V for who gives a shit

Geez, I feel stupid. I was all pumped to see V for Vendetta. Maybe not anything spectacular, but at least thought provoking, I thought. Nope. Completely stupid! It was like another comic book movie, and this time the superhero was a knife-flinging revolutionary in a mask who quoted Shakespeare. What kind of fucking revolutionary reveres Shakespeare, who is the definition of boring, white, literary convention?
And the big-brother/Hitler guy in the film was screaming an twitching and being mean. Yeah, okay we get it. I thought it would have been cooler to have the dictator be really civil to everyone and act all calm, like everything was hunky-dory, and kind of coo everyone into submission. It's creepier when people don't know they're being gagged.
The movie just flashed a bunch of pretty words (REVOLUTION! FREEDOM!) and blew some things up. Oh! Provocative! It was like some Frankenstein combination of Beauty and the Beast, Clockwork Orange, and 1984. But Clockwork Orange and 1984 (and maybe Beauty and the Beast too) meant something because I dont think you were supposed to take them literaly, but just kind of chew on them. V for Vendetta was more like THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
The movie was not a complete bust though. During one of the most weepy parts, they played this song I love. It's this Cat Power cover of the Velvet Underground song I Found a Reason. Brilliant. They also slipped some Antony in the Johnsons in there. Points for trying on the soundtrack.




V for Velvet Underground. That would be a much cooler movie.