Hahaha! I OWN one (1) run of miracleman! No, I'm not selling it.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Snap: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/film-review-watchmen-1003945726.story
― caek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"When one superhero has to take a Zen break, he does so on Mars. Of course he does."
sums up reviewer's BAD ATTITUDE imo
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
We pick up the relationships quickly enough, but soon realize these backstories owe more to soap operas than to superhero comics.
Haha, he hasn't read many superhero comics, has he?
― chap, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
get used to these reviews, i fear
― caek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
variety less negative: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939777.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
― caek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
To be fair though, if you can only understand the film in the context of having read a lot of superhero comics, it's probably not a very good film.
― chap, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
no kidding
― caek, Thursday, 26 February 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The thing is, these aren't so much superheroes as ordinary human beings with, let us say, comic-book martial arts prowess.
YOU MEAN LIKE BATMANG FOR CRISSAKES?
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
The thing is, these aren't so much superheroes as ordinary human beings with, let us say, comic-book martial arts prowess. OH YEAH, AND ONE OF EM IS GOD.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
okay that first review is lolleriffic
I would be more concerned about its negative tone had several easily-verified facts been correct.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
there was a bit of a The Dark Knight backlash wasn't there - despite it's monstrous commercial success. Watchmen will probably get more hate and it certainly won't make as much money. maybe not as good a film either (wasn't really interested in The Dark Knight based on trailers and what i heard, for some reason).
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
> If you're not already invested in these characters because of the original graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, nothing this movie does is likely to change that predicament.
To be fair, this is about what I figured for any Watchmen movie.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3308945971_1be5ba3b1f.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I was talking about Sin City with my drummer the other day - we both agreed that, like 300, as a film adaptation of Miller's work its very true, and strikingly faithful. The problem is the source material is a bunch of beautifully executed crap. A quarter of the way through Sin City (after the shock of how well Miller's style had been translated to screen wore off) I remembered why I stopped reading Miller's comics sometime in the mid-90s: they suck.
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3308946249_d0800ae971.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
nice to see that David Hyde Pierce hasn't been typecast after Frasier.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
loving the fake veidt ads
― sippin margaritas on the beach in my adidas (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/17-03/ff_moore_qa?currentPage=all
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing is that with the comics medium, it has been proven—I believe by Pentagon tests in the late '80s—that comics are actually the best medium for imparting information to somebody in a form that they will retain and remember. That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon.
― They don’t understand. And I eat a lot of matzo brie. (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The Alan Moore/Jack Chick collaboration really needs to happen.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I was talking about Sin City with my drummer the other day
picturing this as Shakey having a drummer who follows him around everywhere
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ai.mit.edu/lab/olympics/04/images/muppets-animal.jpg
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
He said Frank Miller was a sucker.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/images/teddydrummer.gif
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
fwiw the geek press seems to like it
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/watchmen/
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"They're being bought in many cases by hopeless nostalgics or, putting the worst construction on it, perhaps cases of arrested development who are not prepared to let their childhoods go, no matter how trite the adventures of their various heroes and idols."
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
arrrrrrrrrrgh. I'd like to share with whoever wrote that quote one of the important pieces of life wisdom I've learned from comics:
Any conflict can be resolved with a punch to the jaw.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you SURE about wanting to share that, Oilyrags?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"arrrrrrrrrrgh. I'd like to share with whoever wrote that quote one of the important pieces of life wisdom I've learned from comics:"
Alan Moore's a twig. I'm sure you can take him.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha! Also: checking sources is for sissies.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
lets not forget that watchmen is leftist propaganda (the first bad review I read here)
― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://funkysouls.com/img/50_Cent_-_Guess_Whos.jpg
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
oilyrags is chris brown
― bobby dijindal (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"The real disappointment is that the film does not transport an audience to another world, as 300 did."
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The Veidt guy has an awfully weak chin for a superhero.
― 2nd-place ladyboy (Nicole), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The opening murder happens to a character called the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who was once a member of a now-banished team of superheroes called the Masks.
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
There is something a little lackadaisical here. The set pieces are surprisingly flat and the characters have little resonance. Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action.
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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cameo from jim carrey?
― bobby dijindal (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm just disappointed that it didn't transport me to another world. The world of this one a couple of thousand years ago, albeit one with giant dudes with claw hands and enormous transvestites.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
#80. GodsGOD comments:February 26, 2009How does it feel to be such a moron? Did your parents have any kids that lived? I'm sure they're thrilled about having a brain-dead, waste of space for a child. We should blame them for conceiving you. You aren't worth the skin you were printed on.
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
#49. kirksuxballs comments:February 26, 2009see username
― abominable spirit (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I let my Dad read the book. He liked it and said Rorshach was his favorite character. I told him that The Comedian was my favorite character and he said that The Comedian was too immoral. But then again, so is Rorschach right? And so is Veidt and I would say Dr. Manhattan as well. I'm seriously contemplating making a favorite character poll :p
I wonder what actor they got to play the midget dude during the jail scene.
― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I admit I lol'ed at this:Owen Gleiberman will certainly find some mincing way to pan this movie, if he gets the assignment, because it's not "Moulin Rouge" or "Priscilla Queen of the Desert".
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"He liked it and said Rorshach was his favorite character."
I'd worry about your dad.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Rorschach is the most overtly moral character in the story.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Captain Lorax, "Big Figure" is being played by this dude, Danny Woodburn:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/Danny%20Woodburn.jpg
― lolling through my bagel (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^are you fucking kidding me
there are no moral characters in the graphic novel
― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
FWIW, I think this film's gonna be huge regardless of how it's reviewed and even if it's good or not.patiently waiting
― Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 February 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link