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Watchmen: long as hell and too much...

Mo Pizorn said:
Man, that movie was long as fuck and had WAY TOO MUCH MALE NUDITY for my taste.
Even though that blue mutha fucka Dr. Manhattan is partially a computer graphic generation, he is nude throughout 90% of the time he is in the movie. I know what y'all are thinking "How come you couldn't just ignore him?" Becuase the mutha fucka was a main character with hella screen time. Sorry but that shit got annoying. Its easier to ignore male nudity in porn because there's a female to focus on. They kept homeboy front and center damn near every time he was on the screen. :hmm:
Rorschach was that dude. Its like they took Ben Stiller's character from Mystery Men and made him serious and even more fucked up in the head.
I wouldn't take any children to see this film AT ALL. Its violent as fuck and graphic as hell. They break arms and show the bones snapping n' shit. Since I haven't read the comic book and didn't know shit about this flick, I had no expectations. All I know is that they could have probably shaved a good 40 minutes off this shit. Its not a bad movie but it was overdone and probably overbudget considering the end result. I'm glad I screened this because I wouldn't pay to see it.
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that's that Hollywood gay agenda being pushed at us.
 
Mo Pizorn said:
Man, that movie was long as fuck and had WAY TOO MUCH MALE NUDITY for my taste.
Even though that blue mutha fucka Dr. Manhattan is partially a computer graphic generation, he is nude throughout 90% of the time he is in the movie. I know what y'all are thinking "How come you couldn't just ignore him?" Becuase the mutha fucka was a main character with hella screen time. Sorry but that shit got annoying. Its easier to ignore male nudity in porn because there's a female to focus on. They kept homeboy front and center damn near every time he was on the screen. :hmm:
Rorschach was that dude. Its like they took Ben Stiller's character from Mystery Men and made him serious and even more fucked up in the head.
I wouldn't take any children to see this film AT ALL. Its violent as fuck and graphic as hell. They break arms and show the bones snapping n' shit. Since I haven't read the comic book and didn't know shit about this flick, I had no expectations. All I know is that they could have probably shaved a good 40 minutes off this shit. Its not a bad movie but it was overdone and probably overbudget considering the end result. I'm glad I screened this because I wouldn't pay to see it.
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sure you would pay if if you had not seen it already (LOL) gtfo
 
Rocky Miavia said:
They tried to add EVERYTHING from the graphic novel. Was that wrong of them? People need to stop with the comic book movie = crazy action stunt fighting movie with minimal story mindset. :hmm:
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Man, I see hundreds of movies a year. I certainly don't have that mindset. I see flicks way DEEPER than "comic book movies". :rolleyes:
Uh, just in case you haven't seen the trailers, this movie is being pushed as just that - a crazy action stunt fighting movie. If they DIDN'T push it that way, they probably wouldn't get any bodies in the seats. It was deeper than most comic book based movies but the problem with trying to put everything in a movie is that you have to do it WELL. I don't think they did. They were too busy trying to be "different" with the storytelling. They jumbled the story line trying to do too much.
 
You sound like a fanboy. I don't give a fuck about this comic book series. After seeing the movie, I'm not going to read it. I almost didn't go to the screener. Hell, I was supposed to go check out Estelle last night but my people didn't come through with the free tickets so I went to screen this flick instead. So YOU GTFOH.
Stop hatin'.
seagramsg said:
sure you would pay if if you had not seen it already (LOL) gtfo
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MrMotivator said:
but the reality is if you have to read the comic book to appreciate the movie this movie is going to bomb with a capital B
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Thank you. That was my point. As a MOVIE, it slips a little. It wasn't a bad movie but it WAS haphazard in its direction. I have no issue with the concept, its the story telling that could have been better. Peep the 2nd week box office numbers. I bet I'm right on this.
And if you're going to make a movie thats 2:45min., its gotta not FEEL like its 2:45min. That's one of the tell-tale signs of how you know a movie is well made; when you walk out and say "damn, I was in there for 3 hours?", not when you KNOW you were in there for 3 hours.
 
