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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:06:58 PM EDT
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The book was better.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:07:36 PM EDT
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That is one of the best, if not the most underrated, super hero movies of all time.
The Graphic novel that is based upon is even more "far out there" on the plot. I like the movie better, but if you want to see the film in a different light, read the novel. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:08:58 PM EDT
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I've read the graphic novel (liked it...okay enough...I'm really not a comic book guy). Never seen the movie.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:10:01 PM EDT
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The book was better. did it show boobs ? |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:11:43 PM EDT
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I've read the graphic novel (liked it...okay enough...I'm really not a comic book guy). Never seen the movie. If you've read the GN...avoid the movie |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:11:50 PM EDT
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Rorschach made the movie, imho.
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME." |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:14:49 PM EDT
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Rorschach made the movie, imho. "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME." This. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:15:34 PM EDT
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Cool characters. But I really didnt care for it
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:16:25 PM EDT
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I didn't care for the movie that much, but the main reasons I didn't like the movie have to do with them trying to cram 12 hours worth of material into a 3 hour movie. The actors, the sets, the costumes, etc were all pitch perfect... the problem was one of editing. Too much material to cover in too little time meant a LOT was left out or altered to fit the truncated plot. Watchmen needed to be a mini series or a series of movies instead of a one-off, but that was never going to happen.
The Ultimate Edition comes closer, but a lot of stuff is still left out and too many minute changes were made for me to lavish praise upon it. Not a terrible movie, just a victim of trying to hit a very, very high mark with a can of creamed corn for a director. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:17:33 PM EDT
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Too much blue penis flopping around. Get some tights like a normal super hero would ya please.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:18:15 PM EDT
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Loved the comic and the movie.
If you haven't seen the director's cut, then you should definitely check it out. The theatrical version was completely butchered to get under 2 hours. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:18:47 PM EDT
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BIG BLUE DICK
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:20:20 PM EDT
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The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:24:49 PM EDT
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The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags. Think it's trying to portray "superheroes" as being people too, with all the inherent faults thereof. Also, you'd probably get pretty cynical if you dealt with the dregs of humanity day in and day out. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:27:49 PM EDT
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"...What's one more body among foundations?"
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:29:30 PM EDT
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I dug it.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:29:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Think it's trying to portray "superheroes" as being people too, with all the inherent faults thereof. Also, you'd probably get pretty cynical if you dealt with the dregs of humanity day in and day out. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags. Think it's trying to portray "superheroes" as being people too, with all the inherent faults thereof. Also, you'd probably get pretty cynical if you dealt with the dregs of humanity day in and day out. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:31:14 PM EDT
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I liked the ending of the movie better than the book.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:31:26 PM EDT
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Cool characters. But I really didnt care for it WAYYY too long and seemed forever to get to the plot climax which seemed pretty obvious about half way through. I am a superhero movie buff and I didnt care for it. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:35:56 PM EDT
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It struck me more as the libtard kind of "rewriting" of history where Columbus is an evil white enslaver etc Don't get me wrong, I liked the book and movie, just "sensed" a libtardy theme behind it, and it turns out Alan Moore is a Occupy/Anarchist/Witch kook, but a very talented one Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags. Think it's trying to portray "superheroes" as being people too, with all the inherent faults thereof. Also, you'd probably get pretty cynical if you dealt with the dregs of humanity day in and day out. Yeah, fun movie but gave me a similar vibe. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:36:54 PM EDT
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The book was better. No it wasn't. The book and film are page for page but the film has a better ending. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:39:36 PM EDT
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I just remember the guy who announced to folks in the theater the movie sucked and shot himself. That was like the ULTIMATE criticism!
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:39:47 PM EDT
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That is one of the best, if not the most underrated, super hero movies of all time. The Graphic novel that is based upon is even more "far out there" on the plot. I like the movie better, but if you want to see the film in a different light, read the novel. Indeed. They took a very intricate and nuanced plot and made a fantastic flick out of it. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:41:14 PM EDT
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Film was great? Needed more of this though
Never mind wrong comic I thought it was from tales of the black freighter in the middle of watchmen 
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:56:49 PM EDT
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Awesome movie, Carla Gugino is so hot. She gets hotter with age.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 2:58:13 PM EDT
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It sucked.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:01:20 PM EDT
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Film was great? Needed more of this though Never mind wrong comic I thought it was from tales of the black freighter in the middle of watchmen http://i.imgur.com/C1OvTFp.jpg 
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:01:28 PM EDT
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The movie seemed to drag on...I have it on DVD. Slight thread drift...I thought the sound track was pretty awesome. There were a couple of "songs" that were originally produced for the film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. One is called Pruitt Igoe. I had to watch that film back in about 1992 for a cognitive psychology class. So after I saw The Watchmen I started digging around and figured out why the song was called Pruitt Igoe. Pruitt Igoe was the name of a housing project built in St. Louis. It was an absolute disaster and was demolished with explosives in the 1970's. Im Slow motion video clips of the demo were included in the Koyaanisqatsi film. Having grown up near St. Louis in the 1970's and 1980's, I knew nothing about the failed housing project. To me, anyway, it is just another shining example of how liberals have this pie in the sky, overly optimistic view of how some humans should behave, and how it actually collides with the reality, and becomes a total failure of "central planning". |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:09:07 PM EDT
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The entire ending was an unnecessary departure from the book.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:12:34 PM EDT
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The entire ending was an unnecessary departure from the book. It was a much needed improvement. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:16:16 PM EDT
[#31]
The extended version/directors cut best IMHO.
