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Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:00 pm |
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Due to the impending arrival of Watchmen to our movie screens, I edited my "Watchmen portraits" thread to suit a more universal purpose.
So, here's the original post.
T minus 23 and counting.
Amazing makeup. They even have a portrait of that Vietnamese girl that the Comedian raped.
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And here's an exclusive review of the Los Angeles premiere. It is official. No squid. Lots of other things that are good, though.
T minus 22 and counting.
Yes, I am aware I am double-posting. But would you rather have this titillating piece of news slip through the internet cracks of Nobumplandia?
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Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:56 am |
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T minus 20 and counting.
Some angry nerd wanking about how Watchmen isn't entertainment, but a high form of literature. Gawd, donkey pub nowadays. They aren't even good donkey pub. Just your run-of-the-mill backwater donkey pub who screw chickens at the back of their grandpapa's barn, reading Anthony Burgess and pretending to understand the slang.
It's basically saying, "If you enjoyed Watchmen, you killed Jesus."
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:36 pm |
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T minus 14 and counting.
Jesus careless whisper.
Zack Snyder (you know, that guy) has stated in an interview, without any hidden irony that the Watchmen DVD will run for at least 3 hours.
Yeah, you heard me. Or read me. Or whatever.
THE WATCHMEN DIRECTOR'S CUT WILL RUN FOR 3 FRIGGING HOURS
And that's excluding the length of the Black Freighter.
THE BLACK FREIGHTER
IN THE DVD
3 HOURS
SKDJFGQ0493KMS;CLV423OSDFASDF4RQRF ARGR5R
Also, clips from the actual movie. No, they're not trailers spliced together to actually make a coherent scene; they're clips from the actual movie. Need I say it again?
Clips from the actual movie.
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Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:48 am |
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Just checked Rotten Tomatoes and the early reviews for the film are out.
81% ain't so bad...
Reading the little blurbs in the review section, it seems that the film looks brilliant and is actually pretty faithful to the graphic novel (with the exception of the squid as we all already know). But some are saying that it doesn't feel... alive.
Hrm.
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Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:05 pm |
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| Sir Pepoy Josepito wrote: | | But some are saying that it doesn't feel... alive. |
Funny thing is, that's how the comic would really initially seem, especially for the very uninitiated. Dave Gibbons' art looks tense and kinda ' inert ', and Alan Moore is primarily cerebral. And there's the drab, dank vibe all over the pages.
Though it only took a few moments before the novel finally grew on me, it's still a few moments of pause. I did remember the initial feeling there - if only very fleeting - that the purchase may not have been such a good idea...
Really, if you're somebody who grew up expecting ultra-flashy splash page overload or a gaggle of fireworks on a superhero film, or at least meandered along the perception of the ' superhero story ' having to be bombastic and upbeat, ' deadened ' is most likely how it'd come across to you.
Not that it's less action-packed, perse - because it fricking is - but it's timed and precise, and surgical in execution. It moves at it's own assured tempo, in a way that is sensible, mannered, accessible; actually approximating the progression you'd see in a real life film more than anything else made in the four-color realm.
Something that, in the current media climate that practically reduces everything to a commercial, could only come across as a ' shock to the senses ', and more so as a film with preconceived - and juvenile notions - in tow that you can only get upon second viewing. Yet, is one that IS actually cinematic all the same, just not the type one tends to expect from these things.
Fairly ironic, especially given the notion of ' Watchmen ' supposedly being ' unfilmmable '. Which, I figure, applies a hell of a lot more to stuff like ' Rob Liefeld's ' Brigade ' ' than anything else. Anybody remember Maximum Press ? *
The operative word they're probably looking for is ' dry '.
This is literally ' Watchmen ' on film. Damn.
* Perhaps the reason why stuff like ' Spawn ' sort of blows in the faces of the filmmakers and audiences upon being translated literally to the screen. And often not in a good way.
And probably the reason why you'd never see the ' X-men ' flick you've always imagined as a kid - the Jim Lee drawn one, with the energy things around fists and your poetry. No matter how you badly wanted. It's stuff like that which tend to make sense on paper more than the celluloid, yet even so, not very much. |
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Heh. Thiry-five minutes ago, in fact.
PS. I think I broke the forum's width.
[THUMBNAILED BECAUSE IT'S TOO careless whisper HUGE]
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Snake god in the background. Nice.
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We're VIP. Right?
And isn't Mixka press?  x recar
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Show times!!!
*(i is have hard time in finding prices. So far only Gateway. find. add more later)
**(+ means price applies to all cinemas below)
Clickthecity info on which theaters are showing Watchmen
Cinemas below are close to the UP Area, or so I know. Feel free to add other places.
Gateway! (pricing info)
+(p140 guaranteed seats/p160 blockbuster movies)
A.Cinemaplex 2- 12:20 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:40 PM, 9:50 PM
B.Cinemaplex 5- 1:20 PM, 4:30 PM
C.Cinemaplex 8- 12:50 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:10 PM, 10:20 PM
+(p300 cardholders/p350 walk-ins)
D.Global Platinum Cinema- 3:00 PM, 6:10 PM, 9:20 PM
Ali Mall (pricing)
+(???)