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Mo Pizorn said:
Man, I see hundreds of movies a year. I certainly don't have that mindset. I see flicks way DEEPER than "comic book movies". :rolleyes:
Uh, just in case you haven't seen the trailers, this movie is being pushed as just that - a crazy action stunt fighting movie. If they DIDN'T push it that way, they probably wouldn't get any bodies in the seats. It was deeper than most comic book based movies but the problem with trying to put everything in a movie is that you have to do it WELL. I don't think they did. They were too busy trying to be "different" with the storytelling. They jumbled the story line trying to do too much.
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Trying to do too much by staying true to the books for once? Okay...

At least I know I'll enjoy this. And from the responses of these sheep in this thread I won't have to worry about any fools disturbing my experience.


**Removes self from thread**
 
Rocky Miavia said:
Trying to do too much by staying true to the books for once? Okay...

At least I know I'll enjoy this. And from the responses of these sheep in this thread I won't have to worry about any fools disturbing my experience.
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You're not the only one.:cool:
 
Rocky Miavia said:
Trying to do too much by staying true to the books for once? Okay...

At least I know I'll enjoy this. And from the responses of these sheep in this thread I won't have to worry about any fools disturbing my experience.


**Removes self from thread**
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NO. DO YOU READ? THEY DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB OF CLEARLY TELLING THE STORY. (IMO) What do you not understand about that?

Like I said, fans of the comic book will probably like this movie. AS A STAND ALONE MOVIE, it COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
You shouldn't need a manual for a good movie.
 
Mo Pizorn said:
NO. DO YOU READ? THEY DIDN'T DO A GOOD JOB OF CLEARLY TELLING THE STORY. (IMO) What do you not understand about that?

Like I said, fans of the comic book will probably like this movie. AS A STAND ALONE MOVIE, it COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
You shouldn't need a manual for a good movie.
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Man u arguin wit fanboys. Yes, WATCHMEN is a great graphic novel but that does'nt mean it AUTOMATICALLY makes a great movie. You've seen the movie. You did'nt like it. They respond with "You should've read the book". They haven't seen it yet. Does that make any sense? Can't argue wit fanboys man. THey emotional. They'll see a trailer and wanna kill the director because he fucked up their favorite childhood show or comic. THey'll get pissed at the announcement of actors and directors before the first camera shot cuz so and so don't "look like" so and so.

I like the WATCHMEN graphic novel but the movie has to stand on its own in a different medium. What if you had to read every fuckin book before you saw the movie it was based on for it to make sense?
 
DjMorpheus said:
Man u arguin wit fanboys. Yes, WATCHMEN is a great graphic novel but that does'nt mean it AUTOMATICALLY makes a great movie. You've seen the movie. You did'nt like it. They respond with "You should've read the book". They haven't seen it yet. Does that make any sense? Can't argue wit fanboys man. THey emotional. They'll see a trailer and wanna kill the director because he fucked up their favorite childhood show or comic. THey'll get pissed at the announcement of actors and directors before the first camera shot cuz so and so don't "look like" so and so.

I like the WATCHMEN graphic novel but the movie has to stand on its own in a different medium. What if you had to read every fuckin book before you saw the movie it was based on for it to make sense?
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I know I'm dealin' with fanboys when they 1-star my thread because they don't like what I said about a movie they haven't even seen yet.
 
ThaBurgerPimp said:
so how did the Star Trek and Transformers 2 trailers look..? :lol:

and did silk spectre have any booty close-ups lol
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Given that Batman was too pussy to actually hurt Joker, I think Rorschach would have gotten to the Joker and might have killed him ... only to realize that he himself Rorschach is just as cruel/viscious and demented as the Joker.




Some gifs I made...
Rorschach & Silk Spectre
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Silk Spectre Alone
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Comedian
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Ozymandias
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Rorschach
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Doctor Manhattan
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This gif is not mine but its hot! Rorschach
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keysersoze said:


Given that Batman was too pussy to actually hurt Joker, I think Rorschach would have gotten to the Joker and might have killed him ... only to realize that he himself Rorschach is just as cruel/viscious and demented as the Joker.
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Rorschach was by far the best character in that movie in my opinion.
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Burger Pimp: Yeah, there are a couple of "poses" she does that give good booty shots. The problem is that she has a flat ass.
 
