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« Reply #600 on: March 10, 2009, 09:00:53 PM »
He states his problems with the Dark Knight really well, even if I don't necessarily agree with him.  Good to see a man who can express a dislike with that film without running in circles around it.
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« Reply #601 on: March 11, 2009, 06:02:59 AM »
The alternative Oscars by Dr. Mark Kermode.
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He also writes for the most (only!) serious film mag in the UK: 


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« Reply #602 on: March 11, 2009, 06:32:10 AM »
I knew I officially hit nerdlinger status as I cringed when Ride of the Valkyrie came on.
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« Reply #603 on: March 11, 2009, 06:38:12 AM »
What was so wrong with that music choice?  It's obviously a satirical scene with Nixon sending off a nuclear superman to blow up villagers for democracy.  I really can't think of any better song.

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« Reply #604 on: March 11, 2009, 08:37:57 AM »
I agree.  It was pretty boring.
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« Reply #605 on: March 11, 2009, 09:29:09 AM »
David Hayter doesn't seem too pleased with how it did opening weekend and is begging fans to go see it multiple times in theaters. lol

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« Reply #606 on: March 11, 2009, 09:41:19 AM »
I love Kermode (pimp him in every podcast thread!), but he is occasionally wrong. Doesn't open 'til the 28th in Japan, fuckity fuck.
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« Reply #607 on: March 11, 2009, 10:07:29 AM »
He also writes for the most (only!) serious film mag in the UK: 

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http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/

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« Reply #608 on: March 11, 2009, 01:25:31 PM »

How on earth could you possibly find it boring?


It was a 3 hour film that felt like a 5 hour marathon. Contrast that with something like Seven Samurai, which is 4 hours long yet feels nowhere that long.

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« Reply #609 on: March 11, 2009, 02:38:30 PM »
Sight and Sound FTW. My library gets it and I've used it as reference on several film papers. Fucking love the magazine.

Although the magazine basically ignored Blade Runner in the eighties.... fuck, so did Rolling Stone. That was a bitch to find old reviews for, thanks to ET, Conan, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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« Reply #610 on: March 11, 2009, 03:34:17 PM »
While we're at it, why don't we have NBC's Heroes stop by and do a cameo?

Cause it would just be Claire pouting in a corner lawl

no im kidding heroes sucks
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« Reply #611 on: March 11, 2009, 05:53:48 PM »


Watchmen felt more like 90 minutes to me.


I thought the movie was great and felt the same way about its running time. I had no problem with the music or sex (though the two combined was kind of weird... never cared for Cohen's Hallelujah).  The film had my complete attention for the full two and a half hours. Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, and The Comedian were the highlights and dominated every scene they were in. I was very surprised by how well (whoever played) Rorschach delivered his last few lines. Silk Spectre was better than expected too. I didn't care for Nite Owl and Ozy was a disappointment. Wasn't a fan of the fight scenes either.
Sure it's not even close to being as good as the comic, but it was still better than I expected.

Kermode is great from what I've seen so far. Can someone put up his There Will Be Blood review?
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« Reply #612 on: March 11, 2009, 06:01:02 PM »
Kermode is great from what I've seen so far. Can someone put up his There Will Be Blood review?


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« Reply #613 on: March 19, 2009, 04:01:33 AM »
I caught this at a matinee today. So for 5 bucks it was perfectly acceptable. The first 30-40 minutes are a big "WOW" with the visuals, the concept and the different characters. But after that the movie never really settles into groove. It just becomes a series of scenes that work or don't work.

Ever watch an Owen Wilson movie? Most of them are very bad or boring. So, you spend half your time just focused on that crazy crooked nose of his. It looks so out of place up there on the big screen, that you ignore what is going on and you're just watching that nose. That's how the blue penis was. I often found myself bored by the Dr. Manhatten scenes, so I would sit there and focus on that silly blue pecker.

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« Reply #614 on: March 19, 2009, 12:24:57 PM »
fuck you Willco and your butthurt bullshit; watchmen meant a lot to me, like making an example out of Jaffe meant a lot to you.

but in all honesty I don't even know what I'm arguing about anymore

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By the way, Corny, you were wrong about Bubastis' origin being tied to the squid. The graphic novel says Bubastis was an early success in genetic engineering, along with teleportation.

