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Saturday night at the flickers

by Stefan Beck

Posted: Mar 17, 2006 01:46 PM

What are your weekend plans? I’ve been roped into a Saturday screening of V for Vendetta, which a friend of mine describes as "a complete pastiche of 1984, Fight Club, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "definitely the latest movie that conservatives will get mad about. Stupid, because it’s so preposterous that it’s not worth taking seriously."

Expect a full--frothing, furious, conservative--report, on Monday. You know how I love my outrage!

Of course, I’d rather enjoy a movie than let it send me over the edge--perhaps I should see Thank You For Smoking instead? Chris Buckley seems to think it’s pretty great:

Lopez: Are you happy with how Thank You for Smoking looks on the big screen?

Buckley: I am the happiest author on earth. Jason Reitman did an amazing job of adapting it and directing it. Aaron Eckhart makes a brilliant Nick Naylor, and if David Sacks hadn�t come along and produced the film, it never would have happened.

Here’s what our own James Bowman has to say.

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