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What did you think of V for Vendetta? Britain under the thumb of a fascist dictator, the U.S. in anarchy...?

And I thought movies were meant to be escapism lol

I have it on good authority that the comic signalled a watershed in plot (well, I was also told The Watchmen was probably more important but that does not diminish the importance or, you could argue, iconic status of it). Before then all the comics had been simple mindless superhero comics like Superman. Apparently, V for Vendetta originally included a fair but of thinking: surely the most dim-witted would have caught the debate that may arise about differing styles of government: the master versus slave argument.

So, the film is being reviewed considering the source material it had to work with. A passable attempt on Asimov (I, Robot) is better than a score of action films; as is Phillip K d**k (Total Recall), asking questions about the nature of self, and having an alien with three breasts.

Still, I want to see V. I was told to read it before I see it but there is no time now. The main worry is that it will be turned into an action film when it was not an action comic, thus ignoring all the intelligent parts that gave it cult status.

AWESOME. (I went to see it on the 17th)

I know it has gotten bad reviews (although most of them seem to circulate around V's mask and Natalie Portman's god awful attempt at an English accent) but I loved it! Especially the end sequence. There's humour in there, dark and witty. Stephen Fry plays a great character called Deitrich, Stephen Rea was also brilliant.

It's got some good action scenes where people get properly killed (not any of that piddly knocked out or no blood stuff.) and all the while it looks critically at government, the state of fear, religion, bigotry and racism.

If you like dark comic books, you will like it. If you have a thoughtful mind and a good sense of humour, you will love it.

I'm just back from it and thought it was brilliant. I agreen about the gameshow, it was really funny.
I think I can see why there is that bad teeth stereotype, the teeth weren't too nice.
Anyone notice that one of the government people's name was really close to Cheney? Or was that just me over-analysing?
I can't really comment on the accents since it was in cinema 3 (a crappy narrow little room, aweful sound quality) but it seemed reasonable to me.
I quite liked that how it showed that a little bit of religion can be fine (the god is in the rain part, Evie) but how religion can be manipulated and turned into something bad. There's too much "all religion is bad and only leads to bad things and is just for silly narrow minded people" stuff going about and it's been irritating me.

I've been trying to work out but I'm still not sure, is the Britian symbol the obvious British government or is V? Or both?

It's the conservative government that's the baddies. Although their colour is red.

It said it was the conservative government. And it showed the percentage of people voting after something happened and it said conservative there.
A lot of the other stuff fitted in with labour, I think it might just have been a way of allowing the film to go ahead without getting into trouble.

I have seen the film. It's great!
The only problem I had was why did the tower of Big Ben explode when teh explosives were on a train?

It wouldn't have loked so cool if all it did was crumble into the underground.

It is written about a conservative government, the comic was written at the time of Thatcher's Britain and when you realise that you see where his visions of the future came from!

It is however certainly nudged up to date- bird flu, america's war and red banners scream Labour to me- but then I suppose it is a bit scary how the same issues apply to our Labour government and the Conservative Thatcher government of twenty years ago.

Good stuff. 3nodding