Freedom or Fear? V FOR VENDETTA - Reaction & Review

[@finncullen]

Guy Fawkes jumped from the gallows deliberately so that his neck broke. The sentence was for hanging to the point of death, disembowelling while alive, and then being chopped into pieces. They carried it out after his death but he escaped that.

[@nupefromdaville]

Wow!!!!

[@zacharyharwell351]

That's... pretty metal in a weird way. Arrested, strung up and bound and he STILL got the last say on how he went out

[@CrispyChips007]

@@zacharyharwell351 metal asf lol go out on your own terms.

[@richardbeaton7324]

People shouldn't be afraid of their Government .. The Government should be afraid of their people. When did they stop serving us and just serve their own selfish means. This film would deffo be in my top ten.

[@danieladiaphorist1308]

@@richardbeaton7324 governments stop serving the people as soon as the people let them do it.

[@parker469a]

That is the message of the movie more than anything else. "How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.'

[@ValueNetwork]

Guy Fawkes/bonfire night is still a celebrated holiday here in the Uk. I’m currently watching this whilst fireworks blast outside. One of my favourite fun facts about this movie is how John hurt played both Winston in the adaptation of 1984, the oppressed. and Sutler in this movie: the oppressor!

[@nathandts3401]

Despise everyone that sets those things off.

[@CrispyChips007]

same in nz even though I know nothing bout the guy

[@benvandermerwe4934]

@@ValueNetwork 👏🏻⚡🥃

[@misterprecocious2491]

These days it's more like bonfire week.

[@johankaewberg8162]

:-)

[@christophergreen6595]

"A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Sometimes, it's the only weapon we have." -Roger Rabbit

[@finncullen]

The original comic was set in the far distant future of 1998 when such imaginary things as cameras on street corners would seem more plausible

[@sandrakiefler4649]

“are you like a crazy person?” Probably the most realistic response in reaction to some random dude who’s hitting you with lines that sound like they were taken from some Shakespearean play oss! 😂 Absolutely brilliant 😘👌

[@SpenceJS87]

Nobody in the UK is sore about losing 'the colonies'. For America, the War for Independence was the most important day in their history, for the UK, it was Tuesday. That isn't meant to be an insult, at the time the UK had a lot of colonies and were more concerned with the French and Spanish Empires, who were a far more imminent and dangerous threat to the UK, whilst losing the 13 Colonies was not really seen as a big deal as the UK controlled around 25% of the world at the time and was losing and gaining territories constantly.

[@henrikpersson4371]

Yeah! we always have had bullies. as a dane and what english fleet did to cobenhagen in early 1800, shame on you. When that said, i regard english pbl as brothers and sisters.......... : =))

[@iwillroam]

What I love about the Wachowskis is, now that we can step back and look at decades of their work, they have a message. It's a good one and it tends to stay in people's minds. You can't help but appreciate that.

[@davidbernal1091]

I randomly dropped by your channel and you happened to drop a million dollar bar out of nowhere which I needed to hear in inspiration... "If you gotta break your own house down to have stones to throw just to resist."

[@Hahndrei]

He's not Muslim; he's in television.

[@carthos4402]

Fun Fact: they actually DID cut Natalie Portmans hair in that scene. They only had one overall take cutting different portions off until it was all gone.

[@geetee4459]

Forget what year it is set in - just think 20/30yrs in the future. All it takes is 1-2 bad elections in a democracy. The comic/graphic novel in the 80s was even more frightening.

[@geetee4459]

If I remember right V's jukebox was full of stuff like Motown cos stuff by black people was banned in this future-UK

[@sampoppitt1175]

Just catching up on videos from yesterday but just wanted to say thank you for releasing this video on Guy Fawkes night

[@BigItalian_Chesseburger]

You could theoretically release this movie in any year and it would give the same results. Power, greed and fear.

[@Stogie2112]

"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having." 👍👍

[@paintedhorse6880]

- Emma Goldman.

[@questionablehumor2800]

the part where she had just finished Sith, and then gave THIS performance! kindof damning evidence that Lucas needs to make amazing worlds and leave directing the talent to others

[@jerodast]

Yeah, they said Natalie Portman was at the top of her game, and that maaay have been true, but she was actually not feeling very good about her career at this time. She actually saw this as a huge chance for her to show something different than the flailing Star Wars prequels and felt grateful to the production for giving her the role when they were starting to be harder to find. (I'm not sure how _Closer_ plays into all that, which was a moderate success and got her awards attention a year before this came out. _Black Swan_ was much later.)

