Okay, okay: REVIEW

[20thcenturyvole]

Went and saw Watchmen for the second time last night, and it was still awesome and ooh, that reminds me, I've still got half a pack of peanut M&Ms in my bag.

Comments

[20thcenturyvole]

Well, personally, I was not impressed. I got all blue the first time, and it looked like I'd blown a Smurf; frankly, I don't think I'd be happy unless I got an all-orange bag, and that's, what, a one-in-six chance? Pah. Bring back mixed M&Ms, I say! I like sorting them by colour and eating them on a proportioned rota like the slightly neurotic compulsive I am!

(You want to know the scary thing? I put this review through OpenOffice after I'd posted and checked how long it was: a little over 2000 words. Written in under four hours, including the time it took to make two cups of tea, eat crumpets, chat with Sas, bugger about doing other things. I swear, if all my assignments were gushing film reviews, I'd never turn anything in late...)

[morbane]

So they're selling them in monochrome bags?

This is about the glummest news I've had all year.

[cmattg]

"Changing the method of Rorschach's first murder seemed gratuitous."

Actually Snyder addressed exactly that in an interview....somewhere.
He figured the cut-your-own-arm-off motif was so strongly associated
with *Saw* that audiences would find it distracting. So he changed it.

[20thcenturyvole]

Hmm, maybe; personally, I've never seen the Saw films because Hostel was bad enough on so many levels to make me want to do horrifically violent things to Eli Roth - weirdly, cuffing a guy, setting his surroundings on fire and handing him a hacksaw to cut through his own wrist is something I associate with Mad Max 2. But still, it was the fire that I associate with that scene in the comic, not the implied (but never-used) dismemberment.

But his reasoning's fair enough, and I imagined Snyder might have wanted to keep that line about the shock of impact running up his arm, but felt saying it about the dogs Rorschach had killed would have a lot less impact than the man. It's just... hmm. The whole meat-cleaver-to-the-head bit was just so horror movie, it jarred me.