Curse

Nightow · Mar 11, 2009, 04:52 PM // 16:52

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Originally Posted by glacialphoenix

I just yelled "PHILISTINES!" at my computer. (OK, that was a lie, but I did say it out loud.)
I hope you're happy. :P.

I admit, I lol'ed when I read that so yes, I am happy.

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Originally Posted by glacialphoenix

Seriously though, if the movie is rated R, why in the name of all that is holy would you bring your YOUNG CHILDREN in there? For that matter, if you can't stomach blood and gore, and the movie is rated R, you should be expecting a bit more than the average action flick's (fairly) bloodless punch-out fights.

I didn't see anyone walking out when I went to watch it, by the way. But the, uh, 'fairly explicit sex scene' with its accompanying music had the entire theatre laughing.

HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!

Yes, i agree that no one should be taking young children into an R rated movie, especially this one. Parents are not paying attention anymore to movie ratings and this shows it. Kids see this advertised and you know, they see or hear the word "superheroes" and they want to go see it. (BTW, I'm not blaming how this has been advertised.) Parents might see a comercial and base their judgement on that alone. For god's sake, at least take the time to look at the rating or read up on it!

A11Eur0 · Mar 11, 2009, 09:11 PM // 21:11

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

A little bit more new footage in the Japanese trailer:
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer...panese-trailer

I like the darker tone, due to the classical music.

That trailer has Hollis' murder in it...the movie didn't. Extended cut gogo!

glacialphoenix · Mar 12, 2009, 01:39 PM // 13:39

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Originally Posted by Nightow

Parents are not paying attention anymore to movie ratings and this shows it. Kids see this advertised and you know, they see or hear the word "superheroes" and they want to go see it. (BTW, I'm not blaming how this has been advertised.)

Well, there's only so much you can do to make something foolproof, and fools are amazingly good at adapting. The sheer number of people walking out is quite worrying, though. Moore's stuff has always been hard to adapt to the big screen (with good reason!) and, well, I think doing Watchmen was a giant leap of faith. If enough people complain, we may never see anything of the sort again, because people who didn't have the common sense to check the ratings started ranting about how it's vile and bloody and demonstrates just how far society has been undermined...

Those sentiments are already on various websites.

I'm glad they didn't tone it down. I'm glad they kept it at that level of violence because I don't think you could have told something like Watchmen without that degree of violence, and to tone it down would have defeated the point. I won't lie - I cringed at bits. But I don't think the violence was gratuitous. Tone it down, and you erase a lot of what makes the characters themselves.

kostolomac · Mar 12, 2009, 11:20 PM // 23:20

Just watched it, awesome. It's done very good and the ending is awesome even though it doesn't follow the comic.

buckscrib · Mar 15, 2009, 01:06 AM // 01:06

I went to see this movie last night and I give it two thumbs up. It was awesome.

illidan009 · Mar 21, 2009, 01:17 AM // 01:17

After watching Gran Torino, where Clint Eastwood supposedly last shows his badass self on the big screen, my friend accidentally said "When I came watching it..." So now it's a joke for us to "come" while watching epic movies. We came 7 times for Gran Torino, but 9 for Watchmen...7 were from Rorschach

Screw that squid, it's not essential...(not asking for troll but will receive)

Matrix · Mar 22, 2009, 03:50 AM // 03:50

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Originally Posted by Spazzer

I'm a day late with bringing you this. Forgive me, for I spent the whole day watching it over and over and over.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

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I am going to show you an amazing trailer that will kill most of you, and those of you who survive are going to be insane.

With this trailer I plan to unite the human race to that it does not exterminate itself.

However I do not have the weakness of telling the whole monologue of my plans before ultimately failing, so...

I already posted it.

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I am stoked beyond all measures of the word. This has completely made my year.

Spazz That was the worst movie I have seen in last year......

Matrix The Shadow

DreamRunner · Apr 04, 2009, 02:02 PM // 14:02

I liked the watchman and it was done quite well, until Dr Manhattan went to Mars and was showing he had an emotional intelligence of a adolescent. I didn't mind the consequentialism vs deontological arguments, but the ending was so crude and poor, but I guess Utilitarianism is popular now-days. But like I said, the movie wasn't that bad for the most part, but the "sudden" ending with the resolution of an ideal of "the greater good for the greater number of people" gave me bad taste. This ideal is also coming two people whom one person is almost godlike and the other is meant to be the smartest person on the earth. How lame is that?