#james mcteigue

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V FOR VENDETTA 2005, dir. James McTeigue

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V FOR VENDETTA (2005) dir. James McTeigue

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V for Vendetta (2005)

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Ninja Assassin (2009) James McTeigue

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James McTeigue - V for Vendetta

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People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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Title: V for Vendetta

Rating: R

Director: James McTeigue

Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Natasha Wightman, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sinéad Cusack, Eddie Marsan, John Standing, Imogen Poots, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner

Release year: 2005

Genres: thriller, science fiction, action, drama

Blurb: In the fascist state of Great Britain, a masked vigilante known only as V conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

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Ninja Assassin - James McTeigue 2009

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2005: V For Vendetta

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V for Vendetta (2005)

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Breaking In (2018) 🍕🍕🍕

Moderately enjoyed the fuck out of this one.

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So yeah, celebrating Pride this year by rewatching Sens8. Basking in the feels, the complications, the heartache, the knucklewhitening suspense and the blissful release of those close escapes and cathartic personal victories. Most of all falling in love all over again with all those wonderful characters, both major and supporting (Bug, you're the MAN, you're cliche but you're a hilarious riot) - I'm laughing with them, crying with them, loving with them and LIVING with them all over gain and it's BLISS. Especially every second I get to spend again with my girls Nomi and Neets ...

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The Raven (2012)

I feel like if Twitter were a thing in the 1840s, Edgar Allen Poe would’ve been all over that shit.  At least if the opening scene in the bar is to be believed.  On paper, the movie wants us to sympathize with Poe on some level: he’s a desperate, sad man, down on his luck and something of a creative pariah, unable to get his work published and screaming angrily from the sidelines as others surpass him.  But as portrayed, he comes across as just kinda a wheedling, manipulative dick.  Our sympathy as an audience is presumably reliant entirely upon knowing Poe’s body of work and recognizing those little macabre gems as worthy.  Nothing in the film itself, save perhaps for a moment when he finds beauty in a woman’s amateur poem, casts him in a favorable light.  Sure, as his beau is put in danger he finds resolve to cooperate with the investigation he’s derided for the first act or two, but that’s external pressure rather than internal worth.  As portrayed by John Cusack, Poe is… well, certainly saying words and reciting poetry.  His recitation of “The Raven” feels like a white kid reading Tupac lyrics at an open mic night slam poetry session.  Absolutely fucking wild.  Alice Eve and Cusack have an absolute vacuum of chemistry, and not even Brendan Gleeson can save the proceedings.

There’s something baffling about the handling of gore in this film.  It plays out as a sort of Saw-lite in its elaborate deaths and puzzles, a themed killer seeking to realize the works of Poe in the material world.  The film blows its wad early with the splatter-fest that is “The Pit and the Pendulum” inspired killing.  Nothing ever quite achieves that level of gore for the rest of the film, and the crimson spatters of CGI blood feel incongruous with the period setting.  It’s all the more baffling considering just how florid are Poe’s poems and short stories in terms of their macabre nature.  If anything, our killer needs a touch more creativity in the kills, or should have a better back-story and motivation. Or... anything, really.

THE RULES

SIP

Raven(s) appear onscreen.

Someone names a historical figure.

The title of a Poe story is given.

EDGAR WANTS BOOOOOZE GIVE HIM THE BOOOOZE

BIG DRINK

A victim is found.

Someone starts reciting a Poe-em.

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Ninja Assassin (2009) James McTeigue