I'm still trying to figure out what problem people have with the sex scene. I thought the music fit great and, while I could conceivably see them chopping it a little bit if they needed to, thought the length was appropriate.
forty two to say that there is no plot in the movie is pretty goddamned dumb
I know it has a plot. But the plot gets lost on screen because we had to get everyone's backstory in there. I get that, but see - sometime what works in print does not work on the screen.
Call it the Tom Bombadil principle.
first 30 minutes - sets the plot. Then its 2:20 of backstory and then it all gets resolved in the final two minutes.
It was paced terribly.
if you cut out all the backstory you have like a 20 minute movie and like a 15 page comic book.
No one in my theatre laughed during the Nixon scenes. They weren't great but I tought Kissinger was really good.
I realized watching this just how impossible it would have been to fit all that story into it without losing the audience. The way they condensed it was very well done.
a girl in front of me audibly gasped during the profile shot of Nixon
it was one of the purest expressions of shock I've ever heard, like a kid who's afraid of heights just before the plunge on Splash Mountain
forty two to say that there is no plot in the movie is pretty goddamned dumb
I know it has a plot. But the plot gets lost on screen because we had to get everyone's backstory in there. I get that, but see - sometime what works in print does not work on the screen.
Call it the Tom Bombadil principle.
first 30 minutes - sets the plot. Then its 2:20 of backstory and then it all gets resolved in the final two minutes.
It was paced terribly.
if you cut out all the backstory you have like a 20 minute movie and like a 15 page comic book.
You don't cut ALL the backstory. Hell, but the movie could have been paced a whole lot better. A whole lot better.
watching this, i realized how much of my enjoyment of the book is tied up in basically everything but the main plot
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also I forgot to mention the most amazing part of the movie experience for me. Before the movie started they had this girl who worked there stand at the front of the theater and do Watchmen trivia for prizes. They called up 5 people to do some trivia and luckily I was already heading toward the front because they had one of those candy carts in there and Iw as going to get me some Reese Bites. I was one of the first two at the front and my question was 'How did the comedian get the scar on his face', I answered correctly and won a free movie pass and showed off my skills infront of a buncha neckbeards.
One minor thing that bugged me in the movie was, since Laurie doesn't smoke, she just sort of mashes the flamethrower button for no reason. In the book it's because she mistook it for a lighter, but in the movie it's just like "ooh fire I bet that does somethin' neat."
One minor thing that bugged me in the movie was, since Laurie doesn't smoke, she just sort of mashes the flamethrower button for no reason. In the book it's because she mistook it for a lighter, but in the movie it's just like "ooh fire I bet that does somethin' neat."
One minor thing that bugged me in the movie was, since Laurie doesn't smoke, she just sort of mashes the flamethrower button for no reason. In the book it's because she mistook it for a lighter, but in the movie it's just like "ooh fire I bet that does somethin' neat."
One minor thing that bugged me in the movie was, since Laurie doesn't smoke, she just sort of mashes the flamethrower button for no reason. In the book it's because she mistook it for a lighter, but in the movie it's just like "ooh fire I bet that does somethin' neat."
i feel like this is kind of an overarching problem with the whole movie. stuff happens because that's how it is in the book, but without considering why it's that way in the book.
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The sex scene was great. It was at once both explicit and not. They showed you everything, but there was a whole lot more that they weren't showing you as well.
In a comic book, you don't have to be explicit, because the reader can stare at the panel as long as they like, and even come back to it later on, if they think they missed something. A movie doesn't have that luxury. Sometimes a movie has to spell things out.
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In a comic book, you don't have to be explicit, because the reader can stare at the panel as long as they like, and even come back to it later on, if they think they missed something. A movie doesn't have that luxury. Sometimes a movie has to spell things out.
this couldn't really be more ridiculous
of course you don't have to be explicit in a movie
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Graves your sig is awesome.
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One minor thing that bugged me in the movie was, since Laurie doesn't smoke, she just sort of mashes the flamethrower button for no reason. In the book it's because she mistook it for a lighter, but in the movie it's just like "ooh fire I bet that does somethin' neat."
i feel like this is kind of an overarching problem with the whole movie. stuff happens because that's how it is in the book, but without considering why it's that way in the book.
I don't know if I'd go that far. The only other time I remember it happening is Bubastis.
