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V For Vendetta Trailer
An anonymous reader writes "The V For Vendetta trailer has been posted on the film's official site. The film is written by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and stars Hugo Weaving and fan favorite Star Wars star Natalie Portman."
They just had to add bullettime (er, sword time?) for nastalgia.
Don't you mean Slashdot Troll favourite?
Wouldn't that be brother and sister?
"The film is written by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and stars Hugo Weaving and fan favorite Star Wars star Natalie Portman."
Wow, if they had just used the word prequel, my lack of interest would be complete.
"Derp de derp."
Anyoneelse heard the story about a woman suing the Wachowski brothers saying they ripped of her story for the first Matrix movie?
Quite the action-packed trailer.
can someone more familiar with the comic explain some premise for the rest of us?
The pain was excruciating and the scarring is likely permanent, but that just means it's working.
From TFWS...
Synopsis: Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself - and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
Think that they'll be adjusting any of that due to the recent bombings in London?
-JT
I wish I could watch the trailer, but I downloaded the 1920*1080 version and it plays at 2 fps, tops. If my computer performs this poorly on this, who has a computer that can play it properly? (I'm on an Athlon 64 3400+ w/ 1.5 GB DDRRAM and a GeForce 6800 btw)
Real_men_don't_need_spacebars.
he wants to be a girl, he's already 3/4 of the way there. lol
Grow up.
let's hope these hollywood hacks don't fuck up moore like league of extraordinary gentlemen
Fucking it up in the style of League of Gentlemen would be interesting though.
The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up. V for Vendetta is a stellar graphic novel and a must read for anyone who enjoyed either 1984 or A Clockwork Orange. I'd hate to see something with such a wonderful story cheapened by hollywood gimmicks.
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...but it looks interesting at least. Can't say I've heard of it until now, except in name. Though as with "the ghost in the machine," maybe the famed Bros. Wachowski will bring it more into the limelight.
Is this a movie tie-in for the new Windows Vista?
The question going around the Mac forum at Ars is, what are they using to encode 5.1 channel AAC audio in these new H.265 trailers?
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I see a lot of people on here that bash the brothers for their poor work after the Matrix. IMHO, it's really hard for anyone to live up to the Matrix, even it's own creators. I think we expect a movie coming from these two guys to be as original and amazing as the Matrix all over again, and that's not easy.
V for Vendetta is based on the comic with the same name. It's one excellent comic, focusing on totalism, freedom, hope, love and payback. The comic's artwork is dirty and raw, creating a very fitting atmosphere for the dystopic story.
Those of you who have read V, probably know that when it hits the mainstream, people will draw parallels to the real world (USA and GB) today. It's as topical as ever.
V for Vendetta only costs $13.59 at Amazon - buy it. It's an intelligent comic and uses the medium to send an important message.
After watching this I peed myself, and memories of the Penny Arcade comic about Americas Army flushed into my mind, whizzing around for many a minute, until it flowed out gracefully.
I guess my penis is proud of me.
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If you just want to get to the highest res trailer, here's the link: http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V_ trailer_1920_reflect_HD.mov
Personally, I like what the Wachowski brothers have done so far and I can't wait to see this film.
Dude, those penises were photoshopped on! I can't believe they're making money off of this!
After watching the bros publish a trash vacant movie just to squeeze the last remaining dollars out the Matrix institution i am prepared to be underVelmed.
I'd feel like a pedo after seeing "The Professional"
Yawn. Anyone else tired of hearing about how evil a guy who can no longer be elected is. Agree or disagree in ~3 years he is gone, and there is nothing to do till then. At least nothing some film is going to do.
So, we have this 1984 rip off "V for Vendetta." Of course, the terrorists (sorry, insurgent) is the good guy.
Yeah, I know Moore wrote this long before 911 and Bush II, but there really is one lens this 2005 film is going to be viewed through or reported as. The comic will get a 2 sentence mention and then we'll gt three paragraphs on how anti-Bush the film is. Yawn.
I would have been more interested if they remade the "V" TV show form the 80s with Mike Ironsides and the lizards.
I do like how they got Winston (John Hurt) from the film 1984 to do the Big Brother speech.
