Watchmen

[smokedout]

it is a one off

 

[DexterTCN]

Ross has been wrong before.

Yes.

I didn't find the review to be negative, though.

iPlayer link

 

[Termite Man]

I read a review of the watchmen in the news of the world this weekend and I had to chuckle when the reviewer described himself as a "paid up fanboy" of the comic but earlier in the review he made a massive error with regards to the actual plot of the comic . Fucking retard

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Friend of mine has just come back from watching it. He says it is very faithful, so much so he thinks it is madness that 130 million has been spent on such an uncommercial film. Good, maybe but he is still in shock.

Spoiler: End

No squid, if you had not already guessed

 

[Santino]

this might interest you bunch of geeks

EXTREMELY SPECIAL WATCHMEN EVENT TAKING PLACE ON THE RIVER

Did anyone see this then?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I agree -- I thought that Sin City was bloody awful, albeit a fantastic looking piece of awfulness.

Yep very true.

 

[The Groke]

We are going at midnight tonight...

 

[100% masahiko]

I'm watching it at the Odeon Leicester Square on Friday

 

[El Sueno]

Did anyone see this then?

Bit of youtube footage of the Thames water projection thingy .

 

[Part 2]

Where are kens photos and review

 

[DexterTCN]

Bit of youtube footage of the Thames water projection thingy .

Cool, thanks.

 

[Orang Utan]

Where are kens photos and review

Tomorrow I expect

 

[krtek a houby]

Been waiting 20 odd years for this. Bound to be disappointed but hell, if it gets people to read the comic, it's worth it.

But why not Ralph Fiennes as Ozymandias? He was my choice for years... the other guy just doesn't look the part...

 

[The Groke]

Censorship can suck my big blue cock

Well I watched it last night.

I would review it, but I am still too annoyed about the censor's butchery.

Still - praise Allah eh.

It is good to know that I can still exercise my right to watch violent, bloody attempted rapes, people receiving repeated meat-cleaver blows to the head and circular-saw/arm interaction, safe in the knowledge that I will be protected from exposure to breasts, consensual sex between adults and repeated shots of a blue digital schlong.


Yeah Ok, I knew it would likely be hacked a bit, but it was done so horribly and with so much disdain for the flow of the movie it rendered significant chunks almost unwatchable.

Due to Doc Manhattan's repeated, wilful nudity mad more than a few scenes of important dialogue and exposition were just sliced apart and stuck back with duck tape - especially at the climax.


Shower of cunts - had I know it was going to be this bad, I would have waited for the imported BluRay.

 

[The Groke]

Quick Review!

Oh all right - Did I like it then?

Mostly yes.

It was very very faithful to the source material on the whole. Perhaps it could have taken more chances in a few places in order to render some aspects more apposite for film, rather than playing them like the comic, but hey - these things usually get slaughtered for taking artistic liberties and deviating from the original.

Rorshach, Manhattan and the Comedian were excellent.

Ozymandias was...odd to start with, but worked Ok by the end.

Night Owl was pretty decent, if oddly unmemorable. Perhaps that is the character more than the effort here.

Silk Spectre (2) was horrid, but TBF her acting in the original comic is pretty dreadful too. hmm

New ending worked well, but perhaps could have finished 5 minutes before it did.

Credits/intro were very well done -

Didn't feel wrong, wasn't bored once and it didn't seem as long as it was.

Soundtrack was trite and lazy - Must Try Harder.




Overall, much, much better than it could have been and on the whole I enjoyed it but afterwards, I couldn't help wondering whether it was really necessary...



Will probably re-read the book this week - it has been a while.

 

[The Groke]

Oh to add - I reckon if I hadn't been pretty familiar with the comic, a few aspects would have probably had me scratching my head and I would have likely enjoyed it less.

No matter how bad, seeing an attempted tribute to Watchmen on screen was always likely to hold my interest for good or ill!

 

[The Groke]

Oh and Zack Snyder - enough with the "trade-mark" slow-mo/speed-up/speed-mo.

Your fight choreography is actually pretty decent at times, so you can stop over-egging the fucking pudding.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797

a mix o awesome horrible and nostalgia

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh and Zack Snyder - enough with the "trade-mark" slow-mo/speed-up/speed-mo.

Your fight choreography is actually pretty decent at times, so you can stop over-egging the fucking pudding.

I quite like his explanation of this though. Apparently when it slows it would be a scene in the/a comic book that contains more detail/action/a bigger picture that takes longer for the reader to take in.

 

[The Groke]

I quite like his explanation of this though. Apparently when it slows it would be a scene in the/a comic book that contains more detail/action/a bigger picture that takes longer for the reader to take in.

Perhaps it would work with more of a freeze-frame approach then - more like what they did we the opening credits, which looked like a cool, frozen 3d picture, with some movements highlighted.

This is just 300+matrix+costumed heroes hitting stuff whilst that "WwwwoooaaasshhhhLLP" noise happens and it goes all treacley - you saw the prison fight clip yeah?

Really though, I am going to have to watch the whole thing again, unmolested (the film, not me) when it comes out on disk before my opinion/review can be locked in/credible.

 

[Santino]

Special fake cover of The Metro today featuring Watchmen news, for those of you into collecting such artefacts.

 

[Awesome Wells]

by all accounts is sounds more sadistic than Sin City, which was a sick affair imo, and just as pointless.

 

[kyser_soze]

by all accounts is sounds more sadistic than Sin City, which was a sick affair imo, and just as pointless.

The difference between the source material is like comparing fire with water. Watchmen is a lot harder than Sin City in a lot of ways, but it's not an adolescent wank fantasy about violence and women.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Special fake cover of The Metro today featuring Watchmen news, for those of you into collecting such artefacts.

I actually quite liked that, nicely done I thought.

 

[STFC]

Special fake cover of The Metro today featuring Watchmen news, for those of you into collecting such artefacts.

As somebody who hasn't read the graphic novel and wasn't bothered about seeing the film, reading that this morning has piqued my interest.

 

[Awesome Wells]

The difference between the source material is like comparing fire with water. Watchmen is a lot harder than Sin City in a lot of ways, but it's not an adolescent wank fantasy about violence and women.

true, but it seems that's how the film version is.

 

[andy2002]

Sod the movie, watch this...

www.aintitcool.com/node/40327

 

[The Octagon]

Seeing this at the weekend, can someone who's seen it please confirm one thing for me -

Spoiler: For ending of Watchmen

Does Adrian get away with it or is he 'punished' in some way?

 

[Upchuck]

Going to see it today. Know nothing about the book/cartoon but like the dark look of the flick

 

[treefrog]

Seeing this at the weekend, can someone who's seen it please confirm one thing for me -

Spoiler: For ending of Watchmen

Does Adrian get away with it or is he 'punished' in some way?

The first option.

Just back from this. I love the comic, was prepared to hate it, or at least be of the meh persuasion.

I fucking loved it! Very well done (the first hour is fabulous). ending could have done with some diligent editing (but that seems to be how films are these days) but for the most part it was excellent. No punches pulled, but it didn't feel gratuitous. A comic book adaptation for actual adults.