I actaully thought that people walking at the end was just as cool as the rest of the movie... Huge did an amazing job, I agree. I didnt know who was playing in this movie to be honest but afterwards I thought that whoever was behind the mask was very good....came home looked up the movie and was very surprised. Can you imagine how much money this guy has made this past few years will all these good trilogys and movies..
Man, don't put spoilers in this thread -- if you must make a large gap between where you write SPOILER and where you actually put them.
AWESOME! THE MOVIE WAS ****IN BADASS!!! IM STILL STOKED!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!! I want to start my own revolution... a houston rocket revolution!!! AHAHAHAHHAHA i wish i could change my username to V
i really didn't have any expectations going in, i just kind of wanted to see what the hype was about. it didn't dissapoint. it was a very good movie. smart, complex, well acted, well written. i would suggest if anyone is on the fence about seeing this, go see it. i'd give it a B+/A-. does anyone know if there is going to be sequal/trilogy with this? for some reason going in i thought there would be, but the ending pretty much took care of all it. there didn't seem to be a whole lot of room for another movie to follow it. just curious.
yea i was thinking the same think about a trilogy but again, there isnt much room for a movie after what we saw in this movie BUT... why not go in and tell the story of before all this happening? would u go see it? i would....give us a more detailed story of how he became 'V' and how the government got the way it was... star wars succeeded with it
Saw it today. It was good but nothing special. The writing was witty and clever which helped make up for the times the movie dragged. It had a little of everything: action, suspense/mystery, romance. But overall, not enough of any or all to really impress me. I didn't have exceedingly high expectations going in but I think I left a little disappointed. Overall grade: B-
Saw the movie tonight, went in with low-expectations but was pleasantly surprised. Very timely too given the climate of 'fear' and the constant government emphasis on 'security' often at the cost of some of our freedoms; I thought that was a major theme/emphasis of the movie, somewhat of a 'forewarning' of what could happen. Judging on its pure entertainment value, pretty good movie, didn't disappoint one bit.
Here is the Chronicle's excellent writeup on V, with SPOILERS imo. Frightful questions about terrorism By AMY BIANCOLLI Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Can a terrorist be a hero? If you answer no — if you blanch just seeing the question in print — keep far, far away from V for Vendetta, a gravely unsettling dystopian saga about a masked revolutionary bent on destroying the British Parliament. Vendetta's answer is "yes." Yes, a terrorist can be a hero. Yes, violence can be justified, even necessary, in the fight against oppressive regimes. And, yes, in the words of V, its alliterative desperado, "blowing up a building can change the world." He has British architecture in mind, but the twin shadows of the World Trade Center inevitably loom over this dense and glowering film, which uses a futuristic totalitarian regime to skewer political fear-mongering and popular complacency in every age, including this one. "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people," declares V in the film's most obvious call to arms. But as manifestoes go, this one's a beauty: draped like a funeral, smart as a whip and full of black-hearted Romantic monologues and dramatically slit necks. Directed by James McTeigue (assistant director on the Matrix trilogy) from a script by Andy and Larry Wachowski (Matrix writer-directors), V for Vendetta is based on the seminally depressive graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd. Moore has loudly disowned the movie and wiped his name from the credits. But Lloyd's name remains, and if the movie veers from the book at times, the filmmakers have worked hard to honor his creation. Most important, they get V right. He's charismatic; he's unhinged; he's obsessed with the letter "V" ("we will one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous"). With his Zorro hat, Zorro cape, signature consonant and pageboy flip, he might seem fey, but this crime fighter takes cover behind no weenie little scarf. Instead he wears a Fawkes mask, in grinning homage to the Guy who conspired to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. V atomizes the Old Bailey courthouse in the movie's opening spectacle, and he plans something similar for Parliament. He also plans to eliminate a long list of fascist nasties who had abused him in the past, a tragic back story being the key to every anti-hero. He is exquisitely, rapturously lonely — lonely in a minor key, with roses. When he rescues a woman (an impassioned Natalie Portman), she becomes his accomplice, then his prisoner, then his friend. He grows to love her in his silent, wounded way (despite torturing her later on: minor point). But still, he never removes his mask. She cannot transform this Beast. Three things make this work. One is the silken power of Hugo Weaving as V, whose elegant body language and lusciously textured line readings recall Claude Rains' classic turns in The Phantom of the Opera and The Invisible Man. Two is the film's unwavering air of apocalyptic dread, held steady by Adrian Biddle's noir-tinged cinematography and a masterful supporting cast that includes John Hurt as a hysterical despot, Tim Pigott-Smith as his venal enforcer and Stephen Rea as a decent, unflappable cop. Finally, the script: It's intelligent, literate, even talky, focused on character over mere exploding buildings and crammed with allusions to Faust, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tchaikovsky's 1812 and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Fanboys will tell you the Beethoven is a nod to the Latin numeral five, or "V," rendered in Morse code during the piece's opening theme (dit-dit-dit dah). Well, why not? This is an erudite terrorist we're talking about, a truly educated man. And maybe that's the most heroic thing of all. amy.biancolli@chron.com
Excellent review, definitely echoes some of my thoughts about the movie, I saw it as a fictional yet powerful story that could be related to world events in this day and age - definitely some 'political' and may be even 'subliminal' messages throughout.
