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V for Vendetta
Seeing as though this movie has gotten a lot of hype and a lot of people think its awesome, I have to comment on it. First though, some backstory on Alan Moore and the writing of the original V for Vendetta, the graphic novel. Moore was concerned that Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party government would lose to the socialist-leaning Labour Party in the early 1980s. The leader of the Labour Party, Michael Foote, was a was a militant socialist whose policies included unilateral nuclear disarmament, nationalisation of industry, strong union power, and heavy progressive taxation. In Moore's story, a Labour victory led to a deeper recession and the withdrawal of American missles from Europe. Seeing this weekness, the Soviet Union invades Poland and America attempts to bluff with the threat of Nuclear War. However, this time, unlike the Cuban Missle Crisis, nuclear war actually takes place. An isolated Great Britan is left, the government is disbanded and "Norsefire" a Nazi like party takes power. Moore's V was not a patriotic democracy loving freedom fighter, as portrayed in the movie. He was a psychotic mass murderer. He accepted it with a certain degree of vigor. V did not want democracy, he wanted anarchy. He saw Fascism and Anarchy as polar opposites with no middle ground and chose anarchy.
As well, the movie is less of Alan Moore's ideas than Michael Moore's politics.

The movie is filled with liberal-paranoia on the state of America. Swastika's on the American and British flags with "Coalition of the Willing" is not that subtle. This movie was not created to entertain, cause it certainly didn't, but to attack. Hollywood seems to have it out for conservatives. Its getting to the point in which I am seriously doubting Hollywoods ability to make a good movie that does not portray oil company's assassinating people (Syriana) and Bush as a Nazi (V for Vendetta).