Watchmen

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

While I liked Mask of the Phantasm it was a box office disaster. It was also an animated movie so I hardly consider it the same boat as this new live action series.

Yeah there's tons of great Batman stories, in the comic, in the TV series, but we're talking movies. As far as movies goes, depending on what you like, a lot of people think Nolan's films are the best.

I agree, Nolan's films are the best we've seen yet. However, before Nolan came along Burton's films were the best live action version of Batman. So the point I'm trying to make is that it would be closed minded to give up on Batman if Christopher Nolan doesn't come back.

[Raph's Girl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/...ovie_lawsuit_3

Fanboys rejoice! Rival studios say they have resolved their battle over the release of "Watchmen."

The release of the superhero flick had been in doubt for months as 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. sparred in federal court over who had proper rights to the film. The studios say it will be released as scheduled on March 6.

Spokesmen for both companies released a statement Thursday night that the studios have resolved the dispute in a confidential agreement.

Settlement discussions ramped up after a judge decided last month that Warner Bros. had violated Fox's distribution interests by shooting the film.

Attorneys for both studios are scheduled to meet with U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess on Friday and discuss the agreement.

The statement said both studios "look forward with great anticipation" to the film's release.

[That Matt Guy]

I also saw Watchmen last night, and I for the most part liked it. I was really impressed with the actor that played Rorschach.

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

I also saw Watchmen last night, and I for the most part liked it. I was really impressed with the actor that played Rorschach.

He was definitely the highlight.

[Raph's Girl]

Just got back from The Watchmen. Pretty good film. Rorschach was of course awesome. Jeffery Dean Morgan was totally perfect casting for The Comedian.

I just watched The Watchmen too. It was alright.
My only real issue with it was the unnecessary softcore scenes. Like, it was just short away from visible penetration.
Porno in a superhero movie? Why? What's the point? As if people don't watch enough of that stuff on the Internet.
And mind you, I'm not refering to the nude scenes of blue-man. Just the sex scenes that made me feel like I was watching a bad porno in a sleezy theater.

[The Stryker]

Read the book. It's not a normal superhero story. It's barely a superhero story at all.

[raphael_is_cool]

'Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah'

Watchmen was better than I expected. It just had some really weird soundtrack choices and some fluffed scenes.

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by Ryona

I just watched The Watchmen too. It was alright.
My only real issue with it was the unnecessary softcore scenes. Like, it was just short away from visible penetration.
Porno in a superhero movie? Why? What's the point? As if people don't watch enough of that stuff on the Internet.
And mind you, I'm not refering to the nude scenes of blue-man. Just the sex scenes that made me feel like I was watching a bad porno in a sleezy theater.

God you make my eyes bleed.

Sorry I'm not a sex-starving comic geek. I just didn't need to see that in a superhero movie. That's all. Otherwise the movie was quite entertaining.

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by Ryona

Sorry I'm not a sex-starving comic geek. I just didn't need to see that in a superhero movie. That's all. Otherwise the movie was quite entertaining.

Its not that it isn't a kind of silly scene, it is. But the reason why I have an issue with what you're saying is that A) you make making blatantly stupid generalizations about people who like Watchmen (sex starved? Not everyone who reads comics can't get laid, sister. Especially with Watchmen, which is a book that has helped solidify graphic novels as legitimate literature. Clearly, you'd be surprised at the types of people who herald Watchmen as an amazing work of art and writing.) B)Watchmen (the film)serves as an almost exact panel-by-panel representation of the graphic novel. Hence, why its in there.

Its hardly a superhero movie, if anything its the deconstruction of a superhero. Like the book.

A silly scene, but the scene itself isn't the important part, its the fact that Snyder got probably the closest anyone ever will to translating Watchmen (regardless of changing ASPECTS of the ending).

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Ryona

Porno in a superhero movie? Why? What's the point?

Obviously not a Watchmen purist if you don't get why the porn is in there...

Oh, and despite what's in there....Watchmen isnt a superhero movie.

And "sex-starved geeks?". Most geeks DO get laid in real life. This is an assanine generalization.

