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darksonic

Other movie goodness

Aug 31, 2006 15:45

Downloaded and watched, then went out and bought the specialest DVD versions I could find of Silent Hill and V for Vendetta.

V for Vendetta - despite differences from comic to movie, I enjoyed it. Anything with Agent VElrond in it is worth a watching, plus Ms. Portman and John Hurt... She did get overshadowed a bit by the male actors ( Read more... )

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I want to see Silent Hill.... liquidflorian September 1 2006, 01:09:29 UTC

but V I just couldn't get into. If it wasn't so low-brow, blatently anti Bush/conservative/Christian, and Amercian. Even Alan Moore disliked the movie. The Wachowski sisters phoned another one in... I liked Equilibrium better.

I'm buying a new car soon too, so we'll have to find smaller boxes to cary our shit in for airsoft.....

Re: I want to see Silent Hill.... darksonic September 1 2006, 05:16:02 UTC

Really, I think it's more anti-corporation and pro separation of business and government. As for anti-Bush/conservative/Christian, no more than Fahrenheit 451 or pretty much any of the dystopia stories. The comic itself was written and released from '82 to '88, and was influenced by Margaret Thatcher and her exit from UK politics.

Re: I want to see Silent Hill.... liquidflorian September 1 2006, 05:52:42 UTC

yeah, but fahernheit 451 and the like were more anti totalitarian and pro personal freedom (if not pro-democracy). V was pretty much dead on anti-christian right (in US political terms), and focused more on revenge then any kind of liberation. I would've like the anti Thatcherian, pro anarchy theme better. But what do you expect from the Wachowskis'? It make you wonder if the Original Matrix was cryptic and mysterious on purpose. Not to mention the gay blokes' "last holy quoran", painting Muslims as some kind of world wide victum of Zionists and Christian cursaders. If I want that tripe, I'll save my bandwidth and go read the Dailly Kos ( ... )

spideyj September 1 2006, 02:12:42 UTC

Yeah, I enjoyed Silent Hill, and I agree, they got the atmosphere perfectly. And I quite liked the stuff with barbed wire - yay, bloody splodeyness. *grin*

darksonic September 1 2006, 05:19:15 UTC

Bloody splodeyness and binding up the janitor earlier on in the flick... Very cool. What do you think with the ending - sequel or grim depressingness?

spideyj September 1 2006, 11:07:46 UTC

A little of both, I think. Considering that the video game series goes on and on, and they're doing a remake of the first game to go with the movie (basically the story from her point of view). I have a hard time finishing those games, actually, because they are so depressing. But they're so good, too!

ex_brokensou724 October 13 2006, 16:49:50 UTC

hey, ummm, where the hell have you been?

Since you seemed insistant aj_saxon January 15 2007, 08:59:50 UTC

...that I get my updates of the world of Chris here on LJ, the least you could do is update the damn thing occasionally. And what's the Blue shite? That was the name of my car, not you.

ex_brokensou724 January 30 2007, 00:37:21 UTC

Hey chris... Missin ya... Whered you go? email and say hi dude. or something *shrug*. *hugs*