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saw it last night.. saw terry crews, olivia munn, the singer from the counting crows, sound director of the movie, and some of the people who were in the movie.
IMO this movie > TDK
it started around 730 and finished up at 10. got free popcorn and soda.. wished they could have gave out watchmen pins or any freebies besides that
^^^oh my god it's full of win
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Running time: 2hr 46min :)
Friday isn't coming fast enough for me.}:|
Yeah this flick is going to be pretty long....which is great because I love long epic films. I heard the first hour alone will be the introductions of the characters and their background. I cant wait for this.
first hour did the 6 chapters. IIRC
damn, if olivia munn was there, i probably wouldnt watch the movie. lol
I Tried To See It Earlier Today During The Afternoon They Were Sold Out So I Think I'm A Try Next Week
Just came back from watching it. Great movie but I did feel a bit underwhelmed. It was mostly small things that I didn't like about the film but I will be seeing this a couple more times to really get a better feel for it.
I think its going to be one of those movies you have to watch a few times to gain an appreciation for it.
this movie is fucking flames. 10/10. this shits on the new batman to me.
like really really good.
thouroughly enjoyed it...8/10
A masterpiece. 9.3/10
I loved it from beginning to the end. Roshaq (I think that how his name is spelled) was off the chain. I'll see it next Friday.:)
yeah, i'm going to see it again; rorshach was of course the highlight and captured the essence of the character, nite owl came across well also. manhattan's voice was kind of off-putting to me, i thought the calm monotone was fine, his voice was just too soft and slow to me. also, the fight scenes were too exaggerated, particularly when dan and laura faught the punks in the alleyway, and when they confronted ozymandias. using manhattan instead of the squid (though the s.q.u.i.d was a nice nod to it) is kind of dubious to me, i don't know that i buy that the world would be shocked into submission like that by manhattan, because he is a known quantity. a faux alien squid sending out a telepathic shockwave is so outside of human reality that it would legitimately be more shocking.
but those are minor complaints, there was much more about it that was absolutely brilliant; the opening credits was the best title sequence i think i've ever seen in a movie. and rorshach was awesome, that can't be overstated. and if it causes more people to read the novel then it's more than done it's job.
9/10
Average. The story is good, but do they really need to explain EVERYTHING 3-5 times. For a movie this long, it needed more action, less talk. The opening was deep (how they relate to main events in american history). The ending could've been better.
^^^i agree the ending seems rushed, the sequence of events from them busting rorschach out to the end of the film was too quick, what did you feel was overexplained?
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i liked his voice as is. he is so badass and he is so non human on another level a calm monotone voice devoid of emotion and or any need to sound threatening was spot on, to me.
i liked them using the doc as the thing that brought them all together. bringing the squid in would have been too out of left field for people that had'nt read the book. and it allows the doc to escape to do his own shit because he clearly is over earth. plus with as long as the movie already was if they put the squid in i think it would have been even longer. the movie was about at its cut off for length. anything more would have really been to much.
i agree with this review except for the fight scenes which i loved, for their ridiculousness....and though i think in terms of style the movie was brilliant...i got the feeling in my head that maybe Moore was right about not being able to film a watchmen movie....ill elaborate more later.Quote:
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The fight scenes were a bit over the top. It was mainly the prison riot fight scene that I didn't like. Manhattans voice was good but like vay727 said, his voice was a bit too soft at times.
I can't believe I went and paid to see this movie.. I don't know what you guys seen in it. Way dissapointed. Only thing that wasn't a total flop was rorshach. I couldn't wait to get out of this show. That manhattan termit line was funny. To much penis shots not enough titty shots. The entertainment for me was to few and far in between. I think my IQ dropped after seeing this movie. I would rather watch a wall for 3 hours then see this again. I can't wait till May, good movies coming out then.
yeah, i think the average person watching the ads for this movie would be disappointed. they market it as an action movie, when the story is all about character development and interaction.
so i have been expecting the internet haters to really pick it apart and hate it. (they're haters behind a keyboard, thats what they do.)
im not sure what you meant about your comment..
i give props where its due, maybe i didn't appreciate the movie because I didn't follow the watchmen book or what not. But this is my opinion internet or not id say the same thing about it.
i never even heard of the book until the movie was about to come out. so i dont think it really has any bearing. you are honestly the first person ive seen that has had that opinion.
it wasnt a straight out action movie. if thats all you were looking for you would be disappointed.
ya i guess i expected like a cross between xmen and 300 movie,
i love the xmen movies so i guess i thought it was going to go in that direction.
I've read some of the movie critic reviews and their all not that impressed with it either.
