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"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is its 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 vanguarding 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."

So...anyone see it? How did you like it?

I thought it was excellent. I saw it once with a few guys from college and once with a friend from here, and both the theater systems were utter crap. Fell apart when anything got complex or picked up dynamics.

I miss my Axioms!

Anyways, it was a really good movie. You can't really classify it into one Genre. I saw one place call it an Action/Drama/Sci-Fi/Thriller.

I want to see it, I just loathe theaters these days thou.

I just got back from seeing it, (blind date) and we both enjoyed it very much.
Very good movie..... great movie???....not IMO.
It has a couple of good explosions for the sub and some knife fight scenes that seemed like they had a lot of good surround material in them.
Looking forward to hearing it on my system.

I'm also waiting for this to arrive on dvd, due to my sad, pathetic life.

If I had a hot date like Brady had tonight I wouldn't mind going to the theater... I take that it went well?

Just got back from seeing it myself. I really, really enjoyed it.

You all went and saw it in IMAX, right?

No fair! The only IMAX enjoyment I get is on the 34" tube...INHD2! The local IMAX theater closed its doors a few years ago in Fresno. Now it's being used to show the regular theatrical releases.

Man, that's one I want to see, but of course after watching Chicken Little 10 times this week I'm ready for anything.

Try Corpse Bride for the kids. My son (2 yrs) was glued to the screen.

That's one I've got to add to my collection, the kids only saw it twice and loved it.

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Try Corpse Bride for the kids. My son (2 yrs) was glued to the screen.

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I was thinking of watching it myself... The stop motion photography is kinda cool. Really...

huh, I didn't know they had this in IMAX format. I did see it in the regular theater though, and liked it pretty well. They managed to finally do a good translation to screen of an Alan Moore book. It sticks fairly closely to the comic but manages to cut out the stuff that was superfluous and/or a little hokey in the book. I thought Hugo Weaving did an excellent job considering he had to emote with just his voice and body language. And Natalie portman, she's just the bee's knees.

Though now thinking back on it, wasn't her character arc very similar in The Professional? hmmm...

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she's just the bee's knees

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She's the best thing since sliced breastBREAD! Bread. yeah.

An amazing movie. Very timely with lots of political undercurrents. Can't wait for the DVD so I can watch it again.

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huh, I didn't know they had this in IMAX format.

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So much for our marketing department.

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So much for our marketing department.

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Have to admit, at least here I'm not even 100% sure we still HAVE an Imax theatre.

Though I have done marketing work for the one in Calgary (at Eau Claire Market) and the Odyssium one in Edmonton... I haven't really heard anything since the first year the one at Portage Place was finished... late 80s.

Bren R.

Portage Place is your closest IMAX theatre.

Ah, it's still open then. Yeah it's downtown in a mall. I haven't been there since I was a 14 year old sk8r mall rat.

Bren R.

I'm beginning to see a pattern, here...

Yep, the last movie the wife and I saw there was Spiderman II (before the little one popped out).

We quite enjoyed the experience and I'd have to say it is one of the few theaters I will go out of my way to go to these days other than the Grant Park theater (best seats in the city) or sometimes the new "cheap theater".

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(before the little one popped out).

We quite enjoyed the experience

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I'll bet you did.

You're on a roll today aren't ya.

We have an IMAX here in Omaha but they won't show any movies on it.

...but let's get back to the movie.

I saw it today (not in IMAX) and enjoyed it very much. For a Wachowski movie, it was surprisingly lean on the special effects (other than pyrotechnics) and the one scene that used the "Matrix" effect used it sparingly.

My biggest complaint is that whenever I hear Hugo Weaving's voice I expect him to throw in a "Mr. Anderson" here and there. (The same thing happened in the Lord of the Rings movies, too.)

Now, pardon me while I put on a mask and stand outside the White House....

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We have an IMAX here in Omaha but they won't show any movies on it.

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Huh?

yep, they just look at the wall apparently.

by movies, I assume he meant hollywood stuff.

aye

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My biggest complaint is that whenever I hear Hugo Weaving's voice I expect him to throw in a "Mr. Anderson" here and there. (The same thing happened in the Lord of the Rings movies, too.)

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I actually didn't think Hugo sounded like Mr. Anderson as V. He had enough accent and tone change in his voice to make him not sound like it. I dunno, I thought he did a very good job as V and not making it sound "like" Hugo as much.

Also, The Wachowski brothers just wrote the screenplay, so, I don't know if they had a lot to do with the special effects.

How did the topic end up being "V for Vermicelli"?

Wow.

well spotted !

That would be BruceH (just trace it backwards).

Guilty!

Yep, anyone can do it.
Look at it go.

What a fun game!

what did you say?

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V is for Veronica

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Lorenzo wins!

It's amazing what a little airbrushing can do... I mean, just look at the original!

Yikes!

I think this one is a little more scary...



Sorry pmbuko, I kinda crossed you with photoshop, and that came out.

I should buy a gun now to fend off all Gracie's "gentleman callers" should she develop like that...

Back on topic...

Saw the movie last nite, it was outstanding. I hope it wins some real awards because it deserves some reconition. Very deep movie that was still interesting.

I think the hotness of a bald Natalie Portman is clouding your judgment...

That reminds me of this one website, what celebrities would look like bald.