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I also love how Left wing people have hijacked the book 1984 to bash the Right. Orwell wrote 1984 because he was afraid of the Left. Big Brother, Uncle Joe. IngSoc, English Socialism. The Party.
One thing I noticed about this movie is that the Brothers W (or is that Siblings W now?) is that they've handed the directors chair to a cheifly 2nd Unit and Assistant Director who's worked on both the Matrix Trilogy and the Star wars Prequels.
Considering this guy's worked on the top grossing scifi trilogies of the last few years, he must have some potential. And the bros W might have realized that while they have some great concepts, they aren't the greatest at directing.
And if you get a chance, check out the trailer in Quicktimes new HD format, I got to say it looked rather sweet on my plasma.
And the premise seems rather timely and entertaining -- Though I'm a bit worried that a Terrorist Tactic using Anti-hero might get be offensive to quite a few overly defensive Christian Neo-Arch-Conservative types, it should at least produce lots of press for the film after it's release.
However, I suspect that any paralels they make to the current state of affairs will go just as unnoticed as the paralels they made in the Star Wars Prequels.
The trailer realease is rather timely however considering this week saw a fresh round of bombings in London and the renewal of the Patriot Act in US Congress.
Damn, and heres me hoping it'd be something to do with the V series of the '80s.
Watching Natalie Portman swallow whole, live rodents would certainly be worth it!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
he wants to be a girl, he's already 3/4 of the way there. lol
Dating a dominatrix and letting her wax your eyebrows is "3/4 of the way" to being a girl in your circles? What are you, Amish or something? (If so, you better get off the Internet before you get yourself shunned!)
Shit, in most of the country, that sort of thing wont even get you kicked out of an Elk's lodge. This is 2005, for fuck's sake! Let people live how they want to live.
Judging from the trailer, Alan Moore must be pissed. The Wach. bros should stick to plagiarizing and stay away from adaptations.
V for Very Annoying
by Anarcho
Recently, I reported that Alan Moore's classic graphic
novel "V for Vendetta" was being made into a movie. The
novel, set in a future fascist Britain saw V, an
anarchist superhero, fight the powers that be. I wondered
in my previous article how much of the anarchist politics
of the novel would survive the grip of Hollywood. The
answer, unsurprisingly, seems to be not much.
The first reviews of the movie script are coming out.
Yes, it is a script and things may change, but it is
looking bad. As well as unforgivable cultural slips (what
exactly is "eggy in a basket"?), the movie has simply
removed the anarchism of the central character. The
script starts with the death of Guy Fawkes. In the
graphic novel, V dresses up as Guy Fawkes but that is it.
No attempt is made to put Fawkes at the centre of the
novel, rather V's anarchism is. In the script, it becomes
central.
To fit this in, it simply drops anarchism. The classic
"Anarchy verses Justice" conversation which starts the
book has been eliminated, as does the V sign (far too
close to the circled A). V's TV address is no longer as
God urging his creations to take responsibility for their
own lives but rather to explain the Guy Fawkes motif.
Nowhere is the idea of anarchy being a force for good
suggested. And as for psychedelic drugs freeing the
detective's mind to successfully hunt down V? Not a
possibility.
As for the well reported "everyone-dressed-as-V" storming
the Houses of Parliament at the end of the film, this is
extremely silly (and not in the book). Where did all the
costumes and masks come from? Is there a factory in
fascist Britain mass producing them? Has V got one
somewhere beneath London? Did the masses seize the
factories and spontaneously mass produce them? All very
unlikely and, yet again, misses the point of the book.
And so the key, the central theme, of "V for Vendetta"
has been removed and instead we get Guy Fawkes.
Ironically, the mask has replaced the body.
Unsurprisingly, Alan Moore has (once again!) requested
his name be removed from the film. I can see why. So
while it may be a good film and incorporate elements
from the books, it looks like it is far from Moore's
intention and while it may share the same name it is
not the same story.
So buy the graphic novel now before it gets "Now a major
Motion Picture" plastered across it. At least that way
you can get a firm idea of how much they have gutted the
novel when it does appear in the cinemas.
