I Watch The Watchmen
Have not read the graphic novel.
Liked the movie.
LOVED the Rorschach character. Great role and a great job with it by Jackie Earle Haley (yes, from the original Bad News Bears. Far right in this picture). Scary looking now, but absolutely wonderful to watch.
It's getting a lot of flack around town, which I take to mean that everyone who won't be making money off of it is pissed. Also, around here, you can shout from the rooftop that something sucks and it's taken as gospel, but if you lay claim to actually enjoying yourself during a movie, you have to back it up or bear the label of Tasteless Hack. If you like something nobody else likes, why would we ever bother reading your script? Or doing any business with you? You're unpopular and cannot discern what will and won't win us Oscars -cause no way are we in the business of making entertainment that puts butts in chairs. We're artists! All of us. That's why we have these snotty attitudes. See?
This actually only stems from a few people in my office being this way. But it's so hipster it annoys the ever-loving piss out of me.
Watchmen is a dystopian, heady, noir. Big themes, including human beings as self-destructive animals... a theme near and dear to what's left of my heart that has actually come up a lot in my life lately. I dug it. I may very well go se it again just to have it in front of me while I'm thinking about it.
Because I live and work in H-Town, however, I am compelled to nitpick about the actual production. It is a bit too long and I'm supposing (because I am NOT, in fact, a Director) that when you ask someone to sit down for a 3 hour movie, they have a reasonable expectation that you aren't going to dawdle your way through the story. We assume they whittled down everything as much as possible, so in the places where the pace of the story slows, people actually get pissed. Not me, but we have a 40-person screening room here and in work company, it can get pretty vocal when people feel their precious time is being wasted, even though they all carved out this block to watch the movie. Oh, and we're getting paid to watch a fucking movie.
Some of the expository dialogue was heavy-handed and a couple of the lines were so odd, we can't figure out if a better actor could have pulled it off or if it was just written weird. But, again, this is nitpicking. There is no happy ending, you should know, and it takes you 2 hours and 43 minutes to get there, but the show is well worth the ticket price and I certianly feel like I walked away with not only things to think about, but glad for the experience of this superhero noir.
*******
"You don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in with you. You're locked in with me!"
Fucking awesome.
Liked the movie.
LOVED the Rorschach character. Great role and a great job with it by Jackie Earle Haley (yes, from the original Bad News Bears. Far right in this picture). Scary looking now, but absolutely wonderful to watch.
It's getting a lot of flack around town, which I take to mean that everyone who won't be making money off of it is pissed. Also, around here, you can shout from the rooftop that something sucks and it's taken as gospel, but if you lay claim to actually enjoying yourself during a movie, you have to back it up or bear the label of Tasteless Hack. If you like something nobody else likes, why would we ever bother reading your script? Or doing any business with you? You're unpopular and cannot discern what will and won't win us Oscars -cause no way are we in the business of making entertainment that puts butts in chairs. We're artists! All of us. That's why we have these snotty attitudes. See?
This actually only stems from a few people in my office being this way. But it's so hipster it annoys the ever-loving piss out of me.
Watchmen is a dystopian, heady, noir. Big themes, including human beings as self-destructive animals... a theme near and dear to what's left of my heart that has actually come up a lot in my life lately. I dug it. I may very well go se it again just to have it in front of me while I'm thinking about it.
Because I live and work in H-Town, however, I am compelled to nitpick about the actual production. It is a bit too long and I'm supposing (because I am NOT, in fact, a Director) that when you ask someone to sit down for a 3 hour movie, they have a reasonable expectation that you aren't going to dawdle your way through the story. We assume they whittled down everything as much as possible, so in the places where the pace of the story slows, people actually get pissed. Not me, but we have a 40-person screening room here and in work company, it can get pretty vocal when people feel their precious time is being wasted, even though they all carved out this block to watch the movie. Oh, and we're getting paid to watch a fucking movie.
Some of the expository dialogue was heavy-handed and a couple of the lines were so odd, we can't figure out if a better actor could have pulled it off or if it was just written weird. But, again, this is nitpicking. There is no happy ending, you should know, and it takes you 2 hours and 43 minutes to get there, but the show is well worth the ticket price and I certianly feel like I walked away with not only things to think about, but glad for the experience of this superhero noir.
*******
"You don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in with you. You're locked in with me!"
Fucking awesome.