I liked Judge Dredd.
Ouch. Send in the clones? Really?
Anyway, saw WATCHMEN. It was a lot of movie, and that's not necessarily a good thing. Bits of it keep rattling around in my head though, so that's a sign I need to contemplate more (or Moore).
I keep whiplashing between the too-on-the-nose or just-plain-too-much parts and the part where I said - huh, that's a pretty good choice there.
I will say the most personally distracting thing was that since I'd read a critic comparing the actor who played
Veidt to Dana Carvey, I couldn't NOT see him that way, down to the "Hans und Franz" accent. By comparison, Jeffery Dean Morgan's resemblance to Robert Downey, Jr. didn't hurt at all, mostly because I think RD,J could have played the part pretty well too.
Watchmen tops box office with $55.7M
Watchmen debuted in first place over the March 6 weekend, taking in an estimated $55.7 million on approximately 7,500 screens at 3,611 theaters, BoxOfficeMojo reported.
Watchmen's opening was the biggest opening of 2009 so far, but fell a bit short of expectations and paled in comparison to Snyder's last film, 300, which set the March opening record, with $70.9 million on around 4,800 screens at 3,103 sites (which included $3.6 million at 62 IMAX venues).
Now that all the diehard fans have seen it, we'll see how fast it drops off.
Hmmm... parts of it have stuck in my brain. Maybe I'll see it again next weekend at a matinee....
Big! Blue! Penis!
Yup, I saw Watchmen this afternoon. I was okay with the change in the ending, and I thought the acting, by and large, was okay to really good.
The music was really distracting. Not just
Hallelujah;
all the music. I don't think it was needed.
Opening credits were made entirely of win.
Oh, uh -- when Nite Owl
hacked into Ozymandias's computer,
did anyone notice
the folder on the computer named "Boys"?
I wondered if we were supposed to deduce something from that.
Did they use any Billie Holiday or dub music?
Yes Billie Holiday. Not sure about dub.
I liked Judge Dredd.
Me too! I mean, I saw it when I was a teenager, so maybe I wouldn't like it now. But I also loved
Demolition Man.
Opening credits were made entirely of win.
Thumbs up!
But I also loved Demolition Man.
See, while I thought Judge Dredd achieved Johnny Moronic levels of badness, I loved Demolition Man. It was STOOPID, rather than stupid.
And, yeah, concur about the credits.
Steph - Yes! I commented on that to my brother at the time. Also that when they had
all the news stories reporting on the devastation, one carried the caption "Tiffany Burns". Which, she's not the only one, surely.
Ok, now I'm imagining - and given some of the other musical choices they made, I don't think this is outside the realm of possibility - that when Dr Manhattan and Laurie return to New York, it's to the tune of "I Think We're Alone Now".
