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Will you watch these Watchmen?
KickThatBathProf:
My Watchmen experience was ruined by the bros sittin behind me started laughing every time doc's penis was just hangin out
benji:
--- Quote from: sandysmilinstrange on 09 Mar 2009, 09:27 ---I was not delighted or disappointed with the film. I thought it was pretty solid in the end.
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This matches my opinion pretty closely. I was satisfied? I guess? I was entertained throughout and none of the changes bothered me too much. Thankfully, I was warned (by that other thread) that the characters were going to be portrayed more as "super heroes" with lots of slow-mo action. I still don't think the book needed to be filmed.
Scandanavian War Machine:
saw it, liked it, will probably see it again.
my only complaint is that there were two ten year old mexican kids behind me shouting in spanish and kicking my seat. i blame the parents.
fucking parents.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KvP on 09 Mar 2009, 09:17 ---A blue-skinned pipe-swinging God-man, that's okay. A giant psychic squid, that's pushing it.
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If you can't see why a gigantic horror squid with a vagina eye and an exposed brain – literally a nightmare made flesh – teleporting into Manhattan is kind of a ridiculous concept even in the face of an invincible blue superbeing and especially compared to your garden-variety atomic explosion, something that has actually occurred in the real world, then you really need to readjust your perspective.
Even in the context of the comic – can we admit this now? – it was kind of absurd. We accepted it because the logic of the comic made sense right up to that point and Moore had been telegraphing it fairly well, so we didn't make a big deal of it even if its existence was almost as tough to swallow as the world's reaction to it. (like, really, would the world unite and gird itself against another hypothetical cataclysmic event that couldn't even be predicted, let alone stopped? that's easily the thing that, rereading the comic, i have the most trouble with.) Snyder and Tse made a revision that asks us mostly to accept that Ozy would be willing to frame Dr. Manhattan for the greater good, and that the world would believe that an angered Dr. Manhattan, furious with the arms race, would destroy millions in order to send a message to billions.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 09 Mar 2009, 08:11 ---A lot of the soundtrack cues came from the comic itself.
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Yep, it's kind of unfair to trash them for saying it had little connection to the story/comic, even if it didn't work out so well in practice. While I wasn't a huge fan of the period music, it was mostly the original stuff that bookended things which was really bugging me. As Johnny said earlier, the Law and Order type stuff was god awful. The music in the prison break scene also kind of bugged me, although it probably didn't help that the scene made me feel sort of embarrassed to be the theater in general. Again, I just have a low tolerance for silly. It doesn't help that the movie I had seen most recently prior to Watchmen was Coraline, which was probably the best pairings of composer and material I've heard in quite a while.
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