I thought Lifetime rebranded themselves? This sounds like the same schlocky, predictable, "woman as victim" tripe they've been pedaling all along causing their viewership to be made up of the same people who watch daytime soaps and think they represent real life.
I loved Ned and Stacey. Thought Thomas Haden Church was hilarious, even on Wings. (Shut up! I was not the only person who watched Wings.) Messing however was a ditz who campaigned way to hard to be the second coming of Lucille Ball and Rita Hayworth. Not even close on either account.
Just once, I'd really like to see them do "The Real World: A Bunch of Barely Educated 22-Year-Olds Who Think They're Models Or Musicians Or Something Sit in Tiny Cubicles for Nine Hours a Day Including Lunch and Do Stultifying Entry-Level Jobs Involving Typing Stuff on Computers for People They Think Are Idiots, Just Like In, You Know, The Real World." I'd watch that.
I saw the movie this weekend and loved it. Yes, I read the book years ago but found it entirely too dense at the end when Dr. Manhattan and the chick were blah blah blah blah on Mars.
I think I'll have to read it again.
Why did it come out in March? I thought it would be more of a summer movie.
I can't believe they didn't learn instead that taking a legendary brand title, evacuating it of meaning and changing the ending would in turn alienate the fans. I mean, didn't they learn this with LeGuin's Earthsea TV show?
@Koreanish: Oof! I had almost forgotten about the Earthsea travesty. Not only did they screw with the plot, but they decided that all of the non-white characters should be white. WTF?
As soon as I heard that Mr. "This is Spaarrtaaa!!!" Zack Snyder was directing, I vowed to stay the fuck away. The guy simply does not get editing, lighting and set design. So much of the lighting effects and CGI looked absolutely shitty in the Watchmen trailers. Just like 300.
Ever since Lord of the Rings came out and people applauded the horrendously unrealistic lighting, ghastly set backdrops and painfully shitty CGI, it's like the studios decided that they didn't need to spend time and money on talented designers and engineers who could make a cohesive and believable look for a movie.
Watchmen, like other heavily CGI-dependent movies of that ilk with production design that looks like it came out of some 14 year old boy's 1998 Geocities page, will not age well. It doesn't matter that shots were set up to mimic the panels from the comic book. If some overly-adrenalized testosterone-dependent kid is at the helm, it's still going to look like shit. That's the same problem with The Spirit. From the trailers, it also just looked like shit.
I'm kind of sick of everyone painting this as a failure.
In its second weekend, Watchmen has grossed more than the entire domestic gross of the last Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks Movies.
$82 million in ten days is a lot of fucking money.
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Shudders. Her norks are holding her belt down.
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I think I'll have to read it again.
Why did it come out in March? I thought it would be more of a summer movie.
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Ever since Lord of the Rings came out and people applauded the horrendously unrealistic lighting, ghastly set backdrops and painfully shitty CGI, it's like the studios decided that they didn't need to spend time and money on talented designers and engineers who could make a cohesive and believable look for a movie.
Watchmen, like other heavily CGI-dependent movies of that ilk with production design that looks like it came out of some 14 year old boy's 1998 Geocities page, will not age well. It doesn't matter that shots were set up to mimic the panels from the comic book. If some overly-adrenalized testosterone-dependent kid is at the helm, it's still going to look like shit. That's the same problem with The Spirit. From the trailers, it also just looked like shit.
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In its second weekend, Watchmen has grossed more than the entire domestic gross of the last Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks Movies.
$82 million in ten days is a lot of fucking money.