{"id":184,"date":"2006-08-28T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/95-v-for-vendetta\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:06:14","slug":"95-v-for-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/95-v-for-vendetta\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 V for Vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effortlessly the best action movie of the year.  You have to pay close attention to hear all the details of V&#8217;s pontifications, revealing how much we all lip-read without knowing it, but the quips are often worth a rewind.  The best &#8220;big&#8221; movies have rich tapestries of backstory, introduced through classic novels, supporting short movies, cartoons and pulp fiction, or graphic novels (in The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Star Wars, and this one, respectively).  And we need more commentary on the subject of terrorism vs. fascism, it&#8217;s the most relevant subject of our time.<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/Movies\/V_for_Vendetta.jpg?w=656\" alt=\"V for Vendetta\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effortlessly the best action movie of the year. You have to pay close attention to hear all the details of V&#8217;s pontifications, revealing how much we all lip-read without knowing it, but the quips are often worth a rewind. The best &#8220;big&#8221; movies have rich tapestries of backstory, introduced through classic novels, supporting short movies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/95-v-for-vendetta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9.5 V for Vendetta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-only-cool-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/95-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows\/","url_meta":{"origin":184,"position":0},"title":"9.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows","author":"m","date":"December 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From the \"Chapter 19 and holding\" department... 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