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Watchmen
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mAdMaLuDaWg
Platinum Member
Saw it via RedBox yesterday and it was BORING as hell.
Did have some nice effects here and there, but thats it.
Did have some nice effects here and there, but thats it.
Loved it. Definitely going to buy it.
KT
KT
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SlitheryDee
I liked it.
Don't think too hard about it. It's not really a very deep or complicated movie at its core. Cool fight scenes and characters that you can never quite pin down as being good or evil make it an interesting experience.
Don't think too hard about it. It's not really a very deep or complicated movie at its core. Cool fight scenes and characters that you can never quite pin down as being good or evil make it an interesting experience.
Dr. Detroit
Diamond Member
Just got done watching it.
Never read the graphic novel, never really been into comic books.
Did not particularly enjoy it but found merit in the amazing special effects that appeared extremely polished. Great sound-track too.
My issues: too many sotry-lines, too long, and I did not particalularly care about the characters.
Rorschach's charcter was complelling and interesting the rest I just could care less about.
I vivdly remember the end of the cold war and woke up in fear as a child after watching The Day After Tomorrow so I get the whole "period" early 80's nuclear holocaust throughts.
Just blah - and with all the charcters dead - I guess I will never have to see a sequel of this!
Never read the graphic novel, never really been into comic books.
Did not particularly enjoy it but found merit in the amazing special effects that appeared extremely polished. Great sound-track too.
My issues: too many sotry-lines, too long, and I did not particalularly care about the characters.
Rorschach's charcter was complelling and interesting the rest I just could care less about.
I vivdly remember the end of the cold war and woke up in fear as a child after watching The Day After Tomorrow so I get the whole "period" early 80's nuclear holocaust throughts.
Just blah - and with all the charcters dead - I guess I will never have to see a sequel of this!
Born2bwire
Diamond Member
Yeah, I thought it was pretty damn good. There were some things that just didn't fit in, like the sex scene in the middle, was a bit overdone (but then what isn't in this movie?). I really loved the opening credits though.
Cdubneeddeal
Diamond Member
Decent movie but I was hoping it would have had more action to it. To me action movies of comic character types needs to have more special effect type of stuff.
AccruedExpenditure
Diamond Member
Decent movie, but definitely over hyped going into it. Sans hype I think I could have enjoyed it a bit more
jjzelinski
Diamond Member
Finally got around to seeing it after having watched the animated graphic novel a few months ago. I was worried based on all the flak this movie got so I was pleasantly surprised. I found it very faithful to the original material, and it worked extremely well 🙂
HaxorNubcake
Golden Member
was enjoyable enough to me. wasn't difficult to follow at all...
Don Vito Corleone
Elite
I saw it in a theater and really really liked it. I am waiting on delivery of the Director's Cut on blu ray.
FuzzyDunlop
Diamond Member
Can you explain? I never took philosophy at university, so i need some explanation from you.
With Rorschach's (sp?) character he views everything as either black or white - there is no grey. I believe this is what Iateyourmom is talking about with absolutes.
As for my opinion - if anyone cares - i thought the movie was very interesting. I have never enjoyed superhero movies before, but I found this one interesting, though it be slow, long, and 'drivel' as Mo0o stated.
The graphics are incredible. I can understand how the story line may be a little difficult to follow if you are not paying attention to the dialogue or to the characters outfits, etc - the movie is not for the lazy viewer.
I constantly found myself relating to the characters. If I was Rorschach would have I killed that guy, or I know exactly how Mr Manhattan feels in this scene. etc.
My favorite scene: when the atom bomb goes off in the desert. That was some incredible CGI and sound editing. I played it over and over and over again.
This movie is my new favorite (along with Baraka) for showing off Blu-Ray on my 50" Samsung 850. Booya.
jonks
Lifer
So the movie happened in "perfect chronological order" except for the frequent extended flashback sequences which disturbed that order, i.e. the OPs complaint about the timeline.
conclusion: guyver is not a smart man
One might ask you, did YOU see the movie? Dr. Manhattan's POV jumped back and forth in time (as it did in the graphic novel) to illustrate how he experienced existence, namely, all things at occurring at once with time as a constant.
Aikouka
Lifer
*SPOILERS BELOW*
I thought the movie was good overall, but compared to the comic, I think they watered down a few characters, which removed some of their "coolness." I think Dr. Manhattan got hit by this the most as in the comic, he's directly relating everything to that one event (when he was killed in the machine)... in other words, he's speaking about causality, but this isn't very clear in the movie. One of the biggest reasons is because they changed why Dr. Manhattan went back into the machine and that's because they changed the scene before it. They also changed Janey's relationship with him a bit to make it fit.
I also thought that Silk Spectre II was made out to be a bit blonde. This is mostly from her scene in the basement of Nite Owl II's house with Archie and how she lit the basement on fire. The reason... the studio didn't want to show a superhero(ine) smoking. I donno, I just thought to myself, "Why the fuck would you press a button with a big fire on it" as in the comic she was looking for the cigarette lighter 😛.
Rorschach didn't kill that pedophile/murderer directly in the comic though, which annoyed me. The thing about Rorschach is that he isn't really a cold-blooded killer. In the comic, he "pulled a Saw" and cuffed the pedo to his house and then set it on fire. He gave the guy a saw and gave him a choice to free himself or die. You see Rorschach walking away and the guy screaming as the building burns.
I thought the movie was good overall, but compared to the comic, I think they watered down a few characters, which removed some of their "coolness." I think Dr. Manhattan got hit by this the most as in the comic, he's directly relating everything to that one event (when he was killed in the machine)... in other words, he's speaking about causality, but this isn't very clear in the movie. One of the biggest reasons is because they changed why Dr. Manhattan went back into the machine and that's because they changed the scene before it. They also changed Janey's relationship with him a bit to make it fit.
I also thought that Silk Spectre II was made out to be a bit blonde. This is mostly from her scene in the basement of Nite Owl II's house with Archie and how she lit the basement on fire. The reason... the studio didn't want to show a superhero(ine) smoking. I donno, I just thought to myself, "Why the fuck would you press a button with a big fire on it" as in the comic she was looking for the cigarette lighter 😛.
Rorschach didn't kill that pedophile/murderer directly in the comic though, which annoyed me. The thing about Rorschach is that he isn't really a cold-blooded killer. In the comic, he "pulled a Saw" and cuffed the pedo to his house and then set it on fire. He gave the guy a saw and gave him a choice to free himself or die. You see Rorschach walking away and the guy screaming as the building burns.
Electric Amish
Elite Member
It is a long and intricate movie. I've seen it once and need to watch it again.
It's not a pretty story and deeper than the usual good-guy/bad-guy "comic book" movie.
It's not a pretty story and deeper than the usual good-guy/bad-guy "comic book" movie.
FuzzyDunlop
Diamond Member
That woulda been better. That changes his character in a major way. Would have been even more easily to be related with. I wonder why they did that.
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