Watchmen

You heard All Along the Watchtower because it is like that in the comic book too. There's 3 references to Bob Dylan in the series, the two others being Desolation Row (Chapter 1)and the TImes they are A-Changin' (Chapter 11). Chapter 10 is called "Two Riders were approaching" (like in the song).

Finally, the epigraph of Chapter 10 is :

"Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.”

It should have been Dylan' version, not the Jimmy one imho eh

i basically really liked everything that i liked in the comic (the mars sequence, manhatten living all moments at once, some of rorschach's stuff), but overall, it was empty, just like his other movies. i'm not totally convinced watchmen was ever going to work for me though, since i read the comic late and was never a 13 year old geek who could get totally blown away by that kind of work at the right time. i just don't get it, basically. none of the characters were relatable in the least, the situation was completely ridiculous...i mean, ok, it's a comic book, but i just found it very difficult to take seriously. i don't know if i'd feel the same about the comic, now, but i probably would. it certainly isn't "literature" like many people have argued.

but i was entertained and got my nine bucks worth, so overall i guess i liked it. i just felt kind of empty leaving the theater.

Come on zaph after three hours of your life, how can you feel emptier than when you walked in?

awesome movie. did the book justice, even without the squid. big ups for giant blue penis!

It was ok. I am not a huge fan of the comic book. I am sure the comic was pretty amazing at the time, like 20 + years ago. 5 people walked out during the movie. Not as action packed as most casual people would expect from a comic book movie I guess.

Better than most other superhero flicks though IMO. Also there was a lot of blue penzorz.

beyond 'squid' there are some very satisfying elements from the comic book and it would be sad if they removed those.

  Awepittance said:

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does it show Rorschach die or his journal getting into the hands of the conservative paper?

 

beyond 'squid' there are some very satisfying elements from the comic book and it would be sad if they removed those.

  beatfanatic said:

  Awepittance said:

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does it show Rorschach die or his journal getting into the hands of the conservative paper?

 

beyond 'squid' there are some very satisfying elements from the comic book and it would be sad if they removed those.

 

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Yes

cool!

saw it. liked it. pretty faithful to the book if I can recall but it's been years since I've read it.

I just read the whole graphic novel now. Suprisingly faithful adaptation, then. I'd even venture as far as to say the movie's ending is better...

as is my speciality, i have not read the thread. i scanned over the first post, but i'm here because the thread title is WATCHMEN and i just saw it.

a friend suggested we go see it, and i said hay there were like three threads on WATMM about that, what's it about. reply, "it's the latest superhero movie." i take this to mean the hulk, iron man, nick fury, THAT line of superhero movies.

going in expecting that... man did my hed get skullfucked. it helped we snuck some booze in, the drawback being i got up to pee because of the low-action beginning, and i returned to find i'd missed the start of ass-whoopin'. piss.

LIKED THE MOVIE

  Luke Fucking Hazard said:

LIKED THE MOVIE

  Solo Strike said:

Snyder fought a lot with the studios to get it to about 2hrs 40.

The studios should have fought back.

I read an article on aintitcoolnews that said the dvd version will have the cthonic psychic octogiant ending version.....

needed more Ozymandias, and a different actor....

Rorschach was perfect....

Silk Spectre, UHHHHH!

I hope Dreiberg cleaned up Archie after that wonderful scene....

And I hope all the kiddies that the babysitterless parents took to the film enjoyed big blue wangs, amputated arms, children-eating dogs, axe chops to a head, and as I mentioned above, soft-core porn....

I was quite impressed by how shit it wasn't and wasn't too distracted by when it was shit.

It think the area where you lost the most in the compression of the storyline from book to film was in the back stories of each character. I felt that at certain times the uninitiated audience wouldn't really understand why a character would feel so strongly towards certain things.

The film suffers in comparison to the graphic novel but if it wasn't an adaptation people would be remarking on how ambitious and complex it was. In comparison to the graphic novel though, it just seems like "Alan Moore For Dummies."

B+

i found the movie to be very boring and incredibly disappointing. at first i didn't think dr. manhatten's penis would be all that distracting, but it just took the focus off of every scene he was in, and i just couldn't take the movie seriously. it had so many problems, also it didn't help that the people who were sitting next to me were tripping out on drugs...i think they were on ghb or something

lol

Saw it last night, fantastic adaptation. Besides taking out all the backstory in huge chunks.

Great performances from the actors, esp. Manhattan and Rorschach*.

Everything else has already been said.

All I can think at the moment is that I want to go watch it again. I may hop up to the theater again today for a matinee.

the music was really jarring. yeah it was referenced in the comic but in the film it felt wrong. i'm never keen on "songs" in films but it can work if they arent so well known already (donnie darkos 80's soundtrack was alot unknown to me, maybe bob dylan and hendrix is unknow to some kids).

the sex scene was cringeworthy. horrrible. very unsexy and again the music was wrong. it was so out of place and...ugh

overall i thought the rest of the film wasnt bad. they got some stuff spot on but the problem with the watchmen comics still remains in the movie. in fact more so. the story is crap. the movie cuts out alot of it so it barely makes sense. the characters are great, the story leaves me cold.

looks like the opening weekend box office is already underwhelming, for the studio at least. i'd say this will end up being a niche film like it always should have been. basically the public who hasn't read this book could care less, stuff doesn't blow up real good like in the Batman movies, and it's rated R, so most intelligent parents won't bring the younguns to see giant blue dick and ass grinding.

  Rubin Farr said:

looks like the opening weekend box office is already underwhelming, for the studio at least. i'd say this will end up being a niche film like it always should have been. basically the public who hasn't read this book could care less, stuff doesn't blow up real good like in the Batman movies, and it's rated R, so most intelligent parents won't bring the younguns to see giant blue dick and ass grinding.

Cool. If it's a box office flop, then all the elitist twats on the internet can allow themselves to like it.

  autopilot said:

  Rubin Farr said:

looks like the opening weekend box office is already underwhelming, for the studio at least. i'd say this will end up being a niche film like it always should have been. basically the public who hasn't read this book could care less, stuff doesn't blow up real good like in the Batman movies, and it's rated R, so most intelligent parents won't bring the younguns to see giant blue dick and ass grinding.

 

Cool. If it's a box office flop, then all the elitist twats on the internet can allow themselves to like it.

AS AN ELITIST-ELITIST TWAT, I REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH ALL THE ELITIST TWATS, AND THEREFORE I DO NOT LIKE THE FILM.