I was trying to find a reliable torrent to download before i saw it but i couldn't
^^^ebert gave it 4 stars/4, and he's about the most reliable critic i know of, at least in my opinion
dusk, my issue with the fights, specifically the fight scene in the alley and in the jail, was that they were fighting like kung-fu superheroes, like they smiled at each other before fighting, in the book they were nervous, plus laurie stabbed dude in the neck, they didn't kill anybody. i did think the fight at the beggining juxtaposed with 'unforgettable' was genius though.
i thought it was weird that silk spectre didn't smoke, since she smokes in almost all her scenes in the novel, and the story does lose something without all the side characters and nuances like the kid reading the comic and the newsman, the psychiatrist coming home to his wife, and the main area where i felt they dropped the ball was not giving ozymndias a proper flashback, where it shows him travelling the world, eating hash and all that.
none of alan moore's work (Except for maybe the work for hire Image stuff he did on spawn and wildc.a.t.s) is really filmable. he utilizes the capabilities of comics/prose to their fullest extent, so his main works can never be fully adapted to another medium.
funny u said this, because i happen to think this movie went way the fuck over peoples heads..in terms of historical references and the allegorical nature of the story....especially those who havent read the gfc novel..so if ur IQ is low...that might be y you think:Quote:
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To much penis shots not enough titty shots.
lmao.
ya i agree with this stuff too^^ cept i think V for Vendetta could have been done just right.Quote:
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i was going to say something like this, but the way i was writing it made me seem like a dick. so im glad someone said it with some eloquence.Quote:
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the parts you are describing are ones i really appreciated. especially being a fan of history in general. i think it was honestly beautifully done over all. not just how visually appealing it was, but also just the story and over all message i got from the movie.
wow..
I must be stupid then if i don't share your opinions on this movie dusk. thanks for enlightening me.
I understood the story line and the historic referrences, It just took way to long to explain it and there was alot in this movie i thought that didn't need to be there.
anyone can copy movie critic reviews that compare to their own beliefs:
http://www.screenjabber.com/node/1303
I think it's funny i get bashed because I don't agree with you guys,
I thought you were more mature than that Dusk, go figure..
sticks and stones buddy
i saw this weeks ago online but we saw it at the drive in on sat.
i loved it my son hated it.
here you can pick apart every second.
neg rep me.... no really NEG REP ME
pt 1
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.ph...42a667959c1223
pt 2
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.ph...d31c73bb2fedd4
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how old is your son?
why do you think that was?
a little bit of what we were just talking about? too long, expected more action, he didnt get the references?
he's 6
he wanted another iron man.
he thought it would have more superheroish moments but he liked dark night which had just as many as watchmen maybe less.
ebert doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about
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i think batman had a lot more action. it was more straight forward to.
just depends on what people appreciate i guess.
i wasnt bashing you, and i wasnt necessarily refering to you. THrough most of it i was joking. Your not stupid because u didnt like the movie, relax.^O^Quote:
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i think a 6 year old watching this movie, is like a blind man watching a porno
word. if you dont even know who president nixon was and all that went on around that time (dont front and say any 6 year olds really do) than you cant really appreciate half the stuff going on.
how did he react to the sex scenes?
I liked how they added Nixon and parts of US (world) history to the movie. Especially the budda monk burnings. From the earlier scenes I thought that maybe the watchmen were villains playing heroes.
my boy covers his eyes during kissing scenes. smh.
a lot of the plot points are irrelevant to the story.
the plot is this:
who killled the comedian? superteam unravels the mystery.
now you can examine the layers of plot to add depth to that plot but it doesn't take much to understand.
look at starwars...you can discuss jedi religion, subterfuge of palpatine, the unethical treatment of the skywalker bloodline by the jedi council, the friendship of anakin and obiwan.
but are those things necessary to enjoy the movie?
not really.
the old teams feelings about comedian.
dr & silks drifitng relationship
nightowl & rorshach trying to see eye to eye again
the idea of outtlawing heros.
dealing with inadequacy and being outtdated
dr m's struggle with his loss of humanity
alternate timeline of world events.,
all just icing on a mystery movie.
i loved the movie.
i thought they did a greatt job of not having to read the GN to understand the flick. which is what you want to do when making a comic adaptation.
yea they technically didnt need to add the historical references, but then again that is what i feel really made it a better movie. it was deep and layered as you said. if was too simple its just another mindless movies like most everything else out there.
i think thats what it made it better than batman, for me. batman was a cool ass movie, but it was just another superhero movie (just happend to be way better than most). watchmen brought something more to the table.