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Saturday Morning Watchmen (Spoilers)
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I'm not saying it had to be more subtle, just that it could have been more poignant. I just felt that it was very ineffectively handled cinematically.
Most of the action scenes seemed really old hat to me.
I mean, yeah he was thrown so hard into that marble it CRACK IN THE SHAPE OF HIS HEAD!! There was nary a sharp corner of stone that did not have a spine slammed into it. Grown people getting thrown around like rag-dolls.
Sure, it was pretty, but it is something that has been done in every superhero movie for the last 10 years. Much of the action sequences, to me, looked like they could have easily been in other movies, but these just happened to be the Watchmen involved.
All in all it seemed very generic. There was nothing that set this apart from other action movies. The psychological commentary got overshadowed and it was paced terribly.
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One question:
The fuck was with the horned tiger?
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what would you have wanted differently?
I thought that they handled it perfectly fine with the flashback, and then had Doc confirm it explicitly, for the sake of folks who weren't getting it.
Then, just as Laurie's entire world is being shattered, she shatters the structure behind her.
The Comedian's line being repeated over and over again would've been retarded in the film.
I think if the flashback montage had included Laurie getting drunk and telling off the Comedian it would've been fine.
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Bubastis is a genetically engineered lynx.
It's just another one of the things that are weird in the comic without clear explanation. It's an affectation of Ozymandias is the best that you'll get.
works fine
Since that plotline's not in the movie though, Bubastis really needed to get cut.
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I'll spoiler that for good measure i guess
One thing I noticed:
I think that this means that
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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Well yea they've already said they filmed this scene.
You see scenes from this in trailers
Man, I don't know. It makes a pretty great moment in my head.
But really, let's not discuss this more, it's the most minor of minor criticisms I have.
It's not some kind of natural byproduct.
It is still just a strange thing that Ozy decided he wanted.
It's tiny though, in the dinner scene with Dan and Laurie a woman says in the background "Boy, I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken."
I didn't catch that at all, but when Doug Roth is interviewing him at the start he mentions that Veidt Enterprises has done a lot of research into genetic engineering.
It's really not enough though, especially since the scenes are at opposite ends of the movie.
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it is still ENTIRELY relevant.
The movie actually tied together something that just kind of hung loose in the book.
In the book EVERY advance in science is thanks to Doc. He has really brought the world far ahead of where it would have been.
In the movie, not only do they reflect that, but they then turn it around on the people.
I also imagined Rorschach's monotone voice being closer to The Question's voice acting from his appearances in the DCAU.
How so?
I mean it is made apparent that he won Vietnam and that he is the reason there hasn't been a nuclear war, but other than that how were Doc's "advances" shown in the world?
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The acting all around was pretty off.
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I am wary.
really? I liked Jim Dale reading Harry Potter better. Jim Dale is amazing. He does all the voices like Hermione so well that you don't even notice it's a dude most of the time
Electric cars, air ships like Archie, spark hydrants, Rorschach's mask - almost all of the sci-fi stuff was due to Manhattan's advances in science.
Nothing in the movie indicated that
Exactly.
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Archie the Owl Ship? Dan's laser utility cutting tool, I'm sure I'm missing some other thigns
yeah for real her ass was pretty so-so
Really? I thought Night Owl II, Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan were all pretty spot on.
Oops, sorry, I thought you were just asking how all of that stuff was explained, period.
Rorschach was good, I liked him - My girlfriend did not. Night Owl II was pretty forgettable, good but nothing to write home about.
As for Doc. I mean I know he is supposed to be aloof, but it almost seems he was trying too hard here.
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absolutely. I think Malin's character was a little off, but I think that was more because of the story adjustments they had to make than Malin Akerman's acting. Dan was great too, he got the insecurity down. The Doc and the Comedian were both executed exactly the way I expected it to be.
"You sound bitter"
"Haha, me? Bitter? Fuck no. I think it's hilarious"
oh they are a sight to behold
But I do hope Rorschach's origin is in the Director's cut.
I kind of like what they did with Jon - I always imagined a kind of otherwordly voice coming from him (kind of like what he sounds like when he's big) but having him sound like a completely normal, slightly shy human actually underscores his personality even more.