The squid came later.






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« Reply #615 on: March 19, 2009, 12:28:51 PM »
fuck you Willco and your butthurt bullshit; watchmen meant a lot to me, like making an example out of Jaffe meant a lot to you.

but in all honesty I don't even know what I'm arguing about anymore

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By the way, Corny, you were wrong about Bubastis' origin being tied to the squid. The graphic novel says Bubastis was an early success in genetic engineering, along with teleportation.

The squid came later.

In that way the animal is a sign of things to come. In the film it's just a crazy animal.
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« Reply #616 on: March 19, 2009, 12:32:52 PM »
fuck you Willco and your butthurt bullshit; watchmen meant a lot to me, like making an example out of Jaffe meant a lot to you.

but in all honesty I don't even know what I'm arguing about anymore

B-

By the way, Corny, you were wrong about Bubastis' origin being tied to the squid. The graphic novel says Bubastis was an early success in genetic engineering, along with teleportation.

The squid came later.

In that way the animal is a sign of things to come. In the film it's just a crazy animal.

So?


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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #617 on: March 19, 2009, 04:04:02 PM »
Tales of the Black Freighter sucked, don't waste your money on it guys.
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« Reply #618 on: March 19, 2009, 04:46:45 PM »
Tales of the Black Freighter sucked, don't waste your money on it guys.

What was bad about it?
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« Reply #619 on: March 19, 2009, 05:14:55 PM »
Black Freighter was a better conversion than the Watchmen movie was

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« Reply #620 on: March 20, 2009, 07:04:19 AM »
Black Freighter was awesome. Really deep.

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« Reply #621 on: March 20, 2009, 08:32:59 AM »
:lol

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« Reply #622 on: March 20, 2009, 08:54:10 AM »
The penis is unfortunately CGI.  Crudup was wearing a suit the whole time. : (

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« Reply #623 on: March 20, 2009, 09:00:32 AM »
I have to say. Looking at that Penis, I realized it was pretty well proportioned to fit his stature. It ocassionally moves, when he's engaged in demanding activities.

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« Reply #624 on: March 20, 2009, 09:18:17 AM »
They tend to shy away from showing you  the condition and movement of said penis- when in positively interpersonal  engagement.

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« Reply #625 on: March 20, 2009, 09:29:24 AM »
what's there to laugh at? i want the penis info. now. this is evilbore after all. i thought we were all penis afficionados here!

what a shame. is it at least well proportioned?

I asked these questions earlier in the thread. smh
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« Reply #626 on: March 22, 2009, 07:34:16 PM »
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6527&Itemid=99

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No more R-rated Superhero/Tentpole films for Warner Brothers

So says the IESB source buried deep into the folds of the Warner Brother's lot. WB is apparently skittish about losing money if a superhero/tentpole film is rated R rather than the more family friendly PG-13.

The biggest superhero film last year (and of all time) was a WB film, The Dark Knight, which grossed $1,001,842,429 worldwide and it was rated PG-13. Iron Man, another big hit last year, grossed $582,030,528 worldwide and was rated PG-13. Everybody took their families to these movies, kids bought the shirts and the toys and the masks etc. which means more money for the studio.

On the other hand, Zack Snyder's Watchmen was rated R and I am sure the fact that it was 2 hours and 40 minutes long also had something to do with it, but it bowed at $55 million opening weekend and then sharply dropped off. You can't take your kids to this one, not sure if you'd even be comfortable watching it with your mother. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it and thought it was a fantastic piece of filmmaking, but it's definitely for adults only. And no kids will be asking mommy to buy them shirts or Rorschach masks from this one.

How much of the movie going market - specifically those that go to see superhero/genre films - is cut out by rating a film R versus a PG-13? Warner Bros. thinks too much and is said to be focusing solely on PG-13 rated superhero/tentpole films only, definitely harder than the "family friendly" superhero films of Fantastic Four but not in the R rated range. Think about it, the movie going audience is "huge", now the genre/superhero movie going audience is a portion of that "huge" and the R rated/genre/superhero movie going audience is an even smaller portion of that "huge." It makes a lot of sense to make the movie for the largest audience possible and still respect the property.

