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Putting the "V" in "LOVE"

by Genevieve

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February 2006: The King's Bore.

 

January 2006: Tristan and Isolde: A Love that Best Not Speak its Name.

 

December 2005 Blood of Beasts: the HypnoHair, the Bearface, and the Awful, Awful Wardrobe.

 

November 2005 Queen of the Damned: Still Not a Euphemism

 

October 2005 It's a Scream: Sting and Olivier fight. TO THE DEATH.

 

September 2005 Eragon: a Rondo

 

August 2005 Veronica Scars

 

July 2005 The Dork Knight: Christian Bale's Spotty History

 

May 2005 Kingdom of Heaven: Choose Your Own "Adventure"

 

March 2005: Rich, Chocolate Constantine. More Constantine, Please!

 

February 2005 Express Yourself: A Guide to Kate Beckinsale

 

January 2005

Phantom of the Opera: Because They Paid Me

 

November 2004

Girl in a Labyrinth: Stills from the Sequel

October 2004

Feel the Byrne: Excalibur and Other Horrible Period Pieces

 

August 2004 

A Judge of Character: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

 

July 2004

Change of Place: Rick Springfield Goes Abroad

 

June 2004 

The Forsyte Saga: What a Terrible Plan.

 

May 2004 

The Man with the Golden Pun: Van Helsing and Troy Fail Miserably at Whatever it Was They were Trying to Do

 

April 2004 

Hellboy. What the hell else would it be?

 

March 2004 

The Piano (IT'S A SYMBOL)

 

February 2004 

OSCARS OVERLOOKED: Who Really Wins This Year.

I loved V for Vendetta.

 

I was supposed to go make fun of it because Hugo Weaving is clearly taking over the world one scenery-chewing part at a time, and because if Alan Moore of Castle Greyskull has denounced it than you know it’s pretty damn evil, but then I saw it.

 

I loved V for Vendetta.

 

Promotional still of the movie Genevieve FUCKING LOVED.

 

Hugo Weaving will be robbed of an Oscar because people will forget he was wearing a mask, because he’s that good.

 

Stephen Rea will be robbed of an Oscar because he is perfect and everything he does is small, and nobody cares about small.

 

Sinead Cusack will be robbed of roles, because people will forget than she was in this, and that her scene was the most tender in the whole movie, which is pretty fucking good for an assassination.

 

There is nothing about this movie that I would change, which is saying something, because I am of the opinion that Natalie Portman used up all her talent in The Professional and she’s just coasting now.

 

My lack of sarcasm scares me, frankly, now there will be four months of people not liking it and me wanting to spork them, which is bad for the complexion.

 

Their complexions, of course. With spork holes in it.

 

Honestly, though, go see it. It’s smartly written, it’s well-acted, the music is flawless.

 

The costumes? Did you notice that V has to be sewn into his cape? There’s no fastening. HE IS SEWN INTO THAT CAPE.

 

I LOVE YOU V.

 

CALL ME.

 

(Ignore Hellboy. He just gets jealous.)

 

 

 


(c) Defenestration Magazine, 2004