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So Dan and I went and saw V for Vendetta tonight (because I didn't realize I had the night off, and we felt like seeing a movie, and Thank You For Smoking isn't in wide release yet). It was okay, but I didn't think anything special. Some of the points were nice, but the means to the end were just silly. I hate the constant pounding of things into an audiences' collective heads. Too much blatant evocation of the Nazi regime, too many blatant references to "This is what will happen if America keeps on its current track." As I told Dan afterward, if you create a story like that, chances are that you're preaching to the choir. Have a little bit more faith in them to get something without a million obvious references. Some of the visuals were nice, some of it was overkill. Natalie Portman was wonderful. She really is a fantastic actress. That's about it of my take on it. Also, I kept wondering who was singing that version of "Cry Me A River"...I like Nina Simone's version better. Of course, I think I'm a bit biased, given that I used it in a show I directed once upon a time ;-)

I think I need to go to bed now. Somebody picked up my shift at Bennigan's tomorrow afternoon, but I have a million admin things I need to do at CiP before End of Month.