"People should not be affraid of their government, the government should be affraid of their people". There were a couple of other lines in there that made me cringe, but the Nazi-Germany style is refreshing :)
Shut the fuck up. Fucking pathetic hemaphrodite apologist.
...and Portman would have looked much better (sexy infact) with her head completely shaved bald
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For some reason, the theme and trailer reminds me of The Phantom of the Opera. :)
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Anyone else read this and think of Vendetta from Making Fiends, and get excited that something was out before September 1st?
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take a look at some of the changes in the movie...
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One of the W brothers wants to be a woman. Don't you find that a little odd/disgusting/unstable?
There are worse things.
Such as obsessing over the sexual identity of film directors you don't know and bitching about it on the Internet. That's just fucking weird!
Grow up?
One of the W brothers wants to be a woman. Don't you find that a little odd/disgusting/unstable? If you don't, maybe you should grow up!
Wrong. One of the Wachowski's is a woman, and her name is Linda. Despite what you've seen on Jerry Springer, genuine intersexed and transgendered conditions do in fact exist, and they have nothing to do with "wants".
Some keywords for your Google searches: Gender Identity Disorder, Klinefelter's Syndrome, Intersexed, and probably many others.
Perhaps, AC, you should grow up and realize modern science and medicine has long past the point where gender is a binary designation. I thought about trying to explain the genetic information, but chances are you aren't reading and anyone that is going to mod me up is already aware of the distinction.
~Rebecca
If you happen to be running an operating system that doesn't run Quicktime natively, download it here and play in mplayer.
_ trailer_480_reflect.mov
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V
The trailer actually gives me hope, as it portrays some importants scenes from the comic, as the take over of the tv channel, the torture of evey, and her under the rain.
"The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up."
I'm awfully afraid they will.
I've been reading some old Hellraiser comics lately, some of which were written by Larry. He managed to take a brilliant premise for a great horror story and twist it into an unreadable mess.
No matter how great the original material, I have total faith in the Wachoskis to totally fucking butcher it.
I get the feeling this is going to be another movie I will want desperately to love but will be sadly let down. C'mon, fucking 'bullet time' on the throwing knives?
Did one of the Wachowski brothers get a sex change or something?
Some self reliant gender-benders like to keep the old appendage, have it stuffed, and use it later as a pleasuring toy...
It's gender identity, not sexual identity. The two are related, but trans and intersexual issues/concerns and such are about far more than just sexuality.
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...you hear "People should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of their people", and you immediately think "In Soviet Russia..."
I hear Sophia Stewart is the original creator as in the actual idea owner.
Why do the Wachowski brothers get the credit for a movie they did not write?
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This movie looks like junk. Without even going into the "this is your typical shallow hollywood bullshit" line: the characters look goofy, the plot is lame and the overacting is atrocious. Any movie where the bad guy has no depth != a good movie.
I've hated every single fanboy flick to date with the exception of the well-thought-out spiderman flicks. I don't know why I keep making myself go to them.
modern day zorro re-re-hash :)
Arash Partow's Philosophy: Be a person who knows what they don't know, and not a person who doesn't know.
and it Wachowski's Hitler Archetype switches political parties, then what? The lesser of two similar evils?
obvious, f'in pig scum.
Like writing "she's supposed to be happy cuz she got married" underneath the mona lisa.
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While the Batman Begins score isn't, perhaps, as unique as Elfman's tunes for the '89 Batman (and are one of the big reasons that film was successful, IMHO), it is pretty darn good.
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Between the cross-like symbols and the music I was having flashbacks to Equilibrium...
That all aside, I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. The trailer looks interesting, the story is interesting, and so it has the potential to be very very good.
It also has the potential to be excruciatingly bad. The Law of Hype will tell us more as we get closer (i.e., if it gets 15 different versions of trailers on trailers.apple.com and has a huge marketing campaign in everything from fast food to office supplies then I'll avoid it like the plague).
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Thanks for somebody from /. which posted this article some days ago : Alan Moore despise V for Vendetta. Most interrestingly is the yellow insert (scroll down).
