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Loved it. It was about as subtle as a brick to the head, but the original graphic novel wasn't a model of modesty or subtlety and it was the Wachowski Brothers and it's the political climate that it is, so the lack of subtlety was...nice. Natalie Portman was beautiful, Hugo Weaving was (as always) fantastic, the Stephens (Rea and Fry) reduced me to flailing, and PATRICK WAS IN IT OMG. Patrick! I kept looking around and waiting for Jeff and Steve to show up.

I had one moment of irritation in the kiss because um, that was unsubtle in the bad way. And I kept sitting there going, "OMG EW, THAT COULD *SPOILER FOR THE GRAPHIC NOVEL*." I can deal with the shipment of the masks -- hi, hi, suspension of disbelief, hi -- in place of taking out the Eye, but I was so hoping for that little girl to flip off the camera and not, you know, get shot.

Valerie made me all sniffly. But the tear-filled moment for me was when everyone took off the masks and the camera panned across all these people of color and Stephen Fry (*wail*) and Valerie and the little girl.



Anyway. (somewhat ironic) Music, in honor of V.

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott-Heron

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[jennyo.livejournal.com]

DUDE! I saw Patrick and went, "ohh, I hope Sheila knows Patrick is in this."

I did cry at Valerie, too. And I wish they'd made it clearer that they'd killed off all the people of color in the universe, but minor nitpicks.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Patrick! It took me seeing him three or four times before I connected it with Patrick (the hair threw me!), but then I was sort of giggling inappropriately every time he came on and going, "This is what being a Tory gets you. Sally will *never* have sex with you now."

The death of the characters of color was very Blink And You'll Miss It, as was a lot of the more insidious stuff, and packed into that opening monologue of the Voice and yeah, I totally wish they'd pumped that up a bit, but mostly I spent my time going, "VIVA THE REVOLUTION!" and was pleased.

[jennyo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also was like, "REVOLUTION UP IN THIS BITCH!!!" and being surrounded by the white bourgeois of this beachside community? Kind of made that hard to do properly. Though at least the theater was pretty packed and it was the 3:30 show.

*snicker* I also thought that Patrick had clearly taken being a Tory wayyyyy too far.

Did you see the latest Grey's spoilers on Amy's journal? I COULD NOT HAVE MORE JOY. Well, except if it were Addison, but still. Amy and I went, "god DAMN, that's happy."