[@jackrussell1232]

I always preferred the sort of vaudeville saboteur from the book to the one man army in the movie. He's more clever and theatrical with his plans and more deliberate in his philosophy and it makes for a much more fascinating version of the story. He also goes way more in on gadgets and costumes in the book which is always fun to see. The movie's fine, but it's sort of a charming bastardization of the original.

[@xhagast]

The experiments at Larkhill made V a superman with Batman's intelligence. Missing in the movie is that the Chancellor ruled with the help of a supercomputer. And V had one just like it. He could have used it to destroy the country, but he wanted the people on his side.

[@benvandermerwe4934]

"When they have to break down their own homes to get stones to throw in resistance" Great statement. In my country the evil Apartheid regime was defeated by democratic elections in 1994. Great reaction. 👏🏻⚡🥃🇿🇦

[@parker469a]

It can be done but the way a normal riot starts is literally the worst way to make an actual lasting change. You need to hit all small military depots simultaneously and take all of their weapons which obviously takes a lot of people in an extremely coordinated attack. Once all those depots are attacked reinforcements with even heavier firepower will be dispatched with all available personal. From there you can either use the smaller depots as a base to defend or try to avoid the reinforcements and attack the larger depots while most of the troops are gone then use the larger bases for defense instead. Obviously, the number of bases and how defensible they are as well as troops numbers matter as well as how far apart the smaller and larger bases. Pulling this off requires so many trained and coordinated people with makeshift weapons that functionally it becomes impossible most of the time since they are just farmers with a third grade knowledge of chemicals and simple weapons.

[@grrfy]

v for vendertta was published in 82 to 85, quite prescient to now eh.

[@sergiykud]

the 1812 overture, musical composition V likes originally has literal cannons in it as music instrument.

[@mikedignum1868]

As the Pub Landlord once said about losing America.. "We consider it a lucky escape".

[@noire9601]

Remember, remember...the fifth of November.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

i love how this year its a new hope for usa ,shame not for UK when we got the dictator starmer

[@Velociraptour]

Fun fact, because you're currently watching Game of Thrones. Kit Harington (Jon Snow) is related to the mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot, Robert Catesby on his mother's side and played him in a TV show. Apparently, he's also related to a member of Parliament from the period (and maybe even King James I) on his father's side, who would have been blown up if the plot succeeded.

[@CeiStockport-nx2qi]

As to losing the colonies, no one cares. Even back then people who didn't have business interests didn't. Also, we didn't lose to the Continental Army, with steadily increasing French involvement and rising international tensions, the 13 colonies simply weren't economically valuable enough to risk a war with France over.

[@ForeverBrooklynNYC]

US Election Day = 5th of November 😳

[@markgreen9225]

This is one of my favorite of all time movies, great reaction!!

[@David-cg1lh]

Calling it syntell adds a couple extra drops of water to the rain falling down. The is it too late to apologise gets me a little. Hugo weaving and Natalie Portman are Fantastic in this but OOOOH doing all that in a mask and I know everything he was feeling... Amazing!

[@nidh1109]

Here in the UK it's a very depressing date, 8thJanuary25. So my happening to see this film today hits home even harder. Seen twice before over the years. Each time, I'm happier to see the 'Parliament blown up', representing the instituion. Believe this film is prophetic.

[@Papa_Nurgle]

Yo boys, made ya'll papa drop a tear, thank you! Stay your follower and like your content guys!

[@cliftonmoore8316]

i have the Graphic Novel and of course it's better then the movie, there are some Differences, i read it every November lol

[@sarahsantora8592]

Excellent choice. Your reactions are always on point!

[@rittherugger160]

"Nobody shot him in the head." But they did. Didn't you see all the bullet scars on that ceramic mask he wears? I'm sure every one of them comes with a concussion though. Just like that chestplate caused a few busted up ribs with a lot of those hits. Transference of energy and all that.

[@SoTOreo]

i get the feeling were going to be doing some depression watching of reactions soon

[@fourfoxsake6850]

its based of alan moores work the guy who wrote the watchman too

[@1237barca]

Brilliant movie. Even more impactful when you happen to 20:45 watch it for the first time with a well meaning American oligarch who is your middle school friend

[@1237barca]

Not sure where the time stamp came from

[@obscillesk]

'with the lanolin' omg dude, was that a Big Hit deep cut reference? :P

[@-.NYX.-]

Brilliantly done dears

[@michaelkemper3326]

Greetings from germany and stay as you are ✌️

[@doposud]

Guys if you haven't seen movie ''Upgrade 2018'' i would like very much to see your reaction to that movie. The way some scenes are filmed are just amazing and the story is great too

[@David-cg1lh]

I must ad I had a bit of a chuckle when you said v for vendetta first when watching the sherlock episode. Because yeah v for vendetta but ya know also the actual event 😂. It's not like you ought to know about the actual thing but it is funny when it's someone's first connection as happens with some Americans. Still not a bad thing to connect with 😊

[@nupefromdaville]

I have learned much about Bonfire Day since.