Quote "MOORE SLAMS V FOR VENDETTA MOVIE, PULLS LoEG FROM DC COMICS
[The League]Alan Moore, co-creator of the "V For Vendetta" comic, has publicly disassociated himself from the upcoming Warner Brothers movie project based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers. And as a result, he has cut his remaining ties with DC Comics, including future volumes of the "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
Moore has promised future "League" comics will be published by a US/UK collaboration between Top Shelf and Knockabout. "
Quote : "Alan On The "V For Vendetta" Movie Alan gave some details about bits of the V For Vendetta shooting script he'd seen. "It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed." "
Apparently the horse is already out of the barn...
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Has anyone been able to play these super high quality versions well on their PCs? I tried playing them on my Athlon 64 3200 and Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz. Both choked when playing these huge sizes. Even 1440 resolutions from other QT7 MOV.
I read Mac G5 have no problems.
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I wouldn't put it past them to screw this up. From someone who doesn't bother with comic books, V for Vendetta was the shining exception for me due to the strong characters, deep ideas and frightening moral of the story.
If the film is true to the book, then you have a story in which the hero is an anarchist who terrorises the UK with a bombing campaign and is also, ultimately SPOILER!!!!! a suicide bomber. He is responsible for many deaths. The books also condemns "security" measures such as CCTV and glorifies drug use. I had quite an urge to try LSD after finishing the book.
The dialogue is also many layered and, based on the Matrix trilogy, I sincerely doubt that the Wachowski's have (a) the subtlety to pull it off and (b) the humility not to think they can improve it.
The sole thing I'm looking forward to in this movie is hearing the songs actually performed (that's if they're included). Everything else fills me with a feeling of dread.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
I was totally skeptic of how this adaptation would turn out when it was announced. But then the leaked photos and the official posters raised my eyebrows.
Being a die-hard fan of the graphic novel, I watched the trailer just to have something solid to complain about. Surprisingly, I was thoroughly impressed, I must admit that at least visually, this movie seems incredibly faithful to the art of the original. V looks incredible down to the last detail and Natalie Portman is Evey Hammond, no question about it.
It almost got me excited. The trailer, however, confirmed my worst fears. The storyline obviously has been dumbed down into that of a crappy action summer B movie with high production values and a lot of bullet-time, M for Matrix bullshit.
Problem is, this is not the first and certainly won't be the last bad adaptation of Alan Moore's work, Watchmen has been jumping around for a while.
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My question is: All those guys making the adaptations always claim to be fans of the original sources, then why do they make them despite of the original author's opinion? Sheesh...
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These fucks get no more of my money. It won't be worth a download.
....why did it have to be Quicktime?
> ...and fan favorite Star Wars star Natalie Portman
... naked and petrified???
Alright, so admittedly the trailer site does mention that a powerful computer is needed to play the high-res version of the trailer.
So. I have an Athlon 64 3400+, 1GB of RAM, a 10K RPM SATA harddrive, and a GeForce 6800GT on a recent Windows XP install. The only extra programs I have running are Gaim and anti-virus software. I keep my computer up to date and swept for spyware using Ad-Aware and use Firefox for browsing.
I'll admit that my machine isn't quite the fastest in the world. I could have slightly faster (4000+) dual processors and more RAM. However, I still think my machine is pretty stinkin' fast by today's standards.
That said, the trailer (using the Quicktime 7 for Windows beta) played like crap, even at half-size. So...what the heck? Is it the player? Have people had better luck with other software? Or is HD really -that- hard to decode?
The screenshots from this thing absolutely scream "video game material".
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they made this into a Hollywood movie.
I heard that they changed the ending to the proposed Watchmen movie because of September 11th. I really don't see why. Destruction and slaughter on a massive scale has occurred around the world for centuries. Why does it only become an issue in popular media when it's the west that's being targetted?
Alan Moore is the greatest literary genius of our time. I'm glad to see he's disassociated himself from the movies made from his work. How can Hollywood take something so good and consistentyly fuck it up so badly?
Personally, the only Moore film I'm looking forward to is the one from Shadowsnake
speaking on nostaligia...remember???
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The original comic was partly influenced by "The Abominable Dr Phibes". I'm just hoping some of that influence comes full circle back to this movie. If Evey and V in the shadow gallery echoes Vulnavia and Phibes in Phibes' lair, just a bit, then that'll do it for me.
