Watchmen

Jason · Only in cartoons

Watchmen

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Pft, extended sex-scene = awesome. She was pretty damn hot.

Anyway, I really liked it. It reached my expectations. I might go see it in IMAX if I have a chance.

Veidt didn't seem shrimpy to me.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Spoiler: I forgot how upset and angry I got when Dr. Manhattan disintegrated Rorschach.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Things I liked:
Casting and acting. These guys are all straight out of the book. You couldn't dare ask for better adaptations. Veidt, I do agree, was a bit off but was still great.
Snyder has a knack for making ultra violence not so brutal to see. The action was logical and well coreagraphed and like 300 it had it's only special touch.
The plot was not fully in tact. You don't get the Black Freighter or some sub-plots like Rorschach's assigned psychiatrist. I was fine with this. It made what would have been a 3 and a half hour movie a 2 and a half hour movie. I would not have minded seeing it, though.
The ending is different, but the ending is fine for a bit of a less comic book feel. I mean, come on, the original ending was ****ing ridiculous and was meant to mock, in a way, hoakiness of some comic book plots.
The music was appropriately placed. I don't notice the score that much. I noticed this one.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Spoiler: I think Bubastis (Veidt's Lynx mutant) should have just been cut from the movie. It arrived with no explanation whatsoever, since I don't remember hearing in the movie that Veidt was involved in genetic engineering firms. I watched the movie with several friends who haven't read the book, and they were all baffled by the appearance of Babastis.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Also, it made me very happy that they showed Dr. Manhattan's glowing blue penis, rather than shying away from nudity because Americans are squeamish about penises.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I hardly noticed the penis. Leave it to Jasno.

I was JUST thinking about where the lynx was right before it kind of just walked into the scene unexplained.

Jason · Only in cartoons

The penis WAS largely unnoticeable (thanks to artful direction), but they still could have covered it up. It seriously irks me how there is a double standard for nudity in this country; the nude female figure can be shown with few complaints, but people go nuts if there's a penis on screen. The character is a man. Men have penises. Get the **** over it, John Q. Public.

In fact, I noticed in the book how Jon was nude any time he was in private, any time he was himself. However, when appearing in public he wore a suit -- for the public's sake, I'm sure. Even when he was destroying Vietnam, the Army apparently made him wear some kind of speedo thing. Jon's lack of clothing showed his alienation from the petty squabbles of human society -- he transcended clothing. I'm glad the movie kept that true to the comic even in the face of crybaby teetotling obscenity squadrons. Granted, this movie was always going to be rated R...

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I don't think the penis was a deciding factor in the R rating. However, tits are more accepted but vaginas aren't.

Rorschach made that thing goddamn near NC-17

Jason · Only in cartoons

Another thing I didn't like:

Spoiler: In the movie, Rorschach becomes himself by cleaving a man's skull. I thought it was much more appropriate for him to burn him alive. It's more cruel, and demonstrates more clearly that Rorschach is acting from a sense of justice (as he watches the blaze, confirming that he dies) and not that he's just an angry guy with a score to settle.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Spoiler: They didn't give the explanation for the mask either. I didn't mind that much.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Spoiler: The exclusion of the origin story for the mask, I get. They had to cut scenes somewhere. I just think Rorschach showed too much emotion in the movie; he was gritty, sure, and damned violent, but he wasn't as unsettling as the characters in the book thought he was.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I think they cast Rorschach perfectly, though. It was as close as it gets.

Jason · Only in cartoons

True. I know I'm nitpicking -- the movie was really very good. It could have been a disaster. I never expected it to be better than the comic. If Watchmen would have made a better movie, Alan Moore would have written a screenplay and not a comic book.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Jason wrote:

True. I know I'm nitpicking -- the movie was really very good. It could have been a disaster. I never expected it to be better than the comic. If Watchmen would have made a better movie, Alan Moore would have written a screenplay and not a comic book.

Your criticisms are definitely valid. It didn't effect me that much.

THe movie was just about what I was hoping for. You definitely can't make everything in Watchmen into a GOOD movie. It'd be ridiculous and silly and there is no point to it.

Also: cool midget.

pumpkinpjs · Tits and Grits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhHema5PNg

its worth the cut and paste

Pizza · Sheriff of Paddy's

I'M HELPING, BIZARRO

Jason · Only in cartoons

Pumpkin, you were absolutely right.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Knowing just a little bit of German ruins that.

hitlerfromhell · My penish a-so small

Great, there goes the ending