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The film version of Watchmen was worse than bad. It was boring.

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Solar Hero said...: At what point did you leave?; 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...: i kinda liked the dude who was playing rorschach. i kept watching to see if he could redeem the movie.; 12:07 PM
AlanSmithee said...: Boring? Well, yeah. But Watchmen isn't really a movie and it wasn't made for people who like movies. Watchmen, Ironman and so on are product - manufactured largely for 30 year old comic book fanboys whose idea of entertainment is pre-adolescent revenge fantasies with homoerotic subtext.; 12:32 PM
b-psycho said...: I think the only way to enjoy the Watchmen movie is to be enough of a comics buff to be vaguely familiar with the concept, but not enough to have read the original and kept a copy of it all this time. Hence, I liked it. Meanwhile, my father didn't register a thought about it at all (which I'd say is worse than saying it sucked).

My mother, who never had the comics experience either of us did, was surprised when I told her it had absolutely nothing to do with Iron Man. Needless to say, she might as well skip it.; 1:22 PM
Anonymous said...: whose idea of entertainment is pre-adolescent revenge fantasies with homoerotic subtext.

..says the guy who spends his days screaming at strangers on the internet to make up for all the times he got pantsed in middle school.; 1:49 PM
Anonymous said...: ..says the guy who spends his days screaming at strangers on the internet to make up for all the times he got pantsed in middle school.

you do know that this cycle can continue with you and on to infinity...; 2:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Watchmen was a groundbreaking comic book made into a not-so-groundbreaking comic book movie in a market filled with not-so-groundbreaking comic book movies. That said, the film was pretty faithful to its source. I really don't know why anyone would expect it to be anything other than what it was.; 3:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Poor StevieBabaWhaaaWhaaa! I ums gets ums widdle feeeweeeings hurt again by teh big bad intertubes? Awwwwwwwww!; 4:29 PM
Christopher said...: I had no strong opinion one way or the other.

Although I'm not going to enjoy listening to the fanboys praise it to the high heavens. Every time somebody says that The Dark Knight is a brilliant movie I die a little inside (I enjoyed it a piece of superhero fluff, but really, even as fluff Iron Man was better).

Now I have to listen to my fellow nerds praise ANOTHER dour lengthy pseudo-profound lump of a movie as absolute genius.

It gets a little tiring.; 2:30 AM
Anonymous said...: "Boring? Well, yeah. But Watchmen isn't really a movie and it wasn't made for people who like movies. Watchmen, Ironman and so on are product - manufactured largely for 30 year old comic book fanboys whose idea of entertainment is pre-adolescent revenge fantasies with homoerotic subtext."

Patently incorrect. If studios began looking to comic book fans to float big budget blockbusters, they'd all be in need of government bailouts. The market is vanishingly small.; 3:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Iron Man was fun. This looks like watching a Dave Sim rant stretched out to feature length. Watchmen isn't all that great and didn't need to be a movie.; 11:31 AM
AlanSmithee said...: Oh, well of course everyone knows fanboys can't float big budget blockbusters. The fact that even the shittiest multi-gazillion dollar summer blockbuster comic book movie turns a hefty profit shouldn't interfere with that world-class delusion.

Of course, you could go check out BoxOfficeMojo before making sub-moronic statements like that - but then you wouldn't be such an entertaining shitwit.; 12:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Comic book movies make money, therefore comic book fans are solely responsible for their making money.

Of course you could go check out the comic book sales charts at ICv2 (summary: nobody reads comics) before making etc. etc.; 12:14 AM
Anonymous said...: you do know that this cycle can continue with you and on to infinity...

Right, because pointing out that Smithee is an adolescent poser with anger management issues is the exact same thing as, um, screaming at people on the internet for not being radically idealist/cynical enough.

You dumb fuck.; 8:08 AM
Anonymous said...: Right, because pointing out that Smithee is an adolescent poser with anger management issues is the exact same thing as, um, screaming at people on the internet for not being radically idealist/cynical enough.

You dumb fuck.

the internets! where ad hominem ramblings are only accurate when directed at the other guy!; 7:02 PM
Chris E. said...: Just saw it. Good God. I thought that by reading a shitload of lukewarm-to-negative reviews, I'd be properly braced for disappointment. More fool I.

Comics reporter Tom Spurgeon had the best take that I've seen: "it was like the performers were operating in sensory deprivation chambers and the director wasn't passing notes tank to tank."; 12:29 AM
mrda said...: Guess I'm the only one who liked it then...; 5:21 PM

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