V for Vhat the Fuck was that?

March 13, 2007 by youmybabydaddy  

Okay peoples, did you see V for Vendetta? The movie to me was just meh. I love Natalie Portman. It had that going for it. Other than that, just meh. It also had disgustingly obvious political commentary that I didn’t expect. How did I never hear of this? Have I been living under a rock? Or locked in a basement somewhere? Oh, hold on, I DO live in a basement. This explains everthing. Anyway, I am a little late seeing this movie and a little late hearing of this movie and its blatant criticism of the Bush administration, but do any of you know what I am talking about? Did you see the movie? What the hell is it suggesting? It is set in Britain for one thing and the storyline and the whole bit is supposed to be from the original comic book or some shit, but they twisted certain things to make it a satire of modern times. Like, BTN their television network that broadcasts government propaganda and lies to ensure the public does not learn the truth about certain things. Did the creators of the movie think that the audience is so stupid that they had to make it so alarmingly obvious that they were referring to CNN? Like oh um gee maybe we should make the name of the station sound like CNN otherwise the audience may not get that we are saying. Duh. Yeah, I got it. What I didn’t get was what was the message of the movie? Are you trying to entertain me by making a movie version of some comic book story or are you trying to be Michael Moore? Are you trying to enlighten me as to how corrupt government is cause I already fucking know that and if your audience doesn’t then why are you trying to draw them in with some comic book nonsense to teach them some higher lesson when they have clearly been living with heads firmly planted in their anus? And what the eff are you trying to tell us to do about all this? What is your suggestion? Should the American people rise up and start strapping bombs to themselves a la Al Qada or are you saying that Al Qada is justified in what they are doing to America? If you are going to get into this then wrap it up in a nice little package, don’t just make a statement that has already been made a million times and then tie it in with this story and not make it clear how it relates to how the story ends. That just makes it seem like they thought it was cool to add some political commentary and that’s it. Let’s take a few jabs and create some controversy even though we won’t actually do anything good with it in the end. By the way, there was some horrible acting in this movie too. Not by Natalie Portman though, oh hellllllll no. She put Britney to shame with the Sinead look. Pretty hot, Britney not. Sorry, sidetracked there. Anyway, what I took away from the movie is that Al Qada is justified in doing what they do since sometimes for your cause innocent people have to die for the greater good. Somehow I don’t think this is what the people involved intended, but that’s what they were saying to me. They were pointing out that the US government is way corrupt and someone needs to do something to stop it and guess who is trying right now using the terrorism that the movie recommends? V launched a Jihad on their ass and even died for the cause. So someone please tell me what else I was supposed to take away from this bundle of crap, cause that’s all I got. Oh yeah, and the creator of the original comic wasn’t even happy that they turned his plot into some political commentary. The comic was anarchy vs. fascism but bringing the modern elements into it screws that all up and makes it look like terrorism is what we need right now. Whaaaa? In other words it has no message cause it is just a jumble of commentary that doesn’t actually end up saying much. Time well wasted by shite movies once again.

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Okay, so next she gets a tattoo and then it’s off to rehab… Ooops, wrong storyline.

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  1. 1. best ending ever (of what you wrote, not of the movie).
    2. i really liked the movie. i want to read the graphic novel now.

    Comment by Sarah — March 13, 2007 @ 10:16 am

  2. haha Thought you would like the ending! Zing! I am definately interested in the Alan Moore V for Vendetta graphic novel (sorry, I kept calling it a comic, bad me!) and I think that is why the movie disappointed me.

    Comment by youmybabydaddy — March 13, 2007 @ 11:15 am

  3. I liked the movie and thought it had some great lines. I never even thought that they were commenting on terrorism. What movie did you see? They were talking about their own government, and the relation to the citizen, never an outside force. Oh, and yes, the general american public (majority) is that dense - hello!? Bush got elected not once but twice!!!

    Comment by mofitta — March 13, 2007 @ 3:22 pm

  4. A terrorist act can be against your own government. Nothing in the definition suggests outsiders for it to be terrorism. “Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts committed (or threatened) against civilians by groups or persons for political or ideological goals.” Blowing up buildings where civilians may be harmed is a terrorist act. Even in the movie the character V says that sometimes they get in the way, basically, but it is justified. They kill security guards at the TV station. There are civilians killed when they bomb the Old Bailey and he acknowledges that in the movie. They were referring to the Bush administration many times in the movie and even the film makers admitted that. They purposely did want it to be a comment on terrorism and they said that in interviews which is why Alan Moore (the creator of V for Vendetta) was pissed cause that is not what his creation was about. The original graphic novel was about the government in relation to the citizen and this is too, but it was also spun to comment on what is going on today. That is why it didn’t make sense as a movie and political commentary cause what is going on today is nowhere near the same as what Alan Moore was talking about and they have no relation so why bring that into it? They should have just kept it as it was. I thought it ruined the point that Alan Moore made, but you obviously just saw it as Alan Moore wanted so that works too. Hey, there is strong evidence of vote tampering in BOTH elections that Bush won so I can’t be too mean to America.

    Comment by youmybabydaddy — March 13, 2007 @ 4:11 pm

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