Who watches the Watchmen? ...a rather put-off Starrie, apparently.

[starfoozle]

Went to see Watchmen tonight with a bunch of friends. I now feel like I need to scrub my brain a bit with a mild bleach solution.

Note to self: Just because you're now actually old enough to see R-rated movies unaccompanied, it doesn't mean they're actually worth seeing.

(The movie wasn't bad, exactly, and was in fact very true to the comic. However

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[captain_elessar]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. That's my feel good movie. Or you know.. Serenity. Good fall back.

My dad wants to see it. I'm if-y about it. I mean obviously.. aside from the Sin City/300ish stuff, what're your thoughts? I'm trying to collect info from friends.

Also, lemme tell you my main concern. I have a random (it's really random, I dunno where it came from) and intense fear of nuclear power/radiation. So yeah... Dr. Manhattan. And the clip of the kissing people in front of atomic explosion. Indiana Jones freaked me out. Is this going to freak me out?

[starfoozle]

First off, if you're freaked-out by nuclear/cataclysmic explosion stuff, then yes, this will have you very frazzled. The whole storyline is Cold War-centric, if that tells you anything. As for me, I've got a strange, almost perverse fascination with nuclear things. I blame my Physics teacher entirely (he tells us all kinds of stories, and has a faintly radioactive lead brick from Los Alamos sitting on his desk as a paperweight) so this was kind of thrilling from that standpoint.

I adore Dr. Manhattan, though. He's definitely my favorite, despite running around naked most of the time. The glowy man-bits were kind of a shock at first. My thoughts? It's dark, dark, dark as can be, and left me with a sort of metaphorical oily feeling in my stomach that made me go "ew, this needs to get washed off with something pleasant." I'm still a naieve pup at heart, I suppose -- graphic sex and graphic violence make me uncomfortable, and this contained both. All the characters are badly damaged in one way or another, and the ending's far from happy

[captain_elessar]

Dr. Manhattan as a person seems pretty cool, and I can handle that part if he's just wandering around and doing his thing, but yeah... I'm not so cool with random sex. I just don't see a need for it. By this point in our lives, we all know what happens. It's not like we need to see it. Over and over. It's kind of the same. Take a high school health class....

Anyway, thanks for the info. I know that oilly gross feeling. That's not a fun one.

Here's something fun though:

[starfoozle]

*giggles helplessly* Dear lord, that fellow is hilarious. I keep snickering at random intervals now, and it just escalates. You just made my night. :D

Dr. Manhattan's a neat dude, and after the first little while you're just like "okay, naked blue guy, whatever." I'm with you on the gratuitous sex, though, totally. I mean, yes, there's a time and place, but not while I'm trying to watch an action flick, damnit! Pff, high school health class. Sooooo glad that's behind me now. *shudders vaguely* It's just like, can we please, as a cultural whole, grow up?

[captain_elessar]

"This one's wet, and this one's wet, and this one's wet. This one is wet, this one is wet, this one is wet... Did you dry these in a rainforest?"

Yeah, Eddie Izzard is pretty hysterical. :D Glad I could help. And it would be nice if the cultural whole grew up. Even just a bit. So that we can stop giggling like 5th graders about sex. It's actually not that exciting. It makes babies. Whoo... I mean, there's more to life than sex. Like action movies.