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Cheap Shot
03/16/09

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Syfy is as bad as when Coke tried to rebrand. I hope they revert.
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BlinkyMcChuck
03/16/09

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Syfy is horrific.
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EleanorRigby
03/16/09

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McHale!!!! Yay.
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Spirit Fingers
03/16/09

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Fletch Lives!

(Aww, someone was gonna say it. Shut up!)
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avoidz
03/15/09

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Doesn't matter. This will do really well on DVD and Blu.
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ThorpeSpano
03/13/09

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To Mr. article writer: Yeah, you're probably right. No reason to make movies that only 5 million people like. Much better to make garbage that a lofty 50 million people like. Because if more people like something, it has to be better. Like McDonalds. Your arrogance is sadly expected. "Watchmen" is something special. NOT like everything else, and I suspect that the reason the great unwashed don't like it, is because it's too smart for them. Case & point: I took my 6 year-old to see "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" last weekend at the cheapie 2nd run theatre. I seem to recall that this is the movie that was #1 in the USA for several weeks? The 'general public' decided that this "Mall Cop" turd was the 'best' movie. Nuff siad? I never read the Watchmen GN, but the only reason I didn't go see the film last weekend was that every showing from dusk til dawn at my local IMAX theatre of it was sold out. I have tickets to see it there this coming Sunday night, along with 3 of my non-Deana-Troi-photo-masturbating friends. But don't you worry Mr. article writer, those visionaries in Hollywood are busy making "Twilight 12," so you and all of the rest of the mainstream brain-dead moviegoing dimwits can keep on financing that brand of crap for a few years to come. Congratulations on your big win. Jackass.
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katekate is squared
03/15/09

@ThorpeSpano: While I agree with you, this movie still completely sucked.
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katekate is squared
03/13/09

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Are you kidding me? I regret the first $11 I spent on this pile of crap. The only thing that kept me from walking out was Rorschach, and even he was not worth another $11.
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Aaron Altman
03/13/09

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They tried this with Ishtar.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/13/09

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I doubt it's a failure. I'm going to see it with all of my friends, but we're just in no hurry. It opened, and now I'm waiting for a good day to go.

Watchmen won't make money then disappear. It'll continually churn out a couple million every day for a while and the curious crowds finally find a day to go see it. I think it'll do well overall. And the DVD sales will be astronomical because everyone will want to own this.

Dark Knight appealed to teens and high schoolers, but Watchmen appeals to University kids and early adults, who have busy lives.
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JudgeFudge
03/13/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I couldn't aggree with you more. Seeing it Sunday!
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Macloserboy
03/13/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Bad news for you "University kids and early adults" Watchmen is longer than Dark Knight, so I don't know how you're going to fit in. You know, given how busy your lives are.

Nice attempt to try and degrade the success of one film and justify your support of a less-successful one by proclaiming the superiority of your faction. I guess that's why Sally Jupiter has built in erect nipples and slow motion fight scenes, for all you grownups.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/13/09

@Macloserboy: OKay if you're going to be a shit about it: Dark Knight pandered to the streak of retarded anarchy that laces each and every adolescent idiot (like yourself) who drooled and violated themselves over Ledger's Joker, disregarding that the movie as a whole was actually pretty banal and utterly disappointing, with tacked-on moral subplots (convicts being good! Weee! A cell phone scanner that Morgan Freeman hates! Who gives a shit?!).

So that being said Dark Knight did great on an opening weekend, bolstered by LEdger's great performance and ultimately energized by his death. If you don't believe that the "role that ended his life" made a difference in sales to teenies, you're an idiot.

Frankly, I liked the Dark Knight, but didn't go gaga over it. It was a good, solid movie. Something I expect from the Watchmen as well. Nothing fantastic.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/13/09

@Macloserboy: and by the way, it's not the fucking length of the movie I'm talking about. It's the 'OMG ZORZ WE HAVE TO BE THERE ON OPENING WEEKEND OR ELSE I WON'T BE ABLE TO TELL COURTNEY ABOUT IT SHE'S SO CUTE I JUST WANT TO HOLD HER IN MY NOODLEY TEENAGE ARMS AND TELL HER ABOUT BATMAN'.

In conclusion, when you grow the eff up, you see movies when you can, not when you and your buddies are spending a day at the mall, and get bored of hanging around the Hot Topic.
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JudgeFudge
03/13/09

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Watchmen is not a failure at the box office. For March, a $55 opening for any movie is stupendous.

Also, business has been really steady throughout the week, with around $3 in ticket sales everyday.

Also, no matter how much the movie makes, the screenwriter will never get a single cent past what he was originally paid. He totes said this too in this article, but of course we wouldn't want to print that, right?
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Richard Lawson
03/13/09

@JudgeFudge: Considering 300 had a lot less buzz and made $70 million in the same slot, Watchmen is definitely a disappointment.
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JudgeFudge
03/13/09

@Richard: Right, I see where you're coming from. But, as far as I understand it, 300 was marketed towards everyone - people that had read the graphic novel, and the large majority who hadn't.

From its very inception, Watchmen has been marketed specifically to please the fans of the book first and foremost. The marketing never explains the plot, the charchters, or even the tone or themes of the material, in an effort stay faithful to the source material. While this plan might have worked, to a point, I think that overall this is going to be a slow burn at the box office...
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Cam/ron
03/13/09

@JudgeFudge: Ditto, the Watchmen graphic novel was a cult hit, as there was a very small crowd that "got" the story and loved it.
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Inhaler
03/13/09

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I was toying with the idea of going to see it for a second time this weekend, but that sappy scare-tactics lovenote just made the decision for me.

I'll just get my Patrick Wilson fix with my couch, some lotion, and Lakeview Terrace on Blu-ray.
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NinaHagen
03/13/09

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I don't know - maybe if I didn't need an adult diaper to get through it...
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PandoraSpocks
03/13/09

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"the science fiction/superhero/furtively masturbating to a well-worn photo of Deana Troi fan community..."

Fabulous.
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everfade
03/13/09

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The fact that he would put out a statement like that makes me definitely not want to pay to go see in theaters. Or rent it on netflix. Just for that, I will torrent that ish.
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HiredGoons
03/13/09

@everfade: <- concurs.
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RonnSicTorossian
03/13/09

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Didn't read the book. Saw the movie. Best super-hero movie ever, by far. I'm just sayin'.
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picollo
03/13/09

@RonnSicTorossian: read the book and you'll understand why people aren't seeing the movie twice.
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Mount_Prion
03/13/09

@picollo: I disagree. I read the book and thought that, despite my nerdy bitching about a few specifics, it was a great flick, and agree that it is the best comic book film I've seen.

And I'm a huge nerd and Alan Moore fan.
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