The Watchmen

[Tridentkilla]

Who's seen it? it's great, i saw it earlier this week, and i think everyone should go see it....


We were in this tiny theater, me and some friends, and...

[spoiler]During the Sex scene with Manhattan and Jupiter, when the other pair of arms appeared, my said aloud... "oh jeez, What a Pro." The entire theater cracked up... priceless[/spoiler]

[R8]

i watched it and i liked it alot. the silk spectre intimates scenes were very expilicit and pretty funny. yea good action and story line to it

[Tridentkilla]

very much so. The story line was kind of predicitable... You figure it out much faster than the people in the movie did... or atleast i did.

[semper]

very much so. The story line was kind of predicitable... You figure it out much faster than the people in the movie did... or atleast i did.

Aye.. tremendously predictable what..

[spoiler]Ozymandias did...[/spoiler]

I know, because if I were in his position I would be doing the same thing!

[Tridentkilla]

yea... especially with the opening scene.

[spoiler]You could tell who it was beating the holy bejezus out of Comedian, particularly due to his speed.[/spoiler]

[Londo Mollari]

hah

the comedian was such an epic guy

Rorschach is by far my favourite character

definately recommend you see it

[Mordack]

I didn't like it, to be honest. The opening scene was great, as was the Bob Dylan montage over the opening credits, but I thought it went downhill from there. The sex scene was utterly cringe inducing, and a few of the characters depressingly two dimensional.

Not a big fan of this supposed alternate ending either: the whole idea of the squid was that it was so random, so unexpected, and so "WTH?!" was that it would cow mankind into banding together to face this "outside threat". Manhattan isn't an outside threat, despite his superhuman-ness. He was once American, the US had laid claim to him half-mascot half-ultimate weapon, so I can't help but feel that no matter what he did, even if he were to lay waste to American and Soviet cities alike, there would still be those in the Soviet Union who'd either believe he still had some ultimate US agenda in mind, or simply blame the US for letting him off the leash. But perhaps my view is coloured slightly, as I'm such a huge devotee of the original graphic novel upon which it was based.

Rorschach is by far my favourite character

Rorschach is the favorite of most people - he has, despite being seriously messed up and probably a fascist at heart, the guy has unwavering principles, some of them ones anyone could agree with and appreciate and he's willing to do just about anything in service to these principles - go to any length. Sometimes that can be a good thing, sometimes bad - but it's hard not to (at least sometimes) admire him for this. Also, the fact that he comes from such a victimized upbringing yet refuses to play the victim is attractive about him, too.

Ozymandias is my favourite, though. With him, you basically have to put together Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and just about every other economic and technological powerhouse you can think of and wrap it in a blond, blue-eyed Aryan superman package. Veidt's businesses are pervasive -- his company has, it seems, dozens of subsidiaries. He has revolutioned auto technology, the energy industry, and who knows what else.

When you basically have a real live superman walking around who is not big, blue, and naked, it doesn't really matter if he dresses in a silly costume to perform feats of inhuman acrobatics for charity, or that he writes best-selling self-help books putting forward techniques to achieve a better life, or has a weird genetically-engineered cat. I think you'd listen to what he has to say. He's another one of the tragically right/damned characters from culture to which I am so often drawn.

[iron spiderman]

It was ok at best. I liked Rorschach (who woulda thought that he was played by the same guy who played the stoner who made the free throw in SemiPro). Silk Spectre II was one dimensional. Dr. Manhattan was decent, as was Nite Owl. The Comedian was pretty good. Ozymandias was excellent. Biggest thing I hated about the movie was turning Dr. Manhattan into the villain. I would have liked to see the squid personally.