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« Reply #1467 on: 7 March 2009, 02:42:39 » |
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I picked up Clerks II for $5.
I saw Taken the other night. I really liked it, although I'm annoyed that it was cut so it could get a PG-13 rating. I'll pick it up on DVD when it comes out.
What really bothered me about the movie is his daughter's friend
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After he discovers her dead, he just leaves the body in the room. What happens to the body, did the authorities recover it and send it home? Or is it there still in France? And what about her family? They never really touch on the fact after Bryan gets his daughter back, that his daughter and her friend just spent almost 96 hours in a world terrible, disturbing world that caused her friend to be filled with drugs and be used for sex and die because of it. Granted, Bryan's daughter was probably also coked up at the time, but don't you think that would cause her to come out of it #####ed up?[/spoiler]
I also watched Babylon A.D. I thought it was okay, but it definitely isn't a good or bad movie. Interesting enough to keep my attention while I wait for another Riddick movie (which you know the studio execs were trying to go for), but not great enough for me to recommend people going off to buy it. Rent it.
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« Reply #1469 on: 7 March 2009, 05:30:36 » |
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...just watched Watchmen. I could go way into detail on this... but overall I really liked it. I mean, I really liked it. I'm impressed. They definitely cut a LOT of important stuff out, and you'll never get the full experience unless you read the book, but I totally feel that it did as much as it could have done as a film of such a detailed, complicated comic. I went with a large group of people, and only two of us had read it. Pretty much everybody we went with loved the movie, so that's good news. Both the other guy who had read it and I approved. My only complaint that there wasn't enough blue #####. I mean, after all the talk, I was expecting so much blue ##### and I had prepared myself for so much blue ##### and all I got was a little blue ##### (mind you it wasn't actually a little blue #####.) Posted on: 7 March 2009, 03:49:07
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« Reply #1480 on: 8 March 2009, 19:04:05 » |
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Why would someone lie about something so dumb? Ugh.
I had an opportunity to see the movie, I decided ##### that. And it's bombing at our theatre.
Geoff came to work in costume again. He was Rorschach this time. A handful of little #####s walked up to his podium (he was ripping tickets) and were like "Who are you supposed to be?" and the poster of Watchmen was like right next to him. Maybe Rorschach wasn't on that poster, whatever. Apparently they were giving him trouble for being in a costume (because it's so dorky, right guys), but this is Geoff, so he doesn't take it. Still I wish I was there. I have more authority, I would've told them to shut up or get out.
This is the same guy who came as Iron Man, Jigsaw, and the Joker. I thought he might've been great as the Comedian, but no, he wanted to wear white panty-hose. Apparently a girl caught him with some panty-hose in the aisle of Zellers and he had his face up to it to see if he could see through it okay. And he was breathing really hard through it to see if he could breathe. Oh man I was dying when I heard that.
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« Reply #1481 on: 8 March 2009, 19:10:48 » |
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Right. Watchmen was pretty good... err if you've read it. I guess. I've read it, so I don't know what it's like if you haven't but it really is almost only the highlights of the book (of which there are many but still, if you wanted to do it perfect it would be like a four hour movie). What was weird was even beyond what Edge said, they left some stuff in that actually makes no sense unless you've read it. [spoiler]For instance, The Comedian saying "Is this what gets you hot?" to Hooded Justice. Or the two men at the news stand hugging in the explosion.[/spoiler] I liked it but I have a small handful of minor issues with it. I have to imagine that the comic does a much better job with the material
It does. I REALLY does. And there's a LOT more in the history of The Minutemen that's actually important. Also, [spoiler]The explosion thing is a completely different sort of trick. Especially taking into consideration that the arrival of Dr. Manhattan actually lead to them solving the fossil fuel crisis in the book.[/spoiler] On a related note: Does anyone else find it annoying when movies like this come out and people who you KNOW didn't even know the comic existed try to front like they're OG?
"OMG! I love The Watchman! I read those when I was a kid"
"... the word 'the' isn't in the title, and no you didn't. You read Spiderman. Only Spiderman."
I remember a similar experience when Sin City came out; It's no less irritating now.
Yes. Very. I'd heard of Sin City but hadn't read it, and my friend had read some but couldn't find all of it until they reprinted them like ape ##### for the movie. Neither of us fronted. I'd read about half of Watchmen and new the ending before the movie was announced, then I went back and re-read all of it. Anyway I think the movie was as good as it could be and I really liked it despite little things. |
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