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Saturday Morning Watchmen (Spoilers)

CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Social Entropy++
Has anyone made a new Watchmen thread yet? Because fuck if I'm going to have to roll out this shit again.

Watchmen is a 1985 comic book centered around the exploits of a decent number of costumed avengers during the Cold War era. It was a huge marketing success and later branched off into a wide variety of mediums, including:

A Saturday morning cartoon:
[URL=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6KpsJs1Io"]A Saturday morning cartoon:[/URL]

Action Figures:

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Archie Comics:

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Forum Threads:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=84052&highlight=Watchmen
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=84593&highlight=Watchmen
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=82739&highlight=Watchmen

A whole bunch of other crap:

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Tomorrow the franchise will dominate all corners of the market with the release of "The Watchmen: The Movie".

NOTABLE REVIEWS
Roger Ebert wrote:
The film is rich enough to be seen more than once. I plan to see it again, this time on IMAX, and will have more to say about it. I’m not sure I understood all the nuances and implications, but I am sure I had a powerful experience. It’s not as entertaining as “The Dark Knight,” but like the “Matrix” films, LOTR and “The Dark Knight,” it’s going to inspire fevered analysis. I don’t want to see it twice for that reason, however, but mostly just to have the experience again.
Peter Howel at Toronto Star wrote:
Against considerable odds, Snyder has directed a movie that should satisfy fanboys while engaging adventurous newcomers.
David Gordon at Newsweek wrote:
Snyder has appropriated Moore's doomsday themes without any sense of how to animate them. That's the trouble with loyalty. Too little, and you alienate your core fans. Too much, and you lose everyone -- and everything -- else.

We've all discussed the crap out of this to the point where nothing more can really be said until we all see it tomorrow, so I don't believe there is a need for going into much depth about it.

So until midnight tonight, enjoy discussing how rude Silk Specter's boobies will be and maybe post that dog comic another 23 times.
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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    has anyone made a thread about Franz Kafka yet?

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Does he have a movie made about him?

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    requesting the thread title be changed to Watchmen Animated Series Discussion.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Haha, what is that Archie thing from?

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Request pending.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    that gif is the best thing

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    In Memory of 4 Idiots

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    make one of Rorschach juggling pies

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Cristoval wrote: »
    Does he have a movie made about him?
    Yes. Yes he does.

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Well damn, somebody better get on that then!

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    That SatAM Watchmen is the best thing to come out of Newgrounds since I don't know I haven't been to the site since I was in high school.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    that is making me giggle at work

    cut that out rolo

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ah-haha!

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Cristoval wrote: »
    NOTABLE REVIEWS
    Roger Ebert wrote:
    The film is rich enough to be seen more than once. I plan to see it again, this time on IMAX, and will have more to say about it. I’m not sure I understood all the nuances and implications, but I am sure I had a powerful experience. It’s not as entertaining as “The Dark Knight,” but like the “Matrix” films, LOTR and “The Dark Knight,” it’s going to inspire fevered analysis. I don’t want to see it twice for that reason, however, but mostly just to have the experience again.
    Here's his review of his second time around
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/03/were_all_puppets_laurie_im_jus.html

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Why does he even bother to make love with Laurie Jupiter? Not for his own pleasure, I'm convinced. And not to father a Little Manhattan, either, because as I understand his body he would ejaculate only energy.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    God it must rule to watch movies and write about them for a living.

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  • DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    IF I CAN FIND SOMEONE TO GO WITH, I WILL GO TO THE MIDNIGHT SCREENING OF THIS TONIGHT AT MUVICO STARLIGHT 20 ON BRUCE B DOWNS IN NEW TAMPA, FL.

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Will be in white unmarked van?

    Has candy?

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    wrong coast, sorry dude

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Dislexic wrote: »
    IF I CAN FIND SOMEONE TO GO WITH, I WILL GO TO THE MIDNIGHT SCREENING OF THIS TONIGHT AT MUVICO STARLIGHT 20 ON BRUCE B DOWNS IN NEW TAMPA, FL.

    COME ALONE OR WITH WEAK FRIEND

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  • TommytivaTommytiva Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    that cartoon would kick so much ass

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  • AngryAngry The glory I had witnessed was just a sleight of handRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    dang, that second ebert review really makes me wish i had bought imax tickets.

    fuck WEM though.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
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    Dr Manhattan arrived to London yesternight, decided to show us how puny humans are and how large his schlong is, floating over the River Thames. He was projected using the largest water projector in the world
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    Videos here

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  • AngryAngry The glory I had witnessed was just a sleight of handRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    neat.

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ebert's second review is pretty interesting

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    someone should dress up as Manhattans dick for a midnight showing.

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  • FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I like meeting people who know about the Watchmen movie but don't know that it's a book aswell.

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  • AngryAngry The glory I had witnessed was just a sleight of handRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    god forbid.

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    sarukun wrote: »
    God it must rule to watch movies and write about them for a living.
    Im getting mixed signals from you here.

    In one thread all movies are shit.

    IN another you want to review them as a living?

    You are as bananas as the monkey in your avatar, saru.

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv_I1cUdOyY&feature=dir

    Edit: Jesus that still frame is disturbing!

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2009
    In the canon of comic-book movies, it's not as campy bad as the Batman starring George Clooney, but nowhere near the caliber of the Spider-Man movies or The Dark Knight. It may have more style, but it's only a jot more entertaining than Catwoman.

    oh, claudia puig

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  • McClyMcCly Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Franko wrote: »
    I like meeting people who know about the Watchmen movie but don't know that it's a book aswell.

    Watchmen? that's the one with Batman, right?

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  • Ness445Ness445 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    the first post is missing the most vital product available.

    watchmen condoms. http://www.comicvine.com/news/watchmencondoms/137991/

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    No Great Name wrote: »
    Here's his review of his second time around
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/03/were_all_puppets_laurie_im_jus.html

    Awesome.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    McCly wrote: »
    Franko wrote: »
    I like meeting people who know about the Watchmen movie but don't know that it's a book aswell.

    Watchmen? that's the one with Batman, right?

    I'm going to see this tonight with two dudes how have no idea that it's a book.


    I should warn them about all the dongers they're about to encounter.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Bedlam wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    God it must rule to watch movies and write about them for a living.
    Im getting mixed signals from you here.

    In one thread all movies are shit.

    IN another you want to review them as a living?

    You are as bananas as the monkey in your avatar, saru.

    Whoa, whoa, when did I say all movies are shit?


    Are you sure you're not confusing me with some one else?


    I'm like the one guy who is going "You guys think that movie sucked, what's wrong with you?" in like every movie thread.

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