V for Vendetta (2005) Movie Reaction & Commentary | FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@gregpeacock5497]

This movie showed just how good Hugo Weaving is as an actor since he did the entire movie with his face hidden.

[@EricSarahReact]

Agreed!

[@Patriot009]

If I remember correctly, the first scene with V defending Evey against the Fingermen was filmed with a different actor behind the mask with Weaving redubbing the voice later. The original actor, James Purefoy was far more animated in his portrayal, which you might notice in that first scene compared to later scenes. Purefoy left after a couple weeks of filming because he hated the mask. I think it worked out for the best because Weaving's performance was phenomenal, conveying so much emotional nuance with just his voice.

[@watchdirector4105]

@@EricSarahReact Guys react to Gone girl (2014) starring rosamund pike and ben affleck its an masterpiece you guys should definitely watch it. It was directed by same director of seven,zodiac (David fincher)

[@koopakid715]

Eric looks like his real name is Hugo

[@andysutcliffe3915]

He shows his face in the finale, kind of, he’s in the crowd.

[@wampa25]

John Hurt (who plays the Chancellor) also starred in the film adaptation of 1984, which was also a dystopian story with similar themes.

[@johnbrookes4892]

and he was the hero in that! V and 1984 are two of my favourite books

[@frankstiso3040]

If you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror,...he promised you order, he promised you peace and all he demanded in return was your silent obedient consent. So many great lines with so much relevance to today's world

[@RedRose-nr5cl]

One of my favorite films of all time, I believe when V was crying there 2 explanations for me. He's crying because he feels terrible for what he did to Evey and probably thought she wouldn't actually come back to see him one last time, for she had described him as a monstrous creation and him removing his mask is probably for him seeing that monster hence breaking the mirror and crying. It could also have been that V at this point had already fallen in love with Evey, and he had probably already planned his fate to die and him realizing what he's become after what he put her through and seeing his face, he wants to be more than that and have a future with Evey, but he can't. That's what I think.

[@tararocksong5085]

Good analysis on V. It may possibly be both. He never saw himself as a living, loving person, but as a monster of revenge against those who murdered hundreds of innocent people who are different from “normal” people and innocent children from a hospital all for the sake of power and control by one man.

[@Talban]

V crying in the mirror was because of what Evey said about the count of Monte Christo, that Edmund Dantes cared more about his revenge than he did about his love. V took those words to heart and so, when the time came, he gave Evey what she wanted, to live without fear, knowing that he would lose her, that the act of giving her what she wanted would make her hate him. Yet, he did it anyway, because he loved her. What she wanted was more important than what he wanted (to be with her), so he wept at the damnable unfairness of it all, but he only wept after she was gone, thus offering her no guilt. A truly selfless act. It's written so well that it's almost poetic.

[@Lauren-rq5bm]

NO THAT 2ND ONE MAKES ME WANNA CRY 😭

[@system3008]

@@Talban the way you described it, I couldn't have done better.

[@waynebuckland7879]

Yes he was like the beast in beauty and the beast and realised that he couldn't have that kind of life with her.

[@victorsixtythree]

The movie came out in 2005...but it was based on a graphic novel written by Alan Moore that came out in the mid 1980's. Alan Moore is one of the most respected writers in comics. Many of his stories have been adapted to films (Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell) although his name doesn't appear in the films' credits because he does not want to be associated with the adaptations.

[@johnbrookes4892]

he gave the proceeds of this film to David Lloyd i believe

[@frankhuhn7369]

It is nice to see a review/reaction that goes deeper than just "I liked it" or "That was cool." Keep up the good work.

[@waynebuckland7879]

In regards to smashing the mirror, V was like the beast in Beauty and the Beast and realised that he couldn't have that kind of life with her. Hugo Weaving's face has the most hours of celluloid in screen history due to the Matrix [with all his duplicates]. This time we never see his face at all !

[@davelewis8270]

Until I saw the reactions to this film it never occurred to me and people outside the UK wouldn't know about Guy Fawkes nights.

