I went to go see the Midnight showing of Watchmen last night, and my only comment on it is that it is a good film, that was not allowed to be a great film because of one dreaded term... fanservice
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-Apparently the writers wanted to change the vietnam bits to be set in Afghanistan.
-The sex scene was funny purely for it being set to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah... especially as we had been discussing which version was better earlier on in the evening :P
Sorry, that just kicked off my own curiosity. Not saying you were right or wrong in your assessment- personally I disagree and I thought it was a good interpretation, but each to their own, right?
"/Edit: Also the amount of modern politics they are fitting into films these days was frightening, considering this was supposed to be an alternative 80's they managed to fit in plenty of modern political agendas. I bloody hate it when they do that, it is like "yeah great you are making a political statement we have heard 100 times before in a movie, woah what a visionary director you are." Bah."
Moore hated that with V for Vendetta and said he didn't want it to happen again in any adaptation of anything he's created (although as you say, he doesn't like being associated with such adaptations anyhow). I personally find it boring, annoying and as though people are telling me what to think, and it doesn't half kill the mood on a date. Also, if the film makers had in fact changed the Vietnam sequences to Afghanistan, then it wouldn't have been an alternative universe, would it, as the Americans DID win Afghanistan during the Cold War - the Russians were kicked out, which was the only objective. Hel-lo, is a history book in the house?
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-The sex scene was funny purely for it being set to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah... especially as we had been discussing which version was better earlier on in the evening :P
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At the very least, I know it was a pre-Buckley version. As every post-Buckley version has the slightly more sexed up verses.
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Sorry, that just kicked off my own curiosity. Not saying you were right or wrong in your assessment- personally I disagree and I thought it was a good interpretation, but each to their own, right?
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Moore hated that with V for Vendetta and said he didn't want it to happen again in any adaptation of anything he's created (although as you say, he doesn't like being associated with such adaptations anyhow). I personally find it boring, annoying and as though people are telling me what to think, and it doesn't half kill the mood on a date. Also, if the film makers had in fact changed the Vietnam sequences to Afghanistan, then it wouldn't have been an alternative universe, would it, as the Americans DID win Afghanistan during the Cold War - the Russians were kicked out, which was the only objective. Hel-lo, is a history book in the house?
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