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Post by Patty on Mar 4, 2009 6:02:59 GMT -8
For the first time in 15 years, I am tempted to break my boycott on movie theaters to go to see WATCHMEN.
I shan't, of course, because I don't even have matinee money at the moment.
But I want to.
I await your reviews and commentary, forumites.
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Post by Anders on Mar 4, 2009 13:05:46 GMT -8
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Post by Johann Chua on Mar 4, 2009 20:39:08 GMT -8
The movie isn't supposed out locally until tomorrow (March 6), yet Ayala mall cinemas have it today already for regular showing rather advance screenings. Heard there were cuts made to get the R-13 rating instead of R-18, though. Already bought a new copy of the Absolute edition at National Bookstore, so it was massively discounted from cover price. Good thing I passed on getting the $40 hardcover. |
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Post by K-Box on Mar 5, 2009 20:32:12 GMT -8
The Dagwood-as-Manhattan one is awesome. It's so metafictional that it's almost poetic. |
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Post by K-Box on Mar 5, 2009 20:34:37 GMT -8
And yes, everyone else has seen this by now, but it still deserves to be reposted:
I can actually imagine Adrian Veidt green-lighting this as a cartoon in the Watchmen universe.
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Post by jessebaker on Mar 5, 2009 20:57:00 GMT -8
The Dagwood-as-Manhattan one is awesome. It's so metafictional that it's almost poetic. Except that more fucking people know Dagwood via his current incarnation than they do his original form. Complaining about the status of "Blondie", which has evolved into a comic strip about a happily married man and his smoking hot wife and two kids, is like Joe Quesada complaining about the Spider-Marriage "ruining" Spider-Man, due to it making Peter happy and content and not a miserable fuck-up who live uses as a human toilet like he was in the old days.... |
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Post by K-Box on Mar 6, 2009 0:52:34 GMT -8
Ah, yes, Marvel's "Civil War" was SO original, because before that, NO ONE had ever asked what would happen if superheroes became illegal, AMIRITE???
Attention, Joe Quesada, Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar: Not only were you PWNED RETROACTIVELY by Alan Moore, you also got PWNED just now by ZACK SNYDER, of all people, because even his movie version of Watchmen appears as though it will be superior to everything you've ever done, especially Civil War and everything that's followed from it.
I'll be taking the folks and a family friend to go see Watchmen next weekend (this weekend is too busy for any of us to go see it together), but in the meantime, I'll be damned, because it actually looks like Snyder got this one right.
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Post by Anders on Mar 6, 2009 10:10:42 GMT -8
The Dagwood-as-Manhattan one is awesome. It's so metafictional that it's almost poetic. Except that more fucking people know Dagwood via his current incarnation than they do his original form. Complaining about the status of "Blondie", which has evolved into a comic strip about a happily married man and his smoking hot wife and two kids, is like Joe Quesada complaining about the Spider-Marriage "ruining" Spider-Man, due to it making Peter happy and content and not a miserable fuck-up who live uses as a human toilet like he was in the old days.... Yeah, let's completely miss the point again, Jesse. The point of the strip isn't that Blondie has changed, but that it has stopped changing and that it will never change again. As a comment on daily cartoon strips I think it's quite brilliant. |
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Post by K-Box on Mar 6, 2009 10:16:50 GMT -8
I'll second Anders, Jesse. If anything, Kurtz is actually attacking eternal status quos like BND.
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Post by Patty on Mar 6, 2009 13:45:10 GMT -8
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Post by Patty on Mar 6, 2009 13:47:55 GMT -8
I can actually imagine Adrian Veidt green-lighting this as a cartoon in the Watchmen universe. Even without sound, that's brilliant. |
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Mar 6, 2009 20:11:59 GMT -8
Went to see it tonight. Will try to avoid spoilers;
The good:
It's very undecompressed, and covers a crapload of the most important material from the book.
I'm going to go on a limb and say I like the change in the ending; it's a lot more organic in someways than Moore's ending.
There's a little more for Silk Spectre than in the original. Read into that what you will.
The so-so:
I'm really hoping that they come with a LOTR extended edition, because a LOT of stuff should have probably been included.
Oh, and not to sound like a censor or anything, but...yeah, I can't believe that with this content, it got a 14A rating (14 and older here in Canada).
The bad:
The movie was 2:47, and it felt like at least 2hours was pure set up (I know it wasn't, but it just felt like it).
Subtlety? Nuance? Not from Snyder.
Verdict: Went with my dad, and he didn't care for it much, so fans of the comic may appreciate it better than as a film in its own right. But it gets more right than it gets wrong.
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Post by Anders on Mar 6, 2009 20:36:14 GMT -8
But it gets more right than it gets wrong. That's a lot more than what we used to get from superhero movies so I guess I'll stay cautiously optimistic. |
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Post by jensaltmann on Mar 7, 2009 3:43:45 GMT -8
Went to see it tonight. Will try to avoid spoilers; The good: It's very undecompressed, and covers a crapload of the most important material from the book. I'm going to go on a limb and say I like the change in the ending; it's a lot more organic in someways than Moore's ending. There's a little more for Silk Spectre than in the original. Read into that what you will. The so-so: I'm really hoping that they come with a LOTR extended edition, because a LOT of stuff should have probably been included. Oh, and not to sound like a censor or anything, but...yeah, I can't believe that with this content, it got a 14A rating (14 and older here in Canada). The bad: The movie was 2:47, and it felt like at least 2hours was pure set up (I know it wasn't, but it just felt like it). Subtlety? Nuance? Not from Snyder. Verdict: Went with my dad, and he didn't care for it much, so fans of the comic may appreciate it better than as a film in its own right. But it gets more right than it gets wrong. Word is that the DVD will be a 3 hour director's cut. One of the reasons why I'm not going to see this on the big screen. |
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Post by Patty on Mar 7, 2009 8:47:10 GMT -8
Word is that the DVD will be a 3 hour director's cut. One of the reasons why I'm not going to see this on the big screen. If you can believe it, I'm already getting pre-orders for the director's cut DVD, as of 8PM last night. Should I be grimly amused? |
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