Watchmen
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Anyone else catch an early showing? For all the hype, I cannot recommend and walked away disappointed. Take it I am not a die hard fan and regardless of how close it came to it's source material, sans the squid, this movie bored me. Tons of slow mo's, some lame acting and dragging dialogue, along with too much blue twig and berry action. Rorschach and the cinematography was pretty solid, but that is about it. If your looking for the Dark Knight and "visionary" directing, you won't find it here.
- version30
2' 50" of suck
- Nairn0
noooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo ooooooooo oooo o
- baseline_shift0
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- juhls0
Weird. I heard it was good.
- GOING TONITE...YEAHHHH...Kiggen
- not to nit pick but you are the one with the Heros addiction, no?version3
- I hate the writing on that show. Just watch it because I already started before, and I can't let go :/juhls
- I like heroes to, but i'm a big an of pulpKiggen
- I never said I saw Watchmen yet...juhls
- "Heroes" can be entertaining, but it's all going downhill.juhls
- its like smallville, a lot of cringe momentsKiggen
- then you're ready for this movie ;) just noting you are into this type of characterversion3
- Exactly, Bart.juhls
- version30
"lame acting and dragging dialogue" perfect summary
- baseline_shift0
- This is what the movie is based off of? Seriously?********
- This IS the movie.baseline_shift
- lol********
- This is what the movie is based off of? Seriously?
- TOMMYxGUNN0
- thats sad...Kiggen
- ::tear::free_
- jesus that is sad.hellogoodbye
- ok_not_ok0
Best movie of 2009 so far.
- I would rather see the art direction of Coraline than this complex dud.********
- says an american********
- in no way is this movie even in the top 50 for best of 2009Mellimelvin
- I would rather see the art direction of Coraline than this complex dud.
- blog0
i think this movie will showcase for 2 people. the fans of the books will love it, the regular people who think this is a super hero movie will be left disappointed. i think that is the general problem regarding most comic2film movies, is that the general public who never heard of the characters or the story just instantly see costumes and see spider-man or superman in their heads and when its not they get pissed... that they lost a few hours and then get even more annoyed due to the amount of hype the flick may have gotten.
to me the hype is soley for the fans and no one else. the books stands on its own pedestal that most books dont even have even though they are monthly ships while this was more of a one shot graphic novel.. still though for the fans of the writing and the characters i think this movie will hold true to their highest beliefs and grant them only the satisfaction of the story.
the book itself has intense long dialogs that would last pages on pages, so to hear people already saying the movie is slow and has lots off dialog, then may be i suggest you read or even re-read the book... its rather on point to what the book is and where its roots stem from.
the top 3 comics2film ever made are still History of Violence, The GreeN Mile and Punisher [dolph lundgren] now however it may turn out watchmen will over take one of those 3 in that list as for the fans, this is said the most accurate adaptation of comics2film ever.
that said, most people wont like this movie as the fans base for this although huge in the comic community is rather small in relation to the general public.
my 2ยข
- comic2movie does not equal success, just look at the first hulk flickversion3
- the punisher?????Kiggen
- i never said they are successful.
look at Punisher, it by far one of the worst movies ever made...blog - even comic book fans have taste staying true to character does not equal quality acting/directionversion3
- ..yet it is 100% true to the character from the books.blog
- yes offcourse, but a movie that is truest to its original of the book holds more than success.blog
- look at spider-man 3... that movie failed... it made up things that never existed in the books.blog
- All three attempts at the punisher were TERRIBLE. THE PUNISHER? serious?********
- the first thing i want in any comic2film is pure accuracy of the characters in the books #1.blog
- if that isnt reached to me the movie fails short.blog
- the punisher movies all sucked bad bad bad, but the first one is the most accurate to the book.blog
- that makes it in the comic community a very strong movie even though the flick sucked.blog
- lvl_130
epill is going to be pissed!
- harlequino0
Is the Dolph Lundgren "Punisher" film really that well regarded? I'm a little surprised.
I've never seen it, and i think e-pill made a reference to it the other day.
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Just wanted to say, when you go to a midnight showing full of high schoolers dressed up in blue paint and owl costumes, you expect excitement and enthusiasm>>> the lights came on after almost three hours and dead silence, no applause, no nothing. Perhaps they were asleep/let down or maybe it was just the theatre we saw it in. Take Dark Knight for example, seeing that in iMAX, people going nuts and standing applause. While there are elements I like, I am not seeing the genius and lasting appeal of this movie as some do.
- harlequino0
cirquemedia - i imagine a theater full of glum niteowls and dr. manhattans trudging away is rather amusing, haha
- As if they were all dressed up for their birthday party and no one showed up.********
- As if they were all dressed up for their birthday party and no one showed up.
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I didn't know History of Violence was a comic remake..?
Curious about this watchmen though.- THATS MY POINT EXACTLYblog
- most people dont know history of violence is a comic book/ graphic novel. same with the green mile.blog
- both of those are fantastic books and movies...blog
- both also arent about super heroes. maybe hollywood needs less supers and more of those.blog
- i knew about green mile********
- I didn't like History of Violence at first but when I heard it was based off of a g.novel it made total sense.fooler2
- I loved it.juhls
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Blog, is your real name Kevin Smith?
- Point50
thanks. I'll catch it on Netflix next year.