Not that it's a superhero film, but it is a genre tentpole, Terminator Salvation, PG-13 or R? WB wants PG-13, director McG wants R just like the originals. McG was outspoken about the ratings debacle at WonderCon 2009 who said he wants the Moon Bloodgood in the rain topless scene kept in the film. WB wants it nixed to comply with the PG-13 guidelines. This was before the R-rated Watchmen premiered but the studio apparently already had the feeling that PG-13 was the way to go to make the big box office bucks with the genre.

So you can bet your ass Green Lantern and Wonder Woman will be PG-13. However, I've been told Jonah Hex, set for August 2010, is still a go for an R rating however WB doesn't consider it a "superhero" movie per se but a rather a comic book adaptation and not one of their tentpole films.
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« Reply #627 on: March 22, 2009, 07:40:25 PM »
Cheebs was getting such a kick on that other forum talking about how little money this made in its second weekend and how Terminator Salvation will be PG-13 because of it. Makes me think he's a teenager who really wants to see Terminator Salvation and doesn't have an adult to take him / doesn't know how to sneak into an R-rated movie.
No, the movie was just shitty and the insane hype annoyed me so I am glad to see it stumble. I doubt T4 will be good anyway.

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« Reply #628 on: March 22, 2009, 07:54:46 PM »
no shit green lantern and wonder woman movies will be pg-13

was there ever any question there?
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« Reply #629 on: March 22, 2009, 08:01:35 PM »
no shit green lantern and wonder woman movies will be pg-13

was there ever any question there?

i am optimistic about a good gl film

i shouldn't be
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« Reply #630 on: March 22, 2009, 08:06:12 PM »
i was never a huge gl fan, but i really liked some of the stuff i have read centering around the gl corps

i doubt the corps will be much of a factor in the movie

also i think the golden age gl has one of the coolest superhero costumes ever
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« Reply #631 on: March 22, 2009, 08:11:42 PM »
no shit green lantern and wonder woman movies will be pg-13

was there ever any question there?

I was wondering the same thing.
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« Reply #632 on: March 22, 2009, 08:16:20 PM »
I'd be more optimistic about a GL movie but the best most seem to come up with is him smashing shit with big green fists and sledgehammers...I have little reason to think the movie will do any better.

Edit: Also, saw Watchmen and think, apart from the very last act, it couldn't have been pulled off much better. (this is quite apart from any worries about giant space squids)

P.S. - Dr. Manhatten's cock is fantastic.
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« Reply #633 on: March 22, 2009, 08:22:47 PM »
isnt the guy who plays Captain Kirk in talks for GL?

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« Reply #634 on: March 22, 2009, 09:47:01 PM »
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6527&Itemid=99

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The biggest superhero film last year (and of all time) was a WB film, The Dark Knight, which grossed $1,001,842,429 worldwide and it was rated PG-13. Iron Man, another big hit last year, grossed $582,030,528 worldwide and was rated PG-13. Everybody took their families to these movies, kids bought the shirts and the toys and the masks etc. which means more money for the studio.

On the other hand, Zack Snyder's Watchmen was rated R and I am sure the fact that it was 2 hours and 40 minutes long also had something to do with it, but it bowed at $55 million opening weekend and then sharply dropped off. You can't take your kids to this one, not sure if you'd even be comfortable watching it with your mother. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it and thought it was a fantastic piece of filmmaking, but it's definitely for adults only. And no kids will be asking mommy to buy them shirts or Rorschach masks from this one.

WB execs shocked to discover Watchmen is less popular than Iron Man and Batman. From now on they'll focus more on potential $1 Billion grossing kiddie fare like Speed Racer and TMNT.
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« Reply #635 on: March 22, 2009, 10:12:29 PM »
saw it today, thought it started off a bit slow, as soon as the pseudo rape scene with comedian and the scenes about him being a badass I think it found its groove from there.

 overall i think it was decent, not amazing or even bad.
the death near the end bothered me just as much as it did in the comic book, I hate that part, think they did the best they could with the ending but im looking forward to the longer version with all the cool shit they probably cut out, because it felt kind of flat.  i also think the movie lost a bit of the humor that was found in the comic too, i think i read someone mentioning that, though the midget jokes were still funny

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« Reply #636 on: March 23, 2009, 12:27:34 AM »
"small world"
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« Reply #637 on: March 23, 2009, 12:34:39 AM »
ok good because i thought my little writeup was shitty (it is)