[@popejaimie]

The only other place I heard of it was in Harry Potter lol

[@karlsenula9495]

In July the Tryolians all across the Alps (Germany, Austria, Northern italy, Switzerland) light the mountain tops alight with symbols for the Summer Solstice but also to honor William Tell (Wilhelm Tell) .. we witnessed that this past summer... amazing to witness.

[@GrouchyMarx]

I've watched this movie every Nov 5th since it came out, including many V watching parties. 😁👍 The next time you guys watch it have the text on when V gives his introduction to Evey, to read all the V-words! It's incredible. And watch V's favorite movie someday. It's the first and really good movie of the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas. Made in 1934 with Robert Donat. One can see why V liked it. If you like scifi I recommend "Contact" (1997) and "Interstellar" (2014), both with Matt McConaughey. Contact is based on Dr. Carl Sagan's scifi novel he wrote shortly after his "Cosmos" science TV series in the 80s. Also stars Jodie Foster as lead. With Interstellar, just get ready for a big ride! The best scifi to date IMO. 🖖😎

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

contact always has a place with me because it was the fav movie of me and my deceased gf when we first dated,and its a good movie.

[@MrDane1876]

Alan Moore is an amazing writer. Most of the best comics I've ever read were by him.

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

im adding this back to my list in a tie for #1 fav comic/graphic novel movie with watchmen and the crow.

[@JavierGarcia-bd6kw]

She actually shaved her hair for that scene. That scene was 💯 her reaction to having her hair shaved

[@dgrmn12345]

Nov 5 is an important event and holiday in British culture as it celebrates the demise of the conspirators, namely Guy Fawkes, who were caught and stopped in their attempts to blow up Parliament Building. Thus sparing King and Country. Guy Fawke's Night on Nov 5 is celebrated more than Halloween by building an effigy for Guy Fawkes and burning it in front of large crowds. A delightful if not mildly ghoulish occasion.

[@caitlin329]

I think Halloween rivals it now, and there's not many effigies being burned anymore. It's become 'Bonfire Night' and mostly known for fireworks. Even fewer people know the reason *why* they were plotting in the first place, or any other context. 'Holiday' is also sort of misleading.

[@martinrusev3502]

My favorite movie of all times. It's amazing.

[@Boogie_161]

The reason they’re called “fingermen” was because the government was designed similar to a human body. Chancellor Sutler was the head, and the news was the mouthpiece, the police were the hand etc. Aside from the Batman movies, this and Blade will always be my favorite. This movie being my number 1 above all of them because of the content, the story, and the message. Also, I highly recommend “The Count of Monte Cristo.” I like the one starring Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce. It’s not all too different except…well, I’ll let you watch it lol. Great reaction 😊

[@jennybeard6341]

The Salt Flats sequence just makes me fish tears every time.

[@Rahvin01]

Love this movie and enjoyed your reactions. For more Natalie Portman I’d recommend Black Swan.

[@EricSarahReact]

We're glad you enjoyed it! We'll add it to the list :)

[@sethralavode3052]

i want to point that there is a reason why V said "of course you are" when she told her name. e is the 5th latter in alphabet and V also used as 5 in roman number. so eve is kinda 555 or vvv, that's why V said "i dont believe concequences".

[@LeethLee1]

This movie is more enjoyable to watch every time I do. Reminds me of the movie 'Network'. I really like the Wachowski's writing when they get into the deep soul of People 😃

[@lathron4393]

Every time I see this movie I am terrified and I have to think of all the stories my parents told me about, both grew up in the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The tell from blinking signs the news moderator gave in order to let the people new that the news are fake ore the Stasi (State security service) that spied on people, removed them if necessary and destroy data and records of certain events. The constant fear. There are the crazies story’s out there about the Stasi friend betraying friends, and family family, and lovers lovers. And this I why I love this movie, because I is daunting and can never happen again and if you live in a land that is currently like that, it can give u hope to stand up.

[@PresidentScrooge]

Dont forget that an estimation of every 10th person was at the very least an informant. And probably similar to the UDSSR they had quotas to fulfill.

[@MrSchism]

"Nothing was going to change by just hoping." Remember that. For the rest of your lives, remember that. And remember the power of "No."

