I thought "Sound of Silence" was a nice touch actually, playing a song written as a reaction to the JFK assassination over the funeral of his (in that universe) assassin.
I also tried to watch PS I Love You, recently, but Gerald Butler annoys the hell out of me sometimes.
For a second I thought you meant Batman: Under the Hood and got all excited. (It's not out yet, but soon! Soon we will have angry murderous Jason Todd on animated DVD! XD)
I only watched Watchmen a little while ago, and still haven't read the book. It was...odd. Overall I didn't care for the story or the characters, but I liked seeing "superhero stuff" applied to be big screen in a way that I don't think we've really seen in other superhero movies so far.
And the whole NiteOwl/Silk Spectre thing, I kept thinking about that issue of BoP where Dixon pays tribute to Watchmen (IIRC given that Ted Kord/Blue Beetle is the basis for Nite Owl), and thinking how much more I liked that issue of BoP, and debating whether or not Patrick Wilson would make a good Ted Kord (I settled on "no").
I...may be too distractable and nit-picky for my own good.
The book is much better than the movie. The movie misses a lot of the subtleties. Characterization is flattened. The politics comes off as hamfisted. The action scenes are over the top and far too obviously special effects-y.
You're kind of supposed to dislike the characters. Even the more likable ones have cringe-inducing or loathsome moments.
I also tried to watch PS I Love You, recently, but Gerald Butler annoys the hell out of me sometimes.
I just don't watch his movies in general. He annoys me MOST of the time.
You're kind of supposed to dislike the characters. Even the more likable ones have cringe-inducing or loathsome moments.
Yeah, but even so, there are plenty of characters I love who are actually quite repulsive. I think it's mostly the whole "superheroes with good intentions in a world go bad, go bad. Also the world is ugly" ...thing. I realize that Watchmen is attributed with possibly setting that trend, but it's like I was tired of it before I even became properly aware of it.
re: Gerald Butler
It was the choice of having a Scottish actor do an Irish accent in an American movie that irritated me the most. I don't have the best ear for these things, but even I could tell it was off. It's like he was trying to walk in two different directions at once.
Many of the characters in Watchmen don't have good intentions. I think that Hooded Justice, Comedian and Rorschach are completely irredeemable - they all seem to have gotten into the crime-fighting business in order to work out their psychological issues through violence. Wait, correction - Hooded Justice seems to have been really, really screwed up on a number of levels (and possibly a Nazi!) but he doesn't seem criminally insane like Rorschach, or Comedian. I mean, both the Nite Owls had good intentions, and Silk Spectre 2, Silhouette. Everyone else is questionable even at the level of intentions.
The Watchmen started that trend in comics, but Moore was drawing on an existing literary/film trend. Watchmen is an important read, in order to really understand contemporary comics (it's still massively influential), but it's by no means as ~original as it's sometimes made out to be. That said, it's a damn fine book, but one that's hard to like. It doesn't want to be liked.
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I WAS NORMAL ONCE
I WAS!
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For a second I thought you meant Batman: Under the Hood and got all excited. (It's not out yet, but soon! Soon we will have angry murderous Jason Todd on animated DVD! XD)
I only watched Watchmen a little while ago, and still haven't read the book. It was...odd. Overall I didn't care for the story or the characters, but I liked seeing "superhero stuff" applied to be big screen in a way that I don't think we've really seen in other superhero movies so far.
And the whole NiteOwl/Silk Spectre thing, I kept thinking about that issue of BoP where Dixon pays tribute to Watchmen (IIRC given that Ted Kord/Blue Beetle is the basis for Nite Owl), and thinking how much more I liked that issue of BoP, and debating whether or not Patrick Wilson would make a good Ted Kord (I settled on "no").
I...may be too distractable and nit-picky for my own good.
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You're kind of supposed to dislike the characters. Even the more likable ones have cringe-inducing or loathsome moments.
I also tried to watch PS I Love You, recently, but Gerald Butler annoys the hell out of me sometimes.
I just don't watch his movies in general. He annoys me MOST of the time.
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Yeah, but even so, there are plenty of characters I love who are actually quite repulsive. I think it's mostly the whole "superheroes with good intentions in a world go bad, go bad. Also the world is ugly" ...thing. I realize that Watchmen is attributed with possibly setting that trend, but it's like I was tired of it before I even became properly aware of it.
re: Gerald Butler
It was the choice of having a Scottish actor do an Irish accent in an American movie that irritated me the most. I don't have the best ear for these things, but even I could tell it was off. It's like he was trying to walk in two different directions at once.
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The Watchmen started that trend in comics, but Moore was drawing on an existing literary/film trend. Watchmen is an important read, in order to really understand contemporary comics (it's still massively influential), but it's by no means as ~original as it's sometimes made out to be. That said, it's a damn fine book, but one that's hard to like. It doesn't want to be liked.
Re Butler: so agreed.
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