would be hard as hell to duplicate effectively on the screen
I'll adamantly and ignorantly disagree. It's called editing. Using shorter segments. Mixed together.
But I'm sure they figured that the stupid masses couldn't follow something like that, so it all becomes one big huge unedited, overblown scene, losing all it's tantalizing characteristics. It's not that I was head over heels in-awe of the written story, but I did enjoy it, and I did snicker and cringe through most of the movie.
Having a complementary score instead of a blaring, soundtrack that was not at all well integrated might have helped with the tone as well. But they went all ACTION! rather than the hypnotic metronome of the slowly unfurling story of the page.
so Dominic Mongahan and Billy Boyd can jump all over Sean Astin when Astin starts getting preachy are wonderful.
I wished someone had done that to Gimli. Pretentious bore.
Anything with Viggo I of course found absolutely fascinating and helped to raise my loathing of the movies to mild dislike.
ION, saw a trailer for Wolverine: Origins and my gods that looks awful! I hope the CGI wasn't finished, but I think they had every single crazy James Bond/XXX over-the-top stunt they could squeeze in, with lots of silly posing and requisite (and multiple) dying woman flopping deadly in Logan's arms.
I'm so there.
The commentary on Fellowship of the Ring, with all the hobbits together so Dominic Mongahan and Billy Boyd can jump all over Sean Astin when Astin starts getting preachy are wonderful.
God, yes. Fellowship's much more fun - with the others, the contrast between the Dom'n'Billeh bits and the Sean'n'Lijah bits is stark as you like.
The FotR DVD is why I bought a DVD player.
Watchmen question:
Okay, was it supposed to be a surprise that the Comedian was Laurie's dad?
There was a picture of her on his nightstand. It was VERY noticeable. I couldn't believe this was a big reveal. I didn't get it in the context of the movie.
The FotR DVD is why I bought a DVD player.
I sometimes watch it just for that commentary and the Making Of feature with Elijah wandering around being cute.
le nubian, I had read it, and The Boy had not, so after we saw it, I asked him if it was
a big reveal.
He said that he hadn't really paid close attention to
all the little details that seem obvious in retrospect,
but he also said that, when the
actual reveal was, uh, revealed, he wasn't surprised at it, either.
Relatedly, I can't remember if anyone has posted this yet (or if I had, for that matter): Mad Magazine's parody of Watchmen.
le nub, yes, and that's exactly what I was talking about upthread about the narrative structure being out of order and failing.
why did they
put the picture of Laurie on the Comedian's nightstand? Just leaving that out or having her picture out of focus, or having Rorschach pick up the picture and set it down again without revealing the picture's image, would have at least put some mystery in all of it.
BTW - for individuals who read the book? Comedian tried to rape Laurie's mom, right? Then X years later, she willingly slept with the asshole? Why?
le nub:
The Comedian being Laurie's father is a *BIG* reveal in the comic that they totally punked in the movie. Having her picture there was one major fuckup...way to spoil it, Snyder.
It's really well done in the graphic novel. There are tiny tiny pieces sprinkled throughout that don't seem to point to anything in particular and don't even attract notice until Laurie pieces them together on Mars (without, might I add, Dr. Manhattan's horseshit "See as I see" crap which is not in the novel).
As to your second question:
Sally answers the question like this: "...shouted at him, he looked *surprised*, couldn't imagine why I'd bear a grudge. See, it's different for him, and I just couldn't sustain it, the anger..."
"First off, he was *there*, right? Plus, he was *gentle*. You know what gentleness *means* in a guy like that? Even a glimmer of it?"
Later, to Laurie:
"Oh, Laurel, I'm so sorry. Wh-what must you think? It...it was just an afternoon, in summer. He stopped by...
"I tried to be angry, but...I mean, I never wanted you to know. I should have told you, but...I don't know, I just felt ashamed, I felt stupid, and..."
So, to me it was
a bad decision, one of those bad relationship moves that people make and they feel fucking stupid about afterward, but it happened and there you go. Sally Jupiter was never shown to be the most together person as it was. Her reasoning for dressing up and fighting crime, her apparently loveless marriage...I don't know, it rang true to me in that way that people doing fucked up things that don't make sense sometimes does.