[@peteyn.y.7960]

- DONNIE BRASCO (1997) - CARLITO’S WAY (1993) - A BRONX TALE (1993) - GOTTI (1996) With Armand Assante

[@lougiacobbi725]

All mob garbage.

[@Bukoe]

This is like a documentary made with metafors =) I love this movie ..

[@memptn01]

I haven't seen the original but the 2002 version of The Count w/ Jim Caviezel & Guy Pearce was great. Yall should review that as well

[@Silver-rx1mh]

"Thats hard hitting" As it should be. Here in the UK people are (imo) sleep walking into a dictatorship. Where big corporations back seat drive governments. Todays generation have to wake up and rebel imo, before it's too late. This film resonates with me on so many levels because of that.....

[@keitheepoo7253]

Whats unreal is that ending scene of the explosion.. That was a realistic 5 fifth scale model of the actual building.

[@dxrebel]

I love Creedy. "Disgusting" the way he says it, full of loathing lol

[@Drummer4President]

It always initially confuses me when people don’t know what Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night is 🤣

[@Moviegrapevine]

Heard about it the first time from this movie. From Canada, never learned about it in school

[@Drummer4President]

@@Moviegrapevine I wouldn’t expect you too. It’s just jarring. I imagine it’s how Americans might feel when no one knows what “independence day” is, apart from being a film lol

[@dancerman1138]

Great reactions well done - one of my top five films

[@georgegwoolston1730]

FYI...I'm 99% sure that "The 1812 Overture" is in the public domain. You needn't have blocked the scene on the rooftop or the destruction of Parlement Bldg at the end due to the fear of a Copywrite claim for that piece of music. Stay safe...be well...

[@veot.2869]

I would certainly highly, highly recommend *THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.*

[@saltymisfit6566]

All it takes for an explosion is one spark All it takes for a movement is one idea All it takes for a rally is one word All it takes for a revolution is one man

[@jasonregister3494]

It's no wonder I like this movie so much. The same director did the matrix.

[@cryhwks]

The comic came out in 1982, and it's as relevant now, as it was back then.

[@saltymisfit6566]

If you study history and you go deep enough down-the-rabbit-hole you realize that everything that happens in this movie similar situations have happened before in history and I fear that such an event may be occurring or at least in the plans as of now. Governments for the most part or run by greedy selfish individuals who see themselves as masters of the people not servants of them

[@TravelsTTG]

I’ve always wanted clear glasses but thought because I’m a dude I thought I would look silly but now I know it can look good! Thank you.

[@carolpulma2734]

This is back then when WB had balls and believe in their brands being made mostly dark, brutal and philospical in nature, then 2017 came and they sell out to corporate crap and the disregard artistic value of their brand, becoming a Disney/MCU copy paste for all the wrong reasons.

[@donovandelaney3171]

This movie predicted 2020 and 2021. Even the writers were shocked by how accurate it was.

[@davidgallion3167]

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

This is not a DC creation they bought it from a British comic. Hence it being based in London around an English historical event. It's a great story for this current age and circumstances.. it makes you think as a good film should...

[@DaemonKeido]

More specifically, V for Vendetta was published under the Vertigo Comics subsection of DC. This is not part of what would be understood to be the DC comic universe canon.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@DaemonKeido The film's story was adapted from Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel V for Vendetta; this was originally published between 1982 and 1985 in the British comic anthology Warrior, and then reprinted and completed by DC.

[@MarrockV]

Every time they show the chancellor, look at his pupils... they're so blown out he must be a walking pharmacy. Also, when V visits Creedy and starts the music player... it's the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony... which, in Morse code, spells the letter V. (dot-dot-dot-dash)

[@Damien_Paxton]

The movie was based on an old book called “1984”, there was a movie called “1984” that starred “John Hurt” (the man on the giant screen) who played the hero I believe.

[@CassandrashadowcassMorrison]

You Do realize that the music v plays when he blows up Parliament isn't copyrighted anymore, right?

[@saltymisfit6566]

V: Revolutionary, visionary, anti-hero, househusband

[@zazoreal5536]

And last but not least. V is for Victory!

[@pasteye1671]

Hugo Weaving's performance is usually applauded for this film, but Natalie Portman matches him, IMHO. Re-name the film Pandemic and it has even more relevance.

