Watching the Watchmen: Primarily a Discussion of Casting

[elfhawk]

So I watched Watchmen Saturday. As a big fan of the comic book, I hated it. As a big fan of cheesy movies, I enjoyed it muchly.

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I suggest renting 300 first. (To quote the poster, "From the acclaimed director of 300, Zach Snyder" blah, blah, blah). Note the gratuitous gore and sex. It will be repeated

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[wxgeek]

I'll go see it anyhow. I anticipate agreeing with you.

Maybe IMAX.

[pariahsdream]

I'm still not sure how I feel about the movie. I don't agree with the principles it possesses in general and the violence was disgusting in places (and yes I realize it was there for a purpose, blah, blah, blah).

In Veidt's accent defense, the actor playing him was British and probably should've been allowed to keep his accent. They could've explained it away somewhere else if they really wanted to. Besides, aren't all villains Brits or French anyways? ;p

Big, blue wang- I give him props for equal opportunity inappropriate nakedness. I'm tired of only seeing breasts.

JDM- Dude, I'd flirt with him given the chance (though probably not if I knew anything about that character).

[wxgeek]

Question A) Have you read the book?
Question B) What do you mean by "the principles it possesses in general"?

[pariahsdream]

A) Unfortunately no I haven't. I'm a bad comic geek. I meant to grab it from Gremlin's stash before the movie but it never worked out.

B) That humans can only be their most base and disgusting selves. That all the 'morals', free will, discipline can't make up for the beast that's in all of us. It worked out well in "Sin City" for example because it was limited to a single city and it seemed that there was possibility that the whole world wasn't quite like that. In "Watchmen" everyone was an asshole. Almost without letting up on it. And if you weren't an asshole (to borrow from the South Park guys), you were a pussy (RE: Niteowl).

[elfhawk]

I forget if it was in the movie (I don't think it is), but at the end, after the big 'alien telepath shrieking mental death agonies' thing, Veidt asks Manhattan something along the lines of "Did I do the right thing?" re:his blowing up NYC to make people come together (hmm, how does this compare to 9/11? State examples from real life...) and Manhattan replies along the lines of, "Maybe. Maybe not. But you're stuck with your actions."

[e_heidi_liz]

One of the reasons he used the music he did was that he was using songs that were specifically mentioned in the comic book.

[elfhawk]

Yeah, and what part of 'needs to put some originality in the movie' were you missing about my complaints? Just because they're in the book doesn't mean they need to be in the movie. Which has always been Snyder's problem. I'm surprised the Spartans got loincloths.

[tkie]

As always, love the snark. I'm planning to borrow the book from Pug's brother once he finishes re-reading it, and probably we'll see it sooner or later.