THOUGHTS ON WATCHMEN MOVIE, MOST OF WHICH ARE NOT BY FRED

[Urraco]

Probably for the hollywood obsession with making things easy to swallow.

You see, the people that go to the movies don't want to think about character development, or Rorschach's philosophy that (in the book) was given a lot of attention for the purpose of making him more than just a bad-guy killing maniac.

On another note, did anyone notice the over done sex scenes? It's amazing what they can do with three panels in a movie.

[Zenpeanut]

I'm guessing they thought that the mainstream audience would think it was overdone and cheesy. That's just my thoughts, but I was totally waiting for that part too, kinda let me down...

[Urraco]

Funny, cuz' it ended up seeming overdone and cheesy anyway.

Especially with those matrix-esque fight scenes.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Please tell me you guys aren't telling me they took out the bit about the dogs?

[Faust]

Please tell me you guys aren't telling me they took out the bit about the dogs?

No thats still in it, but rorchach chops up the guy when he is in handcuffs instead of giving him a fighting chance

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w


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[Urraco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w


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[Triple Zero]

000; pirate story is allegory of the main theme.

ok I was kinda waiting for someone to say that, I would have pointed it out but I couldn't find the right word--allegory (I thought allegory was something slightly different, but wikipedia says im wrong).

anyway I figured it would be something like that, but it was grasping too far, proper allegory should be more obvious (IMO). It almost felt like a cut-up, a story interleaved with another, giving the suggestion of an allegory, but if the pirate story was one, I really felt any random story could have been.

Which bits of the story correspond to which bits of the main theme then? Especially since the pirate story reaches its conclusion before the main one does.

Also, author of pirate story wrote the telepathic script to put in giant squid's head.

okay I gotta admit I missed that part. I only skimmed that bit of text between the chapters, read most of the others, but since the story wasnt that compelling (IMO), I didnt feel like reading it. FTR, I did read the other between-texts, though.

all in all, I suppose the Watchmen comic didn't impress me much, because I only just finished reading Transmetropolitan in one action packed hate fun horrormirth reading streak, which was 10x more awesome (IMO). And it appears to be where Roger gets a lot of his lines from [or maybe it's the other way around  ]

[Cainad (dec.)]

CAINAD INTRUDES WITHOUT READING THE LAST 10 PAGES BECAUSE HE'D RATHER JUST BUTT IN AND GIVE HIS UNSOLICITED OPINION, KTHX:

The movie was decent. I agree with Faust that the music often intruded on the scenes; I usually understood why they chose the songs they did, but at times it was distracting. For example, "The Sound of Silence" was a decent choice for the scene they played it over, but it's not supposed to be a LOUD song, so it sounded weird and distracting to hear a mellow Simon and Garfunkle song being pumped out of the loudspeakers like that.

[Jasper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w


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That was a change of underpants moment for me.

[LMNO]

000; pirate story is allegory of the main theme.

ok I was kinda waiting for someone to say that, I would have pointed it out but I couldn't find the right word--allegory (I thought allegory was something slightly different, but wikipedia says im wrong).

anyway I figured it would be something like that, but it was grasping too far, proper allegory should be more obvious (IMO). It almost felt like a cut-up, a story interleaved with another, giving the suggestion of an allegory, but if the pirate story was one, I really felt any random story could have been.

Which bits of the story correspond to which bits of the main theme then? Especially since the pirate story reaches its conclusion before the main one does.

Also, author of pirate story wrote the telepathic script to put in giant squid's head.

okay I gotta admit I missed that part. I only skimmed that bit of text between the chapters, read most of the others, but since the story wasnt that compelling (IMO), I didnt feel like reading it. FTR, I did read the other between-texts, though.

all in all, I suppose the Watchmen comic didn't impress me much, because I only just finished reading Transmetropolitan in one action packed hate fun horrormirth reading streak, which was 10x more awesome (IMO). And it appears to be where Roger gets a lot of his lines from [or maybe it's the other way around  ]

An innocent man is witness to horror, and sees the horror en route to slaughter all he knows and loves best.

To save them, he first endures comitting horrible acts in order to get to a place he can stop the threat.

Deranged by fear and the atrocities he has witnessed, he winds up acting out the horror he wished to avoid.

He eventually sees he is dammned by his own pathetic attempts to save that which he had loved.




I think it's perfectly clear, actually.

[Cramulus]

is that the third or fourth time that video's been posted ITT?  



also: Ozy's pet? WTF was that supposed to be? It looked like it was straight outta Dr. Seuss.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

A GENETICALLY ALTER LYNX I THINK, I FORGET. HOLY FUCK CAPSLOCK!

[P3nT4gR4m]

is that the third or fourth time that video's been posted ITT?  



also: Ozy's pet? WTF was that supposed to be? It looked like it was straight outta Dr. Seuss.

You've never read watchmen????? 

[Cainad (dec.)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w


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That was a change of underpants moment for me.

This.