If you had 8 U.S dollars with you to spend,you should rather think of donating it to charity or may be just buying 8 essential objects from your dollar store.
V for Vendetta, a movie which should have been christened P for peter or M for Mary for the best intepretation of the G for galeej and L for local audience like us....
I am completely irritated with such highly hyped high fundae movies,finally turning out to be nothing more than a huge damp squib.
The storyline was no more than the good old Amitabh or Rajni starrers where the evil guy has commited these crimes in the past and the Hero who escapes from one of the olden day incident(similar to those 100s of tamil movies,the fire scene from the slashback flashes atleast 5 times),comes back with a mask to take revenge.It actually sounds like a "Sudhesi" type story suited for Captain.The highfalutin flowery British english might have been the greatest strengths of the movie,but then what the hell?Who can sit through 2 hours of lengthy monologues cleverly dumped with carefully chosen high frequency words from the'Barron's wordlist'?
The first instance of this kind of a never-ending dialogue,that I could remember of was the introduction of the character "V".Every single word from the wordlist under the letter 'V' was used.
V: This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
To describe it in the same flavor,I would say that it was an
apish, artificial, artsy, artsy-craftsy, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud, ham, hammy, highfalutin, hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phoney, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham, shammed, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnaturalform of dialogue delivery which makes one wonder for the first few seconds and this wonderful feeling slowly starts stinking and drowning one into that blackhole of boredom.
I don't want to elaborate anymore.But one thing comes to my mind;may be I should start sticking to V for vendakka type tamil movies only!
-Raapi
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Raapi: Seriously da.. Don't go to any movie expecting anything. This was an adaptation of a comic book da. :)
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