V for Vendetta comes out today,
and wouldn’t you know they’re using the “A” word to hype it up… well it worked for me, we actually bought advanced tickets to see it tonight. This will be the first movie I’ve gone to see in months, haven’t been to one of them new fangled movie the-ate-rs since March of the Penguins.
I’m interested to see just how much anarchist theory is really involved. This article from AlterNet has some good comments worth checking out, I especially agree with the one that points out the tendancy to view “any madman with a bomb as an Anarchist.”
Some Anarchists (whatever you believe that to mean) are upset with the affiliation of Time Warner and the image it will be portraying of what it considers Anarchism, not to mention the millions of dollars that will be made. I do agree with that, and yes way too much money is spent in/on Hollywood. But I try to see the good side of that, in that every now and then a movie comes out which manages to show a mass audience something they wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise, i.e. Hotel Rwanda, Crash, or any of Michael Moore’s movies. We’ll see tonight if this is one of those movies worth selling out for.
Eleven people – most of them women and children – have been killed after US forces bombed a house during a raid north of Baghdad, police and relatives said.