Id advise reading the novel before seeing or passing judgment on the movie. You HAVE the understand the novel before you understand what your seeing on screen. Just having read the novel, 2 and a half hours still doesn't seem like enough time to tell the full width of the story. Watchmen is a character study not a typical action/super hero movie. *my 2 pennies* :D
 
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M81 said:
Id advise reading the novel before seeing or passing judgment on the movie. You HAVE the understand the novel before you understand what your seeing on screen. Just having read the novel, 2 and a half hours still doesn't seem like enough time to tell the full width of the story. Watchmen is a character study not a typical action/super hero movie. *my 2 pennies* :D
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You seem to be under the impression that the movie was confusing. It was not. I don't have to read anything if a movie is well done and tells the story well. My issue wasn't with the story. It was a good story and the characters were very different from the run of the mill superheroes. My problem was in the DIRECTING. Look at it like this: The director is the driver. The movie is the road. You can either take a bunch of back streets to get somewhere or you can take a straight line. You take a straight line and you're going the same way everyone else goes. You can take a couple of dips and duck through a few side streets and the passengers (the audience) see more. Too many back streets and people get impatient, want to get where they are going (the end) and want to get out of the car. Dude took too many back streets.
A good 3 hour movie doesn't FEEL like a three hour movie. This one did. No amount of reading is going to change that.
 
I'm gonna tell y'all right now... if you are expecting X-Men or some shit, with more violence? Comic relief and neat effects? Just don't go. Take my word for it. You are not in the right frame of mind to see this movie. And even for the rest of us, there's a pretty decent chance it will suck.

Read the comic, yeah, Manhattan is naked as fuck, swingin' balls and all. The point being, at some point he didn't see the point of clothes in general, and was annoyed that people expected him to wear them. He's lost touch with all humanity except for his connection to Laurie, the chick in the yellow latex.

This is the kind of shit that makes the book work. People are supposed to feel uncomfortable around this guy.

Mind you, all these guys who fight crime wear these obnoxious silly costumes and elaborate disguises, and here's the one truly powerful being among them, and he doesn't even like to wear clothes AT ALL. You see how that works?
 
And by the way... how come nobody was annoyed by all the overaggressive male nudity in the screamingly gay 300? I mean, I'm not homophobic, right? But after a while, I do get tired of seeing 300 dudes naked for a whole movie.

Gay friend a couple of seats over, he loved that shit.
 
Mo Pizorn said:
You seem to be under the impression that the movie was confusing. It was not. I don't have to read anything if a movie is well done and tells the story well. My issue wasn't with the story. It was a good story and the characters were very different from the run of the mill superheroes. My problem was in the DIRECTING. Look at it like this: The director is the driver. The movie is the road. You can either take a bunch of back streets to get somewhere or you can take a straight line. You take a straight line and you're going the same way everyone else goes. You can take a couple of dips and duck through a few side streets and the passengers (the audience) see more. Too many back streets and people get impatient, want to get where they are going (the end) and want to get out of the car. Dude took too many back streets.
A good 3 hour movie doesn't FEEL like a three hour movie. This one did. No amount of reading is going to change that.
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I'm not the kind who feels the moviegoer owes to anyone to read the comic. If the movie does not stand on its own, the movie fails. And for the fanboys, you all should know that Alan Moore doesn't buy into this movie being filmable at all... for several of the reasons already stated.

I also don't think that "sticking to the comic" is a cure all for comic book movies. Much like the X-Men films, the early Supermans, and Nolan's Batman, a good artist takes liberties. And film is a different medium with different requirements than comic books.
 
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Point taken. Your criticism is warranted because of the difficulty in bringing a story like this to the movies. After reading it I thought it would be difficult to translate all the nuances on screen. What might feel like back streets to you are probably things that the novel took its time in fleshing out and explaining. Again, hard to do when your pressed for time. Its a story that involves patience and if you don't know that going in then you might get bored or, as you said, impatient. Readers might enjoy it more just on the strength of seeing the characters and story come to life but they also know that not everything can be included and some things might be changed.
I guess expectations are different. After I first saw the trailer I felt compelled to read it first just to find out for myself what the fuck was going on exactly lol. Still i hope it does well so more graphic novels will be brought to screen.


