WATCHMEN Movie Discussion (SPOILERS allowed)!

[CelticPredator]

. "Really, it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence..." I can't believe that line wasn't in the movie....added more weight to what was goin on.

It was. Right before Osterman goes kabloowy.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

In the book, Dan was a retired, washed-up, out-of-shape man with impotency problems, he needed to be in his superhero outfit to get it up. What part of that isn't funny?

 

[Bannister]

and that's the original version as well

Really. I actually like Jeff Buckley's version the most.

 

[BXCOLLECTOR]

I never read the comic but this movie was f'n great!

some lady with kids left the theatre, i think it was because she thought it was PG-13 or because "MR.M" didn't wear pants

oh yeah and both the silk spectres were HOT

 

[FQRizzo]

I never read the comic but this movie was f'n great!

some lady with kids left the theatre, i think it was because she thought it was PG-13 or because "MR.M" didn't wear pants

oh yeah and both the silk spectres were HOT

It's Dr. M, he didn't spend years going to nuclear medical college to be called "Mister."

 

[barbelith]

In the book, Dan was a retired, washed-up, out-of-shape man with impotency problems, he needed to be in his superhero outfit to get it up. What part of that isn't funny?

I don't think it was meant to be funny in the movie, though. It's shot and edited like Snyder thinks it's hawt!

 

[BXCOLLECTOR]

It's Dr. M, he didn't spend years going to nuclear medical college to be called "Mister."

I called him "MR.M" cause im pissed he killed RORSCHACH

 

[Cap'n Cook]

I thought that part was done well, the blood splatter even forming the silhouettes.

 

[Scar]

I agree. The Underworld movies are empty, vacuous spectacle and not even particularly well made. Try to imagine what Jaws or Close Encounters of the Third Kind would be like if they were made today; the mind reels. When did genre movies stop having human beings in them?

Hey now. Huge Bill Nighy fan.

EDIT: And every time people talk of remaking movies these days, I want to slap the ^^^^ out of them. Jaws in particular. It's insulting to think that anyone could remake it and have it anywhere near the caliber where it stands. I've only ever met one person who wasn't a fan of JAWS, and it was because the shark "looked too fake"... and? It's a force of nature, a true leviathan that's all too rare in nature today; take the immense size as what it is and be happy. That shouldn't detract from how great the story is... though again, that's an instance for however utterly magnificent the movie is, the book is better. One of my all-time favorites and literally the reason I got into the study of large carnivores. Ah, good times. Even got my girlfriend to read the book last year. God I miss Peter Benchley. And now Michael Crichton has been taken from me... All the good writers are dying off, and soon we're just going be be left with the dregs of Hollywood, the screenwriters sitting at car washes and handing out screenplays to filmmakers.

 

[Entropy]

All the good writers are dying off, and soon we're just going be be left with the dregs of Hollywood, the screenwriters sitting at car washes and handing out screenplays to filmmakers.

I said that when William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, and Hunter S. Thompson died. There are a few left that inspire me like Charlie Kaufman and David Lynch but they seem a lot fewer in number.

 

[shiveringmelody]

I hope to see this tomorrow in Imax as long as it's not sold out. Don't know what to expect to be honest. I've read reviews and even a friend has said he thinks the movie was so close to the material that it perhaps ruins the movie.

 

[Giant Chicken]

How can it be boring and a good thing?

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I thought it was boring in the sense that we were literally turning the pages in the book.

...a good thing becasue that means he was true to the book.

 

[Nocturne]

Did anyone else find some of the music tracks a bit intrusive at times ? I did enjoy the music chosen (except the MCR cover) but at times i felt it disconnected me from the movie itself. Where you've been completely absorbed and then something takes you out and you think "oh yeah I'm watching a film"

Did find that especially with "All along the Watchtower" thought that sequence would have been served better subliminaly with the score

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Did find that especially with "All along the Watchtower" thought that sequence would have been served better subliminaly with the score

Same here, my only major gripe. Also the 'Flight of the Valkeries' with huge Dr M in Vietnam. I got the ref of course, but it just did not gel IMO.

 

[Entropy]

Did anyone else find some of the music tracks a bit intrusive at times ? I did enjoy the music chosen (except the MCR cover) but at times i felt it disconnected me from the movie itself. Where you've been completely absorbed and then something takes you out and you think "oh yeah I'm watching a film"

Did find that especially with "All along the Watchtower" thought that sequence would have been served better subliminaly with the score

I'm ok with occasionally being taken out of a story and being reminded that I'm watching a film, especially in something as meta and self-reflexive as Watchmen, if timed right. The Coen bros do this well. I was ok with the Watchtower, Times They Are A Changin, Boogie Man and even 99 Luftballoons, which was a subtle reminder of the nukes. The score was generally more irritating to me, especially during the destruction of NYC sequence when it should have been quiet and somber.

They could've been integrated a bit better. For instance if Pale Rider and Kristallnacht had been performing Watchtower.

Same here, my only major gripe. Also the 'Flight of the Valkeries' with huge Dr M in Vietnam. I got the ref of course, but it just did not gel IMO.

Yup. That one was annoying.

 

[endless1]

I never read the comic but this movie was f'n great!

some lady with kids left the theatre, i think it was because she thought it was PG-13 or because "MR.M" didn't wear pants

oh yeah and both the silk spectres were HOT

Because the comic was smarter than U are. Silk spectre was only hot because U saw her naked. If u saw a homeless woman naked u would think U she was hot

 

[CelticPredator]

Dude...its YOU. Y-O-U.

Please spell it correctly.


And I loved the music choice. All Along the Watchtower worked great I thought. Dont know why, it just fit. Ride of the Valkaries worked in two ways. One being a wow...giant Doc Manhattan! The other being "Saddest thing I could think of.."

 

[The ill Jedi]

IMO, I thought it was WAY better than 'The Dark Knight'. Of course I wasn't enamored with 'The Dark Knight' as I found the motivations of some characters to be silly, the under use of Joker to be silly and some of the plot devices to be laughable. Still had fun watching 'The Dark Knight' of course, but it didn't grab me like it did to many other viewers.

I liked 'Watchmen' much more.

You sum up 100% the way I felt bout Dark Knight. While I still snjoyed it, I too liked Watchmen a lot more.

And I think the sex scene was supposed to be funny....I mean, no reason to play that song if it wasnt for laughs. And the fire climax.

Exactly, the fire going off at the end of that see was hilarious.

 

[plasmid303]

I think I agree with some of the people here saying they enjoyed Watchmen more than TDK. Obviously TDK is a better made film both in its structure and cohesiveness, but I had more fun watching the Watchmen, flaws and all.

 

[DarthNeil]

Dude...its YOU. Y-O-U.

Please spell it correctly.


And I loved the music choice. All Along the Watchtower worked great I thought. Dont know why, it just fit. Ride of the Valkaries worked in two ways. One being a wow...giant Doc Manhattan! The other being "Saddest thing I could think of.."

Dude, it's possessive.

Irony is delicious.

Just got back from seeing the movie and I enjoyed it. There were glaring things left out (due to time constraints) and the ending...well-- Still thinking about it. Overall I liked it.