blue cock
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
, seven long feet of
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
lol basically that filming technique is the entire point of "300"
which is why that movie is a borderline-unwatchable piece of shit.
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:08 (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, February 18, 2009 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
morbius's cranky opinions are at least entertaining sometimes
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
speaking of disagreeableness, here's this shit sandwich.
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thenewfrontiersman.net/
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
good segue!
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i have to admit i'm impressed at the way they've constructed the world of watchmen
― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
It's likely to be the best achievement of this endeavor.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Careful, you'll get tagged as Shakey Morbius III.
― WmC, Thursday, 19 February 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
best part of the shit sandwich (of the part i managed to read):
Why do contemporary artists all seem to think the end of the world is nigh? Why has art become a thing of ugliness, instead of light? With all the beautiful things we see every day, the delicacy of a flower, the turn of a woman's arm, the grace of a bird in flight, we are treated only to the bizarre and horrid by our artists. These days we see sculptures that look like molecular mistakes writ large. We live in architecture with the image of a jumble of blocks thrown to the ground in the midst of a temper tantrum by a gigantic, petulant child. We view paintings that appear more accidental than planned. We have movies full of violence and anti-social behavior. On the radio we hear music that celebrates all the worst in man. We even have comic books that belittle heroism, that deconstruct the good and exceptional turning their heroes as cartoonishly flawed as the most obscene head case on the Jerry Springer Show.When did entertainment turn so dark?
When did entertainment turn so dark?
i dunno, five or six hundred years ago?
― contenderizer, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
who is the idiot that cast veidt? this guy is so not right at all
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously. they needed a young robert redford type, and they cast a pasty english dude affecting a german accent.
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
wilson as dreiberg/nite owl is good casting tho
― Father Time has always been our most reliable film critic (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
agreed on the veidt casting. maybe he'll pull it off over the long haul...
― contenderizer, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
OTOH, casting overall seems pretty okay. kelly leak as rorschach!
― contenderizer, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 February 2009 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"... given the necessary compromises"
― contenderizer, Thursday, 19 February 2009 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
He doesn't bother me that much. Moore & Gibbons had always indicated in the annotations/notes that Veidt was more or less a "Sting" type.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 19 February 2009 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, what a shocka that is
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
I've always sorta seen V and Watchmen as companion pieces: V is all about "taking the high road", the possibility of change in society, whereas Watchmen is the cynical work, "the more things change the more they stay the same". It's notable though that both series have an open ending, we don't know what happens after the cataclysmic events in their finales, so V is not totally idealist and Watchmen is not totally pessimist.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 February 2009 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Graphically, it isn't very well drafted. It does have the benefit of being created in the semi-realist style that began to be popular in the 1980s though. which instantly makes it better than today's comics drawn in that horrible Japanese Anime/Manga style that has so pervaded the comic book industry of late. Thankfully, Watchmen's was not yet an era infected by this regrettable, current trend in US comic art.
OK, this person has never actually looked at Watchmen or any other comic book.
― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a link to a sodding 22 page long book-by-book critique by the same guy at the bottom of that article.
― chap, Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
He had me at "why can't art just be PRETTY?"
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"the turn of a woman's arm"
I like how he hated Watchmen enough to write a thesis-length essay on what's bad about it.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
fyi lame-o watchmen the movie has a cuet girl in it
― harry s tfuman (and what), Thursday, 19 February 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Veidt is not an effeminite euro-pansy. He's supposed to be a liberal/humanist ideal - in perfect shape, a macho sex symbol, an enlightened lefty, etc.
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
AKA STING
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you guys are confusing Veidt with John Constantine.
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Sting is the gift that keeps on giving.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I still think I am the only one in the world who will like this movie (and admit to it).
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Girl is hott, guy looks like a schnook, should be worthwhile.
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I've never seen/heard this anywhere and am questioning the accuracy of this statement duh
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
It's so golden I WANT to believe it.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
At one point I thought Carry Elwes might be a good Viedt, but I've just googled what he looks like now, and hmmm, no.
― chap, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/files/2007/12/8864_0027.jpg
"I engineered a monster, cloned its brain from a human psychic, sent it to New York and killed half the city."
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Moore created John Constantine with notes to Rick Vietch (I think) to make him look like Sting. Never heard that about Ozzy.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.sting.com/bin/galImg/siteFiles/4805753713.jpg
"Sure, I'll sign off on those action figures."
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/1784_4_1.jpg
http://www.backissuecomics.co.uk/store/images/DC/DC577A-I-2.jpg
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Bissette/Totleben did the og character design
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, they were all working Swamp Thing around the same time. Couldn't remember who exactly did what.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
He was supposed to be an effeminate euro-pansy, cf Rorschach's "don't trust Veidt, maybe he's gay?" musing.
Also I'm not sure you actually saw what he looked like in his costume in the comic book if your first thought on him is "oh, macho sex symbol!"
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm referring to the way he functions within the world of Watchmen - with action figures modelled on himself, women swooning over him, peddling sexually charged products based on himself, etc.
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
duh of course he looks gay in his costume. as Morbz accurately points out all superheroes look pretty gay.
Rorschach thinks everyone is a homo/deviant/communist lolz at deferring to his vp for accuracy
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
> Also I'm not sure you actually saw what he looked like in his costume in the comic book if your first thought on him is "oh, macho sex symbol!"
As The Monarch said of Phantom Limb, he wears a lot of purple for a white guy.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Women threw themselves at Simon LeBon, does that make him a macho sex symbol?
Women continue to throw themselves at Prince, does that make him a macho sex symbol?
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yes and yes
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link