[@Atheos-1]

"Guy Fawkes, the only man who ever entered parliament with honest intentions."

[@jamesjohnston1935]

Small interesting fact, you had asked why they didnt shoot V in he head. Its because soldiers are trained to fire center mass. More vital organs and more damage to the enemy.

[@PMurphy-jf3yg]

Very important film Very powerful

[@ellymatcham4696]

This is such a special film!!

[@gladwinmorwe505]

32:44 she's not dirty because of the daily water housing.

[@jessegardener-j1f]

Scarlet Carson it's a very very rare rose just like a Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe and I'm Malcolm X yes there was a rose named after Malcolm X thank you for letting me post on your page Brothers😊

[@verloser]

the fact guy fawkes almost ended the reign of corruption but was stopped

[@parker469a]

His mistake was to warn one person to not show up that day. You have to have the attitude of "If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem." Basically, his Evey got him killed and ruined his revolution. It wasn't a girl btw but it was someone he believed would be on his side and betrayed him.

[@brettestabrooks5219]

Yeah but he did it in the name of the 1800’s Catholic Church which in itself was corrupt

[@LeonardoG1981]

Wachowski brothers, they didn't identify as sisters back then, and no one knew them like that. Even in the credits at the end of the movie says so.

[@rogersjgregory]

With everything going on in the U.K. right now, this movie has never been more relevant than today.

[@Darknamja]

A VHS classic. 😉

[@leeci33]

I have it on DVD. not even blu-ray.

[@lovelybitofbugle219]

Blockbusters 😢

[@Darknamja]

@@lovelybitofbugle219 "Be kind, rewind"😉

[@cremedelazen]

I love you guys for watching this movie💖

[@somthingbrutal]

if you haven't seen it already you have to see Portman's first movie Leon: the Professional she is amazing in it. BTW go for the full cut of the movie not the US release

[@richardcook9794]

one of 65 chaps , and remember a third world country was the jewel of the empire , the 13 colonies were just a place for the transportation of convicts, ie Australia only exists in its current form because eventually the US stopped excepting them

[@David-cg1lh]

I think the colonies thing is very much a crazy conservative resurgence thing. He's leaning on that godly country "oh Jerusalem" rhetoric and will certainly view America as having departed from "our great empire" and whatever criticisms you could levy at America. We must also remember we have no way of knowing if anythings even wrong in America. Alot of people act like America's already apocalyptic right now cause of a bunch of nonsense

[@nathanthomas5133]

Was this comment written by AI - as it makes absolutely no sense ?! 😅

[@VolrinSeth]

Love this film.

[@biggianthead5902]

This movie wasn't influenced by 9/11. The graphic novel came out well before September 11th.

[@parker469a]

The movie was influenced by 9/11 that's why it barely resembles the original comic. The names of characters are the same but V was a flat out anarchist so he wouldn't have wanted any government at all after the old one was brought down. All other characters behaviors and motivations are different as well to fit the Bush/Chaney administration better. FYI if this came out today it would be changed to fit Trump and Bannon a little better since fear mongering demagogues always use the same tactics to drum up fear and hate. One thing to keep in mind with this movie is they talk about the fallen US on the news but the news has been lying about everything else so it's possible that too is a fabrication. Now obviously the movie is implying that the virus from St Marie's destroyed the rest of the world without cure from V's blood but it's impossible to know for sure whether anything on the news was real.

[@アキコ2003]

Is there a reason every channel is watching this movie now at the same time?

[@cirinoso1818]

Because it's 5 of november.

[@shakarasessoms8289]

Happy Guy Fawkes day

[@RexxGarvin]

When This Movie Came Out In 2005,It Blew My Natural Mind. At First,I Went With A Date,The Knife Shit Was Deep. But Then I Slept On It. While Sleeping,My Thoughts Were In Full Effect. While Sleeping, Not Dreaming, But Thinking. I Went Back To See The Movie Again. It Was "Poetry Bible". I'm A "Black Conservative" By The Way. I'm Working On A New Freedom. A New Experience. Great Movie For The Private Intelligent Mind.

[@nickray6266]

Crazy that this movie is based in the 2020s

[@XMASTER99]

Who winning in a fight batman or V

[@ericlayton8888]

A pretty decent movie elevated *enormously* by a single scene (and everyone knows which scene I’m talking about)

[@spriken]

03:40 "He sounds like a orange dude". Lol, take my like and subscribe!

