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Andraste ([personal profile] andraste) wrote2009-03-05 04:27 am
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Watchmen: Very Brief Reactions

[livejournal.com profile] bride_of_lister and I just got back from a midnight screening of Watchmen. Very brief reactions below cut.



In short: wow! THEY ACTUALLY MADE A GREAT FILM OUT OF WATCHMEN. I was terribly worried they wouldn't be able to add anything, but they really did. More about that when it's not getting on for five o'clock in the morning. I was very pleased over all.

Also, a word of warning: this is a very violent film. No, more violent than that. No, it is VERY VERY VIOLENT. And gory. And violent. I thought it was appropriate given the subject matter and tone, but it might be a good idea to go in braced.
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[identity profile] saltedpin.livejournal.com 2009-03-04 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, not that I was expecting it to not be violent, but I am slightly disappointed that it is very, very violent, seeing as I just don't handle it well and probably won't see it now :(

I'm glad it's really good and you enjoyed it, though :D AMAZING, A GOOD FILM BASED ON SOMETHING ALAN MOORE WROTE :OOOOOOOOOO NEXT, APOCALYPSE!
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This is entirely just my opinion, but....

[identity profile] lizamanynames.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Correction: two good films based on something Alan Moore wrote; next: APOCALYPSE! (Or Promethea. Or hell, BOTH.)

Re: This is entirely just my opinion, but....

[identity profile] saltedpin.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you're entitled to your opinion :)
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Re: This is entirely just my opinion, but....

[identity profile] lizamanynames.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
And you to yours. *tips hat* XD
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Re: This is entirely just my opinion, but....

[personal profile] andraste 2009-03-05 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
I liked V for Vendetta too. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was absolutely awful, though.
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[identity profile] lizamanynames.livejournal.com 2009-03-13 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think LXG was awful, exactly, it just utterly failed as an adaptation. As a movie in its own right, it was quite fun.

But I am glad somebody agrees with me on V4V - that was such a deeply moving film for me.
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[personal profile] andraste 2009-03-05 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Well, not that I was expecting it to not be violent, but I am slightly disappointed that it is very, very violent, seeing as I just don't handle it well and probably won't see it now :(

On the one hand, I don't want to put people off because it was a great film. On the other, I'd much rather you decided it was too much for you now than part way through a movie you've already paid for!

If you're not up to close-ups on people's knees bending in directions they ought not to bend, Doctor Manhattan dramatically exploding people all over the place and Rorschach ... being Rorschach with a machete, you may want to skip it, at least in the theatre :(.

[identity profile] saltedpin.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
People being dramatically exploded by Doctor Manhattan I may deal with, because it kind of falls into that 'cartoon violence' category (no matter how graphic it is), but those other things... I don't know. Knees bending the wrong way is one of my major, major horrors :(

It's a shame, because I would really, really like to see it, but I just find violence fairly intolerable to sit through these days. I have no idea when I went from 'not liking it much' to 'finding it horribly, horribly upsetting' :(
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