[@mistercard3599]

“Fingermen” is a holdover from the original graphic novel. In the book, the government agencies names are replaced with names of part of the body. It doesn’t seem like this adaptation completely understood that idea, and kept the name without the meaning.

[@caitlin329]

This film, like The Matrix franchise, is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented. It's pretty interesting. People really root for V and Evey, but in real life most wouldn't. It's interesting how people will usually side with characters in media and then have completely different sympathies in real life.

[@idontkno999]

The film was set in 2020. (which is kinda weird, as 2020 is seldom used as foresight)

[@ImmortanDan]

In the comic that this film was based on, the world had gone through what was basically a nuclear war; as a result, The US was fractured, the USSR something similar, Europe was devastated, and Africa is just mentioned as being 'gone'. The UK survives after having proclaimed neutrality but gets impacted by the environmental consequences, and Adam Sutler (Adam Susan in the comics) and his Norsefire party rise to power after the war. In the film it's much more ambiguous about what happened to the rest of the world. The UK in the movie is a closed state with even its own internet (InterLink) so the citizens have no way at all of knowing whether or not global events are true. The only non-propaganda mention of the rest of the world is when Valerie mentions that "America's war got worse" - implying some incredibly intense version of the War on Terror that might have fractured NATO due to political disagreements.

[@oduinn7948]

"You think V's going to try and bust her out?" Lol.

[@barryhickman6911]

GREAT reaction by you two to a TERRIFIC movie!

[@wethepeople6642]

Freedom Forever!!!

[@danielbolam5387]

you guys would have been fine leaveing the music in, its the 1812 overture and its in the public domain

[@robovike]

Not sure if you guys live in the US and/or follow current events, but this movie basically psychically telegraphed the last few years in America, and possibly the next couple. Standing up to fascism, tyranny, fear and control is absolute. I don't know if I agree with V's line that "governments should be afraid of its people," but I would say that they should be at least somewhat cautious in their choices, given the numbers.

[@greg1943-u3i]

If you like British dystopia, try 'Children of Men' with Clive Owen and Michael Caine. .

[@Cliffster420]

I've always loved this movie! It highlights the necessity for the People to stand against the oppressive government that seeks to destroy Freedom and exploit everyone as slaves. What a meaningful cinematic experience! As it turns out, it's actually a documentary...

[@L4ftyOne]

no youre just a naz1

[@prellen]

This movie is really good,, makes you think.🇸🇪😉🤔🧐🤨😇👌🙏💚💜

[@Templarofsteel88]

29:29 probably the situation and/or that he did not actually enjoy doing that to her.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

good movies never get old. ❤

[@masterfalconer9655]

V is Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith out Matrix, Red Skull out Captain America and Elrond from HDR. John hurt aka Garrick Ollivender in Harry Potter, Alien, War Doctor in day of the Doctor in Doctor Who, 1984 = main role usw

[@jj4alley]

You are living this film! Think of a number🤣😆🤣 1 and what’s the other! That stands next to 1 6 o no that’s upside down?

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Relative to these times

[@peteyn.y.7960]

- PRIMAL FEAR (1996) - THE TOWN (2010) - PRISONERS (2013) - GONE GIRL (2014) - CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002) 🔥🔥🔥💪🏼

[@2old4gamez]

+1 for Primal Fear.

[@jackdaw1328]

If you think the film is prescient please bear in mind the graphic novel is far older.

[@petersimpson538]

Now you should watch the movie 1984 starring John Hurt

[@llothar68]

The movie is 2005 but the graphic novel is from 1988

[@thunderstruck5484]

Great movie thanks for sharing your thoughts and reaction

[@boblester8641]

Kinda valid today

[@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829]

V for Vendetta is an updated version of George Orwell's 1984.

[@jorgejohnson2052]

"I've never seen this movie just heard about it" but they already comment on the mian characters an theme... don't think this is a first reaction

[@Bukoe]

The dominoes falling remind me soo mutch of the whole GEORGE FLOYD episode we just had .. The government was just waiting for something to tip over the first domino..

