But the frozen mask just smiles

[sovay]

Just got back from V for Vendetta, which I saw with my parents. I really liked. I may now have to re-read the graphic novel, but the film stands on its own. Without getting into detailed commentary (as I'm tired enough to fall asleep on my keyboard and God knows what kind of film criticism that would produce), it's beautifully filmed and put together, relevant in the intelligent sort of way, and I now believe that Natalie Portman can act. Hugo Weaving was incredible; and I liked the complications of Stephen Rea's Finch and Stephen Fry's Dietrich. spectre_general and Ainz: if you still want to see this film, I'd gladly watch it a second time. Besides, there was swashbuckling with Robert Donat. What was possibly not to like?

Comments

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting. But did it have purple glowing apocalyptic ducks? Such are, you know, the one sure sign of all great cinema...

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

Except for that Holy Grail of cinema quality...

SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!

[sovay]

Hee. I bow down in amusement before your icon.

[sovay]

But did it have purple glowing apocalyptic ducks?

Given that Alan Moore, who wrote the graphic novel, was also the author of "The March of the Sinister Ducks," it might not have been at all out of place . . .

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Sinister ducks? Okay, that's just awesome...

Quack! Quack! Quack!

[sovay]

You must check out the animation . . .

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Actually you should see Garden State; I thought Portman quite good in that one. Also, I quite liked the movie.

[sovay]

I shall check it out. It's not that I believed she couldn't act; it's that from the atrocities of the scripts that were Star Wars: The Prequels That Shall Not Be Named, I had absolutely no opportunities to see whether she could or not. Now I know she can. Yay for artistic vindication.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Also, yay for hot intelligent Jewish girls ;)

[sovay]

Yeah: no argument there. ; )