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Title: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 05:48:20 AM
fucking awful - avoid at all costs.

that is all.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Superboy Prime on March 29, 2009, 06:08:53 AM
Fucking awesome!

Go see it at all cost.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 06:54:36 AM
Fucking awesome!

Go see it at all cost.

do not listen to AXA's new gimmick.

its terrible.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: DeketheCreep on March 29, 2009, 06:55:10 AM
wat ???
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Cleanest Natural on March 29, 2009, 06:56:41 AM
can't wait to see it
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 07:03:27 AM
take my advices, save your money its terrible, very little action, stupid story, no flow, poor story telling, stupid characters, decent unexpected ending ( sort of).

if you want a comic story of legendary proportions, go buy the planet hulk/world war hulk trade paper backs  8)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: lovemonkey on March 29, 2009, 07:06:54 AM
take my advices, save your money its terrible, very little action, stupid story, no flow, poor story telling, stupid characters, decent unexpected ending ( sort of).

if you want a comic story of legendary proportions, go buy the planet hulk/world war hulk trade paper backs  8)

Did you enjoy the kung-fu panda movie?
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 07:18:12 AM
take my advices, save your money its terrible, very little action, stupid story, no flow, poor story telling, stupid characters, decent unexpected ending ( sort of).

if you want a comic story of legendary proportions, go buy the planet hulk/world war hulk trade paper backs  8)

interesting opinion, although its safe to say no one with intelligence agrees with you. Say want you want about the film but criticizing the story just exposes you as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about



Watchmen received critical praise, both inside and outside of the comics industry. Time, which noted that the series was "by common assent the best of breed" of the new wave of comics published at the time, praised Watchmen as "a superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian [sic] mystery story."[58] In 1988, Watchmen received a Hugo Award in the Other Forms category.[59] Since its release, Watchmen has garnered acclaim as a seminal work of the comic book medium. In Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Robert Harvey wrote that with Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons "had demonstrated as never before the capacity of the [comic book] medium to tell a sophisticated story that could be engineered only in comics".[60] In his review of the Absolute Edition of the collection, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that the dark legacy of Watchmen, "one that Moore almost certainly never intended, whose DNA is encoded in the increasingly black inks and bleak storylines that have become the essential elements of the contemporary superhero comic book," is "a domain he has largely ceded to writers and artists who share his fascination with brutality but not his interest in its consequences, his eagerness to tear down old boundaries but not his drive to find new ones."[61] In 1999, The Comics Journal ranked Watchmen at number 91 on its list of the Top 100 English-Language Comics of the 20th Century.[62] Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear on Time's 2005 "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels" list.[63] Time critic Lev Grossman described the story as "a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium."[64] In 2008, Entertainment Weekly placed it at number 13 on its list of the best 50 novels printed in the last 25 years, describing it as "The greatest superhero story ever told and proof that comics are capable of smart, emotionally resonant narratives worthy of the label literature."[65] In 2009 Lydia Millet of The Wall Street Journal contested that Watchmen was worthy of such acclaim, and wrote that while the series' "vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate", that "it's simply bizarre to assert that, as an illustrated literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like Chris Ware's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant work of Edward Gorey".[66]



Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 29, 2009, 07:20:08 AM
fucking awful - avoid at all costs.

that is all.

3 hr movie....sooooo HELL NO
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 07:31:26 AM
take my advices, save your money its terrible, very little action, stupid story, no flow, poor story telling, stupid characters, decent unexpected ending ( sort of).

if you want a comic story of legendary proportions, go buy the planet hulk/world war hulk trade paper backs  8)

i take it you missed the point, you fat fuck.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Stavios on March 29, 2009, 07:32:57 AM
fucking awful - avoid at all costs.

that is all.

first time ever I fall asleep at the movie theater
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Chick on March 29, 2009, 07:33:49 AM
Just watched it last night.....too long, no action, tough storyline to follow, actually boring in places.

I thought it was going to be more along the lines of X-men, judging by the trailers...

Should have seen "I love you, man..."!!
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 07:35:42 AM
Just watched it last night.....too long, no action, tough storyline to follow, actually boring in places.

I thought it was going to be more along the lines of X-men, judging by the trailers...

Should have seen "I love you, man..."!!

well, "Bob", it's not a "superhero" movie.

Do you know whose body they used for Dr. Manhattan?
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Stavios on March 29, 2009, 07:36:35 AM
Just watched it last night.....too long, no action, tough storyline to follow, actually boring in places.

I thought it was going to be more along the lines of X-men, judging by the trailers...

Should have seen "I love you, man..."!!

absolutely bob, boooooooooooring as fuck.