Saw the movie through other means. I liked the teaser, and Zach is a capable director for other projects, but this isnt Watcmen, it's like listening to a cheap, cover track by a hapless band. My Chemical Romance were more faithful to The Sex Pistols in the soundtrack than this movie was to the graphic novel's spirit, point, and story. The ending should NOT have been changed...and what's worse is the movie took itself bloody seriously. Hammy acting, awful "Christopher Nolan"-esque influences. That incessantly annoying habit of slowing everything down.

I can already tell Rosarch will be the next Wolverine in absolutely no time...which is, again, incredibly disheartening. Who actually remembers all the quieter scenes with that character? The excellent subplot with the Psychiatrist? His return to the apartment and confronting the landlady? No, all they talk about is "That guy killed two alsations! That guy killed a midget in prison, he's badass"...ugh.

This was a video game cut scene extended to three hours. A cosplay fan-reading with a script so blatantly half-assed and written by Furturama's Melvar, that lacking gravitas and respect to the pace of the source material made the LOTR trilogy look much more honest.

Overrated beyond beleif. Read the graphic novel, it's a masterpeice, but once more, Alan Moore is proven right. I'd rather watch this

[Mr. Snackpants]

Watchmen

Loved the novel, disappointed by the movie. It's worth checking out in IMAX though.

[Jester]

Saw Watchmen. I haven't read the graphic novel, but I am also watching the "moving GN" on DVD...the differences are fairly obvious...but I haven't gotten to the end of the DVD...it is over 5 hours.

[Spitfire]

Saw The Watchmen in Imax, I figured if I had to sit through it why not in Imax? I read about half of the graphic novel before seeing it and doing that netted some interesting results for me. Firstly I know the ending anyways because people had blew it for me a hundred times over before the movie even came out so that wasn't a big deal to me anyways.

During the first half of the film, up till the end of Manhattan on Mars and his origin, I was not enjoying myself much. All the scenes felt hallow and lifeless, the horrid acting shined through quite a bit more, and I noticed a bunch of missing content, some of which I found relevant to the story. The second half I liked more but it was because I was paying attention to the story and that distracted me from the things I was nit picking before. By the end I decided I liked Rorschach and Niteowl as far as acting goes. I think they were the only two half way decent actors in the whole film.

Other things that annoyed me was the over use of slow motion in virtually every action scene. It was completely unnecessary. Also the soundtrack felt out of place and awkward 90% of the time. I get it the songs are from that period and about the war but we don't need to use them in scenes they don't fit. Lastly the Nixon scenes were a joke. I couldn't help but just laugh every time he popped up on screen.

I'm a little more nit picky then most people are but I went with the group and the people who hadn't read the book liked it, but had questions about things they didn't explain, and the ones that read it were in my boat. Personally if you leave people with questions who didn't read the source material you didn't do a good job of picking the content to include into the film. If he supposedly filmed the whole thing there's some other scenes he could have included.

One last short note, that was the shortest credit sequence I've ever seen. It ended before I even got out the door.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Stryker

Watchmen - I enjoyed it, It wasn't perfect but I felt it was entertaining and thats all I really need.

Watchmen wasnt meant to be a popcorn movie

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Watchmen wasnt meant to be a popcorn movie

What's the point of going to see a film if you can't be entertained by it?

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

What's the point of going to see a film if you can't be entertained by it?

Oh, I dunno...the artistic merit? Film is a form of art. Not all art is entertaining.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by cqb101

Oh, I dunno...the artistic merit? Film is a form of art. Not all art is entertaining.

The act of entertainment is holding one's attention of an agreeable or pleasing nature. If one was to voluntarily partake in an activity such as watching a film without this occurring, that would be masochism.

[gobo]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

The act of entertainment is holding one's attention of an agreeable or pleasing nature. If one was to voluntarily partake in an activity such as watching a film without this occurring, that would be masochism.

True dat. If someone were to voluntarily watch a film for any reason, coerced or not, they are technically being entertained, whether it be by the social aspects or simply paying tribute to respectable works of art. Not all entertainment is mindless.