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*sigh* Why did I read Watchmen again?

switzky21switzky21 __BANNED USERS regular
edited June 2007 in Social Entropy++
Every time I read it I hate myself and the world more. Mostly because
I believe that what Veidt did was totally...not right...but not wrong. Necessary?

On that note, it is still a totally awesome book. Everyone talk about how awesome it is.

Also! Apparently the movie adaptation...is set in the present.

what the fuck

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    switzky21 wrote: »
    Every time I read it I hate myself and the world more. Mostly because
    I believe that what Veidt did was totally...not right...but not wrong. Necessary?

    On that note, it is still a totally awesome book. Everyone talk about how awesome it is.

    Also! Apparently the movie adaptation...is set in the present.

    what the fuck

    No it's not.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Wiki wrote:
    Snyder said that Warner Bros. was agreeable to the 1980s script that had been turned in. In the script, the director had also added a title montage sequence to introduce the events of alternate history United States in that time period to the audience.

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  • switzky21switzky21 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2007
    Furu wrote: »
    Wiki wrote:
    Snyder said that Warner Bros. was agreeable to the 1980s script that had been turned in. In the script, the director had also added a title montage sequence to introduce the events of alternate history United States in that time period to the audience.

    Yeah, but:

    http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=27

    That seems to indicate (along with other problems) that it's set in the present, like Hayter's script.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    switzky21 wrote: »
    Furu wrote: »
    Wiki wrote:
    Snyder said that Warner Bros. was agreeable to the 1980s script that had been turned in. In the script, the director had also added a title montage sequence to introduce the events of alternate history United States in that time period to the audience.

    Yeah, but:

    http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=27

    That seems to indicate (along with other problems) that it's set in the present, like Hayter's script.
    Reviewed by: El Chavo - 07.20.06

    The movie is just now going into production. This review is from over a year ago.

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  • switzky21switzky21 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2007
    Furu wrote: »
    switzky21 wrote: »
    Furu wrote: »
    Wiki wrote:
    Snyder said that Warner Bros. was agreeable to the 1980s script that had been turned in. In the script, the director had also added a title montage sequence to introduce the events of alternate history United States in that time period to the audience.

    Yeah, but:

    http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=27

    That seems to indicate (along with other problems) that it's set in the present, like Hayter's script.
    Reviewed by: El Chavo - 07.20.06

    The movie is just now going into production. This review is from over a year ago.

    Touche.

    Also, any word on confirmed casting?

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    switzky21 wrote: »
    Furu wrote: »
    switzky21 wrote: »
    Furu wrote: »
    Wiki wrote:
    Snyder said that Warner Bros. was agreeable to the 1980s script that had been turned in. In the script, the director had also added a title montage sequence to introduce the events of alternate history United States in that time period to the audience.

    Yeah, but:

    http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=27

    That seems to indicate (along with other problems) that it's set in the present, like Hayter's script.
    Reviewed by: El Chavo - 07.20.06

    The movie is just now going into production. This review is from over a year ago.

    Touche.

    Also, any word on confirmed casting?

    Not a one. Gerard Butler may or may not be in it is about as much as anyone actually knows.

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  • suttbeckssuttbecks Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    AICN told me once that Patrick Wilson was Nite Owl, Jude Law was Ozymandias, and Keanu Reeves was rumored to be Doc Manhattan

    I like the first two, the third not so much

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I stopped believing anything that came out of AICN's shit hole when their article for the Onimusha movie insisted the main character is named Onimusha.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I love Watchmen, but it never fails to make me depressed after reading it.

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  • DaySleeperDaySleeper regular
    edited June 2007
    suttbecks wrote: »
    AICN told me once that Patrick Wilson was Nite Owl, Jude Law was Ozymandias, and Keanu Reeves was rumored to be Doc Manhattan

    I like the first two, the third not so much

    I think Keanu might be uniquely qualified to portray someone who has completely lost touch with his humanity and is amazed by everything that happens around him because he is not really connected with 'now' in the traditional sense.

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Rorschach.

    ;_;

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    The director was trying to get Tom Cruise to be Ozymandias. Tom Cruise was apparently really really close to signing on, but for some reason, it didn't happen.
    Sort of a bummer. I think Tom Cruise would have been a good Ozymandias.

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  • StarfuckStarfuck Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2007
    cthulu males a great a villain

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Relevent to the thread on so many levels.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    pffft watchmen

    too much talking and everybody was a fag

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    no u talk 2 much fag

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    Blue Guy all running around with his dong flopping around

    Insecure Fat Man all trying to bone Slut Girl and not getting it up

    gaaaaaaaaaay

    i think there's a printing error in my copy, some of the pages are a stupid pirate story

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I think your hate for everything good and pure has rippled through the quantamsphere and broke my mechanical pencil.

    I hope you're fucking happy.

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  • AWIYAWIY Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I barely even know what this is

    Is it a comic?

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    moer like butt pirates

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Watchmen would lose half it's meaning as a film.
    No thanks.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    steven segall could be inkblot man

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  • UrianUrian __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2007
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    The director was trying to get Tom Cruise to be Ozymandias. Tom Cruise was apparently really really close to signing on, but for some reason, it didn't happen.
    Sort of a bummer. I think Tom Cruise would have been a good Ozymandias.

    No, Tom Cruise wanted to do it but Zack Snyder (the director) basically turned him down.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Justin Timberlake as Nite Owl, Jennifer Gardner as the Silk Spectre.

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    lostwords wrote: »
    Justin Timberlake as Nite Owl

    not fat enough

    brian posehn

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    But how else are we going to get the mtv kids to watch this movie?


    I really want to see how they advertise the movie, probably make it all "Look, Spider-man and superheroes!! Action! And Pirates!!"

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Christopher Walken as everyone.

    I'd watch it.

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    Justin Timberlake as Nite Owl

    not fat enough

    brian posehn

    Robin Williams as the Comedian.

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    He'll need a catch phrase though.
    Something we can put on t-shirts.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2007
    switzky15 was way better than switzky21

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  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    he could be all 'knock, knock'

    and a vietnamese girl could go 'who's there'

    and then he rapes her

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  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    also a fight scene with a gigantic mechanical spider somewhere

    wall to wall action

    interspersed with a fight against doctor manhattan's bodyguards

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    now i have to watch that kevin smith video again

    :(

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    The movie will suck.

    The comic, however, was and is excellent

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  • GABBO GABBO GABBOGABBO GABBO GABBO Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    he could be all 'knock, knock'

    and a vietnamese girl could go 'who's there'

    and then he rapes her

    "Knock, Knock"
    hmmm.
    I could see it working.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    the movie might not suck, guys, let's not kill this poor baby bird before it even leaves the nest

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  • ShoggothShoggoth Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I remember the first time I read Watchmen. I was like 17 and found the trade in my dad's old box of comics. It was Christmas vacation so no school. I sat down and read it cover to cover in like two days. It was magical. I probably reread it once a year now.

    I'm sure the movie will be a a complete fucking travesty on all accounts.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Berk wrote: »
    also a fight scene with a gigantic mechanical spider somewhere

    I remember that from the old superman script by Kevin Smith.

    Mark Waid actually did put a Giant Robot Spider in Superman: Birthright, and it didn't feel out of place at all.

    And Giant Robot Spiders would've only made Returns better.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited June 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    Justin Timberlake as Nite Owl

    not fat enough

    brian posehn

    jeff goldblum

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    Keith wrote: »
    Knob wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    Justin Timberlake as Nite Owl

    not fat enough

    brian posehn

    jeff goldblum

    Ray Romano.

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