Allow me to suggest alternative code:
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Ya' know what? This would have been 'Insightful' if it were written in 1955.
Not a single person here but you thought of that. We're all thinking he's right, Leon was good though.
Let me see if I can make this clearer without resorting to name calling again.
1. Orwell was obviously an anti-communist. He was a left-wing anti-communist. The first anti-communists were on the left; the dingbat Stalinist ingelligentsia in Britain and America would have disgusted him, but so would American and British conservatism. The problem here is that you've been taught to associate liberalism, the left, communism, and socialism together as though they are all the same thing. They're not: communism is a perversion of left-liberal thinking; Marx took some sound economic ideas and ran with them right off the edge of the earth. The reality is that a healthy economy is a mixed economy (as a healthy government is a mixed government, something that the great intellectual figures who founded the US understood).
2. Orwell might have supported the war in Iraq; hell, Tony Blair is supporting it, and though he's not on the left by any meaningful measurement, he's certainly not on the right, either. Orwell was in favor of opposing facism and totalitarianism wherever it was found, and would have recognized in Saddam Hussein a potential Franco or Mussolini (Saddam lacked the national base to become a real Hitler, and was motivated by pure will to power, not by the weirder psychological perversions that motivated Hitler). However, he might not have favored the current war in Iraq given some of the context (for instance, if China were suddenly to decide it's time to occupy Taiwan, Orwell would have been screaming about our wasting time in Iraq while the real threat was building in Asia).
However, I can guarantee you that Orwell would have been disgusted by the attacks on Social Security and "trickle-down economics" (he would have had quite a bit to say about the fantasy math and sophistic language used to support both positions), and he would have been disgusted by the self-serving language tricks the past two administrations have engaged in (the whole "well, he said Joe Wilson's wife, but he didn't name her, so he didn't violate the law" routine is the only thing that approaches Clinton's "it depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is" in sophistical hypocrisy). On the other hand, I don't think he would have been surprised.
Until you have read "Down and Out in Paris and London," "The Lion and the Unicorn," and "Homage to Catalonia," don't try to talk about Orwell's politics. And don't believe ANYONE who tries to tell you that Orwell was a conservative.
As someone going through this condition him/herself, we need more of this kind of support.
However, one thing I might want to point out is that not all transgendered conditions relate to genetics. For some transexuals current science indicates a problem with hormone levels in the developing fetus as the cause.
...for allowing you to download the trailer right out front in the open, and not making you have to jump through various technical hoops to get a file you can watch again down the road without having to re-download it. So few movie-makers these days will let you do that.
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I've been downloading this sucker at 1,500kbps for 10 friggin minutes. Either they're uploading the entire movie or something has gone wrong with my quicktime plug-in. Or it's one BIG friggin trailer
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Why has Hollywood removed the anarchism from this movie?
Portman a fan favorite? While she may be cute, her acting stunk up most of episode one.
The Wachowski brothers stole the whole idea
I know it's a troll, but in any case anyone is wondering, this simply isn't possible with the procedures used today, which usually invert material to create the new organ. Not that anyone would want to do it anyway. Ewww....
Just another troll making stuff up to hurt one of the worst-off minorities today. Consider the problems the troll must have to need to post stuff like this and mock these people.
And it's been confirmed that they do indeedy blow up Parliament in the beginning.
And for Evey to go from hair to no-hair, well, you know what that means must happen.
So no, if anything, the trailer has brought back some of the hope I had.
Bush: He's Liberal in all the wrong ways.
But then I wondered if they'll notice it after all. The US has a very long and proud history of slipping the most socially subversive material into its sci-fi movies and having the nanny-dictators completely miss it. Planet of the Apes anyone? Looking back, the political allegory in that film (in the first three, really) is so blatant it's almost insulting... but at the time, no one really noticed. At least no one with the power to stop the movie from happening.
Or more recently, War of the Worlds. Granted, the fact that it was a truly terrible film rather cut into its impact, but I'm really not sure if ANYONE inside the US really got what Koepp and Spielberg were doing with it. (hint: it was a POST-9/11 allegory. If you think it had anything to do with the attacks themselves, you're dead wrong.)
