Completely agree with this:
I get why Snyder did it. It just makes me tired, like all his super-slo-mo sequences. It’s so easy, making superhero characters who casually take mere mortals apart with their bare hands. What’s hard is making them human.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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Jessica - Mar 10, 2009 9:12:13 am PDT #401 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
DavidS - Mar 10, 2009 11:48:48 am PDT #402 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Super cool and fascinating Cindy Sherman film short from 1975 Doll Clothes. (Not exactly safe for work, though she is dressed in her underwear.)
billytea - Mar 10, 2009 2:32:23 pm PDT #403 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I get why Snyder did it. It just makes me tired, like all his super-slo-mo sequences.
I'd add, I found Rorshach to be much more believably dangerous when he won his prison fights through, as he put it, 'his perspective' than through simply being a harder hitter. It fits his character much better.
le nubian - Mar 10, 2009 6:30:36 pm PDT #404 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
answering the questions above re: watchmen
yes I think #2 was somewhat lost on me. I didn't think it was a Weekly World News, but I didn't think it was a legit news organization either running out of a storefront. I didn't know what it was.
#1: I'm not sure what the name of the Act was, but Nite Owl repeatedly talked about being arrested when he was in his mask and suit with Laurie, so it was pretty damn clear that superhero actions in capes and masks were outlawed.
Laga - Mar 10, 2009 6:41:07 pm PDT #405 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wouldn't read too much into walk outs. People walk out of Slumdog Millionaire all the time.
edit: OK, not 25% of the audience. We haven't had anybody walk out of Watchmen yet (that I'm aware of.)
Jessica - Mar 11, 2009 4:17:16 am PDT #406 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
People walk out of Slumdog Millionaire all the time.
I wish I'd walked out of that one. I kept hoping for a scene that would redeem the rest of it...oh well.
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2009 8:49:16 am PDT #407 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
:: Shakes head sadly at Jessica ::
erikaj - Mar 11, 2009 11:29:15 am PDT #408 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
should I be impressed or concerned by my taste paralleling Oswalt's so much? Because I guess he was really good as The King Of Queens' fanboy geek, so it's hard to be all "Ooh! What Patton Said!" Except I really hate "Subway", but I like Patton's shout-out anyway because, by mentioning something other than "Subway", Mr. Oswalt has shown himself to be a true H:LOTS fan. Subway, is like, the easy choice to reference because it got a lot of ink...documentary on PBS, Emmy noms, etc.
tommyrot - Mar 11, 2009 1:16:34 pm PDT #409 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.
Laga - Mar 11, 2009 3:07:31 pm PDT #410 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm a little shocked people are calling a $56 million opening weekend a failure just because it didn't make as much money as 300. Well 300 was only 2hrs long so that's one extra show per print per day.