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Post by JJ on Mar 17, 2006 20:59:58 GMT
Fucking hell. It's just amazing, and it's unlike any other film I've ever seen. Natalie's accent was a bit iffy at times though, but it was passable.
Highlight the text below to see the spoiler (spoiler tags don't seem to work for some reason).
The ending where Parliament blew up - wow. Wow wow wow. And the V actually trapping Evey twist - double wow.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Mar 19, 2006 1:49:21 GMT
The first part of your spoiler is hardly a secret considering they show it in the TV ad.
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Post by QuincyMD on Mar 20, 2006 9:18:34 GMT
Go and hunt down the graphic novel and gawp at how much more subversive it is than the film and also how much more of the wringer Evie gets put through.
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 20, 2006 17:54:17 GMT
I'm still confused by how (graphic - I haven't yet seen the film) Evie falls for the... whole false torture set up. She was being terrorised by her mentor and a load of shop dummies . Dumb bint.
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Post by thomasj on Mar 24, 2006 16:04:36 GMT
I found this so boring, and I was tres disapointed with Natalie Portman's performance as she blew my head off in Closer, literally I can't remember the last time a female actress looking as beautiful as she did in that film. Before that she was that frigid witch Queen Amidala and it was amazing to see her doing something really, really against type. In this film though she's just mis-cast and she seems to forget to act because she's concentrating on her bloody shit accent.
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Post by si on Mar 25, 2006 20:50:30 GMT
This was properly amazing.
Che's point about the thing he spoilered I totally agree with though -- it is a very trite twist.
I found some parts very difficult to watch (mainly Evey's torture and the Valerie flashbacks) but the ending was superb. Less so the fireworks, more the marching on Parliament and all the characters being unmasked.
I actually thought it was a poorly executed film in parts. Either the direction or editing or both really jarred in places, Dietrich's oppositional TV show, for example. Did we really need the Benny Hill nonsense to get the point across? But then when the source material is this strong, that can be excused.
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Post by pauliepoos on Mar 25, 2006 22:58:10 GMT
I enjoyed it a great deal and the back story did make me think a great deal about various things that are in the news at the moment. And Valerie's story was horribly moving, and to have images of two men together in bed and the police coming for them in the middle of the night will hopefully stay with a lot of people around the world who don't have a particular healthy view of us gays.
The one problem I did have however is the beautiful and amazing slow motion shot of Parliament being bombed, bearing in mind we've seen just how ugly and dirty the effects of bombs are in London.
Oh, and the British Television Network was fine, except they referred to the English rather then the British on occasion.
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Post by si on Mar 26, 2006 12:11:42 GMT
The one problem I did have however is the beautiful and amazing slow motion shot of Parliament being bombed, bearing in mind we've seen just how ugly and dirty the effects of bombs are in London. V was due to be released last summer (or was it a 05.11.05 release date?) but was pushed back for this very reason. Everybody's able to see the point, but I think it's more important that we have films with content like this, recasting the role of terrorist, than not. No?
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Post by JJ on Mar 31, 2006 12:54:04 GMT
The one problem I did have however is the beautiful and amazing slow motion shot of Parliament being bombed, bearing in mind we've seen just how ugly and dirty the effects of bombs are in London. V was due to be released last summer (or was it a 05.11.05 release date?) but was pushed back for this very reason. Everybody's able to see the point, but I think it's more important that we have films with content like this, recasting the role of terrorist, than not. No? It was supposed to be released on the 5th of November, but it was moved due to 'pre-production problems', apparently. Yeah right.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Apr 26, 2006 2:22:02 GMT
Ages ago my friend said he was getting a taxi to Waterloo in the early hours one morning and saw loads of people dressed in capes and hats around parliament. I presume it was for this. I just finished watching it. I thought it was really good, thoroughly enjoyed it. Natalie's accent was a bit dodgy, but I'll let her off. Also I sussed that V was the one holding Evey. Well when she first got caught I did, then I thought not, but the fact they never showed the faces of anyone interrogating her made me suspicious.
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Post by Ezzie on Aug 7, 2006 17:38:30 GMT
I read the graphic novel first, then bought this on DVD last week (when it came out at the cinema, I didn't care yet). I prefer the graphic novel because of course it has more in there, but I thought this was amazing. For a start, you couldn't see Hugo's face for the entire film! Brilliant! But despite me not liking him, I have to give him credit, he managed to do a really good job of it-it might not sound it, but acting with a mask the entire time and giving a performance like he did is not easy. But yeah, overall I thought this was just an amazing piece of work.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Aug 8, 2006 10:12:00 GMT
Oh we watched this last week - it really is smashing. I didn't mind Natalie's accent, even though it was just a shaky version of how Americans think we all speak. I wish we all spoke that way, it would be so delightful. Whenever I'm in the states or just around yanks, I tend to up the posh quite substantially.
I would quite like to read the "graphic novel" (fuck off! call it a comic strip!) now, but that would just be really, really sad of me.
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Post by JJ on Aug 8, 2006 16:38:01 GMT
I am mightly pissed off, because V for Vendetta's 2 disc special edition was released in this country as a limited edition HMV exclusive. OK, fair enough. It came out last week and I rushed (well not quite but you get the picture) to the shops to get it, only to find that I was a few quid short. So, I was paid today and went back to get it, and lo and behold, it's all sold out! After one week on sale! And it's no longer available online either. So I'm unable to get a the better edition of a film I really love because of HMV's stupid money spinning idea that has deprived people like me who really liked the film but can't see the good extras. It is now available on Amazon for £37.99 second hand. Well, they can fuck right off. I am exceedingly annoyed that they have done this and I realise that this probably isn't sounding terribly coherent but I need to vent my anger somewhere.
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Post by Cherubic on Aug 9, 2006 13:36:54 GMT
I saw it the other week. It was alright I suppose. I didn't think much of the changes they made. I understand that the Evie shacks up with Gordon who is then killed by the thug who ends up killing Mr Creedy in a garage sub plot was a bit long winded to include, But why except for the sake of putting Stephen Fry in it did they make him a big gay aesthete? The whole thing was a bit black and white for me, Which considering its about a man who kills thousands for bitter revenge with few thoughts of the consequences is a bit of a major flaw.
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Post by frap on Feb 18, 2007 1:22:58 GMT
I literally just watched this for the first time tonight and really enjoyed it. It passed me by when it was originally out and I had absolutely no idea who was playing V when I sat down to watch it, which heightened the tension for me - I truly didn't know it was Hugo Weaving until the end credits. Very effective. He's an amazing actor in general.
I really enjoyed it. As others have said, Natalie's accent really distracted, and she did seem miscast - why not get one of our fabulously talented British actresses in? Stephen Fry was great, John Hurt too though a little overplayed. Loooooved spotting Ben Miles of Coupling fame, also Rupert Graves, who I have huge affection for dating back to his performance in Different For Girls.
Really, really great film. Beautifully shot, beautifully told. Joy to watch.
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