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My Imax goodness has been booked.

Now all i have to do is wait a month and a day.

Are we there yet?
 
Yeah Rotten Tomatoes indicates most of the reviews are pretty positive - though early reviews of big releases often are.

Interested to see what Kermode thinks - will probably be on his show tomorrow.
 
I'm willing this to be great, getting more and more excited about it every day and I didn't think I would. But having read a few articles about the making of, interviews with the producer/director partnership, and it looks like it might just be a proper grown-ups movie.
 
4 stars in Empire (doesn't necessarily mean much, they gave Phantom Menace 5), but sounds like it's retained enough of the GN to be a good adaptation.

Fingers crossed.
 
Sadken said:
They've changed the ending, I heard.
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Idaho's third link (to Ain't It Cool News) has a lot of details of the ending in - it actually sounds like a stroke of genius to me, rather than a cop-out, and you have to wonder whether it even occurred to Moore to play it out that way instead of the scary squid story.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
Idaho's third link (to Ain't It Cool News) has a lot of details of the ending in - it actually sounds like a stroke of genius to me, rather than a cop-out, and you have to wonder whether it even occurred to Moore to play it out that way instead of the scary squid story.
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The "new ending" sounds very smart indeed – can't wait to see how it all pans out on screen.

There's a less complimentary but well-written and well-argued review of the film here:

www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=film_review_watchmen
 
andy2002 said:
The "new ending" sounds very smart indeed – can't wait to see how it all pans out on screen.
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There were some well-argued points against it in the comments on the AIC story, specifically about character motivation and theme - personally I think it would have been very difficult to do the squid ending and have it come off at all seriously.
 
I'm avoiding knowing about the new ending. :hmm:

You guys make sure and use spoiler code, remember, or say if a direct link shouts out a spoiler. Even the AICN said spoiler. (So I stopped reading)
 
Buddy Bradley said:
[...] personally I think it would have been very difficult to do the squid ending and have it come off at all seriously.
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Possibly so, but it's meant to be absurd. As I said earlier in the thread, the Watchmen comic has its flaws, but that final juxtaposition of comedy and horror is perfect.

Like Veidt says, Squiddy is the ultimate practical joke.

Maybe it wouldn't have worked on screen (and its replacement lets Mr Snyder snip the island sub-plot out). "Fear of vengeful God" and "coming together in the face of a common enemy" are subtly different concepts, and no.2 fits Veidt's deranged idealism better, but no.1 is equally interesting.

No adaptation should be a slavish copy, and plenty of fan reaction claims that the new ending is the best bit of Watchmen, so I'm won't pre-judge the Attack of Ol' Blue.
 
An insider mentioned that there had been some sort of squid that was filmed. Also, how is the stuff about the artist, the island, the news stand and the pirate story going to make sense in the long cut DVD?
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
An insider mentioned that there had been some sort of squid that was filmed. Also, how is the stuff about the artist, the island, the news stand and the pirate story going to make sense in the long cut DVD?
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This is what I'm wondering. Also...
Why does Ozy kill the Comedian in the film, if there's no island? He only does the Comedian in because he flew over the island and worked out Ozy's plan...
 
elevendayempire said:
This is what I'm wondering. Also...
Why does Ozy kill the Comedian in the film, if there's no island? He only does the Comedian in because he flew over the island and worked out Ozy's plan...
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I assume the comedian flies over something else and sees what Veit is doing
 
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