jccalhoun	May 9th, 2008 03:55:17 PM
I orriginally read, "Story centers on a female journalist who is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders and discovers that the victims were all being treated by the head of a DOG that researches alien abductions." That would be an awesome movie. Make that instead.
First Indy 4, now this...? by max314	May 9th, 2008 04:40:32 PM
What's with all these alien conspiracy movies? Maybe the "powers that be" are trying to tell us something...dun, dun, dunnnnn! Hehe...I'm kidding of course :-D Bring it on. I'd be curious to see McTiegue's first movie away from the Wachowski Brothers.
V For Vendetta was pretty good... by KurtLockwood	May 9th, 2008 05:36:04 PM
...just nowhere near as good as the comic book series. But all in all, not as unfaithful a representations of Alan Moore's work as say, From Hell, or LOEG.
X-FILES meets SEVEN. Right? by Mike_D	May 9th, 2008 06:10:50 PM
sounds like it.
Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	May 9th, 2008 06:29:58 PM
Damn You Michael Bay
V for Vendetta wasn't a very good movie by ebonic_plague	May 9th, 2008 07:54:35 PM
I'm surprised you guys are so positive about that one. Children of Men was about 10 times the movie that V was trying to be. The original comic book was great, but the movie was the typical Moore adaptation. I was really hoping for a better movie version, and felt completely underwhelmed after walking out of the theater. Portman and Agent Smith were good, I guess, but the stuff with John Hurt, and especially the end, was just blech.
V For Vendetta is great... by Blitz	May 9th, 2008 10:06:34 PM
and I just got finished watching it for the umpteenth time the other night. Thats about all I have to say.
V for Vendetta is terrible by JiveTalker	May 9th, 2008 10:17:35 PM
Just a sub-par, godawful, disposable popcorn flick with laughable pretensions of being "relevant." It's even worse when you consider how mind-fuckingly brilliant and nuanced the source material is. But leaving that aside, the film taken on its own merits is a piece of crap. Shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the feat of dystopian brilliance that was Children of Men.
the wachowskis are fucking hacks by BMacSmith	May 9th, 2008 10:40:17 PM
the stole the story of the first Matrix, laid the biggest turds in cinematic history with the shitfuck sequels, and V for Vendetta was only loved because its a liberal revenge wank fantasy. it was shit and you know it.
V for Vendetta... by dogstardude	May 9th, 2008 11:14:23 PM
Is one of the worst things to happen to the modern anarchist movement in living memory. All those stupid attempts to tie everything into current politics is gonna date that motherfucker faster than the special effects in Resident Evil.
"The good parts of The Invasion"...? by Osmosis Jones	May 9th, 2008 11:19:37 PM
The Wachowski/McTiegue reshoots RUINED that movie.
V for Vague... by Galactic	May 10th, 2008 02:08:30 AM

I just feel sad by telemarketer	May 10th, 2008 07:50:35 AM
This movie seems to be lacking in any kind of 'soul' or 'heart' and looks to be inspired only by money, as opposed to anything genuine or artistic. Though it is all rather sad, I can not pretend to be surprised. I am sometimes scared for the future of entertainment and, more broadly, culture.

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