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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #40 on: March 10, 2009, 03:00:50 am »
The wife and I went to see "Taken" this weekend.  After we got out of the theater "Watchmen" was letting out at the same time.  I heard comments from "Good flick" to "That was more boring than I expected"...



on a side note, did you like 'taken'? i gave it 4.5/5

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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #41 on: March 10, 2009, 03:25:06 am »
Haven't seen this yet, but really at 16, the content limits should be off.  That kid has seen more schlongs in the last month than all of us combined.
She better not have.


but she probably did..

back in high school I used to show my shlong to 16 year old chicks all the time. fun fun! :cheers: :burgerking:

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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #42 on: March 10, 2009, 08:58:04 am »

She does have the intarwebs, yes?  Once you let a kid loose on the net you have to assume they have seen anything they may have wanted to see.  It's all out there.  If you can find it they can find it faster.


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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #43 on: March 16, 2009, 03:26:45 pm »
Hmm, everyone I've talked to lately has agreed with me that the current crop of Heroes episodes have been great. The season had a big lull just after it started, but the fugitives storyline has been pretty good.

Back on topic, we went Saturday night to see Watchmen and we loved it. I was shocked to see it condensed down in a way I could be happy with. Jackie Earle Haley was the perfect Rorschach.

Seconded and thirded - you couldn't have picked a more perfect Rorschach. Creepy how good the casting was there. I loved the movie. Thought it was one of the most faithful adaptations of original source material I've seen in a long time, even with some of the alterations at the end. Highly recommended for the geek crowd. Don't bring young kids. Some of the violence was pretty in-your-face.
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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #44 on: March 16, 2009, 03:52:44 pm »
Don't bring young kids. Some of the violence was pretty in-your-face.

Saw it last night. My opinions reflect everybody here. Thing is, they had a 5-year kid in my viewing. I wanted to go and kick some ass, but the father had a neck thicker than my waist, so had to change my mind. Why the hell would you bring a kid to this movie? I'm sure this really farked up that kid's mind. Might as well take him to a slasher movie.

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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #45 on: March 16, 2009, 04:28:59 pm »
I've been dying to see this, but I hate crowds so I waited.

I thought Rorschach and the Comedian were perfectly cast... I'm happy and surprised they didn't portray the Comedian as less of a scumbag. The credits which showed some backstory from the Minutemen not directly involved with the Watchmen movie was incredible, but probably lost on anyone who didn't read the comic, even though the story backed them up*

There were a couple things that disappointed me, I'll leave some space for anyone that hasn't seen the movie to bail
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For as close as it followed the comic in the early parts, where you could literally see spots where individual frames lingered for a second, I don't like that they changed up the ending. Most people refer to it as The Squid, but thats actually doing it a disservice. It was a psychics brain, and while it caused physical damage during the teleport, the real power of it was that it sent out a wave of death... Basically the feeling his brain felt when he was dying. It literally made your body die from the thought. Thats very powerful stuff. The thing that totally saved it was leaving in the ending part with Rorschach's journal, since that incriminates Viet/Ozymandias.

I knew the Black Freighter parts were edited out, and I was OK with that, but was kind of bummed that the comic reading kid and newspaper guy were only on screen for a couple seconds when the weapon was teleported into NY. I hear the directors cut of the movie will have the Black Freighter motion comic cut back in (its out on DVD), but wonder if that will also include more footage of the kid and newspaper guy. A lot happened around the newspaper stand that made the ending powerful.

Found some of the music choices a bit literal and overdone, but didn't detract from the story.

*Dollar Bill getting killed after he got his cape caught in the door was shown in the beginning then mentioned in the main part of the movie. Also there was Comedians reference in the movie to Hooded Justice being gay when he knocked him off Silk Spectre I.

OK, I feel incredibly nerd-like.  :D
I give it an 8 out of 10.


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Re: Watchmen
« Reply #46 on: March 16, 2009, 04:45:33 pm »
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but was kind of bummed that the comic reading kid and newspaper guy were only on screen for a couple seconds when the weapon was teleported into NY

They were also shown in one shot earlier, when Laurie and Dan are walking through the city together. Since the Black Freighter is being cut into the film later, there's DEFINITELY news stand footage.