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Post by kylerexpop on Mar 4, 2009 22:36:11 GMT -5
i sort of dropped the ball buying everyone midnight tickets, so our new plan is to work all thursday night, close out the vault (local hipster bar), then go the 3:15 a.m. imax showing of 'watchmen.'
which will either be genius or utterly disastrous to my personal health and sense of well-being. but i figure even if the movie is lame, i'll get out at 6 a.m. so i can sort of beat traffic to the beach and just sleep on the sand.
any other major/odd 'watchmen' plans? or will you wait until next week when the crowds and hype dies down?
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Mar 4, 2009 22:43:21 GMT -5
I saw an advanced screening of it last night. Is that an odd plan?  |
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Mar 5, 2009 1:03:33 GMT -5
I saw an advanced screening of it last night. Is that an odd plan? No, but you suck and we all hate you now.  Seriously....I don't suppose this is odd at all but my husband and I bought tickets today for the 3:30 showing. I am notorious for hating crowds (and being cheap), hence the mid-day tickets. |
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 5, 2009 2:07:22 GMT -5
Seriously....I don't suppose this is odd at all but my husband and I bought tickets today for the 3:30 showing. I am notorious for hating crowds (and being cheap), hence the mid-day tickets. Same here. So I'm boring, but frugal (sounds better than cheap don'tcha know). |
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Post by jman912 on Mar 5, 2009 8:13:50 GMT -5
midnight.
i'm sure I'll be ready to get up at 6 and go back to work tomorrow
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Mar 5, 2009 8:17:45 GMT -5
I'd love to do the whole midnight screening thing, but with a class tonight, work tomorrow, and a 4-month-old at home, it's just not feasible. But as long as my friend is free this weekend, Saturday or Sunday is it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-D
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Post by Al on Mar 5, 2009 10:37:16 GMT -5
Sadly, midnight is not happening on my end. Too many of us have to get up too early the next day. Right now, it looks like a Sunday afternoon showing.
Being grown up sucks.
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Mar 5, 2009 15:21:15 GMT -5
Seriously....I don't suppose this is odd at all but my husband and I bought tickets today for the 3:30 showing. I am notorious for hating crowds (and being cheap), hence the mid-day tickets. Same here. So I'm boring, but frugal (sounds better than cheap don'tcha know). I see your "frugal" and raise you "budget minded" Also I like your new quote. I think I made an entire blog post once out of the section of the book that came from. |
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 6, 2009 1:13:26 GMT -5
I think I made an entire blog post once out of the section of the book that came from. I love that whole thing, but it wouldn't let me put it all in. Oh well. Right up there with "Isn't life...? Isn't life-?" "Isn't it, darling?" from The Garden Party. .... But to keep things on topic... Less than 14 hours to go! |
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Post by Lissa on Mar 6, 2009 9:35:48 GMT -5
I so need to finish the book. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it (and it is as awesome as advertised), and I want to finish it so I can read reviews.
Please let the kids nap today!
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Post by blinkfan on Mar 8, 2009 13:13:20 GMT -5
Just saw it yesterday! I really deeply enjoyed it. My reservations with the cast were completley unfounded and Jack Earle Haley was phenomenal. Some of the changes (Especially the small ones) really really bothered me though.
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Post by Al on Mar 8, 2009 17:08:44 GMT -5
Without going into too much detail, I'll say I was impressed overall and I think it was as good an adaptation as they could hope to have made. They certainly streamlined the heck out of it, but that' not a complaint.
I only had a few negative thoughts:
* The soundtrack. A great collection of tunes, but it felt forced more than a few times.
* The second sex scene was about twice as long as it needed to be.
* Some of the dialogue made me cringe. Particularly the stuff that came straight out of the comic. Unless you're Bogie, it's just not meant to be spoken aloud.
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 8, 2009 20:35:44 GMT -5
I only had a few negative thoughts: * The soundtrack. A great collection of tunes, but it felt forced more than a few times. * The second sex scene was about twice as long as it needed to be. I haven't said anything yet because I've been digesting it, but I agree fully on both points. There were points when the music was perfect, and then other times it pulled me right out of the movie. The sex scene really bugs me when I remember that the movie had, what, an hour and twenty minutes cut? But other than those two things (not to say that there weren't things missing, but that comes with the adaptation territory, these were the things that actively bugged me), I actually liked it a lot. Though the casting of Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who is on my Hott [with two 't's] list) completely messed around with my head while I was watching. |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Mar 9, 2009 13:04:11 GMT -5
So Lissa, did you ever get around to finishing the comic? What did you think?
As to the movie, my thoughts are pretty similar to everyone else's. Liked a lot of it- it wasn't perfect, and nothing was ever going to live up to the original story, but this was probably as close as they were ever going to come. My criticisms, few as they are:
-The music was a mixed bag... some of it worked ("The Times, They Are A-Changin'" was perfect), some of it really didn't (I love the song "Hallelujah," but not that version and not for that particular scene).
-Likewise, most of the dialogue worked but some should've been left on the comic page. Silk Spectre seemed to get the most painful dialogue, though whether it was the dialogue or the actress that made it so, I'm not sure.
-Minor thing, but I didn't like Jon just flat-out telling Laurie that Blake is her father. We're smart, let us figure it out from the clues and her reaction.
-My biggest complaint stems from the violence. Now, it's a violent story, I know that, and eliminating the violence completely would have removed its power. But Zack Snyder felt the need to show, in incredibly graphic detail, what was mostly implied or off-panel in the comic. I'm not squeamish, but to me, violence is most effective when it's implied, not shown. Rorschach's method of killing the child murderer in the comic (handcuffing him to a pipe, pouring kerosene around and burning him alive) was far more horrifying than him just burying a meat cleaver in his head, to visceral effect. And I felt it mildly betrayed the character of Nite Owl, who in the comic struck me as the most relatively "benign" of the heroes, to not intervene in some of the violence going on around him. When he and Laurie get attacked by muggers, in the comic they just beat them up. In the movie, Dan breaks one's arm so badly the bone juts out his skin, and Laurie snaps one's neck and stabs another in the neck. Sure, it's a violent universe and they're not Superman, but for Dan to just accept that without comment is not how I saw the character. (To a lesser extent, the scene where he watches while the Comedian fires a shotgun at civilians... in the comic, if memory serves, it was made clear that Comedian was firing rubber bullets, but here they seem to be real.)
But those are relatively minor things. As a movie, it's truncated and imperfect, but it's still largely successful, and that's something I never thought they'd be able to come even close to. As such, hats off!
-D
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Mar 13, 2009 5:16:42 GMT -5
Did anyone else's theater give out posters? My husband and I watched the first showing on Friday and when we came out of the theater there was a table full of six different Watchmen posters. I curse myself for not getting two of each so that I could have an extra set to give away in a contest (that is if I ever have a clever idea for another one). I got one of each, of course, but you guys can't have them. Nyah! |
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