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Watchmen Reviews: 'Maybe It's Better to Grow Up'
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The old ending.
03/06/09
I think Watchmen's biggest problem as a comic is Moore can't decide whether he it wants to be a small-scale study of former superheroes as people, or the large-scale comic book adventure that the medium demands it be. Gibbons can handle both, it's one of the tightest art jobs ever done.
03/06/09
Or Broadcast News II: Aaron's Revenge.
03/06/09
I'll be reading the novel to see if maybe it comes off a little more nuanced or mature in its delivery, but Snynder? You're a hack.
03/07/09
03/08/09
I'll go ahead and crucify you: You're an idiot. All that critical acclaim and praise and worship from people inside and outside the comic book world and from intellectuals and everyday comic book people is really because they're all secretly immature half-assed community college philosophers.
Either that or you're a moron and Synder can't tell a story. Do you really think if some rom-com director/screenwriter pair tried to rewrite The Great Gatsby that it wouldn't suck donkey balls? Clearly the problem was the original source.
03/08/09
The comic book is great for so many reasons. It was intricate and challenging and concerned with character and tone in a way that no comic before it ever was. There are a lot of things that Moore definitely did right. Obviously all of the intellectuals and everyday comic book people who love it (myself included) have good reasons.
That doesn't change the fact that the ending is more than a little bit silly.
03/06/09
All in all, it felt very 300-ish, and not in any sort of good way.
It felt like it was trying to both be a heavy film, as well as a straight up action film - and failed on both accounts.
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Ben Stiller's Mystery Men was what I was going for there.
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Also, why would you lambast a comic-book themed movie for "regressing into this belligerent, adolescent state of mind", when that's exactly the point? Even the most complex and adult graphic novel is fundamentally a jazzed-up version of a children's book. Adults read comics precisely so that they can regress slightly from the world of adult decisions into a more morally dichotomous and fantastic world.
It seems to me that Scott's basically whining about the whole genre of this movie, rather than evaluating what he's seeing on the screen. Which is fine, if that's what you're claiming to do. This review seems dishonest.
03/06/09
It's like saying any animated film, regardless of theme, complexity, or emotion, is just a "jazzed-up version" of Bugs Bunny. Or any art made with a spray can is a "jazzed-up version" of graffiti.
03/06/09
You can't write Finnegan's Wake as a children's book, and you can't write Harry Potter as a complex novel about intergenerational dreams and family links. So Watchmen's medium is based on certain things, and arguing that those things are silly is tantamount to just saying "I don't like this whole medium". Which is not what a reviewer's job is.
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Kind of a collective subconscious, the idea of mutual shared experience. I like to make up terms like Friedman.
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Also is your name seriously DESU? Because internet credibility is fragile and that name basically smashes it all to pieces.
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And when you read DaeSu, guess what sound it makes?
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It's cute that you're trying to get yourself banned. You don't see that kind of gumption in this generation's idiot youth.
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Except Ebert, who gave it 4 out 4.
And Gleiberman's critique seems a bit obtuse.
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