The Watchmen is my fav superhero movie, period. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:21:18 PM EDT
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I didn't care for the movie that much, but the main reasons I didn't like the movie have to do with them trying to cram 12 hours worth of material into a 3 hour movie. The actors, the sets, the costumes, etc were all pitch perfect... the problem was one of editing. Too much material to cover in too little time meant a LOT was left out or altered to fit the truncated plot. Watchmen needed to be a mini series or a series of movies instead of a one-off, but that was never going to happen. r. Agreed. (same could said for WW Z) The most interesting aspects of the novel were the text features at the end of each chapter. How do we get to a 1985 where Nixon is still president and a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan almost sets off WWIII? But alternate history requires an audience that knows history. Oh. and the whole pirate subplot was absolutely worthless. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:25:53 PM EDT
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The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags. Just the Comedian. There were plenty of traditional do-gooders in the cast. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:28:48 PM EDT
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:40:52 PM EDT
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:42:56 PM EDT
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Rorschach made the movie, imho. "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME." This. Yep |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:44:10 PM EDT
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Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Yes. 
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:44:38 PM EDT
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Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Some arfcommers apparently just can't resist looking for the cock every time he's onscreen. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:45:46 PM EDT
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Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. The only people who keep bringing it up are the ones who wish to play with it. 
Hey, whatever, I'm not judging, but it's really not that big of a deal. Pardon the pun. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:48:34 PM EDT
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Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. It does, doesn't it? ARFCOM is populated by a demographic that fancies themselves modern-day Spartans while simultaneously be squeemish about male nudity and anything smacking of homo eroticism. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:51:53 PM EDT
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It does, doesn't it? ARFCOM is populated by a demographic that fancies themselves modern-day Spartans while simultaneously be squeemish about male nudity and anything smacking of homo eroticism. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. It does, doesn't it? ARFCOM is populated by a demographic that fancies themselves modern-day Spartans while simultaneously be squeemish about male nudity and anything smacking of homo eroticism. 
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:53:12 PM EDT
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Big? Looked like mine only a lot smaller |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 3:56:48 PM EDT
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Despite this forum's obsession with all things smurf schlong, Dr. Manhattan's nudity is actually a visual barometer for his disassociation with humanity. As he becomes more and more detached from mankind, he simply no longer gives a shit if he walks around with big jim and the blues brothers hanging out.
It is one of the plethora of subtle "hiding in plain sight" allegories of the comic book that were more or less mishandled for the movie. The same goes for the Black Freighter "story within a story"... it is not a simple story about a captain going home, it is an insight into the coming ending scenario... of how a hero can become a villain without even knowing it and how good men can convince themselves to do evil. As for Watchmen being "liberal", I've always seen it as a balance. You have various characters of various political and societal viewpoints coexisting with fairly equal "time" given to their opinions. IMO the movie imbalanced this with all the extraneous scenes added with Nixon and Iacocca, and the free energy for the world subplot that never existed in the comics. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 4:00:17 PM EDT
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He wasnt well liked by many, but I liked the Comedian..........especially his little dialogue when he jumps off in the middle of the street and starts firing tear gas into people's chest
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Posted: 3/2/2015 4:04:11 PM EDT
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The Watchmen is a good movie and comic book. My beef with it is the cynical rewriting of super heroes as cynical rapey drunk douchebags. No no no. for that you need either the boys or wanted Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 4:23:57 PM EDT
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The extended version/directors cut best IMHO. The Watchmen is my fav superhero movie, period. This. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 4:43:31 PM EDT
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Never read the comics, but I like how they portray the superheroes not being perfect beings.
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Posted: 3/2/2015 5:03:32 PM EDT
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. It does, doesn't it? ARFCOM is populated by a demographic that fancies themselves modern-day Spartans while simultaneously be squeemish about male nudity and anything smacking of homo eroticism.  http://youtu.be/mZDnLUxzk0w |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 5:30:33 PM EDT
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Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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BIG BLUE DICK Came to post that. Is this featured way more prominently in the movie than it is in the book? Because it comes up in every thread. It gets stuck in your head (phrasing!) I went to see watchmen in the theater with a gal I know. I can still make her giggle uncontrollably just by shouting 'blue penis!' during a phone conversation. |
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Posted: 3/2/2015 6:06:01 PM EDT
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He wasnt well liked by many, but I liked the Comedian..........especially his little dialogue when he jumps off in the middle of the street and starts firing tear gas into people's chest I liked him too. I like any character that beats up hippies. He was deranged and enjoyed fighting and killing, but still held onto a little piece of his humanity. |
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