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You never heard of Tom Sawyer?
is this movie like league of extraordinary men? a bunch of no name superheroes i never heard of
You never heard of Tom Sawyer?
So this is the visionary cartoon based on the visionary comic adapted into a visionary movie by the most visionary visionary of all time?
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I saw it Sunday night. Never read the graphic novel, so my take will be an authentic non-fanboy take.
I pretty much agree with 99% of what's been said here. From the moderately distracting soundtrack, to the characters that came across weak.
Still liked the movie overall. The action scenes were on point, and if you just accepted what Snyder was trying to do (play out a movie like a comic, duh) then it was pretty cool. Two couples walked out during this movie, I guess it got too boring for them. There were definite lulls in the storytelling, but that was to be expected.
Also, as someone who hasn't read the graphic novel, the Dr. Manhattan scapegoat thing isn't completely senseless. I definitely am not shocked that that was something they added, and it did seem a bit forced, but it made sense in the context of the movie. When this happened it was obvious he wouldn't care, because the US and Soviets would reconcile and he would understand.
But the plot, for the most part, was kind of hard to follow for me, mostly because I wasn't familiar with the names. One thing I still don't get....why was the comedian all sad and , crying to his arch enemy in that one part? I don't get that.
The comedian was a ing cool character though, especially when he jumps from Archemides and starts blasting those ing hippies in the back. It was brutal. Rorshach was tight, and Dr Manhattan and his little Mars thing was tight as . The overall graphics for this movie were amazing.
The antagonist guy, and the silk spectres mom were pretty weak though. I did not feel the antagonist's motivation at all for doing what he did, and in fact, we hardly got to know him.
I liked it. Better than Dark Knight, that's for damn sure. At least they showed a minimum of five pints of blood in each fight scene. Even if it was blatantly comic-esque.
Dude, i would totally be your press secretary if you ran for president, i don't give a rats ass the platform.
Is it true that blue guy's was out during the movie?
Yes, it's true. Personally, I could have done without the male full frontal nudity. I konw that Dr. Manhattan was computerized or some parts of him were but the full frontal nudity was really graphic and unncessary. He should have put on some pants or shorts. Anyways, I liked the movie. I thought it was an entertaining super hero movie. There were some parts of the movie that I hated like The Comedian. I thought The Comedian was a real d-bag. You don't shoot a pregnant woman. I also didn't like Dr. Manhattan. He came off as a know it all and very arrogant. The Night Owl and Rorshach characters made up for those two d-bags.
That's enough for me to catch this flick.
...He does know it all, he's ing Dr. Manhattan.
I thought the movie was excellent. I had some issues with the fight scenes and the pacing, but overall, I was entertained. The comedian, rorschach, and dr manhattan were awesome. Hopefully the directors cut will include the omitted squid so fanboys can shut their gob and see how much worse the movie would have been. Mostly, I was annoyed by the parents who brought their nanny, and their four kids (all about 3-5 years old) and let them wander the goddamn isles the entire movie. Funny, the mother ran out to cover their eyes during the ing but was totally cool with letting them see rorschach take a butcher knife to a dudes skull.
I didn't think the movie was great. I thought it was OK I guess, and had some entertaining value but really - as Joe Chalupa would say - wait for it on DVD. I had never read any of it before, and I'm somewhat intrigued to do so now but I think I let the hype get me expecting something much better than this. I think the major failing of the movie is that it tries to do too much in too little of a time and without the backstory you would have from reading the books you're left with a poorly developed plot line with far too many characters to fully flesh out in the time frame of the movie.
I do think Rorschach was pretty awesome but that was pretty much about it. And while I think the underlying premise of super heroes being all ed up and some of the other characters being cool, there was just so much weak development here that it was disappointing.
I've heard some reviews and for the most part they are predicting this flick will fade out fast.
I loved the book but the movie was boring as . I didn't even care enough to think a little deeper about it. I really just couldn't wait for it to be over.
