Anyone else goingto the midnight showing?
gah 4 and half hours till I see it. To excited....
"Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.' They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or President Truman. Decent men, who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers, and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."
Watchmen
I'm going. We've been having a lot of good comic book to movies lately, and watchmen is a particularly good one. This movie gets the 'I'll go see it even if nobody is coming with me' mark (often I do not feel the $10 for a ticket to see a 2 hour movie once is worth it without some sort of social bonding included.)
You bond socially while watching a movie?
I already know I'm weird, but when I'm watching a movie for the first time, being aware of people around me means it's not worth watching...
Didn't like 300, I just can't get my mind around that movie when there is 300 men wearing thongs and capes roaring and fighting. So I don't think I'm going to see watchmen.
TBH, I'm on the fence. True the Black Freighter is being done on its own. Perhaps the squid missing isn't such a bad thing. I don't know, I've read the comic repeatedly so I'll probably avoid opening night and wait to see what other, none reviewers, opinions of it are.
I'm also dubious about the PG rating the thing is getting; considering small, annoying, Frodo enamoured child utterly ruined Return of the King (at a midnight showing no less). If the local cinema doesn't do an adults only showing I'll wait until the BR is out.
High hopes, low expectations.
No matter what the theatrical version is, I save my final verdict for the Directors Cut. Watchmen is a narrative heavy novel with surprisingly little action, and honestly, I can't see the film translating what Watchmen is all about in 2 and a half hours (Directors cut is supposedly 4ish)
I mean while waiting for the movie and shortly there after. Normally (especially at a midnight release) there is a hefty amount of waiting for the movie to start involved.
Also, there is usually interaction during a movie that is non-verbal and does not take away from watching the movie (this is especially true when I'm seeing a movie with a lovely person)
agreed but still cited
Will be watching it in 3 hours. Woo hoo!
Me in ten.
I'm sick and tired of super hero movies. I'm out. It is probably just another nasty computer generated graphics effects slug fest.
OMG OMG OMG OMG I LOVED IT go see it everyone going to see it again fo sure
Don't know about that, The Dark Knight had a decent amount of Narative and definitely wasn't just a midless slug fest, and while I doubt that Watchmen is going to carry the literature's naration as well as the novel did, Snyder suposedly didn't add really anything of his own that wasn't in the Novel itself. Aside from Dr. Manhattan, none of the protagonists are really "Super heros" so I prefer the term Vigilante. As for the overabuse of CGI, more than likely, everything is sucking the life out of that form of Special effects, We need more Del Toro's (Spelling?) who use it only as a last resort. That's one of the reasons I look forward to The Hobbit.
I'll wait to see if anyone eventually does the job right and makes an adult-rated miniseries version that will get Alan Moore to let them use his name. Even four hours is not enough, and there's far more stuff in that fine novel than Dr. Manhattan's willie to earn it an R rating.
Won't be in my country for another week or so
Even an R rating won't keep kids out of it, slap a NC17 on it and all those issues go away. It was sickening to sit next to 7th graders and even 7 year olds to see Friday the 13th last month.
I've got my tickets bought and paid for. Going to leave early from work to have dinner and get in line.
I'm excited.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but I can't help but think it is because I have more familiarity with the character from the graphic novel. I think people who haven't read it will not be so emotionally invested in the characters. People who haven't read the book will probably have a harder time understanding why the characters do what they do. It is also a bit more gratuitous and lowbrow than the book. Luckily there are many visually stunning CGI shots.
7 year olds at friday the thirteenth. I mean I didnt always see things at the supposed age but thats ridiculus. I did when 13 I could see r depending on what they are. for pg 13 I was seeing those at like 10 and nc17 at well 17. but 7 year olds at an R movie wow. I think thats why their so much violence, everyone watches bloody movies when their kids. I mean I saw like 3 R rated movies when I was thirteen, and they were all because it had some violence.
But yeah I want to see it hopefully tonight.
It was the parents bringing their kids to the movie. I figure they were too lazy to get a baby sitter. Friday the 13th was old school, nothing like that travesty that was Freddy vs Jason.
As for Watchmen, I'm hoping to see it this weekend.
Yeah...on the whole kids thing...no one should bring their kids to see Watchman.
Here's a video you guys might like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3VSw1XBOo&feature=dir
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'no.'"
Most badass line ever. Period.
It had more blue dongs than a smurf porn. Other than that....it was deece.
That was seriously funny. And bless the artist for tipping hat to Alan Moore at the end.
Woulda been better if the Night Owl didn't look like Clark W. Griswald. Everytime he was on screen, I was waiting for him to tell the bad guys what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, ****less, hopeless, heartless, fat-***, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey **** he is.
Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where's the Tylenol?
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