The sex scene was great. It was at once both explicit and not. They showed you everything, but there was a whole lot more that they weren't showing you as well.
In a comic book, you don't have to be explicit, because the reader can stare at the panel as long as they like, and even come back to it later on, if they think they missed something. A movie doesn't have that luxury. Sometimes a movie has to spell things out.
not to mention the lyrics (as well as their timing) were hilarious.
In a comic book, you don't have to be explicit, because the reader can stare at the panel as long as they like, and even come back to it later on, if they think they missed something. A movie doesn't have that luxury. Sometimes a movie has to spell things out.
this couldn't really be more ridiculous
of course you don't have to be explicit in a movie
you're misreading me.
There is an intrinsic difference in the mediums we are talking about.
With a comic, you can open to any page at any time.
With a movie, especially in a theater, you are forced to sit through it sequentially, and as such you are able to afford a little bit less subtlety when it comes to key plot points. (Honestly, I'm thinking more about the end of the conversation on Mars, here, but I figure it's still relevant to any plot points)
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The sex scene was great. It was at once both explicit and not. They showed you everything, but there was a whole lot more that they weren't showing you as well.
they could have showed you some, then done the flamethrower
or showed you all they did, and not done the flamethrower
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Yeah, but on screen after the overtly long and needlessly graphic and awkward sex scene with that song to it the flamethrower was ridiculous.
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And then pinched my gfs badonkadonk.
She made a face like don't do that.
And I made a face like
if you cut out all the backstory you have like a 20 minute movie and like a 15 page comic book.
a girl in front of me audibly gasped during the profile shot of Nixon
it was one of the purest expressions of shock I've ever heard, like a kid who's afraid of heights just before the plunge on Splash Mountain
that's how big Nixon's nose was
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they should have kept the billie holiday song
You don't cut ALL the backstory. Hell, but the movie could have been paced a whole lot better. A whole lot better.
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That's from the previous scene.
I like that they showed Laurie putting the coffee cups back into the cabinet.
the thing is in the book it was a classy metaphor
it was kind of a cutaway like "ya look you know what's happenin' here"
in the movie there is no such metaphor because for some reason apparently we are shown all of it
so it just becomes "ORGASMS M I RITE?"
and the guy behind you made a face like
It felt a lot longer. It was awkward and needlessly graphic.
Just like bad sex it felt longer than it was, it was horribly awkward and ended with people feeling dirty and shameful.
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Classy metaphor my ass.
They didn't pussyfoot around sex in the book.
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Seriously, it's fucking Hendrix in 'Nam, quit nerding out in the bad way
Yeah that pissed me off a bunch.
OOH LIGHTS
OH HEY MISSILES LOOKS DANGEROUS
OOH FIRE
maybe she thought it was the heater
i feel like this is kind of an overarching problem with the whole movie. stuff happens because that's how it is in the book, but without considering why it's that way in the book.
I was just making a cute joke
shame they weren't in 'Nam
because then it wouldn't have come off as completely bizarre
The sex scene was great. It was at once both explicit and not. They showed you everything, but there was a whole lot more that they weren't showing you as well.
In a comic book, you don't have to be explicit, because the reader can stare at the panel as long as they like, and even come back to it later on, if they think they missed something. A movie doesn't have that luxury. Sometimes a movie has to spell things out.
oh wait sorry, i'm mixing up my scenes, but still, that song fit perfectly with the antarctica scene, but it had NOTHING TO DO WITH BSG
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this couldn't really be more ridiculous
of course you don't have to be explicit in a movie
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I know, I was just nerd-punching over the internet, I forgive you.
I don't know if I'd go that far. The only other time I remember it happening is Bubastis.
And I guess the balloon ads.
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not to mention the lyrics (as well as their timing) were hilarious.
you're misreading me.
There is an intrinsic difference in the mediums we are talking about.
With a comic, you can open to any page at any time.
With a movie, especially in a theater, you are forced to sit through it sequentially, and as such you are able to afford a little bit less subtlety when it comes to key plot points. (Honestly, I'm thinking more about the end of the conversation on Mars, here, but I figure it's still relevant to any plot points)
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they could have showed you some, then done the flamethrower
or showed you all they did, and not done the flamethrower
but both just came off as a touch clumsy to me
the jizz my pants song