V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]

V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]
by James McTeigue

V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, Stephen Rea
Director: James McTeigue
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Coming Soon
Summary: 5 Stars

This film may seem a work of fiction to some, but look around and see the similarities in today's news. Undoubtedly this film is destined to become a cult film for those who draw on history and see parallels.
Brilliant acting and cinematography. Natalie Portman is exquisite in this role. Hugo Weaving's passion is undeniable as V.
One should check the history of Guy Faulkes.

DVD Review: Could have cared less about the graphic novel until this...
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm sure this is some type of blasphemy but I have never heard nor do I care about the Graphic novel that this movie was based on...

This has a Gatica, Fahrenheit 451, Aeon Flux, Ultraviolet, Appleseed (original not the new one though it is good too) kind of feel to it.

This sort of distopian society built on the fictional beliefe that "everything is fine" is truly disturbing... but it isn't much different than America's economy, Social Security, or 401K plans that hold the promise of easy prosperity but have little else to offer... much like the distopian society of this film.

So...
I carry this moving in my iPhone and have watched it many times during my travel time.

I picked it up on iTunes for my phone, have it Tivo'd, and own the DVD... pretty extreme for sure. But you never know when you want to be reminded of the power of words...

THIS MOVIE IS Friggin' awesome... "Agent Smith" (Hugo Weaving) from the matrix did another amazing acting job on this...

More so than the matrix this film was moving and his acting was powerful and believable.

This is a superb film and is a MUST own for any collector or enthusiast...

Satisfying to the end... and climactic events in the movie are brilliantly foreshadowed, leaving you with a sense of cleverness when you watch the movie a second time!

Seeing it will add a fond memory you will be happy to go to your grave with.

(I don't plan on going to my grave very soon so I'll be happy to carry the memory of this movie for years to come.)

Enjoy it ... story telling like this is one of the finer juices of life.

If that doesn't sell you on this... Perhaps this will...

Natalie Portman is bewilderingly smokin' hot in this film even with her head shaved wearing little more than a hospital gown she is absolutely stunning...

In the beginning of the film she is very lovely... but carries her self in a manner that demonstrates a weak personality...

But she undergoes a transformation that is both meaningful, demonstrates a different person completely and of course is CrAzY SeXy even with a shaved head...

I hope you enjoy the movie, I did. And my wife did too.

DVD Review: Great movie. Better quality
Summary: 5 Stars

V for Vendetta was a great movie to watch in theaters. V for Vendetta was a great movie to watch on DVD. But the crystal clarity brought forth by Blu-ray is amazing. I watch my blu-ray movies on a 1080p 24 inch monitor, and while that might lead to the movie not being as cinematic, big, or beautiful as a 42 inch HDTV, the clarity of, especially this movie, on blu-ray is fantastic. I've started buying all of my favorites on blu-ray, and this is a great place to start.

DVD Review: Awesome movie, Awesome format, only place I could find it...
Summary: 5 Stars

great movie, high quality video and audio what's not to like, except for the whole HD-DVD thing not working out. Product runs great on my Xbox 360 HD-DVD player

DVD Review: A FANTATIC PIECE OF ART!
Summary: 5 Stars

A must-buy for those Matrix fans as the idea of the two movies revolve around anti-government and anti fear & emotion slavery, as in the Matrix man is a slave for what he thinks he feels and see, and in V4V people are controlled by fear, religion and media. What makes this movie the 2nd best movie I've ever seen is the fact that it was very very very well done in a very very very smart story that thins adrenaline in everyone that believes what we live now is a hoax made by governments to deceive people and have the ruled the way the government wants.

A MUST BUY (not only watch). You'll be watching it over and over and over again!

Hope people would learn from such movie how to get their freedom, not necessarily by violent but by being free from fears and able to take decisions by themselves and reason, not by fear and illusions.

Description of V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]

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 man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception V ignites a revolution when he urges 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 plan to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.Special Features: In-Movie Experience ? Director?s Notebook: Re-imagining a Cult Classic for the 21st CenturyBehind the Story ? Designing the Near Future ? Remember Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot ? Freedom! Forever!: Making V for Vendetta ? England Prevails: V for Vendetta and the New Wave in ComicsAdditional Footage ? Cat Power Montage (Music Video) ? Saturday Night Live Digital Short - Natalie Portman SNLTrailers ? Theatrical Trailer (Trailer #2) ? Soundtrack Album InformationFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC:?085391117018 Manufacturer No:?111701

"Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change.

Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their prot?g?, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco

Beyond Vendetta

The graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
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