[@andrewkelly4447]

He said he was in television

[@jasongarcia1886]

Which V word did he missed

[@yaboigimli]

Such a one sided dogmatic narrow view you have about the message... also Natalie Portman was excited to do the hair shaving scene.

[@raspberrybellini]

People like myself in the UK are proud of this movie, and I have the mask ready to go

[@WaywardVet]

I got some royal belly laughs outta some of those comments. Nice!

[@nac.mac.feegle]

_Kiss of the Spiderwoman_ is a tough movie to watch (and tough book, too), but sort of in line with the tenor of this movie.

[@ianthomas1201]

I like the dude on the right

[@refisings4425]

“He sounds orange” 🥹

[@CinePals]

Crap. Forgot to watch this on Nov 5!

[@conniegaylord5206]

May 4th, 1970 Kent State Oh. 10 wounded 4 killed. All under 21. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@celticwolff5429]

Post-apocalyptic?

[@jessestanley1690]

It’s like a documentary

[@andidreyes5323]

I love this movie. And I feel interested in Guy Fawkes... because of a YA book author that I read as a little girl. She was British (she's past now), Diana Wynne Jones, and she is BELOVED by the greatest sci-fi/fantasy author of today (including Neil Gaiman). The book was "Witch Week" and uses her Chestomanci character who is seen from book to book. The point being, she had books on multiple realities, magic, gods, but in thst book : it's a world like ours except every person who seems like a witch is burned. But in an alternative world, tied to it, is a world where no people with magic are born... but are perfectly acceptable. Chestomanci comes to figure out what is happening to these 2 worlds. And it was the Guy Fawkes moment. I'm a Xennial, so I had to learn about it on my own, card catalog-style. It made me view the idea of government as an institution that should work for its people. Instead, our Hall Monitors don't care.

[@andidreyes5323]

Also, a lot of people have regular eyebrows that aren't wild. My sister and aunts are all jealous of my eyebrows. 😂. It don't do anything to them. Not a thing.

[@PesaoManOG]

England hasn’t lost their colonies

[@Mike1104USAA]

Could’ve done without the “orange man” references.

[@Irgendjemand1986]

🍊 indeed

[@davidshawcross5884]

Lucky you had the french lol

[@ERC641]

This movie deserves more respect than all the talking and blabber 7 min in and your already asking questions that were answeed . Dissapointing

[@christopherking4932]

Awesome reaction/ can you please watch a movie called ANY GIVEN SUNDAY.

[@JasonRoshan-h1k]

Speak no evil movie 2024 please do reaction with summerpunch

[@tomturek9682]

Don't let the cult members tell u this about democrats or Republicans.

[@SeanGreen-k2w]

lol Yeah, Trump is like a combination of Sutler and the "Voice" of England guy.

[@C-Mack]

It's hilarious to watch you guys compare the Parliment to "the orange dude" when "the orange dude" is being sent to DC to blow up the system you still seem to support. derp. 🤷‍♂

[@mohannie]

Everybody needs to watch this Today.

[@ididthisonpulpous6526]

This movie is about the fears that the Wachowski sisters saw in fascist oppression of minorities. The reality that in the US we are tending to prefer the ideology of hatred and fear suggests the validity of this film and the comic from whence it stems are still quite current.

[@Aidy-i6j]

Just checking in with you both. How are you doing? Its been a devastating morning. im so sorry you are all in this position again. I guess it ws never about character. x

[@johankaewberg8162]

Funny man. Not so funny anymore?

[@fearlesstunafish]

hate to say it, but this seems to be what america has literally just voted for.... :/

[@urlastchance1]

no, we voted against it and won. trump is V

[@BluEx22329]

Lol

[@jmc5876]

yeah Donald Trump is Guy Fawkes. you really missed the point of this one or at least how it correlates to real life

[@jodu626]

bro no one cares about “losing” America. for you it’s everything for us it’s another footnote in history

[@jerrylamb2385]

Wachowsky brothers, they wrote this before their "transition", let's be real.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

he knows, thats why he gave the camera a long stare of disbelief lol

[@SiloGrain]

Trump won U bozo's 😂🤣

[@Atheos-1]

Yep, chancellor Sutler won.

[@urlastchance1]

@@Atheos-1 no she lost

[@Atheos-1]

@urlastchance1 FDJT and every single one of his traitorous magat PoS minions.

[@gemelwalters2942]

Pretty sure the directors were the Wachowski brothers when this was made and I frankly have better things to do than keep up with what new perverse kinks every celebrity takes up, so I'll just keep saying Wachowski brothers. There are definitely some things they changed from the books but for the most part it's a good adaptation.

[@jasongarcia1886]

He said he was in television