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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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Are there any "Melty Man" jokes? Because that's what ever movie needs.