Its So Close

[High Monika]

Was writing for a minute, Lab is right though. This summary is totally inadequate. Read it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

I am excited as fuck for the Watchment movie. Quick and dirty: set in alternate reality 1980's US. Everyone anxious, nervous as people assume Mutually Assured Destruction and superheroes exist. Except they're more like Batman - they're just exceptionally good vigilantes. Someone starts killing off the old heroes and two of the old heroes try to find out why.

Dr. Manhattan: only person with actual powers, got them in a cell splitting blah blah. Fucking blue, instant teleportation for himself or anyone else, can see the cellular AND mechanical structure

Comedian: US gov't agent, sociopath tendencies. Gun and brute force.

Rorschach: Extremely strong, borderline crazy, any means necessary.

Nite Owl: nerdy gadget guy, minor physical strength. Extremely neurotic.

Silk Spectre: hot female character, agile, intelligent.

Ozymandias: supergenius, strength and agility almost unmatched, billionaire businessman.

[gfunkdocta]

when the blue guy and the sexy girl finally meet and get it on in that 3d sphere

i lost my mind

[mrip]

the spirit looks dope

sam jackson

scarlett jo

yee yee

[Lab]

the spirit is gonna b great so excited

will eisner r.i.p.

[Handlethevibe]

Overall, was pretty amazing, aside from all the black people, like usual, screaming out "OH SHIT NIGGA" whenever anything happened, or freaking out during Deebo's cameo. Heath Ledger was incredible, and hilarious. Every character was fully fleshed out and developed, and the action scenes weren't super chopped up and incoherent like in Batman Begins. A few things irked me though. The CGI two-face was fucking crap and took away from the gritty realism of the film, the whole zomg Patriot-Act sonar shit was kinda meh, and Commissioner Gordon's perfect, angelic, blond hair blue eyed kids seemed a little out of place.

Also, The Spirit looks awful, aside from the women.

[azn8oi]

ha, you guys are talking about trailers that didn't even play during the imax.

watch it in imax.

[calvin1663]

I thought it was good (nowhere near the godlike merit the supernerds at imdb have rated it though), but had one big issue:

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I thought the love interest (maggie gyllenhaal) was terrible. She wasn't cute, interesting, nothing. There was no backstory to why bruce wayne loved her, or why she loved him. She was really dull, I wanted to feel bad for her when she got blown up, but her character did nothing for me.

[Lab]

did you watch batman begins?

that was the backstory.

[artificialsky]

Overall, was pretty amazing, aside from all the black people, like usual, screaming out "OH SHIT NIGGA" whenever anything happened, or freaking out during Deebo's cameo.

Black people ruin everything. I bet it was OMC doing the screaming.

[gas prices kill]

This movie has changed my life.

I loved every minute.

I suggest that everyone watch this movie... immediately.

[broneck]

I'm up in the air about some things...sonar for one.

but i can say that the joker made me really, really uncomfortable...like i didn't want any more of him, that uncomfortable. fuck he was awful. ugh.

action wise, there is really no fucking with that movie...

[azn8oi]

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i realized a couple of hours ago that batman didn't really use any tools from his belt this time, did he?

just those sticky bombs and grappling hooks to pull the swat away.

like he shouldve just fucked up those dogs with some kind of tool. smoke nade or some shit.

[Lab]

Batman, throughout his history, has always sucked at fighting dogs.

He can beat up tigers, Catwoman, and Killer Croc all the time...but dogs....nah not even.

[onemancult]

Black people ruin everything. I bet it was OMC doing the screaming.

...this thread is about what?

[Tyro1]

fverNlrOKLU

[sushijerk]

That Spirit trailer makes the movie looks reaaaaaally shitty. Frank Miller's nior dialogue is grating on my nerves. Has 99% of modern comic book fans even read an issue of The Spirit, not counting Darwin Cooke's version? Is Sam Jackson even trying in movies anymore?

