I just re-watched this the other day and boy did it hit harder now than any other time I've seen it.
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This will be interesting.
I don’t usually watch rereleases, but this seems timely. The ironic part is that if I go watch this I’d further be supporting the very institution it was trying to warn us about. Which was also the irony of Anonymous using the masks, when that money went straight to warner bros.
The 'tedious cunt who's never real Orwell but will recommend 1984 to people in Facebook comments' profile pic industry to receive 900% boost.
I'm glad we're seeing more theatrical re-releases these days. About 42 weeks of the year there's no new releases worth watching, so why not have something good on even if it is old.
I think it should be legally mandated that each studio only re-release older movies for one month out of the year. They can stagger their months or do them all the same month, but either way we could all benefit.
Sounds nice, but they'd definitely find some way of gaming the rules so that it ended up going to shit as a concept.
The kinds of people running Amazon-MGM-Paramount-Skydance-Disney-Blackrock-StateStreet-Vanguard are the sort of psychopaths that would deliberately sabotage it just to teach those pesky legislators a lesson about trying to tell them what to do.
Maybe a better idea would be to add public screening of movies over 30 years old under Fair Use, and require studios to share their movies with a copyright library in order to maintain copyright protection for streaming/dvd so that they can't just DRM the thing itself.
Always seemed insane to me that copyright terms have been extended to the stage where the only people making a profit off a work are people who had nothing to do with its creation.
The graphic novel is so excellent and this was a great adaptation.
I liked the movie as a standalone thing, but my one big ick with the adaptation is them changing the core message. V is an anarchist, someone who thinks that order can exist without government. The word anarchy is never even mentioned in the movie, and the key takeaway in the film is that "governments should be afraid of their people, not the other way around," a message that still implies governments should exist.
I didn't rate the original comic very highly - I think the movie is great, though.
The original felt very of-it's-time, I think people who didn't grow up in Thatcher's Britain would miss references and subtleties in it.
I am bit bewildered that you can’t see the relevance of V for Vendetta in this day and age.
Nowhere did they say it was irrelevant, they said the graphic novel was “of-it’s-time.” That, along with the comment on Thatcher’s Britain, conveys to me that they are saying there are specific things in the novel that are referencing the specific political events/scandals of the time it was written.
Thank you, yes that's exactly what I intended to say!
Some of us have never forgotten the gunpowder plot.
I’m still upset about the bit with Stephen Fry doing some kind of weird Benny Hill skit, and also Hugo using every v-word he can think of. I’d rather go to a real disappointing bonfire and firework display in the rain.