[@venetoaward]

Incredible how no bells ringed

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

maybe thats why anonymous adopted the guy fawkes mask as a logo because they represented no one and everyone simultaneously.

[@danielson9579]

Never underestimate the British 🙂

[@donovandelaney3171]

Fans don’t like the ending very much. She should have taken his mask and became the next V. That’s what happened in the comic.

[@karlsenula9495]

V

[@neomuneochicken4585]

I see no one mentions it so here is another fun fact: the actions of this movie takes place in 2020.

[@JavierGarcia-bd6kw]

So this is going to put me on a watch list for sure. However what do you mean you wonder what its like? Do you not see the direct correlation between this movie and 911 in America? What it's like is that most people are so fucking blind and stupid they can't see what's going on Meanwhile the ones that can see through all the bullshit know we don't have any power to change it. With technology and man power. The rest of the world even ourselves don't stand a chance. I wish it was something as simple as fear tactics. However how do you conquer an enemy that can use radio waves to effect your body. You can't. Unless you have the money to back it. I mean why else would China be so much more wealthy than us, however still have to meet us in negotiations? Because if we wanted to we could destroy the world several hundred times over. AAAAAND we're not afraid to do it. We are the most savage country and that's what makes us the most dangerous. Is just how stupid we are. And the rest of the world knows it. So they play by our rules. But make no mistake the day were not on top. We will crumble.

[@CertifiedSunset]

Good movie, and I like that it isn't a direct copy of the comics. Mainly because I don't like the perspective that Alan Moore wrote them from, the whole Communism thing just isn't really for me.

[@anacap007]

Very prescient movie.

[@frincesbaran6650]

Pahingi po ng copy

[@sandersilla2502]

coviid

[@qemists1]

Shame… the first Watch ……

[@billybillee8160]

You watch that now your on the government list

[@YoureMrLebowski]

11:36 called it

[@YoureMrLebowski]

5:10 called it

[@jeckjeck3119]

''A leader that doesn't care about the political process...'' Trump?

[@Michael-cf9cj]

Hey, at least you recognize him as a leader. But what did he do exactly that somehow bypassed or attempted to bypass the political process?

[@jeckjeck3119]

@@Michael-cf9cj ... Insurrection:/ Literally. He is the leader of morons only.

[@jj4alley]

This is not about right or left because they are and the same? Question every thing!!!!

[@stevenr6397]

one of the most politically relevent movies ever made - regardless of your political leanings. Tyrany is the abuse of power, anyone given power is vunerable to the temptation and those who rise to power rarely have the purest intentions to start with, those at the fringes of the extreme left or right are already further down that path, this is why it is paramont that one side of the isle be tempered with its opposite side, only centerists can truely balence the intrests of all

[@MrfuckinBeilke]

please more dystopian movies... CHILDREN OF MEN

[@YoureMrLebowski]

that is so funny to read, "... more dystopian movies" 😆 that said, yes please. Children of Men

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Children of Men is a fantastic choice!

[@dicktater6245]

And what is happening now?

[@lynette50]

In the UK we still celebrate Guy Fawkes night on the 5th of November. In Scotland we revere him as the only man who entered parliament with honest intentions. Well, at least I do lol

[@gnoath5684]

It raises a question about Oliver Cromwell -- if he stayed true, if he deviated, or if he never did at all. All interesting interpretations.

[@MrTech226]

Guy killed himself before he was to be hang save executioner the trouble. He became close to complete his mission.

[@debrawebster1356]

Shame he never succeeded in blowing up that cess pit of corruption

[@sandrabollock7808]

Seems they have hidden a lot of info around that period i suspect Cromwell and Savile families were Key figures in keeping the Backstage curtains hidden from masses Very Bad families with a lot of others just look around right now disease shutdowns control same has film just Most are blind to it seems our collective history is Not one they want us to understand because before our Crown was hijacked collectively with our Irish and Welsh with Some Norwegian and Scottish and Lancashire and Yorkshire brothers and sisters we stopped Empires they Learnt the Hard way thanks to Ancestors that they had to take over using Insurgency and that is Just what happened All that time ago that is why Those above are Not going along with public will

[@backstabingpike]

He had a great idea ✊

[@qwi2311]

V’s Voice is just so good. Hugo Weaving is awesome.

