Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

watchmen gore is pretty mild compared to any horror flick made within the last ten years

Oh joy.

They did something to the body to get to the lock, that was the whole point of killing him in the first place. grr where's my copy of the book

don't have a copy to hand, but yeah they had to saw his hands off- no point in cutting his throat, was there?

I sense a Comic-Con panel in the making.

not quite sure why violent action in movies has to be 'realistic' - and "gore/violence purely as entertainment" (as opposed to "impurely as moral lecture on the evils of ass-kicking"??) is common to 95% of all Hollywood movies.

well yes, of course. But there is no need for bullet-time close-ups. That's certainly not the norm in action movies.

well it wasn't when i used to watch them, Steven Seagall would break a nose or break a shin but it did it in full speed and didn't linger over the details for titillation.

what is there a 'need' for in action movies?

now you can't slo mo kick a head in the street

I'm thinking of the slo-mo inside-the-body shots in Three Kings.

or CSI every week

for them to be exciting? which this wasn't.

Don't get me started on CSI. Fucking murder-porn.

murder is certainly a major part of the series, yes.

Can we please, please, please stop adding the "-porn" suffix to fucking everything?

agatha christie = murder-erotica

CSI: Bunco Squad would be a pretty dull show tbh

CSI: Mail Fraud

Canporn weporn pleaseporn, pleaseporn, pleaseporn stopporn addingporn theporn "-pornporn" suffixporn toporn fuckingporn everythingporn?

... yes, that is unwieldy

Although I might watch CSI: Vaguely Threatening Phone Calls

Where is Vaguely Threatening Phone Calls? Montana?

"fucking everything" makes for variable porn.

CSI: Motor Tax Offences

tho i'd probably borrow an episode of CSI: Thread Police just to check it out.

Where is Vaguely Threatening Phone Calls? Montana?

No, they're INSIDE THE HOUSE.

My anti "-porn" tirade wasn't really aimed at ILX in particular, just the proliferation of lazy bloggers/journalists lately that want to tap into the "edginess" of porn without actually dealing with any of the baggage. I.e. "The camera lingered twenty seconds on the shiny chrome grill of the truck, must mean this movie is truck-porn".

in fairness, that movie was total truck-porn

I don't understand the point of this discussion about the violence in this movie. Would it have been better if Snyder had gone the Dark Knight route and packed a bunch of dark adult themes with off-camera bloodless brutality to get a PG-13? He could have taken out some ass 'n titties, removed a few of the gore scenes, and then the kiddies could have gone to the theater without their parents to see a movie where in one scene it is discovered that some guy has fed a little kid to a pack of dogs.

It's an adult movie based off of an adult book, which probably would have been a lot more violent had it not been written in the 80s. Saying the violence was done in a tacky way is fine, but some of the posters on this thread kind of sound like old ladies.

Apropos of nothing, when I saw it there was a father in front of me with two boys, looked to be about eight and ten years old. He was cool with the blood spray, but when Dan and Laurie had sex, he put his arm out so he could cover both kids' eyes.

lol yeah I've seen that kind of thing in theaters before. what an idiot.

btw, I wish I hadn't said "old ladies" up there... my grandma loves violent movies.

Finally saw it at the Imax, was sold out. Enjoyed it waaaayyy more than I was expecting, ok it's not at all faithful to the book in terms of style or tone but I realised I don't care, it's just a great comic book, not graphic novel, movie.

When psychiatrist dude's briefcase falls open just before the big explosion, the combination is 300.

Best Elanor Clift impersonation in a movie ever. Dude who played John McLaughlin coulda used more jowls. Pat Buchanan was uninspiring.

I'm hoping for an unrated DVD version with even more gratuitous violence and nudity. Seriously!

it's just a great comic book, not graphic novel, movie.

uh oh

I see that tonight is the final Imax showing in the Portland area. I'm so there.

I'm hoping for an unrated DVD version with even more gratuitous violence and nudity. Seriously!

― Nate Carson, Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:37 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the director's cut dvd is gonna be like 3+ hours long so i'm sure you'll get your wish

26 mins extra blue wang footage :(

slow mo wang

shlomo wang: torn between a chinese mother and a jewish father, he is a superhero for a new era

Well, if you wanted it:

Warner Bros. is giving Zack Snyder's director's cut of "Watchmen" a limited theatrical rollout one week before Comic-Con International in San Diego.

The cut, which will have an additional 25 minutes of footage including the death of a supporting character, will screen in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Dallas before the movie is released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 21.

The rollout will culminate with a special screening July 25 at Comic-Con that is designed to act as a BD-Live event, a Blu-ray feature that will allow any viewer in North America to watch the movie simultaneously as the audience at Comic-Con, see and hear Snyder comment on the movie, and even ask questions. The screening will then be archived and will be able to be accessed for future viewings.

"Comic-Con, it isn't just comic book fanatics, it's cinephiles as well. It'll be cool to discuss what people are thinking," Snyder said at a "Watchmen" press day, held Wednesday at Warner Bros., where the news was unveiled. The day was designed to showcase a bonus Blu-ray feature called Maximum Movie Mode as well as features to be seen in Snyder's Blu-ray release of "300: The Complete Experience."

"Warner Bros. is hoping to use the filmmakers of its movies to produce immersive home movie experiences."

"We're lucky to have filmmakers at Warners that believe in that," said Warners vp high-def market expansion Kris Brown.

The theatrical rerelease is unusual, as the movie is generally considered to be a bit of a boxoffice disappointment, with only $107.5 million grossed domestically. Critics were also divided about the movie, with some saying it was too slavish to the graphic novel's many devotees.

Snyder, however, stood by it. "I'm proud of the movie. It does everything I wanted it to," he said.

lol if it's coming to NY I may check it out.

Definitely going to see this.

Critics were also divided about the movie, with some saying it was too slavish to the graphic novel's many devotees.

uh

the death of the supporting character = Hollis?

has to be

Could be the Comedian.

But we saw everything but the splat with him.

new director's cut contains POV shot of statue going through his school

skull

what is wrong with me

sorry man, I know MJ's death got you rattled

read as new director's cut contains POV shot of statue going through his stool