Mo Pizorn said:
You seem to be under the impression that the movie was confusing. It was not. I don't have to read anything if a movie is well done and tells the story well. My issue wasn't with the story. It was a good story and the characters were very different from the run of the mill superheroes. My problem was in the DIRECTING. Look at it like this: The director is the driver. The movie is the road. You can either take a bunch of back streets to get somewhere or you can take a straight line. You take a straight line and you're going the same way everyone else goes. You can take a couple of dips and duck through a few side streets and the passengers (the audience) see more. Too many back streets and people get impatient, want to get where they are going (the end) and want to get out of the car. Dude took too many back streets.
A good 3 hour movie doesn't FEEL like a three hour movie. This one did. No amount of reading is going to change that.
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Mo Pizorn said:
Man, that movie was long as fuck and had WAY TOO MUCH MALE NUDITY for my taste.
Even though that blue mutha fucka Dr. Manhattan is partially a computer graphic generation, he is nude throughout 90% of the time he is in the movie. I know what y'all are thinking "How come you couldn't just ignore him?" Becuase the mutha fucka was a main character with hella screen time. Sorry but that shit got annoying. Its easier to ignore male nudity in porn because there's a female to focus on. They kept homeboy front and center damn near every time he was on the screen. :hmm:
Rorschach was that dude. Its like they took Ben Stiller's character from Mystery Men and made him serious and even more fucked up in the head.
I wouldn't take any children to see this film AT ALL. Its violent as fuck and graphic as hell. They break arms and show the bones snapping n' shit. Since I haven't read the comic book and didn't know shit about this flick, I had no expectations. All I know is that they could have probably shaved a good 40 minutes off this shit. Its not a bad movie but it was overdone and probably overbudget considering the end result. I'm glad I screened this because I wouldn't pay to see it.
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I'll be honest... this is a good post, but I find it hilarious, because you're stating to me, what should have been made obvious by now.

Hell no, don't take kids. I mean, it is rated R, that's a hint.

You're comparing Rorschach to a character 15 years newer. And played by Ben Stiller. You want to compare him to someone? Try these...

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He's not superhero good-guy driven-to-fight-justice crazy. He's right-wing bigot psycho killer who thinks he's the good guy crazy.
 
the whole homo thing and this board never ceases to confuse/amaze/sadden me.

this is a porno board. if someone posts a chick on here, you first want her to see her naked, after that, then you want her doing porn. her doing porno means you are actively asking to see a man that is not yourself, naked, having sex, which means penis.

the copious amounts of porn you have digested on here, video and the rest of the web means you have gawked, gazed, and digested a voluminous amount of penis (once again, that isn't yours). isn't that gay according to BGOL bylaw?
 
Varis said:
MOVIES DONT DO ALAN MOORES WORK ANY JUSTICE
im a big fan of his , loved all his comics , swampthing , Miracle Man etc , but hollywood sucks and its better to read his books than to pay to see a movie based on his book
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I agree but I'm betting this will be the exception.

NightMare Paint said:
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


Ah shit Dr. Manahatten TEABAGGIN everybody in the first 3 rows

mofo look down and have fluorescent blue pubic hairs all in their popcorn


fuck DAT shit
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
I'm reading the comic now.......slowly. Maybe I was a generation to late, but Watchmen is kinda boring to read. I came up in the 80's but was way too young to know or even read Watchmen when it came out. I'm at Volume 6 now, and it's starting to pick up but the comic was loosing me for a sec.

I know ya'll old comic nerds gonna hate but what can I say? Imma still see the movie just to witness art coming to life.
 
CruelAngel777 said:
I'm reading the comic now.......slowly. Maybe I was a generation to late, but Watchmen is kinda boring to read. I came up in the 80's but was way too young to know or even read Watchmen when it came out. I'm at Volume 6 now, and it's starting to pick up but the comic was loosing me for a sec.

I know ya'll old comic nerds gonna hate but what can I say? Imma still see the movie just to witness art coming to life.
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I felt the same way when I first read it. Liked it a lot, but not as much as a lot of people. I read it again recently, 20 years later I guess... this time I was wowed.

You probably get what we're saying now... it's not an action comic. It's a character study. With the occasional action scene.

I mean, the "tales from the black freighter" stuff... all that talk about clock-making. Alan Moore's writing is as much poetry as prose.
 
Exactly the reason this movie may bomb. A lot of people didn't read the comic and some may have read it but didn't get a understanding of it. This sounds like more of a big budget art house film(which I expected anyway). I'll be there Friday.
 

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