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« Reply #638 on: March 23, 2009, 08:26:30 AM »
i was never a huge gl fan, but i really liked some of the stuff i have read centering around the gl corps

i doubt the corps will be much of a factor in the movie

also i think the golden age gl has one of the coolest superhero costumes ever

They should put him in panties.
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« Reply #639 on: March 23, 2009, 10:07:12 AM »
and a bra!  i would totally wrestle with him
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« Reply #640 on: March 23, 2009, 10:18:55 AM »
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6527&Itemid=99

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No more R-rated Superhero/Tentpole films for Warner Brothers

So says the IESB source buried deep into the folds of the Warner Brother's lot. WB is apparently skittish about losing money if a superhero/tentpole film is rated R rather than the more family friendly PG-13.

The biggest superhero film last year (and of all time) was a WB film, The Dark Knight, which grossed $1,001,842,429 worldwide and it was rated PG-13. Iron Man, another big hit last year, grossed $582,030,528 worldwide and was rated PG-13. Everybody took their families to these movies, kids bought the shirts and the toys and the masks etc. which means more money for the studio.

On the other hand, Zack Snyder's Watchmen was rated R and I am sure the fact that it was 2 hours and 40 minutes long also had something to do with it, but it bowed at $55 million opening weekend and then sharply dropped off. You can't take your kids to this one, not sure if you'd even be comfortable watching it with your mother. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it and thought it was a fantastic piece of filmmaking, but it's definitely for adults only. And no kids will be asking mommy to buy them shirts or Rorschach masks from this one.

How much of the movie going market - specifically those that go to see superhero/genre films - is cut out by rating a film R versus a PG-13? Warner Bros. thinks too much and is said to be focusing solely on PG-13 rated superhero/tentpole films only, definitely harder than the "family friendly" superhero films of Fantastic Four but not in the R rated range. Think about it, the movie going audience is "huge", now the genre/superhero movie going audience is a portion of that "huge" and the R rated/genre/superhero movie going audience is an even smaller portion of that "huge." It makes a lot of sense to make the movie for the largest audience possible and still respect the property.

Not that it's a superhero film, but it is a genre tentpole, Terminator Salvation, PG-13 or R? WB wants PG-13, director McG wants R just like the originals. McG was outspoken about the ratings debacle at WonderCon 2009 who said he wants the Moon Bloodgood in the rain topless scene kept in the film. WB wants it nixed to comply with the PG-13 guidelines. This was before the R-rated Watchmen premiered but the studio apparently already had the feeling that PG-13 was the way to go to make the big box office bucks with the genre.

So you can bet your ass Green Lantern and Wonder Woman will be PG-13. However, I've been told Jonah Hex, set for August 2010, is still a go for an R rating however WB doesn't consider it a "superhero" movie per se but a rather a comic book adaptation and not one of their tentpole films.

... And this is why I pay attention to the box office take, Eel.

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« Reply #641 on: March 23, 2009, 10:24:33 AM »
i just watch movies
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« Reply #642 on: March 23, 2009, 10:27:30 AM »
Yeah, but cinema is ultimately a business and the financials inevitably determine what kind of product we get from studios - sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad.

I felt this was a property from the get go that wasn't a well thought out gamble, in terms of high box office potential.  It didn't help that the movie wasn't very good, either.

It just means less gambles.
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« Reply #643 on: March 23, 2009, 10:36:43 AM »
Bear in mind that I did think the movie was pretty decent, but people generally like to go to the cinema and be unchallanged and enjoy a spectacle.

This is in no way a "the general audience doesn't deserve such a movie" post, because I think it definitely had problems, but most want to go see a superhero movie with the expectation that they can leave their brain at the door, having a challinging plot/themes creates a bit of dissonance if they didn't know what to expect.
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« Reply #644 on: March 23, 2009, 10:46:58 AM »
Also, it was boring.
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« Reply #645 on: March 23, 2009, 10:50:52 AM »
they cut out all my favorite parts, and for me that cut out the heart of the story

they focused on the murder mystery, and i felt like in the book that was just sort of a "gimme" to get to the real meat (look at how easily the mystery is solved in both book and movie)

when it strayed from literal translation it was interesting to watch, but otherwise it was just kind of flat
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« Reply #646 on: March 23, 2009, 10:58:43 AM »
They didn't even really follow the murder mystery (of which was filmed was left unchanged, which makes little sense retroactively after you see the new ending).  Quite frankly, if it was adapted into a straight "whodunnit", it would've been far more interesting.  The film was like a bunch of vignettes pulled from the novel with a great deal of accuracy to the source material.
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« Reply #647 on: March 23, 2009, 11:02:46 AM »
Also, it was boring.