I love you,man was great  8)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 07:37:12 AM
anyone else want to out themselves as a cretin?
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: drkaje on March 29, 2009, 07:37:59 AM
Messed up thing is that I figured out who the villain was by looking at the graphic novel cover. I was really disappointed by the movie but did find the moral interesting.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 07:38:16 AM
anyone else want to out themselves as a cretin?

well, i bet fatpanda would've thought the movie was awesome if they kept the original ending.

"OMG, a giant pussy is attacking new york!!!"
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 07:40:24 AM
Messed up thing is that I figured out who the villain was by looking at the graphic novel cover. I was really disappointed by the movie but did find the moral interesting.

well, there was no real "villain". 
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: drkaje on March 29, 2009, 07:53:19 AM
well, there was no real "villain". 

Society was the villain. Only creating a new religion by instilling the fear of annihilation could save society from itself.

I'm not certain if they were wrong in asserting that we have no morals.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 07:56:32 AM
interesting opinion, although its safe to say no one with intelligence agrees with you. Say want you want about the film but criticizing the story just exposes you as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about



Watchmen received critical praise, both inside and outside of the comics industry. Time, which noted that the series was "by common assent the best of breed" of the new wave of comics published at the time, praised Watchmen as "a superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian [sic] mystery story."[58] In 1988, Watchmen received a Hugo Award in the Other Forms category.[59] Since its release, Watchmen has garnered acclaim as a seminal work of the comic book medium. In Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Robert Harvey wrote that with Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons "had demonstrated as never before the capacity of the [comic book] medium to tell a sophisticated story that could be engineered only in comics".[60] In his review of the Absolute Edition of the collection, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that the dark legacy of Watchmen, "one that Moore almost certainly never intended, whose DNA is encoded in the increasingly black inks and bleak storylines that have become the essential elements of the contemporary superhero comic book," is "a domain he has largely ceded to writers and artists who share his fascination with brutality but not his interest in its consequences, his eagerness to tear down old boundaries but not his drive to find new ones."[61] In 1999, The Comics Journal ranked Watchmen at number 91 on its list of the Top 100 English-Language Comics of the 20th Century.[62] Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear on Time's 2005 "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels" list.[63] Time critic Lev Grossman described the story as "a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium."[64] In 2008, Entertainment Weekly placed it at number 13 on its list of the best 50 novels printed in the last 25 years, describing it as "The greatest superhero story ever told and proof that comics are capable of smart, emotionally resonant narratives worthy of the label literature."[65] In 2009 Lydia Millet of The Wall Street Journal contested that Watchmen was worthy of such acclaim, and wrote that while the series' "vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate", that "it's simply bizarre to assert that, as an illustrated literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like Chris Ware's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant work of Edward Gorey".[66]





hahahahahaha calm down Dr Manhattan  ::)

I followed the story just fine, i simply felt it was poorly put together, as other getbiggers agree. It was not as fluid as the gn.

regarding intellect, you really should have picked something else to try to insults me on, especially when you follow up your attack on me by posting critical acclaim for the graphic novel, and not the movie.  ::)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 07:59:21 AM
hahahahahaha calm down Dr Manhattan  ::)

I followed the story just fine, i simply felt it was poorly put together, as other getbiggers agree. It was not as fluid as the gn.

regarding intellect, you really should have picked something else to try to insults me on, especially when you follow up your attack on me by posting critical acclaim for the graphic novel, and not the movie.  ::)

"stupid story"

what is fundamentally different about the screenplay than the graphic novel?

"stupid characters"

what differences are there between the characters in the screenplay than the graphic novel?
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 08:04:14 AM
Did you enjoy the kung-fu panda movie?
i loved it  ;D

"stupid story"

what is fundamentally different about the screenplay than the graphic novel?

"stupid characters"

what differences are there between the characters in the screenplay than the graphic novel?

are you retarded or what ?

i never said it was different from the gn, i said it was not as fluid and poorly put together ::)

the characters are stupid - like you. 'the comedian' and ' Dr Manhattan' oh brother and you're arguing with me about this hahahahahahaha ::)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Parker on March 29, 2009, 08:05:32 AM
Society was the villain. Only creating a new religion by instilling the fear of annihilation could save society from itself.

I'm not certain if they were wrong in asserting that we have no morals.

Today Society IS the villian, and who makes up Society? People do.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 08:15:21 AM
i loved it  ;D

are you retarded or what ?

i never said it was different from the gn, i said it was not as fluid and poorly put together ::)

the characters are stupid - like you. 'the comedian' and ' Dr Manhattan' oh brother and you're arguing with me about this hahahahahahaha ::)

like I said.  You're a fool...and you're meltingdown
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on March 29, 2009, 08:19:47 AM
anyone else want to out themselves as a cretin?

