Comments | dernam: Watchmen

dernam

Watchmen

Mar 10, 2009 03:54

At two hours and forty three minutes short I think Watchmen could have afforded more nude, sexy and or ridiculously violent scenes with more lengthy, jaded voice overs. Also, they should have made the characters even less lovable as it is currently so hard for me to choose my favorite. I would have followed whatever the plot was if they added more ( Read more... )

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raane March 10 2009, 19:25:23 UTC

Yes. Thank you. I've been reading around a bit, and it seems like the general reaction to people who thought the movie was bad is "You just don't get it." It's possible to understand that it was a so-called "deconstruction" of the super hero genre and still criticize it!

So much agreement about the big revelation re: Laurie/Dr. Manhattan. So she had unlikely parents and she's hot. So? That may have been the stupidest part of the film, but I'm not remembering so well.

On a side note, omg it freaks me out a little that Rorschach is the one that fandom uniformly lusts after. I don't know, it just does.

I enjoyed it though. It had some good parts, and any opportunity to think about something other than law = A+.

dernam March 10 2009, 22:24:15 UTC

Well, if the movie was SUPPOSED to be crap, then I didn't get it. On the other hand, I believe they could have made a "deconstruction" that was still a good movie. There are so many important things they missed for making a good movie and or story.

I just UGH that moment RUINED my image of Dr. Manhattan. Ah so her name was Laurie. She was one of the forgettables, along with what's his face and those other guys.

It's troublesome when the sociopath is the character that people relate to. The sociopath who doesn't change at all in the movie, I might add. Well there was that brief and extremely disturbing moment when he was kind and honest about himself to his friend a few hours in, but then he went right back to his despicably narrow sense of justice and assholian ways of doing things.

It DID have good parts! I'm just having trouble remembering them and relating them to the story.

stuv March 10 2009, 20:41:04 UTC

Sweet! I'll save myself $10! Though I did hear that you do get to see some blue peen in this movie.

burg3r March 10 2009, 22:01:02 UTC

You get to see a LOT of blue peen. After while you may even start to long for the blue peen. It's a little disturbing. hahaha

dernam March 10 2009, 22:29:03 UTC

Agreed. After seeing the blue peen for the first time I kept wondering why they decided to cover it up later.

dernam March 10 2009, 22:28:07 UTC

Well, if you consider $10 worth it to see blue peen, think again because then you ALSO have to watch Watchmen and that's a HUGE cost. The display of the blue peen is also inconsistent. Sometimes they'll show it outright and other times they'll hide it completely.

vejiicakes March 11 2009, 07:35:47 UTC

Well, you already know I agree with you :P

I'm told by at least one reliable source that Laurie is just as boring in the comic, as are her subplots.

I'm still not even.. I.. so Laurie's existence is supposedly a miracle because she's the product of the eventual consenting sex between a woman and her earlier attempted rapist. Even if one is to accept that (and I am not), how is THAT a motivating factor for Dr.Manhattan to return to Earth? Because that's.. what it was. Apparently that whole thing with the original Silk Spectre and the Comedian and how she should hate him and then slept with him anyway and got knocked up with Laurie was WHAT MADE DR.MANHATTAN COME BACK TO SAVE THE WORLD (ineffectually, but still return). I suppose if I were to be accused of "just not getting it" for not liking this movie, this is at least one bit I could agree on.

LOL my animation teacher loathed it. He's made it his new gagline for whenever he sees something in someone's animation that "goes on for way too long" XD

raane March 12 2009, 04:28:40 UTC

Laurie's existence is supposedly a miracle because she's the product of the eventual consenting sex between a woman and her earlier attempted rapist.

Romance novel tropes = miracle, y/y?

vejiicakes March 12 2009, 04:32:24 UTC

I mean, EVEN if you accept that...

Manhattan: "You need to convince me that there's a reason for me to come back to Earth and save it."
Laurie: "My ENTIRE life is a lie because some dickbag was my biological father."
Manhattan: "..well that's.. that's miraculous. I MUST RETURN!"

Buh..? D:

dernam March 12 2009, 22:16:38 UTC

I've determined that Dr. Manhattan IS God and therefore none of his motivations should make any sense. We're supposed to admire him at first, then feel totally betrayed by his surprising stupidity and join the other humans on their war against God in the end of the movie.

Also, this further illustrates the writers' message of the meaninglessness of "miracle". hmmm the juice I'm drinking suddenly tastes like fish.