I actually liked all the boring bits, maybe I was just in the mood and if I watched it again I'd feel differently.

I thought the movie mostly fell off when it paid attention to the actual plot.
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« Reply #648 on: March 23, 2009, 11:35:24 AM »
You know, i had to face a reality with this movie, as much as i liked Dawn of the Dead and 300, there was this scene in Watchmen, which to me was one of the strongest sequences in the comic book, and is a scene that requires story telling skill, and not just a good script and good actors, that scene was the scene in which Rosharch becomes Rosharch, the kidnapped girl sequence.

See, that scene, when i read it, it was super powerful,, so well done, but in the movie, it had horrible pacing, horrible edit, it changed things for the worse, and it lost all impact for me. That's totally on Snyder's, because the movie is rated R, so he had all the tools at his disposal to make the scene as good as it could've, but he failed hard.

When that scene was over i really realized that Snyder is not really a good story teller, and i'm still rather sad about it. I thought he was better.

And the whole WB thing, yah it sucks for Terminator, hope they release an unrated DVD, aside from that one, all the other mentions were always supposed to be Pg 13.
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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #649 on: March 23, 2009, 11:47:38 AM »
WTF are you people talking about, Zach Snyder is a visionary director.
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« Reply #650 on: March 23, 2009, 12:03:56 PM »
I wouldn't call him visionary, contrary to Warner Bros. marketing, but he's talented.  This is where he probably should've felt more confident to adapt the material for film instead of just cutting and pasting stuff from the novel in a way that simply did not work.
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« Reply #651 on: March 23, 2009, 12:04:10 PM »
i liked 300 and dotd2004
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« Reply #652 on: March 23, 2009, 12:10:13 PM »
I also enjoy those movies.

Eel, do you like beer? And nachos?
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« Reply #653 on: March 23, 2009, 12:12:09 PM »
I'm missing the talent, unless his talent is adapting comic book movies too literally and the slo mo-speedup gimmick.  I've seen better directing in local community theaters.
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« Reply #654 on: March 23, 2009, 12:17:11 PM »
I also enjoy those movies.

Eel, do you like beer? And nachos?

i don't understand this question

I'm missing the talent, unless his talent is adapting comic book movies too literally and the slo mo-speedup gimmick.  I've seen better directing in local community theaters.

he made a scary dawn of the dead, which is something romero failed to do (and i like the original quite a bit)
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« Reply #655 on: March 23, 2009, 12:17:58 PM »
It's a simple question!
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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #656 on: March 23, 2009, 12:19:04 PM »
of course i do

i don't like the orange squeeze cheese, though, i like my nachos with real meat, real beans, and real shredded cheese
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Diunx

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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #657 on: March 23, 2009, 12:21:33 PM »
I also enjoy those movies.

Eel, do you like beer? And nachos?

i don't understand this question

I'm missing the talent, unless his talent is adapting comic book movies too literally and the slo mo-speedup gimmick.  I've seen better directing in local community theaters.

he made a scary dawn of the dead, which is something romero failed to do (and i like the original quite a bit)

I liked dod 2004 but there was nothing scary about it.
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Eel O'Brian

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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #658 on: March 23, 2009, 12:25:51 PM »
i dunno, man, things that want to eat you, can outrun you, and never get tired are pretty scary to me - i jumped a couple of times

we saw it on an overcast day, in a theater that was about to close down, so the place was empty and when we left there wasn't much traffic on the road

we started getting into a discussion about what we'd do if a mob of those things piled around the corner, and how unsettling it was that the road was kind of empty on a sunday
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Diunx

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Re: Watchmen - You gonna see it?
« Reply #659 on: March 23, 2009, 12:33:00 PM »
I don't remember the zombies in dotd been able to outrun humans.
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