Major comic-booky word 
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 08:21:34 AM
Major comic-booky word 
hell yeah it is

(http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/cartoons/shazam/shazam.jpg)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Dballn247 on March 29, 2009, 08:22:27 AM
Trailer looked good but after the reviews I think I'll wait for it to come out on blu ray.  Plus I'm afraid to go to the theater.  Too many year 18 year old beasts in tapout and afflictions shirts.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: drkaje on March 29, 2009, 08:22:48 AM
Today Society IS the villian, and who makes up Society? People do.

That's why a lot of people either can't or won't get the movie's point. Many of our morals are based upon the superstition that some higher power is judging and will eventually render punishment.

Moral behavior based upon fear alone is an interesting concept.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on March 29, 2009, 08:26:21 AM
Me and my brother were going to see it this afternoon, Now I'm not so sure.   i'll just watch cars go around in a circle instead
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 08:30:38 AM
That's why a lot of people either can't or won't get the movie's point. Many of our morals are based upon the superstition that some higher power is judging and will eventually render punishment.

Moral behavior based upon fear alone is an interesting concept.

dude, no need to call fat panda a fucking moron.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Kwon on March 29, 2009, 08:35:57 AM
Hahaha, to those who thought it was too boring.

It's not X-men you dolts! :D

The movie is based on the Watchmen-story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and it was a very good filmatisation of the book.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 08:57:25 AM
like I said.  You're a fool...and you're meltingdown

 ::)

and this was a calm disagreement:

interesting opinion, although its safe to say no one with intelligence agrees with you. Say want you want about the film but criticizing the story just exposes you as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about



Watchmen received critical praise, both inside and outside of the comics industry. Time, which noted that the series was "by common assent the best of breed" of the new wave of comics published at the time, praised Watchmen as "a superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian [sic] mystery story."[58] In 1988, Watchmen received a Hugo Award in the Other Forms category.[59] Since its release, Watchmen has garnered acclaim as a seminal work of the comic book medium. In Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Robert Harvey wrote that with Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons "had demonstrated as never before the capacity of the [comic book] medium to tell a sophisticated story that could be engineered only in comics".[60] In his review of the Absolute Edition of the collection, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times wrote that the dark legacy of Watchmen, "one that Moore almost certainly never intended, whose DNA is encoded in the increasingly black inks and bleak storylines that have become the essential elements of the contemporary superhero comic book," is "a domain he has largely ceded to writers and artists who share his fascination with brutality but not his interest in its consequences, his eagerness to tear down old boundaries but not his drive to find new ones."[61] In 1999, The Comics Journal ranked Watchmen at number 91 on its list of the Top 100 English-Language Comics of the 20th Century.[62] Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear on Time's 2005 "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels" list.[63] Time critic Lev Grossman described the story as "a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium."[64] In 2008, Entertainment Weekly placed it at number 13 on its list of the best 50 novels printed in the last 25 years, describing it as "The greatest superhero story ever told and proof that comics are capable of smart, emotionally resonant narratives worthy of the label literature."[65] In 2009 Lydia Millet of The Wall Street Journal contested that Watchmen was worthy of such acclaim, and wrote that while the series' "vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate", that "it's simply bizarre to assert that, as an illustrated literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like Chris Ware's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant work of Edward Gorey".[66]
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 09:00:55 AM
dude, no need to call fat panda a fucking moron.

you must be quite the moron, as the film has nothing to do with superstition and higher powers  ::)

its to do with fear and how it manipulates the public - in a post 9/11 america i would have thought this would have jumped out and slapped you across the face like the weekend footlongs you are used too, clearly i was mistaken.
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: ManBearPig... on March 29, 2009, 09:17:07 AM
you must be quite the moron, as the film has nothing to do with superstition and higher powers  ::)

its to do with fear and how it manipulates the public - in a post 9/11 america i would have thought this would have jumped out and slapped you across the face like the weekend footlongs you are used too, clearly i was mistaken.

where did i mention superstition and higher powers you dickhead?
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Fatpanda on March 29, 2009, 10:21:31 AM
where did i mention superstition and higher powers you dickhead?

hahahahaha owned
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: tleilaxutank on March 29, 2009, 10:36:45 AM
::)

and this was a calm disagreement:


I'm perfectly calm, dude.

(http://media.photobucket.com/image/i%252527m%20perfectly%20calm%20dude/nastrond667/walter.jpg)
Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: Superboy Prime on March 29, 2009, 01:23:17 PM
hell yeah it is

(http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/cartoons/shazam/shazam.jpg)


SHAZAM!!! Fucking great stuff from the 70's!! :D




















Title: Re: anyone seen the movie the watchmen ?
Post by: HTexan on March 29, 2009, 04:21:55 PM
it was a good movie a little long, and missing key plot points from the comics. hahaha we starting calling our friend "blue cock".  because he was complaining, after the movie, that he didn't need to see cock every couple of minutes. he says it was disgusting. hahaha