V for Vendetta.
The film, is getting so perilously close to today in the UK. One of the best quotes from the film below, it almost brings tears to my eyes as I wish a similar hero was out there:-

"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine -- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death, or the end of some awful bloody struggle - are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way.
Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth - and the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly there are those who are 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.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now High Chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives.
So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot!"
( SQUID, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 19:33, 7 replies)

seconded.
awesome film
( giftedweasel forgot what he was going to type on, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 20:07, closed)

I never saw it.
But that has made me want to. Good job!
( OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 21:43, closed)

I forgot that I have a copy of this
that I haven't watched yet. I'll give it a go tonight. Thanks
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 0:04, closed)

I read a review of this film once...
It just said 'S for Shite'.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 0:59, closed)

Fucking hell!
I LOVE this film! V is just... ace! It's all ace! ~goes into excited mode and wants to watch it now~

And yes, I see the similarities to today too. One day we will stick on our masks and tell the government where to shove it!
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 1:37, closed)

I hate to say this
But the comic book was so much better - so much more menacing, brooding. It also felt real, felt plausible, there were more explosions, there were small triumphs, there was none of the rubbish with TV shows (also meaning that they didn't kill Stephen Fry) and it was all heart-wrenchingly real because it felt like the post-apocalyptic eighties.

If you liked the film, please go out and buy the comic book. Alan Moore deserved better.
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Sun 20 Jul 2008, 11:08, closed)

It was okay
But I dislike the fact that the film tries to cast the original Guido Fawkes as some sort of hero standing up against oppression.

Infact he was just a minor member of a French and Vatican sponsored terrorist group whose aim was to destroy our elected government and put us back under the yoke of the Papist oppressors we had only a few generations cast off. Democracy meant something in 1605, and England, Scotland and the Netherlands were about the only countries that really had it (and by coincidence - or maybe not - were also Protestant countries too).

Catholic tyrants all over Europe were clamouring to re-subjugate England back under the Papist yoke - lest their own people get into their ideas about liberty and individual freedoms.

The whole purpose of the Gunpowder Plot was to leave England ripe for an invasion by France. Guido Fawkes was a traitor who tried to sell-out his country to a foreign despot.

Although that bit towards the end of the film where he kills all those dudes who have guns with two knives is pretty rad.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 11:44, closed)