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News & ArtsWednesday, February 18, 2009
Film Now You Can Actually Get Fucked By the Awfulness That Is The Watchmen Movie
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Warner Bros. apparently started giving these out around Valentine's Day to promote Watchmen.
Guh. I just want this terrible movie to come out so I can have some closure.
Photo Via Topless Robot
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We don't give a shit about you, either, NaFun. Hey, I bet there's some other, non-Watchmen posts on Slog you could post a comment on...
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Good thing that staple wasn't 1" higher, like the free condoms my high school had. They were stapled to safe sex literature. Right through the middle. duh.
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I don't want anything inside of me that is supposed to relate to a blue radioactive man. Just sayin'.
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Us Dorks: fuck you.
This goes on daily if not every few days. If it were any other group going on about any other movie, you'd get really tired of it too.
Dear Jonah, Paul, and Us Dorks
please just have a circle jerk and leave us OUT OF IT
This goes on daily if not every few days. If it were any other group going on about any other movie, you'd get really tired of it too.
Dear Jonah, Paul, and Us Dorks
please just have a circle jerk and leave us OUT OF IT
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Regardless I still plan on seeing it. The expectations have been set so low by Jonah and other people who have only seen the trailers (which look cool to me) that it has to be good.
All I am expecting is eye candy. The movie is not going to replace the book anyway.
All I am expecting is eye candy. The movie is not going to replace the book anyway.
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@7, Amanda Knox, racist cartoon, gay rights, transit and Oscar posts are thataway. You WERE "left out of it", until you CHOSE TO OPEN THIS POST AND COMMENT ON IT. It's like you went out of your way to walk into a comic book shop, and then loudly complained that it was taking up too much real estate in the city because there was another one a few miles away.
This movie project is (morbidly?) interesting to longtime fans of the graphic novel, who never expected it to be made into a movie, ever, and now dread the idea that it could be as awful as they always feared it would be.
This movie project is (morbidly?) interesting to longtime fans of the graphic novel, who never expected it to be made into a movie, ever, and now dread the idea that it could be as awful as they always feared it would be.
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"Oh this movie is so horrible I can't stop posting about it! I haven't seen it, and I know I'm going to see it, but I know it will be terrible! Oh the pain and the misery of my life! Blue condoms, video games, lunch boxes! It's all just too horrible! Horrible I say!"
Please calm down Jonah. Somehow you'll manage to survive this ordeal. Don't ask me how I know that, it's just a guess.
Please calm down Jonah. Somehow you'll manage to survive this ordeal. Don't ask me how I know that, it's just a guess.
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if jonah hates it, then i KNOW i'm gonna like it! 'sides, jonah's not old enough to see an R-rated movie.
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Ha ha hahaaaa
unlucky13 said:
The world will look up and shout, "Do you use protection?", and I will whisper, "no."
Posted 02/17/2009 at 05:17:09 PM
I want some!
unlucky13 said:
The world will look up and shout, "Do you use protection?", and I will whisper, "no."
Posted 02/17/2009 at 05:17:09 PM
I want some!
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I still have the original Terry Gilliam script. Thi project has been 20 years (?) in the making. Short of making it a cartoon, duplicating the graphic novel, which was purposely drawn as a Silver Age comic, there is no way the movie will be able to be equal to the book (plus it would have to be five hours long.
And I'm sorry purists, even if everyone of us who read the book go see the movie, we will still be a minority of the overall viewing public, and the ending in the book would look stupid to most people who see the movie.
And I'm sorry purists, even if everyone of us who read the book go see the movie, we will still be a minority of the overall viewing public, and the ending in the book would look stupid to most people who see the movie.
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What's with the casting of Veidt? In the comic he's an Adonis, not an androgynous and gormless little weed...
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@14 Yep. Even Dave Gibbons said the you-know-what would have looked silly in a film. He likes their alternative and even drew Snyder's version.
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The "Ultimate Watchmen" DVD that the Wiki describes sounds worth getting. A lot of the story that got cut out (the movie is supposed to be nearly three hours) will be restored or be supplemental material.
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@14:
Except that a majority of the movie-going public has probably never even heard of "Watchmen" and only know what teensy bit about it they do from what's been spewed out by the studio's PR machine. They'll have no idea the ending is "awful", because they won't have read the GN and won't have any basis for comparing the two.
My prediction: $60 mm plus opening weekend, and a respectable $160 mm domestic gross. Throw in foreign and ancillary distribution, DVD sell-through, and merchandising tie-ins and it'll be a money-maker, but not a blockbuster.
And no matter what, at least we know there's almost no chance for a sequel.
Except that a majority of the movie-going public has probably never even heard of "Watchmen" and only know what teensy bit about it they do from what's been spewed out by the studio's PR machine. They'll have no idea the ending is "awful", because they won't have read the GN and won't have any basis for comparing the two.
My prediction: $60 mm plus opening weekend, and a respectable $160 mm domestic gross. Throw in foreign and ancillary distribution, DVD sell-through, and merchandising tie-ins and it'll be a money-maker, but not a blockbuster.
And no matter what, at least we know there's almost no chance for a sequel.
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Jonah, I thought you were an ass before..now I'm certain of it. You criticize so much you know nothing about...
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I'm really confused by Warner's marketing of this movie...the first couple of trailers were very good, but the current tv ads are AWFUL. Are they thinking they can rely on Watchmen fans to carry the film, or are they just dumping the movie due to all the legal troubles it has had? Because the commercials aren't trying very hard to lure non-Watchmen fans to go see it. My brother who hasn't read it, said that the commercials do not compel him to go see the movie because it looks like another dumb ass comic book movie and X-Men ripoff.
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uh, Jonah's rush to judgement might not be off-base:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/02/t…
Someone who saw a recent screening gives his opinion...(and I just watched a clip featuring Malin Akerman, aka, Silk Spectre...she's beautiful but can't act, just like all the women (and men for that matter)in Zack Snyder's 300)
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/02/t…
Someone who saw a recent screening gives his opinion...(and I just watched a clip featuring Malin Akerman, aka, Silk Spectre...she's beautiful but can't act, just like all the women (and men for that matter)in Zack Snyder's 300)
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