Watchmen...

[wordmongerer]

...was a bit like waiting for a bag of wet fireworks to go off. Full of promise yet predictably anticlimactic.

First things first, I really like the book - not obsessively, I just REALLY LIKE it. I think the changed ending did make sense in the context of what they chose to include in the film, so I've got no big issues with the film, it was just,

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[neil_exile]

It was never going to drop a certificate because 'Giant Blue Cock'; that would never wear at anything other than a R rating in the States. I'm sure the logic was if you're going to be an R, then _be_ an R.

[ultimate_leigh]

do you think the cocks were pixelated in Japan?

[neil_exile]

I think that not only was the cock was probably pixelated, they also had a the alternate special ending where the psychic-cthulhu-death-vagisquid tentacle rapes everyone in Tokyo to death.

[ultimate_leigh]

Tsk. Such double standards they have in Japan.