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twinkle · Coach

v for vendetta

rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

Thanks for the heads up, mu husband wanted to go watch it.

erin · Chanel

i think we are going to see this today.

mara - did you read the graphic novel before seeing it?

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

We went today. I liked it, but it wasn't what I was expecting. It's very political.

bex · Chanel

we just got back from seeing it on the IMAX screen.

i really liked it. it was almost hard to watch at some points b/c of the bombings that happened in london last year- it felt too real. which, of course, is the same reason that they pushed back its release. i can see why now.

rocky · Coach

I liked it. I think it had the potential to be more though, something really astounding, but it lacked that quality.

blubirde · Chanel

Wow! I really liked it. The boy thought it was a bit wordy but that's what I liked about it. Not too much action but enough to make it interesting. I'd definitely watch it again.

Heather · BCBG

we went to see this last night, I really liked it, so did the boy. I was nervous that it was going to be a lot of things blowing up..(i really don't like that type of movie)..but it wasn't, I thought it was really interesting. Not what I expected.

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

I absolutely loved this movie!

It was very 1984 meets Brave New World- Which is actually my favorite style of writing.

The British actually celebrate "Guy Fork" -or the death of him- by burning a "scarecrow" in a bonfire. So this a really interesting take on the story.

atlgirl · Gucci

...er, seashells, I think you mean, "Guy Fawkes" ??

twinkle · Coach

really you guys all liked it? i honestly thought it was one of the worst movies i've ever seen...

i thought V was impossible to care about. a terrorist in a mask? he was like a child abuser/molester. he was also a drag queen, once i saw him in a floral apron cooking eggs, i couldnt get that image out of my head. the whole movie was incredibly homoerotic, with him looking like michael jackson and being abusive, and all the gay/lesbian flashbacks...

it was incredibly self-indulgent and took itself way too seriously.

also hate that it took place 20 yrs in the future but there was absolutely no sign of technology minus that little fingerprint reader.

-- Edited by Mara at 19:05, 2006-03-21

esquiress · Marc Jacobs

thanks for posting mara, my friends and i were almost going to see it in the theatre but now i'll totally be waiting for the video. does anyone else find that it is just a lot easier to stop a video than walk out on a movie?

ETA: i think maybe we'll go see thank you for smoking instead. has anyone seen that one yet?

-- Edited by esquiress at 20:48, 2006-03-21

twinkle · Coach

esquiress wrote:

thanks for posting mara, my friends and i were almost going to see it in the theatre but now i'll totally be waiting for the video. does anyone else find that it is just a lot easier to stop a video than walk out on a movie? ETA: i think maybe we'll go see thank you for smoking instead. has anyone seen that one yet? -- Edited by esquiress at 20:48, 2006-03-21

havent but i am dying to! i've heard great things.

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

atlgirl wrote:

...er, seashells, I think you mean, "Guy Fawkes" ??

LOL- you know that's what I always thought it was when ever I went to a Guy Fawkes party. But in the movie they made it sound like Fork. I need to clean my ears!

atlgirl · Gucci

in the movie they made it sound like Fork

ROFL! You gave me a good chuckle. I do want to see this movie, and will probably crack up when I hear "Guy Fork"!

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

I LOOOOOOOOOVED this movie. I absolutely loved how political it is. I hope it forces people to think about where our policies are taking us. Certainly it pushes to extremes possible outcomes of what is currently going on, but I think that sometimes these extremes are the only things that will shock people enough to think for themselves, I would see this movie again in the the theater, which is saying a lot because I hate paying $9.00 to see a movie.

ETA: V is in a mask because he represents an "idea." If he were to take off the mask he would simply be a man, and the idea needs to be larger, more enduring than just a man. I think the director/writer/producers chose homosexuality as a major issue because of all the current media attention focused on gay marriage/rights. I didn't think that the way they touched on that subject was in any way tasteless or disturbing.

-- Edited by gingembre1 at 15:04, 2006-03-22

halleybird · Hermes

gingembre1 wrote:

I LOOOOOOOOOVED this movie. I absolutely loved how political it is. I hope it forces people to think about where our policies are taking us. Certainly it pushes to extremes possible outcomes of what is currently going on, but I think that sometimes these extremes are the only things that will shock people enough to think for themselves, I would see this movie again in the the theater, which is saying a lot because I hate paying $9.00 to see a movie. ETA: V is in a mask because he represents an "idea." If he were to take off the mask he would simply be a man, and the idea needs to be larger, more enduring than just a man. I think the director/writer/producers chose homosexuality as a major issue because of all the current media attention focused on gay marriage/rights. I didn't think that the way they touched on that subject was in any way tasteless or disturbing.-- Edited by gingembre1 at 15:04, 2006-03-22

I realize I am way late on this thread, but I just saw the movie this weekend and I really liked it. ITA with everything you said.