Originally Posted by sullivan_mk2
You call that a review?
No, because I never once called it a review. Nor was it posted in a thread called reviews. Nor was it posted in even a sub-forum called reviews. But I dare say it was more of a review than, "This movie kicked ASS."
But why are you complaining about all the film's style and editing? You missed the entire point of the film.
I'm complaining about the film's style and editing because it is a movie and two components of movie making are style and editing. I did not miss the entire point of the film. They're called motion pictures for a reason, because the pictures themselves matter. The composition of those pictures and how they're combined together is the very language of a film.
A film is no different than a novel or any piece of literature, it is just told in a different medium. Having an appreciation of a film's style and editing is no different than having an appreciation for a novel's grammar and sentence structure. A good story written poorly is just that. Just because you may think the story is untouchable, if it is written with little to no understanding of the English language, it is still a failure. Likewise, a movie that is constructed poorly, irregardless of the "point" of the film, is still a bad movie.
Direction, style, editing, blocking - these things all matter. They matter dearly and in a movie that is begging to be taken seriously because it is dealing with a very serious issue they should be expected to be up to par. But they aren't. They're incosistent throughout and it hurts the "point" of the film because it needlessly made the wrong choice time and time again. The point of the movie is that the issues that V stands for are reflective of issues that we all experience in society and that they should be remembered, they should be paid their due respect and I find it hysterical that the film itself pays no such respect.
I didn't "miss" the point of the movie. My apologies for having an ability to divine the difference between **** and **** covered in cologne.
You can't deny that the film is thought-provoking. And if you can, if you can honestly say the film didn't provoke any thought in you, then you have bigger problems.
I never did deny that the film was thought-provoking, did I? In fact, I criticized the film several times for being genuinely thought-provoking, but then failing to pursue those very thoughts to completion.
The point of the movie is to inspire those same senses of patriotic responsiblity in the audience that plague the life of V. I have no doubt that the film did this for many, many people, but it did it in a way that was sloppy and often times just plain silly. Do you really need someone to tell you to vote? Do you really need to hear someone say the words, "The government isn't telling you the whole truth" to actually believe it? Do you really need to be spoonfed an exagerated fantasy world to fulfil your own ideas that the governments of the world out of control in some totaliterian power play?
If you need a voiceless film like
V for Vendetta to convince you governments aren't infallable, you have much bigger problems.
The film has only been out a day and already I'm tired of people acting like it revealed some secret no one else on the planet knew. Mediocrity and common sense already got over praised last year with
Crash, is it so soon that we need a repeat performance?