And many others, leading up to this. And I wonder. Being that it's sci-fi, and from a pair already known for dystopian action flicks... will the Powers That Be even notice it? I'm guessing they won't.
Which is the funny thing about nazis. They always miss what's right under their noses.
Bush: He's Liberal in all the wrong ways.
Just another brainddead action film from hollyweird, which will make enough money from license.
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One of the W brothers wants to be a woman. Don't you find that a little odd/disgusting/unstable?
If you don't, maybe you should grow up!
Go back to Al-Qaeda, terrorist lover.
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Pacifism and the War. Quite a few other essays by Orwell are available on that site.
From the essay:
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that 'according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be "objectively pro-British".' But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious 'freedom' station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
Typical, that the largest creative force behind the movie (i.e. the Author) is hardly mentioned and should at least be on the Bios page. Bah.
If you're looking for a crap movie with "Vendetta" in the title, look no further:
Vendetta: A Christmas Story
I lose money on it, so it's okay to plug, right?
Is it just me, or is this the futuristic version of "El Zorro"?
Vi havas e-poston.
I find it ironically funny that John Hurt seems to be playing the head of the oppressive party in this movie while he played the exact opposite kind of character in 1984.
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
OK, I've got $2 says they "do a Stallone" and show V with his mask off.
Any takers? I woin either way, cause if I loose then it might mean the film will be watchable.
OK, theres a slight risk in that, because they shaved Ms. Portman, which would indicate that some of the most intensly disturbing parts of the book are still in there, but it's brought huge ammounts of publicity for the film, so it could be a good sign or a bad sign.
Actually, this could be a good Ask Slashdot. "I am a comics fan who shys away from comic book adaptations because I've seen too much unredemable crap - and that's just in the trailers.
Keanau as Constantine? Stallone taking his helmet off? Tom Sawyer in LoEG? Sean Connery in LoEG, for that matter! Dr Doom not using magic? The Punisher being a policeman instead of a soldier? (In both versions!) Hulk dogs? No Screwball in Mysterymen?
So, Slashdot, what comic book movie adaptations can I, as a comic book fan, see and enjoy?"
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I have an athlon 64 3200+, IDE hd, 1GB RAM, Geforce 6800GT overclocked and have a few things running in the background and it plays back smoothly at full size... but.... I didn't cheap out on the RAM; I have high quality, extremely fast RAM (heatsinks an' ev'ythang)
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both our systems are similar, your processor and HD are faster, but it's likely that my RAM is what is making the difference here. if that's not the case, then maybe it's my BFG 6800GT card that's overclocked off-the-self, though it's unlikely. pick up another stick of RAM
Vendetta: A Christmas Story. And oldie but a goodie.
I haven't collected comics for twenty years, but the last series I did gather was Warrior 1-26, a UK magazine. Among other gems, this contains the first printing of V for Vendetta. They've been kept in bags all this time. I understand that there was a significant trade bubble that made the dot com burst look modest (relative to their respective markets). Is it worth the effort to un-box them, or should I wait another decade to see if my kids get interested? Thanks.
I paid the going retail price for a Windows screen reader and got a free Unix computer!
I *don't* download a heck of a lot of trailers to being with, but...
Kudos to the guys who set that site up. For the first time I can remember getting the file downloaded wasn't a royal pain.
Click through, and the save as box pops up... No embedded crap, etc... Bravo!
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Every time a trailer or something comes out for anything related to nerd-dom we get the flood of inevitable 'OMGZORS TEH DASTROYED THE COMIC.' It's a movie, a mainstream movie, with famous actors and actresses who have a career afterwards. It will be seen by many, many people. I never read the V comic and I'm sure it's excellent but if they made movies that were exactly like the comics all of you people rave about, the movies would get such high content ratings and such poor press they would make about zero dollars. Au revoir, movies based on comics and welcome back to sappy romantic comedies with Jennifer Lopez. Let's be happy movies are being made about things we care about at ALL and stop wishing they included the scene where the hero gets high on crack and rapes the girl with a razor blade strap-on or something.
