crienselt | The 5th of November (Reply)

Saw V for Vendetta last night. Twas okay. It's what you get when you take The Phantom of the Opera, Zorro, and Batman and stir vigorously. The love story deserves an eyebrow raise (the level of which is debatable). Not sure how I feel about the entire violence/terrorism is good thing, and when everyone was walking toward Parliament at the end, I was like, "What are you crazies doing? It's going to explode! You don't walk toward a building you know is going to explode! Fools." I suppose they were all at a safe distance, though. Speaking of foolish behavior if I was one of those guard/police guys in the final fight, I'd have run like hell. Forget about trying to reload.. I did, however, really like the whole "idea" thing. And it did have some nice quotable sections, and that's always enough to appease me! And there were some humorous bits, though I don't know if they were all intentional. (Like her kissing him, or rather his mask) I was also amused to note that the computers they were using were Dell's. Good to know they survived the disintegration of America and birth of totalitarianism in England. Speaking of which, if they were attempting to mask the film's agenda and lessen the potential cultural-conservative-BLARGG-vs-liberal-GRARRR-wars controversy by setting it England, they failed. Also, it troubled me that she had all these different outfits. Where were they coming from?? But, erm, that said, it was a good-great movie, Natalie Portman acted well, and loved the inspector guy. So glad he made it through the film unharmed!

Note on the trailers, Silent Hill actually looks good and scary as hell. X-Men trailer also really made me wish I watched those movies. And maybe I will. I so did not know one of them had wings--pretty white angel-ey wings...! (And I do like Hugh Jackman.)