E.Cineplex 2- 2:10 PM, 5:20 PM, 8:30 PM
TriNoma (pricing)
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F.TriNoma Cinema 6- 2:10 PM, 6:35 PM, 9:00 PM
SM City North Edsa
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G.Cinema 4- 11:15 AM, 2:30 PM, 5:45 PM, 9:00 PM
H.Cinema 7- 12:15 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:45 PM, 10:00 PM
Waltermart North EDSA (pricing)
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I.Cinema 2- 11:10 AM, 2:30 PM, 5:50 PM, 9:00 PM
***Cinemas are coded for following post
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Original Plan
Meeting Time: 4:00 PM
Departure: 4:30 PM (?)
Available showtimes after 4:30 PM
A (6:40 PM)
B (4:30 PM)
C (7:10 PM)
D (6:10 PM)
E (5:20 PM)
F (6:35 PM)
G (5:45 PM)
H (6:45 PM)
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Thoughts?
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What the hell did I just watch? I mean, the whole thing just placed a total reversal your poetry on the whole story. Not that I'm really complaining, but...
That's too many guys to fit into the mystery machine XDDD
and not enough girls.
LALALA shutting up now, earlier posts important. REad them!
Oh. Cookies.
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Moar movies
I don't know why, but it's amusing to see Hitler rage about your poetry. This one is on the Watchmen movie, which is why it's on this thread.
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i would so watch that everday
AND ISN'T IT DISTURBING HOW THE COMEDIAN WANTS SALLY JUPITER
COZ YOU KNOW
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careless whisper YOU MAN.
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Translation: Watchmen is awesome, but people are too dumb to understand it.
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So. Now that the honeymoon is over and we can see the film in the cold, hard light of 9:30 in the morning. What do we think?
Needless to say SPOILERS abound to the uninitiated, as such. If spoilers is the right term. Or whatever.
I am undecided. The film was sensational in the sense that it assaulted my senses. And that's three times I used the word 'sense' in a sense-tense, hur hur. It didn't feel like Alan Moore's stuff, but the film was alright. It was like a film adaptation of Moore's stuff by the guy who made Sin City. Which was exactly what it was. And I am ambivalent. 
Fight scenes were awesome. Storyline was lacking. I suspect people who have not read it will hate it. All in all: meh.
That tomato meter was correct after all.
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Felt that it stayed true to Moore's material. Respectful to the leviathan Moore set loose. It's already a given that no amount of Hollywood movie glitz and slomo will ever come remotely close to the original graphic novel, but damn, it didn't stop Snyder from trying. And I found, in many scenes, that sticking too closely to the graphic novel (in terms of dialogue and such) made the film feel stunted, artificial.
The detailed nuances in the comic structure was relegated to choice easter eggs and 80s pop culture references (Studio 54, anyone? With Stardust and Jagger cozy in the background? Folder on Veidt's computer named, "BOYS"? Lesbian Silhouette parodying the post-war American kiss with that nurse*?) Of course, the little snippets from the comic making it to the big screen was a nice plus. The murder mystery storyline was not really apparent, much less than in the comic book, so that was a red X for me. But it DID present the different psyches of the superheroes in a way that was incredibly stimulating. Rorschach's conversation with the psychiatrist was a tad short, but it encapsulated the mind of the lunatic very well. The jarring change from treating the pedo to a slow burn, became an emotionally captivating scene of him growling under the mask while he hacked pedo to pieces. Manhattan bits pulled your heart strings like it was a guitar, to make the audience sympathize for a vapid shell of a human being with a child psychiatrist's voice (or a Miltonian God, whatever) is no easy feat.
Went into the theater with very low expectations, despite my optimism. Thought that it wouldn't suck TOO much, but would undoubtedly suck in the sparest sense of the word. Precisely because of the pointlessness of any type of movie adaptation ever made; face it, you'll always compare it to the source material, and you'll seldom feel that the adaptation was generally superior. So in I went, with a calm apprehension at whatever monstrosity Snyder has produced.
My expectations were, I'm happy to say, exceeded by a pretty sizable margin. The movie was downright enjoyable, well worth the php140. Being a fan of the comic, I thought that Snyder has presented us a very pretty compromise: here is Watchmen, in all its cinematic glory, with most of the depth of character, the (relativistic) detail; sure you can nitpick the hell out of each and every scene, but again, where's the point? Moore himself has stated that movie adaptations will ultimately fail (I dunno; in the metaphysical sense, I guess), so why not just throw academic critical thinking out of the window for a few hours, and let Snyder suck our metaphorical dicks while we chow down on popcorn?
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What the hell happened? I was the optimist before watching the film, haha.
I'll give the film this-- the fight scenes. Can not stress it enough. There was little to no fight scenes in the comic, most of the violence is implied. Which means Snyder went out on a limb to visualize the fight scenes that barely graced Moore's comic. Despite that, each character's fighting style reflected something about their personality. Characterization through action sequences? High careless whisper time.
I'm not saying the film was bad. I enjoyed it. But it wasn't Moore's Watchmen. It was Snyder's Watchmen. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But Snyder makes his bread and butter by bending pop culture to his whims -- this is why Sin City and the 300 worked well. And why Snyder's Watchmen will inevitably carve its own niche in movie pop culture. But Moore is known for transcending pop culture, which was why Watchmen the comic book was capable of deconstructing its own genre and form. That's something Snyder couldn't have done.
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It's the most correct possible adaptation of Watchmen. I'll give it that.
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