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DiscountDelight - V for Vendetta (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
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List Price: $34.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sinéad Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner, Ian Burfield, Mark Phoenix, Alister Mazzotti, Billie Cook, Guy Henry
Directed By: James McTeigue
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569823792
Format: AC-3
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2006-08-01
Running Time: 133
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-03-17
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Summary: Just showing my support for this amazing film
Comment: i'm not looking for a very high "helpful" rating here...just wanted to show my support for this incredibly powerful movie.
and for any of you out there looking to this movie just for some mind bending action since it's directed by the same guys as the Matrix...don't even watch it if that's all you're after...this movie is much deeper and greater than just satisfying eye candy and special FXs.
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Summary: Visually Stunning, Exciting Action, Intellectually Satisfying
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A serious adult movie, "V for Vendetta"'s projection of an all too possible future includes a mysterious victim of a government experiment, named "V", who vows revenge on a conservative fascist dictator in the Great Britain of the near future, along with some of his cohorts that were originally involved in the medical experiment for which V and many others were imprisoned.
"V" turns out to have surprising depth displaying a deep and brooding intellect, a penchant for Elizabethan phraseology, and the capacity for feeling the deepest emotions of love, empathy and sincerity despite his imprisonment. At the same time, V is a dangerous opponent, easily outwitting state security as he plans a very public display of his disaffection for the kind of regime which has sapped the very heart and soul of a country - a regime with very many similarities to those in existence today and for that reason, it is a virtual certainty that this movie will be denounced and/or dismissed with contempt, in certain quarters.
Not to be missed is V's brief but moving speech, broadcast to the populace after he gains control of the government run TV station. The everyday Londoners are shown listening intently to his message and understanding its full import while the government cesnsors scramble to shut down the broadcast.
The other principal character, Evey, brilliantly played by Natalie Portman, is a person whoose parents were arrested by the same regime that abused V, and later died in captivity. She projects a kind of raw sensuality and sensitivity which was sadly lacking in her Star Wars' roles but which has been brilliantly and most satisfyingly projected in this role, in which she must make an emotional and intellectual journey as difficult as that of V himself and at the end of which she becomes as fearless as he is in a memorable and exciting scene.
I'm not sure which is more brilliant, the principal plot, in which V eludes his pursuers and delivers his message in preparation for his "Guy Fawkes"-like finale, or the numerous sub plots involving some of the principal powerbrokers of the regime, men of enormous wealth and power who were originally connected with the "experiment" which was eventually used to kill England's own citizens and extend the power of the dictatorship - all while misdirecting everyone's attention to "foreign" enemies and thus solidifying their control over the country. How very appropos to modern events, eh?
As bonus extras, the music of the movie is stunningly beautiful with a kind of easy-going contemplative jazz giving the perfect backdrop for V in his most relaxed moments, moments that he sometimes shares with Evey, as well as the brilliant utilization of Tchaikowsky's music to accompany V's attacks on public buildings.
The ending will not be revealed here but suffice it to say that it was a perfect ending for this kind of movie and one that will leave the viewer impressed and thougtful for some time to come.
I've seen it six times now and find new things to admire at each viewing.
Highest accolades to everyone involved in making this fine film.
Jimserac
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Summary: If you really want to buy it...Just Wait...it will soon be in discount bin
Comment: Lucky for me did not pay money to see this movie. But I am wondering who I can send a bill for getting 2.5 hours of my life back.
This is one of those movies that gets all hyped up just like Blair Witch. Then after some time people actually watch it and say "what the heck was that". And video stores buy millions of copies...and almost nobody buys it.
Anyway seriously this movie has some very slow points. It is also quite long over 2 hours. I usually like the vigilante film but this one does nothing for me. It has a very 'in your face' you should be nice to gays/lesbians message to it. They center on this society elite that are basically the thought police who are imprisoning, experimenting and killing political radicals and gays and lesbians. Of course the movie does little to indicate the actual views of political radicals.
I do not know how this movie is selling so well, but I imagine it wont last, once people actually start to watch it.
If you really want to buy it...just wait there will be hundreds of used / returned copies for cheap in the stores and online in no time.
Sin City, Darkman, Dark City, and Matrix are far superior to this movie.
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Summary: Wow, Picky (reviewer) you're a complete moron!
Comment: How could you give a movie 1 star that you fell asleep during the first 15 minutes watching, then waking up with only about 20-30 minutes before the 2 hour mark? When you read a book do you just skim over the first 30 pages, then skip to the last 50?
V for Vendetta was by far one of the most powerful movies of 2006 (and up there with the most powerful movies ever for that matter)! I actually fell asleep too during the beginning the first time I watched it because it was LATE and I was TIRED, but a few days later I started it from the beginning & was completely blown-away. Maybe you should actually try watching it so you know what the hell it's about before you pass the rediculous and ignorant judgement that you have on this masterpiece & I'm sure that right after you're done watching VfV, you'll go right to your computer to edit your absurd review!
There are enough detailed reviews about VfV, so all I'm going to say is that I've truly believed for years that this is what we will be facing in the near future in our world with all of the greedy politicians out there who are doing a damn good job of conforming the masses & sadistically stringing them along with their propoganda like puppets on their fingertips.
To all the conformists out there: Try questioning authority & thinking for yourself. If you continue to go along with what you're told, just sit back and watch our freedoms slide further and further down the drain from all the power-trips...oops...I mean politics until our world is a spitting image of what it is depicted as in the year 2020 in VfV. Look at all of the changes in our society in the last 15 years, and with the world changing faster and faster every year that passes...just imagine what we'll be facing in even the next 10 years if certain things don't change. Instead of just writing off VfV with a closed mind & bad review, I highly suggest you watch it with an open mind & try thinking outside the box for once in your life. What do you have to lose other the brain-wash you've subjected yourself to ever since you could make decisions?!?
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Summary: "V"
Comment: V for Vendetta is a vociferous and veridic view vivifying a vicious and vile vortex of villainy versus the vulgus in a vivid, virile vision vicariously visiting on the viewer a vigorous vignette of a valiant and velocious vigilante vying for victory in a vanguard against vainglorious violators virtually vacant of any vital virtues.
Verily, it is a veritable vituperation of these vitriolic victimizers "vesturing" as victims while vexing and vilifying to a vertex of venanating the voiceless till the venturesome venerer, vi et armis, vindicates violence and validates the valuation of the venerable and votive Vox Populae.
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"Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change. Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski Brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their protégé, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco On the DVDs
On disc 1 is a 16-minute documentary "Freedom! Forever!: Making V for Vendetta" with discussions on the movie's origin and themes by the principal cast and crew (no Alan Moore or Wachowskis, to no one's surprise, but the graphic novel's illustrator David Lloyd is on hand to call the movie "a very good version"). On disc 2 is a 17-minute production featurette, a 10-minute history of Guy Fawkes, and the 15-minute "England Prevails: V for Vendetta and the New Wave in Comics." Lloyd and others from the comics industry such as Paul Levitz and Bill Sienkiwicz talk about the graphic novel and how it appealed to a different, older audience. The second menu of the second disc also has an easy-to-find Easter egg of a rapping and swearing Natalie Portman on Saturday Night Live. --David Horiuchi Beyond the Film 
The graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd | 
More by Alan Moore | 
From Graphic Novel to Big Screen | 
More by Natalie Portman | 
More by Hugo Weaving | 
More by the Wachowski Brothers |
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