[@infinitysynthesis]

John Hurt being the guy on the screen after being in the film 1984 is kinda great lol.

[@jh5131]

From oppressed to oppressor

[@Asticek]

if u ever wonder if the domino scene was real than ... yes ... The domino scene, where V tips over black and red dominoes to form a giant letter V, involved 22,000 dominoes. It took four professional domino assemblers 200 hours to set it up.

[@loganharvey8086]

His sacrifice was necessary. They didn't do a good job explaining it in the movie but he was just as much of a monster as the men he killed to create a new world. It's also why he left the choice of blowing up the building to her. She had just as much reason to become a monster as he did at that point but she was able to move on and grow. It was her resilience that set her apart from him and why she was the real hero of the film

[@kyriss12]

In the boom it was also implied that he was grooming her to lead society out of the I suing chaos so an even bigger asshole didn’t fill the power vacuum.

[@6StimuL84]

He did not become a monster....He was literally the hand of true justice......

[@NickThorbjørnsen2207]

I felt that bit with him removing that last domino was very symbolic. Like it represented him and it needed to be taken out of the equation.

[@chaosmastermind]

In the graphic novel that I read, she took his mask off and put it on herself. I like that ending more.

[@TeaSquiffy2]

@@6StimuL84 No, he _was_ a monster. And he knew that, he accepted that. In the graphic novel, he makes it very clear that while he can bring about a new, better world - he cannot exist within it.

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

"Is it meaningless to apologize?" gets me every time.

[@CortexNewsService]

"Never."

[@ErdTirdMans]

For me it's when V says "I didn't" write Valerie's notes. It brings all the emotion of Valerie's story and the recontextualizes the "lie" that V put Evey through simultaneously in an instant along with the realization that he's living in the shadow of Valerie's "I love you with all my heart"

[@CortexNewsService]

@@ErdTirdMans oh. That hadn't occurred to me. Damn. DAMN I love levels of meaning like this

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

@@ErdTirdMans You're right, that's a great point, and one I had mostly forgotten, because after the first viewing, it's no longer a "surprise." And I bought it when buying DVDs was still a thing 😁, so I've seen it plenty of times, but that's a line that I'd been paying less attention to than others.

[@MrSidney52]

This definitely is a different style of movie. The Count of Monte Cristo is classic book & an excellent movie about betrayal & revenge.

[@haddow777]

This movie is so great in so many ways. Why V has to die is because he is removing all vestiges of the totalitarian government, which he is part of. If you go back through the parts that speak of his past, you will see that he was the source of their power, he was the key to their existence. At the same time, they stripped him of everything he ever was, and he became vengeance personified. He knew he was a monster, equal to them in cruelty and destructive capability. So, he knew that when he destroyed them, he would need to go too. There would be no place for a monster like him in the world he was trying to help create. The one thing he never figured on was falling in love. His crying when she leaves has so many aspects to it. To fulfill her wish of living without fear, he needed to kill the innocence in her. Also, he loved her, but as a monster following a path laid down in a foundation laid by decades of hate, he knew he could never have her. Still, the fact that he loved her proved that they hadn't destroyed all his humanity, so he had to sacrifice his love for her and that shred of humanity left in him to be the monster required to take the government down. So many layers. Even Evey. There is so much that goes into her character and how in almost every way possible V is responsible for everything that made her who she becomes. The illness and cure the government used to give themselves riches and power came from him. The very illness that stole her brother from her and polarized her parents into becoming activists. Activists who were captured by the government using powers he made possible for them, while initially scaring her and instilling her with crippling fear. A fear and loneliness that leads her to such desperation that she leaves her house after curfew to meet a powerful man at the tv station she works for simply because he asked her. From that point, the show adds the rest of the details fairly plainly. Still, in every major way, V had just as much of an impact her her as the government. I think this adds to the pain he feels when she leaves. It was the final nail in the coffin of who she could have been. Just the the government stripped him of who he was, he stripped her of who she was. Ya ya, I know, it's a movie. Still, a movie people put a lot of effort into and writers who really fleshed out the details and consequences of actions.