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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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. It makes you think, though, and for that I give it credit.
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Anyway, thanks for the info. I know that oilly gross feeling. That's not a fun one.
Here's something fun though:
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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?
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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.
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