V for Fucking Trash
I saw V for Vendetta yesterday. Unsurprisingly, I was disappointed. Beyond disappointed, I actually found the movie to be utterly contemptible. A pretensious piece of shit that feels it has a ground-breaking message (wow, critisizing the Bush Administration...it's not like I already see that on TV, in the newspaper, in magazines, in music, on the radio, among the conversations of my peers, and scratched into the plastic panels at bus stations) but is nothing more the same thoroughly uncreative blast of methane I've been smelling since The Matrix came out. Every action sequence was incomprehensible and indistinguishable from every other fucking movie I've ever seen. The cinematography, music, sound design and all the other technical stuff was just another tepid dollop from the gigantic vat of pre-made, homogenized shit that is Hollywood. There was not one tiny, fizzling little speck of inspiration glowing from under the reeking hulk of this film.
I felt like I was watching a stupid little child having a politically motivated tantrum, thrashing around wildly on the floor, cursing and crying and kicking chairs and table legs without really accomplishing anything. I felt like saying to the child, "You know, if you stopped acting like a little shit and actually thought through what you're doing you might get what you want." But the movie has already been made and there is no stopping it now. If anyone involved had any talent at all the film could have really been something, but it's just a complete waste of time. Don't go see it, unless you are another mindless drone of which there are too many, passively absorbing the amoral message and enjoying yet another slow-motion action sequence that compensates for its lack of originality with unrealistic and disgusting amounts of splattering blood.
Read the comic book. The comic book is quite good. You know, it really just boggles my mind how a movie adaptation could be so much worse that the source material. I mean, it must require more effort to downgrade than to let it remain as it is. Boggles my mind...
I felt like I was watching a stupid little child having a politically motivated tantrum, thrashing around wildly on the floor, cursing and crying and kicking chairs and table legs without really accomplishing anything. I felt like saying to the child, "You know, if you stopped acting like a little shit and actually thought through what you're doing you might get what you want." But the movie has already been made and there is no stopping it now. If anyone involved had any talent at all the film could have really been something, but it's just a complete waste of time. Don't go see it, unless you are another mindless drone of which there are too many, passively absorbing the amoral message and enjoying yet another slow-motion action sequence that compensates for its lack of originality with unrealistic and disgusting amounts of splattering blood.
Read the comic book. The comic book is quite good. You know, it really just boggles my mind how a movie adaptation could be so much worse that the source material. I mean, it must require more effort to downgrade than to let it remain as it is. Boggles my mind...