In fact, here we are in the middle of a Boob Qix session on my arcade machine:
I will miss Joseph, mainly for all the insightful design conversations we had, but also because he is the main person who loves Watchmen as much as I do, and now we can't talk about how great it is on a daily basis. Well, not easily.
Nat and I went to see the movie last night, and it really is rather good. Obviously the graphic novel has to be adapted to the movie format, and this is normally the easiest thing to screw up. They didn't screw it up though - it works perfectly. They cut where they should have cut, and altered what they should have altered. And all us fan-boys get to see the extra stuff on DVD, so everybody wins.
They did a great job of casting - nobody overshadowed or upstaged anyone else. The performances seemed very pure, and very believable. The actors interpreted their roles brilliantly, the costumes and sets were fantastic, and Alan Moore's genius dialogue shines through - poetic and poignant without sounding rehearsed or unnatural.
The cinema was full of 18-25 year olds (I assume most of them would be unfamiliar with the original graphic novel), who decided that Doc Manhattans penis needed commentary every time it appeared, and that Miss Jupiter's 'encounter' with the Comedian deserved laughter. As the movie went on and it's enormous vision sank in, this started to die away. Nobody cared about blue dicks by the end of the movie, I can tell you that much.
I give it two broken thumbs up.
2 comments:
Jeez Brad, here you are blogging like a maniac and linking to my old site, and you don't even tell me so I can voyeuristically peer through your e-curtains at night.
If you wanted somebody to talk to Watchmen about, jeez, I'm right here bro. I've only owned the novel for like ten years. :P
Also, when I went and saw Watchmen, there were seriously about a dozen children in the movie. Honest to god children, most of them under 10 or so. Who the hell takes their kid to see Watchmen. Do your research, guys, that movie is not for children.
P.S. Update your bookmark, my friend, I've moved from Timtek Industries and am now at http://www.notsounwashed.com/ !
Well now I feel like an arsehole. You *do* love Watchmen don't you. But you were always _all_the_way_over_in_the_other_room_. I guess you arent anymore.
Wanna talk about Watchmen all the time? My favourite character is Rorschach, but not for the reasons everyone else has. I am above that.
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