Not at all. Just don't think the medium is as "important" as some would have it. It's entertainment, Good entertainment but nothing more. Sorry!!!
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Do you apply the same to any written medium Merlin so long as it's fiction?
Oh you should go for sure!!!! It's an amazing ride, just be prepared to poke holes through the ending. Another hole, in order to accept things, you have to believe that other world leaders would take Richard freakin Nixon at his word. :lol:
Won't have time for a PM today,(work today, show tonight), but I'll write you something soon.
I haven't read it but sight unseen I'm willing to grant Watchmen a place in the literary canon...it can replace Jane Austen's writings. It cannot possibly be worse. :lol:
Each to their own. I would say if you don't like it, and don't want to say anything that actually matters a whit then you shouldn't come into the thread. It seems to me to be counteractive to any productive or interesting discussion, but more so an attempt to just annoy people who actually do like comic books and post in this thread for that reason.
Moving on ...
I loved the movie. It was really, really good. Aaron and I saw it on IMAX last night, and aside from the nerdy teenage boys that seemed to fill the theater and talked and reeked of cheap booze, it was a great experience. Plus, Dr. M's penis was like 3 feet tall. :scared:
I saw it on IMAX last night/this morning as well. Amazing x infinity.
And seriously, how fucking awesome was Jackie as Rorschach? Unbelievable.
I was worried he wouldn't be good, but he was amazing.
My favorite scene with Rorschach was the part where...
Spoiler: 03-07-2009 07:48 AMSamThat was my favorite part of the entire book too Hannah. It reminded a lot me of Frank Castle. 03-07-2009 08:18 AMHarraldFreakin' great!!!!
Spoilers below....I can't get the spoiler tag to work.
Spoiler: 03-07-2009 09:17 AMsarahoooo I'm so glad everyone was loving it. I won't have a chance to see it until next week. I'm so happy it doesn't suck. I was nervous that it would. 03-07-2009 09:38 AMfernanditoQuote:That was my favorite part too :wub:
And in close second - the scene where Blake jumps off Archemedes and lands in the midst of the riot below in slo-mo! :drool:
/nerdgasm
You need to see it while it's still in theaters sugarpop! And in IMAX, if you can :D 03-07-2009 10:22 AMturtlexSorry, saying "Watchmen" is a Comic Book... is like saying "Maus" is a graphic novel. Or The Dark Tower Books are a good story.
Watchmen - so much more. Either you get it, or you don't.
I'm hoping to get to a show on Sunday - I'm on call, so am not supposed to be out of touch, but well... come on! If I don't get there tomorrow, it will be a whole week before I can even attempt it. And, well, I may go nuts!
Feev - I've heard all kinds of good stuff about JEH! 03-07-2009 10:25 AMUnfound OneI'm going tonight I'm going tonight I'm going tonight. 03-07-2009 10:29 AMturtlexUnfound One - Have a great time! Report in when you get home, now. 03-07-2009 01:35 PMUnfound OneOh I shall, have no doubt!
And you can call me SJ. :) 03-07-2009 02:21 PMflaggwalksthelineI just saw it, got home from the theater 10 minutes ago, Wow was that good
Wow
Just Wow 03-07-2009 02:31 PMSigTauGimpI watched it last night. :rock:
I thought it was vuuurrrry good, and agree with what most other's have said. I really like how they portrayed NiteOwl, too...I didn't really care for him in the comic, but seeing him in the movie actually changed my mind a bit. 03-07-2009 02:53 PMflaggwalksthelineI was actually quite surprised how dan and lorry kill some of the thugs they fight in the alleyway 03-07-2009 03:08 PMTatts4LifeI went with a group of friends to go see this last night. My wife and i thought it was a great movie. Of course during a few scene with Dr. Manhattan the women in the group couldn't hold in their girlish nature. 03-07-2009 08:27 PMSeymour_GlassBefore I get into the actual movie discussion let me say that a lot of the "literary classics" were considered pop entertainment in their own times. And you're right that comics are a visual medium. I compare comics to films more often than I do to novels.
And yeah, it is a fucking comic book. But, If you let me rant a bit here, it's just as valid a medium as film or prose. The sheer room for detail really outweighs a novel, because you can have a very detailed, well-defined room without having to tediously explain every detail. But it can be pored over like a book. Visual connections can be made in ways that can't be done in film without a maddeningly slow pace or a ready pause button. Huge amounts of symbolism can be put into a single panel.
Also, because of the hoity-toity academics who refuse to accept them (I'm not including you in that category), there's room for real experimentation. No worries about how it will be received. Comic creators can say "fuck you" to critics more easily than people in any other medium. Do they? Mostly, no. They trod out the same old shit. But that's no different from anywhere else. And there are some people, even some superhero writers (*cough* Grant Morrison*cough*) who are willing to experiment in ways that often the babymen who live in their mother's basements can't understand, and therefore hate.
And there are people, like you, who just haven't really read any stories that validate the medium. And some people think Watchmen is the cream of the crop, but those people aren't comic fans. They haven't sifted through the average to find the gems. But the gems are there. Though maybe you have to dig deeper than you care to.
But in the end, fuck it. it's just a comic book. Whatever that means. 03-07-2009 08:59 PMSeymour_GlassAbout the actual film. I apologize for the longishness of the above post. This one might be longer.
The opening scene had me worried. it was really over-the-top actiony, and it didn't click the way the rest of the fight scenes did. It took too long, i thought. I would have gone with the original opening.
The credits were interesting. I don't know if I enjoyed them or not.
Jackie Earle Haley was amazing as Rorschach. Nuff said.
The soundtrack was interesting, but I liked it.
Nixon was weird.
Spoiler: 03-08-2009 12:41 AMSpencerI'm right with you about everything in the spoiler tags. As far as the ending being more plausible, I disagree, for reasons I'll get into when more people have seen the movie.
As far as the big reveal, what bothered me is this. The original scene was filmed, you see it there on screen. I personally, was waiting for the parts of the key sentence to be replayed in fragments and then put back together, just like it was in the novel, but it wasn't, instead, the big reveal is just proclaimed, a "OK this is what it all means" moment. I was like "a movie director who's crowing about how faithful he is to the comic couldn't find an editing machine to cut that scene the mindblowing way it appears in the comic? Hell, I could have done it with 2 1980's era VCRS and a pause button!" :lol: 03-08-2009 05:55 AMSeymour_GlassYep.
And I just think it was more plausible because I never found any mention in the comic book to how theySpoiler: 03-08-2009 05:56 AMSpencerHere's a paragraph on the ending from ign.com, which echoes what I said a couple of months ago, but more articulately. :lol:
Spoiler: 03-08-2009 05:58 AMSpencer