I saw
Watchmen
at the Imax today with my brother. I enjoyed it, though I preferred the comic. Do agree
the fighting skills were overdone (and the gore as well), not to mention Rorshach is apparently part lemur, given his ability to run up walls. Also found it to be hurried in many places, losing some of the character motivation. My favourite change from the comic, incidentally, is not losing the giant squid. It's that Snyder apparently decided that having an assassin gun down Veidt's secretary was just inappropriate, and wouldn't it be more fun instead to shoot Lee Iacocca through the head?
One thing that didn't bother me was the
full frontal bluedity. Maybe it's just that human penises are pretty uninteresting compared to the Swiss army tools you find in the rest of the animal kingdom.
Being the Imax experience, the thing was incredibly loud. I was fascinated to learn that
beating the crap out of the Comedian is apparently about as noisy as a nuclear explosion. My ears are still ringing a little.
Still, we enjoyed it. Oh, and I got Wallybee kind of interested in reading the original work, though
given the amount of gore and violence in the film, I've warned her off seeing it.
billytea scans through a Tom of Finland book: "Disappointing. Dull. Uninspired. Lacking in baroque excess."
Heh. billytea is maybe not Tom of Finland's target audience.
And why *is* Finland so cool?
I wanna see a fight between Tom of Finland and Tom's of Maine.
You might think Tom of Finland would kick Maine's ass, but leathermen can often be wusses... Plus Maine can threaten to scuff up Finland's leather with his toothpaste.
And why *is* Finland so cool?
It's the leather jackets. Just ask Danny Zuko or Fonzie.
And why *is* Finland so cool?
Because Tom is there. And Linux came from there. And they drink vodka by the case.
Really, that's all you need.
At the theater today they had a preview for
The Spirit,
and every time The Octopus says "I have eight of everything," I snicker to myself and say, "Really? Eight? Of *every* thing? Going five up on
Hell Comes to Frogtown
?"
Were you in a second-run theatre or did someone forget to change out the trailers?
Sorry, yes, the dollar theatre. We went to see
Twilight.
And I kind of liked
Twilight.
I know this means my cinematic taste aren't very sophisticated, but I've always known that, to me, any movie can be improved with things blowing up. A chick flick is one in which the woman is using a weapon at some point in the proceedings.