Sorry for jumping on this a little late but last Sunday was my little bro's 18th birthday and my funds were invested in getting myself as ed up as possible for the occasion. Caught the movie last night and thought it's one of the better comic to film adaptations Hollywood has done. I don't know how I rank it in comparison with The Dark Knight starring Academy Award Winner Heath Ledger, but it's still a pretty damn good film.
This movie nailed down like 85% of my favorite scenes from the comic, so I don't have many bad things to say about it. I rather did not like the elimination of the bad blood between Sally and Laurie. The thing I didn't like the most was Billy Crudup's voiceover of Doctor Manhattan. The whole time I was just waiting for Dr. M to say:
Intrinsic Field Subtractor, $300 billion dollars.
Watchmen budget, $120 million dollars.
Hi tech superhero equipment, $10 million dollars.
Big Mac with fries, $4 dollars.
Watching the sunrise on Mars, priceless.
Oh, and the most epic thing I saw happen during the movie wasn't even on the screen. During the flashback scene when Rorschach butchers the guy that fed the little girl to the dogs, this couple gets up and starts walking out the theater with their young son who couldn't have been older than five. But they don't even make it to the bottom of the stairs before the guy starts shouting "What the do you want?" and Rorschach starts chopping his head. It was like a campaign commercial for bad timing.
We saw it last night and were pretty disgusted with how many people brought their <10 children to see it. Yeah, it's really comfortable watching nudity, graphic ing, and extremely gruesome violence with a bunch of toddlers. That actually took a lot of the fun away from it for me .. but the movie was okay, I guess.
Movies was ok, especially considering its genre. I think it was a difficult book to adapt with a lot of elements. When i first found out that the ending had been changed I was a bit disgusted but after seeing it I thought it was the best choice, I don't think you can get away with a giant squib in a good movie anymore.
Laurie's apology to her mother at the end comes out of nowhere, at no point during the movie it is shown the kind of relationship they had.
I thought it lacked some magic, but still a lot better than a lot of stuff out there, and better than most super hero movies. I may be bias though.
Anyone want to explain to me why the comedian was crying like a little girl to his arch enemy? I still don't get that.
No one on Earth is happier watching this movie bomb than Alan Moore, the guy who wrote the Watchmen in the first place.
#1. Not only did he write it intentionally so it could never completely be adapted in any other media format besides comicbooks..
but...
#2. The ownership rights to the Watchmen were supposed to revert back to him at some point but a loophole in the contract allows DC to retain ownership indefinitely as long as they keep reprinting the story every few years. This is one of the main reasons he no longer does work for DC and hasn't willingly in 20 years or so.
He's probably happy about the phallus though...
I haven't seen the movie yet but it had bomb written all over it for me. Not only is the story one that is difficult to adapt...it's a pretty cerebral story that won't be that exciting on film even if it is adapted well.
It looks like it's going to fall 30 million short of the cost to film it...that will make it one of the biggest bombs in history. Easily the top comicbook film bomb.
Because someone took a dump on his pepperoni pizza.
It's going to make a ton of money on DVD.
I'm with Whott on this one. I have no interest in seeing this film and never thought it had a chance to be a good representation of the book. I read that Terry Gilliam tried to take this project on years ago, but basically said it was un-film able. And he was right, it is.
That was including the DVD estimates...
Basically it had a 55 million dollar opening weekend based entirely upon hype and then fell off the map. It's expected to take in 16 million this weekend and get it's ass kicked by Race to Witch Mountain
I think it's silly to say it's unfilmable. Watchmen is no less filmable than any other book. It was a revolutionary comic, but it wasn't the first and only novel to incorporate nontraditional storytelling devices.
Overall it translated onto film just fine. Some flaws, but very few that were a direct result of the book-to-film transfer. The average moviegoer doesn't leave the theater with any less of an understanding of the basic narrative than someone who reads the book.
If Watchmen loses money, a big reason for that will be its R rating. The filmmakers could have gone the safer route and released a watered down PG13 version to summer blockbuster audiences but I'm glad they didn't.
I'll be waiting for the DVD.
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