The main difference was that under Stalin you had a higher chance to be killed if you were close to him, than you had under Hitler.
Well, your odds still sucked under Hitler. Ask Ernst Roehm.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
In another 50 years they'll probably have achieved they're goal of being nothing more than a well marketed image of two opposing points of view while both parties continue to expand upon their only remaining policy: Feeding at the public trough via an ever expanding Federal government. In the meantime I'm sure they'll continue to argue bitterly and promote divsion in every media form available so that no one will notice that it's mostly bluster without substance, and that enriching themselves and their contributors is about the only action they ever really take.
Huh. Could have fooled me---I was pretty certain that their eventual goal would be nothging more than a well-marketed image of two opposing points of view, which, in reality, represent a single remaining true policy: Impoverishing the public to feed their wealthy friends, and using the ever-growing power of the state to make serfs of us all in the service of corporate power.
Ayep.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Well, shit. I'm going to hold on to any possible chance that he's being unreasonably curmudgeonly. Any... possible... chance. Any chance that this line will not be in the movie:
V: "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Evey: Are you like, a crazy-person?
I shall wait until Roger Ebert provides his... verdict.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Your information on gender issues is fairly informative, however you are starting with one incorrect assumption.
Specifically, the case being argued here.
There are no reliable reports anywhere that Larry Wachowski ever had a sex change, and in all recent publications, he continues to be known as "Larry" not "Linda."
All this came about when, during an ugly divorce proceeding, he was dating a professional dominatrix. Shortly afterwards, he began to appear in public with pierced ears, plucked eyebrows, and rather feminine-looking clothing.
Anybody who googles with the "safe" filter turned off knows that humiliation is a huge part of the dominatrix/submissive relationship, and that "forced" public crossdressing is often part of the kink. Odds are, that was probably what was going on at the time.
In the wake of Larry appearing in public looking somewhat girly, several rumors began to crop up that he was a transexual, and the gossip columns of papers all over the country began printing claims that he was planning on having a sex-change operation and changing his name to "Linda."
If you do a quick search of the Internet, you will find a dramatic lack of stories dated any later than last Spring which say anything about it. This is because the rumored sex change was probably never anything more than a rumor.
So while I applaud you for trying to promote understanding and tolerance, please don't perpetuate false gossip about people while doing so.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
and foolish moderators too - you'd think you were in iraq or something.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Well, my reply is a few days late, but just in case anyone is reading this...
The only multichannel formats understood by home theater receivers nowadays are Dobly Digital (AC3) and DTS. When you playback that AAC file, it gets decoded by your computer into the 6 different tracks. The digital output from your soundcard is only stereo PCM, so it gets downmixed to that, and you get the stereo signal into the receiver.
The only way to get the full surround signal is to use 6 analog connections into your receiver (5.1 input). I also think a nVidia chipset had the capability of encoding AC3 in real time so that also would be an option, but it is not produced anymore. I think it was called Soundstorm.
So in summary, if you want surround sound from your PC into your home theater, you need a six channel input in your receiver and the proper connections from the soundcard.
[On topic: High Definition 1900x1000 ish trailer is downloadable at 140mb, this is larger than my screen rez right now, just want to see how it runs ]
Although two towers didn't crash down in the UK, the Brits are still a tad more level headed and stiff upper lip, cup of tea? what?
You know. So I guess this will be annotated 'stet'. If you didn't get it, I mean, they will not change it, and not 'to show the terrorists they didn't win' but because we just don't do things like that...Don't mention the war! I mentione dit once, but I think I got away with it!
We have a whole holiday over here about the first terrorist plot, in 1605, where Mr Guy Fawkes (playing himself) not content with getting a penny every time he wheeled himself out in a wheel barrow (a tradition held strong today) decides to blow up the houses of parliment with gunpowder! (two other supporting members helped him, they are still at large, scotland yard have releases security camera pictures showing them carrying barrels)
However, scotland yard, using code breaking and wire taps, and Cantennas to sniff his WiFi access, were able to thwart the plan, and steal their iPods of them.
That is what wikipedia says, I hope someone hasn't been tampering with history!
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