WATCHMEN Movie Discussion (SPOILERS allowed)!

[Sick Boy 82]

Spoiler

70% of the movie includes giant blue wang. Seriously.

Bring your lady friends. lulz

 

[plasmid303]

It drives me crazy they didn't do that and drop the balloons, because it's the only thing stopping this from being a full-blooded Watchmen cartoon. So close!!!

Sometimes wishful thinking doesn't lead to good things. I would NOT want a Watchmen cartoon. The bastardization of Watchmen has to stop somewhere.

 

[plasmid303]

104 Ways to Ruin the Watchmen movie

Gizmodo ran a photoshop contest featuring the Watchmen movie. There were over 300 entries, they narrowed it down to the best 104.

Here are the winners (Top 6) below. Check out the gallery over at Gizmodo to see the rest.

First Place -

Second Place -

Third Place -

Fourth Place -

Fifth Place -

Sixth Place -

 

[galactiboy]

Those are hilarious

 

[Darth Waller]

Sixth place should be first place. It's hard to find anything worse than Jar Jar.

 

[galactiboy]

I personally like Dr. Manhattan in a Snuggy

 

[SweeneyTodd]

OHHHH MANNN!
Thank you for posting those!
They were hilarious!

 

[Bannister]

I think the King throwing Ronald out the window is the best.

 

[tomandshell]

Home Alone with Rorshach was my favorite.

I watched the Prison Break scene from the movie via BD-Live on the Blu-ray, and I was left wondering why Rorschach was in prison in his costume...

 

[SweeneyTodd]

I don't know, I liked the Indiana Jones
and Mushroom Cloud one. He's just kinda
there wandering around.

If anyone hasn't checked out the full gallery,
(to quote Arnold from Predator)
"DEW IT NOWWW!"

 

[barbelith]

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29512171/

“If you have never read “Watchmen,” I can’t imagine that these troubled mopes running around in superhero costumes on the big screen will be of much interest. And if you have read “Watchmen,” get ready to cringe. A lot.”

 

[FQRizzo]

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29512171/

“If you have never read “Watchmen,” I can’t imagine that these troubled mopes running around in superhero costumes on the big screen will be of much interest. And if you have read “Watchmen,” get ready to cringe. A lot.”

Does MSNBC's movie reviewer like anything?

 

[The Mike]

given the fact that I read the 12-issue miniseries in its original run before writing my college senior thesis on it, I admit that my expectations were as high as anyone else’s.

So now that there’s a “Watchmen” movie, it’s disappointing to report that there was probably never a good way to make a “Watchmen” movie.

That seals it right there. He is a diehard. Diehards will always knitpick and make sure to find errors and things wrong with beloved materals, tis their nature.

 

[Bannister]

Does MSNBC's movie reviewer like anything?

Maybe they like writing negative reviews.

 

[FQRizzo]

Maybe they like writing negative reviews.

They're never happy. If The Godfather came out today, they would say the movie sucks because you can see the marbles in Brando's mouth.

 

[Darth Waller]

Does ANY movie reviewer like anything?

Fixed.

 

[barbelith]

That seals it right there. He is a diehard. Diehards will always knitpick and make sure to find errors and things wrong with beloved materals, tis their nature.

Half of them. The other half will defend anything to the death and insist the film is a masterpiece. But it's interesting to see the reviews start to trickle out. The geek outlets (I would actually include EW in this) are predictably ebullient but the attitude seems to be more negative the nearer we get to the mainstream. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter slated it.

I'm very interested to hear what Ebert thinks.

The problem is that the Internet age has reduced everything to love/hate. It's either the best movie ever or the worst movie ever. There's no room for the middle ground. To be honest I think Watchmen is probably an 8/10 in geek terms and a 6/10 in neutral cinema terms.

 

[farrrs]

a ps3 demo of the watchmen game came out today with an option to download the full game as well!! probably be as poor as the movies meant to be!!

 

[CelticPredator]

Awww...I didnt win the PS contest....here was mine...

 

[Odowankenobi]

FYI...Roger Ebert gave Watchmen four stars (his highest rating)

I know many consider him a washed up hack, but I'm always interested to hear what he has to say. There's no denying that he's the best know and most well respected film critic out there.