V for Vendetta

So, i went into this film with 7 other cunts,one cunt went missing,wondering if it would be a masterpiece faithful to its source material like Sin city ,a butchered sanitised drivel engineered to please the masses(and still fail) like The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, or something that falls inbetween like Batman Begins(widely accalimed, but somehow just doesn't blow me away). The truth of the matter is, i could not pass judegment in the same manner as i did with those movies simply because i never read the original V For Vendetta. So i simply assessed the movie in its own terms without measuring its worth by comparing it to the highly accalimed Alan Moore graphic novel.
Well, i came off the theater feeling i had witnessed a very good movie, but disappointed that it failed to achieve the greatness it had the potential for.It just lacked that extra bit of spark, to elevate it above to the level of a Sin City, which in my opinion still remains the best graphic novel ever to be commited to celluloid, or a History Of Violence.The overall consensus amongst the fanboys is that movie managed to capture the essence of its graphic novel counterpart, even if it is laden with inaccuracies,as well as being tweaked and updated a little to be more in tune with the current times.
Natalie Portman(delicious even with a shaved head) was competent in her role, though not nearly as good as she was in Closer, perhaps hampered by her struggle with the british accent. Hugo Weaving was impressive as the masked terrorist as were the predominantly British cast consisting of such vetrans like John Hurt(Elephant man himself) and Stephen Fry (the looney colonel from Black Adder) They could have done without the slo-mo matrix inspired fight scenes which was a little too stylized and over the top for my purist taste.It seemed like a blatant attempt by the Waichowski brothers to remind us of their involvement...attention seeking knobs!
I have yet discuss the controvesial aspect of the film which revolves around the main character who is well... gasp...a terrorist. The Waichowski brothers, attention seeking gits they might be, have to be given credit for having the bottle to take on such a project in the current post 9/ll era.But no worries, this movie is by no means a justification or celebration of terrorism. To view it as such would instantly qualify an individual to be labelled at the very least as superficial, pedantic and misguided ,in my own humble tounge-in-cheek opinion ofcourse.This film is not going to inspire more planes to come crashing down on skyscapers all over the world.(though it would be probably benefical to mankind if one such plane came hurtling down over anfield on match day) The story pays tribute to the ideals, not the methods employed to make these ideals a reality.The main crux of this tale revolves around the ideology that one ought to be able to think for oneself to shape one's own destiny rather than to be shepherded like blind sheep.One just hopes that this underlying message doesn't get lost and buried under all the controvesy and notoriety that the film has generated.

need you
dream you
find you
taste you
fuck you
use you
scar you
break you
lose me
hate me
smash me
erase me

song: Eraser
Artiste: Nine Inch Nails

BOOKS!

I have decided to review novels.Yes, you eyes don't fail you. You are reading it right. I know it's a shock. I had heart palpitations just before i began typing, cause it was overwhelming even for myself. I am not known to be usually fazed by things. But this does. After all, right from day 1 of its inception, this blog has never once been utilised for this purpose.This a sign of things to come. This blog is heading in a whole new direction, for better(unlikely)or for worse.(probably) 'REVIEWING BOOKS? YOU MUST BE FUCKIN OUT OF YOUR MIND'- i can imagine the myriad of thoughts streaming through the consciousness of my faithful blog readers. Yeah, most people identify me with being a movie buff ( most of them wish i'd just shut up on my opinion on movies and to keep my aggressive critical faculties in check), and to an extent a music lover (so i'm a bit of musical snob...well i'm sorry i have better taste than you cunt!). But very little take me for a literary sort, which is not far from the truth. I couldn't have read more than a dozen books throughout my teenage years (that's including my literature text at secondary level), unless ofcourse like someone once quipped, " graphic novels count as books".Now that i have read loads...haw haw!
I must confess though that my recent fascination with books( as recent as last year) was sparked by ironically the worst of them and without a trickle of a doubt the most overrated and overhyped "literary tripe"to have graced our book stores in recent times. .Credit though has to be "thrown at" where it's deserved, even of it's with expressed with a tinge of reluctance. But surely any book that has managed to fool an entire host of the most literarily vacant degenerates to pick it up and actually read it from start to finish deserves all the plaudits it gets, even if it's the biggest "literary con job"of the 21st century. Millions were fooled by the hype and controvesy surrounding the subject material (myself included). Million others indirectly fooled by the documentary which in the "effort" to shed some light on the controvesy surrounding it, served only to only heighten its value of interest. But ofcourse this little "literary deception" is far from over. When the movie based on it finally makes it way on to the big screen (i am not complaining. Why would i? no self respecting movie buff could possibly resist the thespian skills of artistes such as Audrey Tautou and Paul Bettany),millions more will inevitably be bamboozled. For those of you sickened by the sight of the thick paperback with the stylistically printed words The Da Vinci Code & Dan Brown and who have developed a "literary allergy" to all things Dan Brown and such like, i say "brace yourselves you poor bastards! This is only the beginning of your woes". Be prepared for an all out assault on the "literary senses" by every book store( from Borders to Times) in town come mid-year... haw haw haw!