DK was fucking awesome though. I thought the action was the sloppiest part of Batman Begins but damn the scenes in this were flawless. I don't know why everyone is creaming a load over Arron Eckharts performance as I thought it was just okay? Did Lucius Fox quit at the end? No Morgan Freeman in future movies?

I was trying to explain Watchmen to the girl I was with and she had idea wtf I was talking about.

[artificialsky]

I was trying to explain Watchmen to the girl I was with and she had idea wtf I was talking about.

Date suicide.

[High Monika]

DK was fucking awesome though. I thought the action was the sloppiest part of Batman Begins but damn the scenes in this were flawless

I had a problem with a few of the hand to hand combat scenes. A lot of times you could see the people hesitate and slow before contact. I don't consider this a small problem in an action movie. Consider that if you've seen Hellboy II. The fight scenes in it, while clearly shot in a different way, are flawless.

[jonle714]

im a true fuckin comic book nerd.

was the sonar thing in the comics?

[mrip]

everyone that hates this movie is officially my neg rep target

[Lab]

was the sonar thing in the comics?

Not exactly, but Batman has developed similar tools to spy on Gotham City before.

Hell, he designed a satellite to spy on the entire world. Read up on your OMAC shit.

[Wesley Pipes]

Morgan Freeman laid it down.

[TokenIndianKid]

That Spirit trailer makes the movie looks reaaaaaally shitty. Frank Miller's nior dialogue is grating on my nerves. Has 99% of modern comic book fans even read an issue of The Spirit, not counting Darwin Cooke's version? Is Sam Jackson even trying in movies anymore?

DK was fucking awesome though. I thought the action was the sloppiest part of Batman Begins but damn the scenes in this were flawless. I don't know why everyone is creaming a load over Arron Eckharts performance as I thought it was just okay? Did Lucius Fox quit at the end? No Morgan Freeman in future movies?

I was trying to explain Watchmen to the girl I was with and she had idea wtf I was talking about.

no, i dont think he did

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initially he says that he will quit unless batman terminates the operation, and he does so by entering his name into the system, this made me think that since its gone, he will stay

[xh0llyw00dxx]

When Fox was putting his name in the system there was a voiceover about having faith in people or something, which leads me to believe that Batman made the sonar machine destroy itself when Fox put his name in so he doesn't have to quit.

[Ahlvahroe]

I thought it was good (nowhere near the godlike merit the supernerds at imdb have rated it though), but had one big issue:

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I thought the love interest (maggie gyllenhaal) was terrible. She wasn't cute, interesting, nothing. There was no backstory to why bruce wayne loved her, or why she loved him. She was really dull, I wanted to feel bad for her when she got blown up, but her character did nothing for me.

yeah pretty much.

[40ozprophet]

that is retarded. she replaced Katie Holmes' Rachel Dawes who was clearly a love interest in the first movie...

[m1sterko]

but isnt bruce supposed to be a balla and have no strings attached relationships?

[sarcastic]

Heath Ledger, Great Joker or Greatest Joker?

I saw the 12:04 show and waited outside the theater for an hour with my friends. This movie has to be the best movie I've seen in a while now, the action was great especially the first scene that opened up the movie. (SPOILER: the clowns robbing the bank).

Some of my friends want to go see it again in IMAX, I might even go it was that good.

[Servo2000]

and no sam, there was nothing after************************ dont bother sitting.

extremely negative review questioning the intellectual and moral values of The dark knight

http://www.nypress.com/21/29/film/ArmondWhite.cfm

I've seen a lot of these reviews popping up recently: they have some interesting points but overall they seem to fall into their own trap. That is, they lambaste the "darkness" and "intellectual depravity" as signs of "modern fear" (p.s. whatever) but spend the entire time backing themselves into the "but back in the good old days..." corner of fear which is, in my opinion, much worse.

[broneck]

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after seeing the movie what bothers me most about the review is that it seemed to focus on there being no hope...no light at the end of the tunnel. but the boat scene (although slightly predictable) gave exactly that . . . as soon as they choose to do the right thing they complete undo anything that review says