The 1-2-3 Killam
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Round 2: V for Vendetta vs. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
This poll will close on Thursday, October 25th at 2am PT (ish)
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I didn't even like V For Vendetta when I was fourteen and might have actually been impressed guns and pseudo-intellectual bullshit. And Natalie Portman.
V is about as bland a character as it is possible to construct. He's a poorly written, dictionary definition Mary Sue who makes Edmond Dantes appear believable.
I've never seen any of the Terminator movies, but I have to point out that V for Vendetta is unquestionably the shittiest film entered into this tournament.
Anyone who likes it has poor taste, but more importantly, anyone who attempts to suggest that the film contains any kind of intellectual depth is an idiot. If I have a pet peeve in life it is dumb, low brow media that people insist is making some kind of profound observation.
If you want proof of the films lack of intellectual weight all you have to do is look at the people who have adopted its logo as a symbol of their movement. Teenage anarchists and Anonymous, in other words, in other words a bunch of total morons.
V for Vendetta is a movie that tries to examine to complex and multifaceted issue of terrorism and does so by creating an unambiguously evil government who are presented with all of the subtlety of a thrown brick. The 'oppressive regime' might as well be sitting around twirling their evil mustaches and spit roasting orphans for all the humanity the film confers upon them.
The film presents the harsh reality of a totalitarian dictatorship very obviously based on Nazi Germany, except because it is a Hollywood blockbuster produced for idiots everything is the fault of a shadowy cabal of super resourceful megalomaniacs with zero motivation other than to be bastards for no discernible reason. As such any attempt the movie makes at social commentary degrades to an over simplistic farce. It'd be like a WW2 epic suggesting that the Treaty of Versailles was actually written by Hitler and Goebbels as part of their master plan to seize power.
That's not to even attempt to address the whole host of other issues that the film had. V is about as bland a character as it is possible to construct. He's a poorly written, dictionary definition Mary Sue who makes Edmond Dantes appear believable. He's a romanticized freedom fighter who can slaughter a crowd of men with guns and blow up large sections of London, but is unambiguously right to do both.
Natalie Portman (who's character's name I cannot remember) is similarly bland, possibly because she winds up being completely superfluous to the plot. Her job in the narrative is to stand there listening to other people talk for ninety minutes and to participate in that utterly ******ed torture sequence "I was violently torturing you for your own good", "Gee, I guess you're right." that manages to stand tall as the stupidest aspect of a film that was pretty fucking dumb to begin with.