RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media "Watchmen" movie coming soon!!

I think the reason why Watchmen was considered un-filmable in the form the comic was is very evident in this movie. The Rorschach psychiatric sequences, the history of the characters ect needed fleshing out and in film time that's impossible unless you do a trilogy, or at least a part 1 and 2. and with the story telling technique of filling in the blanks that Moore used I don't believe people would have hung around for a sequel. thats why i think i would have liked to have seen more interpretation that verbatim.

I did like the part with Nick Fury after the credits.

I'm on the fence about seeing this.

I read the comic. I liked the comic. I certainly don't think it was the greatest comic of all time like most fanatics do. But I'm definitely willing to call it Alan Moore's Magnum Opus.

But My biggest problem with Watchmen has always been the fact that it's totally character driven; every time I read it, I always caught myself just drifting through the thought/speech bubbles just because I wanted to get to the next part that involved Rorschach rather than to immerse myself in the story. I might as well have just read The Question issues by Ditko. If it weren't for a few plot points of interest provided by the Comedian, I probably wouldn't have bothered buying the book.

In which case, the story's conclusion was just so ridiculous. What the Watchmen decide to do in the end makes sense according to their authoritative mentalities, which was Moore's point. But to say that they'd be given the opportunity to make such a decision based on what Ozymandias did is ludicrous. I mean, seriously: It wouldn't work. The world wouldn't just say, "Let's work together to thwart this mutual evil!"

If the movie's totally faithful, that means I'll just being seeing this same story played out on screen with beautiful visuals. I'm not sure if those visuals and the Rorschach segments will be worth ten bucks and 3 hours of my life.

It also makes me feel kind of dirty to go see it while knowing that the creator felt the rights to it were stolen from him. I mean, I'm not sure I agree with him, but it still feels weird to contribute to his misery.

I would have liked an episodic take since its a direct adaptation. I just would have preferred a new take.

'Watchmen': Why Rush Limbaugh isn't gonna like it

The biggest laugh Watchmen got at the sold-out, 9 a.m., IMAX suburban-theater show I went to on Saturday occurred [SOMETHING OF A SPOILER ALERT HERE -- LOOK AWAY IF YOU MUST!] when the Lee Iacocca-businessman-figure said, "Free is just another word for socialist." It was the happily derisive laugh of a crowd that was totally into the movie, and which also seemed well aware of the recent effort to label the Obama stimulus package as "socialist" -- and the audience clearly thought the use of that supposedly-inflammatory word was a joke.

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/watchmen-rush-l.html

As far as the rape scene goes, I dont actually see that it happened in the movie.
I dont even think Comedian got his dick out of his pants before Hooded Justice beat the shit out of him.

MEM's over in the political forum, arguing that Watchmen was intended as a rape fantasy.

I don't think Watchmen was intended to be a rape fantasy. That was something you brought up.

So wait a sec: Does it say they were laughing at how it sounds like it's referring to Obama (supposedly), or how it's referring to people using the word "socialist" in regards to Obama (supposedly)?

Have the courage of your convictions, MEM.

Do they realize Veidt waste bad guy? Tat would make Iacocca one of the good guys. So wile they were laughing they were actually supporting te bad guy again.

"Watchmen " clocked in with $55.7 million in ticket sales to claim the top spot at the box office, making director Zack Snyder 's comic book adaptation about a team of twisted superheros the biggest opening of 2009 so far.

Still, it was not quite as big as the $70 million take of Snyder's "300" in 2007.

Dan Fellman, head of distribution for "Watchmen" studio Warner Bros ., said it was unfair to compare the two films.

"They're two different movies," Fellman said Sunday. "This is a movie that runs two hours and 45 minutes. That really only leaves the exhibitor with one showing a night. If you have an 8 o'clock show, the next show is at midnight. So with essentially one show a night, I think this is outstanding."

Fans of the subversive comic book series by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons waited years for Snyder's big-screen version. The anticipation was complicated last year when Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox fought over who owned rights to the $125 million film. The studios eventually settled in January, keeping the March 6 opening intact.

Many "Watchmen" enthusiasts raced to IMAX theaters to see the exploits of Dr. Manhattan and company on the bigger screens. Greg Foster , chairman and president of IMAX Filmed Entertainment, said the movie sold out on all 124 IMAX screens it was playing on during the weekend and was the second largest opening in company history behind another superhero film, 2008's " The Dark Knight ."

Let me say this about the penis...If I were hung like that, I'd walk around naked with a picture frame stapled to my thighs and a sign pointed to it saying, "Rides are free"

Sikk swore he'd never watch the movie again. He's already looking at the listing for the next showing.

nobody else noticed the device was called "S.Q.U.I.D."? heh.

that would be a funny motivational poster if you used the watchmen movie pics.

Kamphausening the Kamphausener
http://www.rkmbs.com/.../16#Post1045309

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/watchmen-conquers-box-office-with-557-million-ap