Nope. No More Mr. Nice Guy.
Oh, that movie was shot in Melbourne. I saw them filming one of the scenes.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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billytea - Mar 15, 2009 1:02:34 am PDT #464 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.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 7:18:12 am PDT #465 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
awesome! Thanks.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 7:19:57 am PDT #466 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh, that movie was shot in Melbourne. I saw them filming one of the scenes.
Really? From the imdb trivia page...
Because of the mess they left behind (from the demolished house), the production company was barred permanently from ever filming in that part of Australia again.
Juliebird - Mar 15, 2009 7:51:00 am PDT #467 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Saw Watchmen again last night.
I did like it better, although I still think more skilled editing and sound use could have been used. Several songs were far louder than the rest of the movie and ripped me out of the story. They still felt tacked on and badly integrated, if at all.
As an overall *movie* it seemed to not have focus and meandered and shifted all over the place.
I would have appreciated the long, drawn-out fight scene with the Comedian if the stunt double and use of concealing shadows weren't so heavily used.
Jamie Earle Haley broke my fucking heart at the end.
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 8:14:09 am PDT #468 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I wouldn't be surprised if they announced they accidentally released the picture with a temporary soundtrack.
le nubian - Mar 15, 2009 11:24:21 am PDT #469 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Watchmen had a 67% drop - this weekend it brought in $18 mill.
DebetEsse - Mar 15, 2009 11:27:33 am PDT #470 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
wow.
eta: I was thinking, I would love to see them release a "cut your own" kit. It would probably have to be a hard-drive with dailies and pre-effects stuff, and soundtrack and whatever, but it would be really cool.
(and I think it could be cut to work a lot better)
Laga - Mar 15, 2009 11:28:05 am PDT #471 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Beaten by a 70's kids sf remake starring Dwayne "formerly The Rock" Johnston.
billytea - Mar 15, 2009 11:43:19 am PDT #472 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.
Because of the mess they left behind (from the demolished house), the production company was barred permanently from ever filming in that part of Australia again.
Hee. The scene I saw them shooting was where they're in a horse-drawn carriage.
Gris - Mar 16, 2009 3:34:36 am PDT #473 of 30000
Hey. New board.
My Watchmen thoughts:
Overall, I was pretty satisfied. It wasn't wonderful, but it brought a lot of the things I liked about the book to the screen.
I think I figured out what didn't work, though (or, actually, Improbable Girl said it, and I agree). Snyder (and others, I'm sure) thought that Watchmen is a satire, almost a parody of superhero comics. What it actually is, though, is commentary on them. It's rarely meant to be funny, but that's what was sometimes achieved in the film. I think that if Snyder was a better director the movie would have been funnier - not better.
The obvious example is the Dan/Laurie sex scene in Archie which, if viewed as intentionally comedic, is actually pretty great. I laughed a lot and I'm pretty sure that I was MEANT to. It's so ridiculous that it becomes good parody. There were other moments, too, that I thought were aiming for more Incredibles and less Watchmen-the-comic, like using The Ride of the Valkyries with Dr. Manhattan attacking the Viet Cong.
Viewed in that light, the movie kind of almost works. Unfortunately, Snyder failed to correctly balance the parody with the darkness, which is extreme.
Oh, and somebody earlier mentioned the annoying fact that all of the characters had crazy-awesome ninja skills. That totally sucked. I had zero interest in any of the action scenes, but even if I had, they would've been bad. I thought we were done with Matrix-like slow-mo ridiculousness?
Overall, it wasn't as good as i might have hoped, but was better than I was afraid of.