Superhero Filmmakers: Where's Our Watchmen?

ugh, that's bad news then. (I never saw 300.)
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looking forward to lots of slo mo pomo convo imo

they should slow it down so much it just becomes a series of still images

Making Watchmen into eye-candy sfxtravaganza is pretty fundamental point-missing.

they should slow it down so much it just becomes a series of still images

24 Hour Psycho

I can only think of handful of proper superheroic action scenes...

To be fair, most action movies only have three to five big setpieces.

I look forward to you all telling me how horrible this was

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.

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.

so uh
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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.

Thank you, Comic Book Morbius

yr welcome. the difference between me and Morbius is that I am occasionally right about things

narcissism of infinitesimal differences

really Shakey, love all things and people, like Dan and Francis of Assissi.

haha Morbz why are you readin this thread (you know I luve ya!)

luve? lurv? luv

"I know" - Han Solo

I reserved Watchmen at the library!

Much background on actual superhero comics?

I mean, DO YOU HAVE much backetc.

I read Batmang as 11-year-old

Comic Book Morbius predicts you will not like it

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.

doesnt it have some Nixon as President for Life thing?

the last graphic novel I read was Fun Home.

its a comic book about comic books.

Nixon doesn't do much, but he is played for a couple minor laughs

Fun Home is a lot better than Watchmen.

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.

points to Morbz if he can spot the gay characters

well, batman and other superheros (the punisher, for ex), as watchmen & miller's dark knight came out around the same time

like there are str8 superheroes!

xp

I reserved Watchmen at the library!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:20 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

good to see you find something else to do besides showering in the bathroom sink and changing your plastic bag shoes

its a comic book about comic books.

― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:33 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This isn't entirely accurate. It's also a comic about individually wrapped sugar cubes.

it is a comic about the glum zinger in the penultimate panel on every other page.

It's a comic about lesbians buying porn.

it's about an alternate reality in which people really do smoke tobacco out of crack pipes.

its about things that are owl-shaped

It's about the button holding down your right epaulet coming undone.

It's about a giant fake space vagina.

blue cock

, seven long feet of

lol basically that filming technique is the entire point of "300"

which is why that movie is a borderline-unwatchable piece of shit.

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― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

morbius's cranky opinions are at least entertaining sometimes

speaking of disagreeableness, here's this shit sandwich.

One wishes that writer, Moore, could have used his considerable talents to produce uplift as opposed to depression, to reach for the sublime instead of the prosaic, to inspire by taking the high road instead of the low. But, unfortunately, with the influence of the political view from the left upon him all he could do was take the low road. If all one can do is see the worst in man, claim nothing is ever worth the effort, and that western ideas have destroyed any vestige of light in man then you are doomed to stay on that low road. So, we end up with despair and darkness in our art, too many artists having taken the low road.

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good segue!

i have to admit i'm impressed at the way they've constructed the world of watchmen

It's likely to be the best achievement of this endeavor.