^this film is just as 1984 as Brazil: extremely.
I would if i bloody well could!
AmorRoark said:go see A Scanner Darkly.![]()
I would if i bloody well could!

AmorRoark said:go see A Scanner Darkly.![]()
god forbid people have some ideals and want to share them!V For Vendetta was just as preachy and rediculous as Crash
so? you'd rather have everyone shut their mouth because "it's so easy to open it"?It's pretty easy to vaguely condemn a basic system system or belief and end up sounding prophetic
hmmm... my wild guess would be that when you write a 10 tomes comics, you spend more time thinking about its message and its relevance in the real world than someone who just sees the film during 2hI doubt that the original author of the books had any idea how relevant it would eventually become in a specific way
a symbol helps people uniteApparently blowing up a priceless piece of achitecture like the Lodon Parliament and St Stephens tower at midnight when all the politictians are away from their job would suddenly make a country better?
vegan said:a symbol helps people unite
a symbolic action helps them start acting
Blowmonkey said:Good movie. Couldn't help but see some parallels with the book 1984, but that's just me.
ego_loss said:1. I "enjoyed" the movie. I just don't think it's anything really groundbreaking or thought provoking.
Raving Loony said:Can anyone explain to me what was the point of Natalie Portman's character in the film, bums on seats perhaps?
L2R said:One thing you're fogetting is the same thing most reasonably intelligent people forgot about the matrix films when they bagged them out as well. The films show nothing new or really groundbreaking, this is true, but what does make them groundbreaking is the target audience.
Both V and the Matrix trilogy targents a mass general audience, and in doing so introduces many themes to the public consiousness that isn't generally around before.
When judging the intellectual merits of such films, one needs to think like the average movie goer, in other words, minus 20 or so IQ points from one's own.
I'm just glad such generally challenging films are being made.
[my opinion]I'd mourn far more over the loss such a bulding to a Taliban style of attack than that resulted in 80,000 casualties. A man or woman may live for 100 years, but the buildings around them will live on
Raving Loony said:I can't go along with that, being a lover of history and architecture. I'd mourn far more over the loss such a bulding to a Taliban style of attack than that resulted in 80,000 casualties. A man or woman may live for 100 years, but the buildings around them will live on.
L2R said:XMen aren't DC
silly