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

Started by Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ, March 08, 2009, 04:35:08 AM

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Faust

#105
March 12, 2009, 10:29:39 AM
Quote from: Felix on March 12, 2009, 03:40:20 AM
Quote from: Faust on March 11, 2009, 12:31:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 11, 2009, 12:21:05 PM
No, the bit they replaced the giant squid with...
Actually as a plot device it kinda works, but they focused on it too much and then ignored the scene that resolves everything.
Spoiler:
because they left out johns speech to ozymandias it makes it out that john simply agrees with what has happened, It never shows him in the better light after killing rorcharch. they never undermine ozymandias plan by saying it only saves the world in the short term, thus justifying all the killing.

Since Ozymandias still has the power to make it seem as though Doc Manhattan is active, the facade can be carried on indefinitely.
further justifying what he did
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Richter

#106
March 12, 2009, 11:20:56 AM
Any y'all found this yet?  :evil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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Cramulus

#107
March 12, 2009, 12:58:46 PM
I finally saw it!


and liked it


I agree with z3, not enough cock.
When they put this on TV, you'll see an edited version in which they cropped out the dongs
I wish Manhattan did some midscreen waggling, that would be really hard to crop out.

also, I wonder how many dongs they modeled before they arrived at that one.

AFK

#108
March 12, 2009, 01:00:49 PM
Maybe they borrowed the leftovers from the Caligula movie set.  There were cocks everywhere in that movie. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Lies

#109
March 12, 2009, 01:08:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 12, 2009, 11:20:56 AM
Any y'all found this yet?  :evil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w
Yes, I linked it a page or two back.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

hooplala

#110
March 12, 2009, 01:18:27 PM
Quote from: Suu on March 12, 2009, 04:35:21 AM
Quote from: Squid-diddle on March 12, 2009, 02:59:17 AM
Quote from: Suu on March 12, 2009, 02:02:52 AM
I JUST SAW IT AND I REALLY LIKED IT.

EVERYONE ELSE CAN FUCK OFF.

yeah that's pretty much how i felt.
(cept for that gawdawful love scene)

so i agree.

The sex scene had my friends and I rolling in the aisles. I mean the flame thrower. Really...REALLY?!

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

That was put in there for the corn factor, it HAD to have been.

Quote from: Dr Hoopla on March 11, 2009, 12:09:27 PM
Quote from: Z³ on March 10, 2009, 11:34:53 PM(and the symbolic flamethrower=stock footage of rockets going off)

To be fair, that's also in the comic.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Suu

#111
March 12, 2009, 01:24:51 PM
Oh I remember the flame thrower, I was just surprised they left in the sex at all.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Richter

#112
March 12, 2009, 01:24:51 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on March 12, 2009, 01:08:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 12, 2009, 11:20:56 AM
Any y'all found this yet?  :evil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w
Yes, I linked it a page or two back.

Whoops.  Blue glowing cock and repost.

I still have to see it, sounds like it's worth catching big - screen wise.

The plot adaptation, based on how much Suu said it stuck to the comic, makes sense.  It does remove some depth from the whole thing, but leaves less head scratching for the masses.  
Where I'm not quite sure about it yet is it's take on Dr. Manhattan's morality.  In the comics, his leaving earth seemed more like a development of his growing detatchment and ambiguity towards Earth as a whole, almost a relief since he was no longer needed as a living trump card for U.S.A. superiority.  Movie wise, with him getting the blame for Ozymandias' acts, and becoming cast as "Snowball" to the whole world, his leaving had less of that detatchment somehow.  

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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Suu

#113
March 12, 2009, 01:38:59 PM
They went into why he goes to Mars.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Cramulus

#114
March 12, 2009, 01:42:06 PM

Faust

#115
March 12, 2009, 01:54:46 PM
holy shit that is incredible.
where did you find that?
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Cramulus

#116
March 12, 2009, 02:03:22 PM
 :lol: googled "alan moore's reaction to watchmen" and that was one of the the first hits

Cain

#117
March 12, 2009, 02:31:05 PM
 :lulz:

hooplala

#118
March 12, 2009, 02:40:00 PM
Glycon even makes an appearance!  Brilliant!
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Tempest Virago

#119
March 12, 2009, 06:19:52 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on March 12, 2009, 01:42:06 PM


I bet that's totally what Alan Moore's inner sanctum looks like.
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