not a large number, perhaps, but more than "several"
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The score is going to kill me if the slomo doesn't. Veidt's accent and overall frailty are a bit suspect, but damn if that isn't Dan Dreiberg standing there.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
World's First Movie Tie-in Coffee
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 05:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Made with real 100% Columbian Owl Pellets!
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.organiccoffee.com/Nite-Owl-Dark-Roast/M/B001O2KSZA.htm
Better this than a Taco Bell cup. I guess.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
oops, xp
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Click through on my last post to the other clips -- there's one of the Nite Owl/Silk Spectre fire rescue, and one of Nite Owl and Rohrshach talking.
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a coffee of a whole TV station!
― i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't Lynch have a coffee tie-in promotion for 'INLANDEMPIRE'? that one early scene almost felt like the movie was a made just to promote the coffee!
― Mr. Hal Jam, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
It's Rorschach who visits Veidt, not Dreiberg! I demand my money back!!
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Working Prof. Milton Glass into Veidt's dialogue was pretty nice though.
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't seen 300, does Snyder always use this much Matrix-style slow motion? Because it might look cool in an action movie but it looks silly in Watchmen.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
lol basically that filming technique is the entire point of "300"
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if Snyder has boosted the action quotient in the film to make it more appealing, because in the comic there isn't really that much action, is there? I can only think of handful of proper superheroic action scenes...
* Dan and Laurie fighting against gang members.* Rorschach trying to escape from the cops.* Dan and Laurie rescuing people from the apartment fire.* Rorschach escaping from prison.* The final confrontation with Veidt.
That's pretty much it, I think.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh, that's bad news then. (I never saw 300.)xpost
― WmC, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to lots of slo mo pomo convo imo
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
they should slow it down so much it just becomes a series of still images
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Making Watchmen into eye-candy sfxtravaganza is pretty fundamental point-missing.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
24 Hour Psycho
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I can only think of handful of proper superheroic action scenes...
To be fair, most action movies only have three to five big setpieces.
― chap, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I look forward to you all telling me how horrible this was
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
It is kind of amazing. The more I learn about this, the more I'm convinced it will be a big bowl of turds, yet I'm almost certainly going to watch it opening weekend anyway.
Did I say amazing? I meant pitiful.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree about the turds, but I'll give it a few days to let the crowds die down. Curious to see if the R rating is going to fuck up box office. The promo budget for this is so huge -- if anybody's contract relies on a back-end share of profits, having to recoup promo costs + creative bookkeeping = no "profit" in a million years.
― WmC, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
so uhhttp://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3459/likedrmanhattanspenisgeta9.jpg
― A B C, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
my prediction is that the combo of the book's rep + marketing overdrive will guarantee a good opening weekend and then word of mouth will set in and receipts will take a nosedive. Hardcore comic book fandom opinion will be split between those who are smart and those who thought 300 was awesome.
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you, Comic Book Morbius
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yr welcome. the difference between me and Morbius is that I am occasionally right about things
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
narcissism of infinitesimal differences
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
really Shakey, love all things and people, like Dan and Francis of Assissi.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
haha Morbz why are you readin this thread (you know I luve ya!)
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
luve? lurv? luv
"I know" - Han Solo
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I reserved Watchmen at the library!
Much background on actual superhero comics?
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, DO YOU HAVE much backetc.
I read Batmang as 11-year-old
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Comic Book Morbius predicts you will not like it
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I ask because a fair chunk of the pleasure (for big fat dweebs) in the original is in the twisting around of then-popular comics tropes. Some of that will probably shoot past you, but it shouldn't hurt your appreciation too badly. Knowing who batman is will be useful, though.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
doesnt it have some Nixon as President for Life thing?
the last graphic novel I read was Fun Home.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
its a comic book about comic books.
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Nixon doesn't do much, but he is played for a couple minor laughs
Fun Home is a lot better than Watchmen.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
also good to know in approaching watchmen that it was then popular (and sort of "shocking") to present batman as a borderline-psycho reactionary thug fighing his way through a human dungheap. still is, i guess. thank frank miller.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
points to Morbz if he can spot the gay characters
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
well, batman and other superheros (the punisher, for ex), as watchmen & miller's dark knight came out around the same time
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
like there are str8 superheroes!
xp
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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good to see you find something else to do besides showering in the bathroom sink and changing your plastic bag shoes
― harry s tfuman (and what), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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This isn't entirely accurate. It's also a comic about individually wrapped sugar cubes.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
it is a comic about the glum zinger in the penultimate panel on every other page.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a comic about lesbians buying porn.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link