Yeah, 'cuz video rental places like Blockbuster have just been too successful lately....
I really can't see why anyone would rent a DVD without special features vs just streaming it from Netflix (or wherever).
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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Jessica - Mar 09, 2009 7:04:51 am PDT #326 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Fay - Mar 09, 2009 7:41:09 am PDT #327 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay, this marks me as NotAComicBookGeek, I suspect, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. And it's several years since I read Watchmen, and I don't have a copy to hand, so it's not like I have the same kind of relationship with the source text I'm seeing from a lot of folks. I really liked it. I was good with the way they'd changed the ending, although it wasn't perfect - but, yeah, I can see that the book's ending hinged on that whole plotstrand that they culled, so fair enough.
I loved the opening titles (and was kind of gobsmacked that they had Dead Lesbian Cliche within the first three minutes of the movie).
I am, however, sitting here feeling cheated of the Big Blue Penis. In Thailand, they pixilated a little of the gore (in the Rorschach flashback), and that was obvious, but they also did a sort of cloudy ken-doll style neutering on Dr Manhattan that made me raise my eyebrow a tad, but I assumed was just how the movie looked, since it was so much less egregious than the gore-pixilation. Now I discover that the censors were protecting our delicate sensibilities from the sight of Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon. Damn them!
shakes fist
Yeah, wrod to the music being a bit 'eh', incidentally.
...I really hearted Rorschach. In an OMGYouTotalPsycho kinda way.
megan walker - Mar 09, 2009 7:49:49 am PDT #328 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I really can't see why anyone would rent a DVD without special features vs just streaming it from Netflix (or wherever).
Well, once I figured out that they usually weren't very interesting, I stopped watching the special features on most rentals. I rent movies to watch the movie. And, at present, streaming does not work as well as having the actual DVD.
amych - Mar 09, 2009 8:32:03 am PDT #329 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Now I discover that the censors were protecting our delicate sensibilities from the sight of Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon.
Or, in one case, all four of them.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2009 8:45:28 am PDT #330 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dr Manhattan's Nuclear Weapon has MIRVs!
Beverly - Mar 09, 2009 9:00:08 am PDT #331 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I dunno about Blockbuster, but Netflix usually has the "bonus features" disc available for rent. If I'm particularly interested in stunts, effects, wardrobe or whatever, I'll get that disc along with the movie.
Yes, I'm that person who actually watches the special features. And listens to commentary. Though I finally punked on some of the Return of the King features--overload is overload. I do intend to watch them all someday, though.
Volans - Mar 09, 2009 9:58:39 am PDT #332 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Special features usually suck (Supernatural disks, I'm looking at you!), but the Criterion version of Seven Samurai has all my love right now. The features range from the worst ever ("Help" : To make a selection, press Enter. To get to the menu, press Menu) to the best ever ("Commentary").
Polter-Cow - Mar 09, 2009 10:01:31 am PDT #333 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Special features usually suck (Supernatural disks, I'm looking at you!)
Aw, I enjoy those! I think MNIE may have the best special features of any TV-on-DVD right now, though.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2009 10:20:58 am PDT #334 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Things from HBO have great commentary.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2009 12:06:54 pm PDT #335 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Roger Ebert has another review of Watchmen, this time after seeing it in IMAX: We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings
Embedded in his blog post is a video of Withnail's rendition of Hamlet's soliloquy from Withnail and I, plus other videos on quantum mechanics.