Re: Watchmen

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Re: Watchmen

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Re: Watchmen

[quote=picklemonkey;722685]blenis :lol:

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Re: Watchmen

Wow, just saw the movie. I had low expectations and didn't really like the trailer, but the movie was just, WTF. Easily the most cerebral and provoking comic book adaptation ever.

The movie was probably both a success and a failure. A success at adapting the comic and pushing the fancy CG stuff and executing those comic scenes for the big screen. But a failure not so much its adaptation but the very nature of the comic defied adaptation.

The movie was never gonna adapt the comic fully but while it did a good enough job for me, I can imagine the flocks of cinema goers who're not familiar with the movie will be sitting through it thinking WTF because that was exactly my friend's reaction. Kept mumbling to me 'this movie is damn wierd.'

It's also easier to dive into the comic's alternate history, I think the act of reading triggers the imagination and suspension of belief on the reader's part and makes the reader complicit in whatever Moore was trying to pull over our eyes. Watching a movie, it's a lot lot more difficult to suspend the disbelief of this alternate history because firstly superheroes don't exist in real life, and the almost-perfect re-enaction of scenes and the saturated colours make it doubly hard to lose myself in the movie.

All up, it's not surprising that fans might hail it a success while a lot of casual watchers will either be bored out of their pants or at worst, think it's some indulgent wank.

Re: Watchmen

[quote=res0nat0r;719952]I thought this movie was great. I liked how they stayed very close to the book adaptiation, and I loved the use of the 60's/70's soundtrack. I also appreciated that during all of the fight scenes they didn't do a standard Jason Bourne thing and cut around the damn fightscene every .5 seconds so you can't focus on anything going on. Also I loved the Nixson war room scenes, nice homage to Dr Strangelove. Zack Snyder has a great eye for movies like this, loved his directing, very well done. Also Rorschach was great...[/quote]

Did you notice when Ozymandias was looking at the world through his bank of TV screens in his Antartic fortress, the screen next to the one showing Rorschach and Night Owl was playing Apple's 1984 ad?

Re: Watchmen

Just saw this on friday myself. I had a similar reaction to yours, Feather.

I've read about the book. i've maybe read a small, small chunk of the book. I've listened to Alan Moore speak about the book. But never read the entire book.

That said, I'm still a bit shaken by the movie.

And I think the mixed reactions only come from those who [I]do not[/I] understand what 'alternative history' means. I heard several people griping about how "nixon wasn't president and he quit office' after the film was over, and I was like....you fucking idiots!!!!

If you watch the film in the context of time and how Moore wrote this alternative history, it's just amazing. It wouldn't work any other way I don't think.

I have to say, those that didn't like it for the context/plot issues, probably are not at a higher level of thinking, and require things to be explained to them, not to seek out information on thier own. I thought the acting was above-par too. I know some cheerleader and jock -ish people who went to see it and warned me that it was 'just an ok movie, nothing special". I feel like the same people who didn't like this movie also would not like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Completely empathized w/ Rorshach.

Amazing, thought-provoking movie.

Funny moment, during the sex scene in Archie, someone, for whatever reason, brought thier little kid to watch this movie, and in the middle where they're bumping fuzzies and kissing, this kid in this cute little kid voice goes, "EWWWW". heh

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[quote=feather;728794]Did you notice when Ozymandias was looking at the world through his bank of TV screens in his Antartic fortress, the screen next to the one showing Rorschach and Night Owl was playing Apple's 1984 ad?[/quote]

hah yeah i remember that, i thought that was pretty cool.