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Watchmen

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:11 am
by Cristiona
Seems fitting to post this here. Borders Books and Movies has a handful of clips relating to the Watchmen here. Quite interesting, especially if you're looking forward to this movie.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:19 pm
by Corrupt Shadow
I'm intrigued and "meh" about this movie all at the same time. I'm worried it will be another over-hyped movie like Sin City was (I thought that movie was lame).

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:21 pm
by Olaf
Watch men do what?
Wrestle? No thanks.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:29 pm
by TheK3vin
Some friends and I are going to see it. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:59 pm
by Cristiona
It seems that Gibbons is fully supporting it, which probably counts for something.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:15 pm
by malk-a-mite

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:37 pm
by MagiNinjA
Sounds good, from that link. I should really reserve a ticket or something.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:13 am
by cromulentia
I really could care less about this movie, but I just got excited when I saw the name of Wil Wheaton. I've had a ridiculous schoolgirl-esque crush on him since the days of Wesley Crusher...

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:07 pm
by Olaf
cromulentia wrote:I've had a ridiculous schoolgirl-esque crush on him since the days of Wesley Crusher...
Would that make Crusher the crushee?

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:14 pm
by cromulentia
I suppose it would. Clever, clever.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:54 pm
by the SUPERnaturalist
i wanna watch it online, but no working links yet

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:07 pm
by Cristiona
Let's keep the discussion of illegal activities off the forums too, 'kay?

http://stuffgeekslove.wordpress.com/200 ... -business/

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:40 am
by Hannahmaus
My friend is a big fan of the book and she just saw the film so I thought I'd post what she said about it.

"It's slavishly faithful to the graphic novel, but I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing. There's going to be two kinds of people that go to see this: the fanboys and the rest of the population that has some interest in action movies. For the latter I think they'll be bored, the movie is very long and adheres very closely to the comic instead of attempting to adapt it into a more acceptable format, and for the former, I don't know what this movie is going to bring to the table.

Unlike a book, like Lord of the Rings, the comic comes with its own graphical interpretation - and an amazingly good one at that. The visual imagery is already there, so I don't know that this movie adds anything to that. Don't get me wrong it's a very well-done movie, but I bet it gets very mixed reviews. I enjoyed it for what it was but it's not something I will probably want to see again.

Apparently the author (Alan Moore) had his name taken from the movie's credits. I don't know why."

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:05 am
by Cristiona
Hannahmaus wrote:Apparently the author (Alan Moore) had his name taken from the movie's credits. I don't know why."
Because he's an insane, cranky old nutjob who hates any adaptation of any of his works (V for Vendetta, From Hell, Constantine, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen).

Of course, this is the first time he's leveled a "curse" on a production.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:37 pm
by TheK3vin
Just saw it last night. It was... it had its ups and downs. Rorschach was, for the most part, awesome. A few of the things they changed made sense for being more film-friendly, but a lot of it seemed either completely purposeless; and often ruining the more subtle things about the comic that it seems like Zach Snyder just didn't understand. Oh, and the music was absolutely horrendous.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:05 am
by Corrupt Shadow
So, in other words, wait for it to be on Netflix.

Got it. ;)

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:19 pm
by Jesus
Ozymandias was right.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:10 pm
by TheK3vin
Ozymandias's actor SUCKED.

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:44 pm
by Cristiona

Re: Watchmen

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:07 am
by Satan
/me sets off to read Watchmen