V for Vendetta - reviews (#2)

[mrph]

From the delightful WorldNetDaily:

"a vile, pro-terrorist piece of neo-Marxist, left-wing propaganda filled with radical sexual politics and nasty attacks on religion and Christianity"

(Actually, I liked it a lot. Saw it yesterday. Some things they changed for the worse - and I may post about that later - but not bad)

Comments

[ehrine.livejournal.com]

I just started to read that review and found it so funny. The sad fact is, I don't think it was written as a comedy and the reviewer truely means everything he wrote...

[stgpcm.livejournal.com]

so, how violent is it. Is it a film for mhw to avoid?

[mrph.livejournal.com]

There are some quite nasty moments. But it's certainly not the Matrix. Hmm. Not sure.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

but not bad

Even the ending? I've heard screams of horror about that.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I'll throw in a small scream myself. The version that was written was better - and would have worked better on the screen, too.

They also rewrote some of my favourite speeches in ways I didn't much like. But still, on the whole, I can live with it.

The biggest change - for me - is that V isn't the same person he is in the book. The Alan Moore version might explain, but he certainly wouldn't apologise - he in control of events and has absolute belief in his course of action, no self-doubt.

[kmrikky.livejournal.com]

What a funny little american !

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Reading through that review makes me wonder what version of the Koran that fuckwit has read.

" does it just include the Quran's admonitions to kill Christians, Jews and Non-Muslims? "

Mohammad called christians and jews "People of the Book". ie having the same God as muslims, just under a different name.

Comparing the origins of Islam to how it is practiced today is akin to comparing the origins of christianity as it was practiced during the middle ages. Which, amusingly enough, gets those right wing bastards just up in arms.