Three days to "Watchmen"

[Lyoko Wario offline]

Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!

[MY85 offline]

Gonna watch it tonight.

The comic is a pretty good read, but I'm hearing mixed reviews about the film. Oh well...

Edit: Watchmen (*** 1/2). The comic book is superior by a long shot, but it's hard to pull off properly a film like Watchmen. BTW, if anyone goes to see it with their kids and later complains about stuff like Dr. Manhattan's penis and a sex scene, let's remember that this is a Rated R film after all.

[Lyoko Wario offline]

Indeed, there were people bringin' in kids at the showing I attended. No matter how many times people tell them not to bring their kids to a freakin' R-rated (hard R) movie because it's full of blood and gore and naked genitalia, they just go on ahead and bring their kids in anyway. Pisses me off. Usually I'm very left-leaning, but this time I feel a little bit Rorschach and will say that those dumb liberal parents (as opposed to smart liberal parents) thinking their kids are oh-so-mature to handle any kind of on-screen depravity, even if they know it's not real, makes me sick.

Speaking of, I was much more taken aback by the violence and sex in the comic than I was from the same stuff in the movie, which is weird. In general, I liked the finished film as a whole, everything was very loyal to the story... in particular I liked the beginning with Bob Dylan singing "The Times They Are A-Changing" in the background. It was very artistic. I came out of it awfully depressed, though, but I guess everyone did, even if it was just a little bit. Cheery fare it's not, but I suppose I should have seen that coming a mile away, seeing that I was already familiar with the graphic novel.

I did like it, though. Quite a bit.

[MY85 offline]

It seems like we're the only ones here who saw the film.

How annoying is was for you to hear the "Hallelujah" song when Laurie and Dan had sex inside Archie?