The implication is thatAkim said:So uh I didn't know where else to post this but I just finished the motion comic...I didn't really like the ending.
Jon just blows the shit out of rorschach and the world just comes together. That kid is gonna pick up rorschachs journal. I dunno, felt like it didn't end the way I wanted.
B.K. said:
To be honest, I actually have feelings like this too.border said:I'd say that Watchmen still qualifies as mostly unfilmable.
Magnus said:Half-Blood Prince, new trailer, sort of a re-arranged version of the one posted earlier in its own thread today on gaf.
That was awesome. The music choices, and editing work on it sold me on the film.Onix said:I REALLY want to see the Salvation trailer.
Same here, always snickers. Come on, its a dong, everyone has seen one.Zanick said:Lots of people were laughing whenever there was full frontal Manhattan.
Tr4nce said:Comedian was great also.
Buckethead said:Eg: 99 Luft Balloons, Watchtower. WT is awesome, but not in the context of the scene.
birdman said:so I think it fit fairly well.Well Watchtower was quoted when Ozzy was watching the televisions in the graphic novel
Buckethead said:I like the quote in print, but its one of those things that doesn't translate.
birdman said:It probably would've worked better if it wasn't used for the whole scene and just for a snippet.
Clevinger said:Go back a page and see his retarded rant about being tired of us idiot masses enjoying our narratives unfolding for the first time, while he's content enjoying every Shakespeare story over and over again because he doesn't need it.
Yeah, he's that awful.
:lolgamerecks said:Same here, always snickers. Come on, its a dong, everyone has seen one.
Flynn said:When Dr. Manhattan is in Vietnam there's Vagner on the soundtrack. And you could tell there was an ounce of effort to make the war room where Nixon and Agnew chill look like Dr. Strangelove. But that stuff is incidental and maybe a little accidental.
It's gratuitous and basicly gore porn, lacking any kind of emotional impact beyond "fuck yeah that one's nasty". They really missed the point on that one, and on many other aspects as an adaptation. On the other hand, it really is fun to look at all that juice.NullPointer said:- They don't skimp on any violence - if anything there is far more of it in the movie than in the comic.
Well said.Prime crotch said:It's gratuitous and basicly gore porn, lacking any kind of emotional impact beyond "fuck yeah that one's nasty". They really missed the point on that one, and on many other aspects as an adaptation.On the other hand, it really is fun to look at all that juice.
polyh3dron said:Holy shit everyone has blown the Manhattan nudity WAY out of fucking proportion. It's about as much as there was in the GN.
MODERATELY SPOILER LADEN CRITIQUE BELOW:
The only way this adaptation could have been any better would have been to cast Langella or Hopkins as Nixon, Tom Cruise as Ozy, and getting rid of Bubastis since the lack of squid eliminates her reason for existence. And perhaps getting the old people makeup on a Benjamin Button level. Other than that, this adaptation was PERFECT. The music choices that everyone said were stupid were far from it. They were RIGHT ON THE MARK, including the Watchtower part and the sex scene.
My mind is blown right now. This exceeded my already high expectations. My friend I brought with me who is by NO means "of the geek cloth" and never read the comic LOVED it and understood all of it. He never got bored.
And HOW IN THE FUCK can you put this on the same level as Transformers which put the flames on Prime and turned Jazz into the token black guy who says nothing but ebonics phrases and then dies?
i don't get this, either. transformers was like Street Fighter The Movie bad. some people on neoGAF are just plain demented.polyh3dron said:And HOW IN THE FUCK can you put this on the same level as Transformers which put the flames on Prime and turned Jazz into the token black guy who says nothing but ebonics phrases and then dies?
I've got 3 friends who just saw it without reading the GN and they all enjoyed it immensely. Also, Nicolas Cage's hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid.Acid08 said:Just got back from the IMAX midnight showing
I'm VERY conflicted about this movie. I definitely liked it but....it's not Watchmen the book. I feel like if this movie is peoples first experience with Watchmen they probably won't like it at all. I really think it's integral to read the book first.
Ford Prefect said:First of all: I am not a troll. I made a post the other day about Watchmen being "the worst movie I've never seen", but that was simply a joke that derived its humor from the very absurdity of the statement. I was actually somewhat excited to see this and even expected good things-- at the very least, entertainment-- so I certainly didn't go into the movie with my mind made up.
Anyway, the closest thing I can compare this movie to is Transformers, in that both films moved me to experience very similar feelings in the vein of desperation, soullessness, and the complete emptiness of life as rendered by Les Auteurs Garbages Bay and Snyder. I never cared that much for the book in the first place, but that's completely irrelevant-- as a single entity, regardless of source material, this is one horrid, stinking pile of celluloid.
edit: wait, Transformers was less boring.
Ah, after reading all the negativity, this thread has been blessed.polyh3dron said:I've got 3 friends who just saw it without reading the GN and they all enjoyed it immensely. Also, Nicolas Cage's hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid.
Witchfinder General said:Saw it with a mate.
Terrible.
The thing is, I'm not sure if the movie is bad or that it simply made me realise how terrible the comic was (changes aside, I came home and flipped through the book and yep, it's almost verbatim) or both.
If it wasn't obvious before that Moore hates women then this movie beats you in the face with it, Snyder obviously being on the same page (ha!) as Moore in regards to misogyny.
What bothered me most was the sheer amount of contradictions (character motivations, the strawman riddled plot) and the ill-defined message the movie was trying to communicate. It didn't help that the soul-crushingly destroying pessimism and nihilism made it hard to empathise or just give a fuck about anyone or the world Moore/Snyder conceived of.
The director's cut may smooth over a few bumps but I doubt the fundamentals will change much.
As for the rest, well, the acting was fairly wooden and disconnected for the most part (which is what happens when you cast people based on their similarities to the characters they're based on and not acting ability, although The Comedian was always enjoyable to watch when he was on screen) and most of the music choices were poorly chosen and incongruous. Visually the movie looked good but failed to capture Gibbon's solid, vivid imagery and Jesus on a pogo-stick, I wish Snyder had a setting between gratuitous slo-mo and blink-and-you'll-miss-it quick cuts.
Ah, well, it was still better than The Dark Knight.
Yes.Buckethead said:-Nixon's nose was too big. More distracting than big blue.
dmshaposv said:To those people who have seen the movie:
How many people walked out when the Comedianshot the vietnamese pregnant lady
My friend (who hadn't read the comic) next to me was like "fuck this shit" and almost walked out before I stopped him. Damn, a lot of people were outraged by that than the blue peins.
dmshaposv said:To those people who have seen the movie:
How many people walked out when the Comedianshot the vietnamese pregnant lady
My friend (who hadn't read the comic) next to me was like "fuck this shit" and almost walked out before I stopped him. Damn, a lot of people were outraged by that than the blue peins. :lol
Personally, that was one of my favourite scenes. Now I wish I could see more of Jeffery Dean Morgan as the comedian.