Obligatory Watchmen babble
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tikistitchBecause all our friends are more awesome than us, looks like pretty much everybody has already seen this, but whatever....
We had read everybody's LJ reactions beforehand. So, to give you an idea of where our heads were going in, tiki's read the graphic novel like 16 bazillion times, but not lately, and since our copy's been lost to the Sands of Time. Mr. Tikistitch hadn't read it (he'd like to, if it ever turns up), but we kinda filled him on The Watchmen Universe According to Someone Who Had to Check Wikipedia to Remember How the Fuck It Really Ended.
We both found it surprisingly coherent. We had expected an experience something like the Dune film, with loosely connected setpieces and a lot of Wha? in between. There was obviously a lot of subtext left out. Some cool nods to the fans, like that "S.Q.U.I.D." sign. Obviously, no pirate ship, but they did include the newsstand guy and the comic reader guy.
There were also all these (to us anyway) jarring "300" sequences, where apropos of nothing, a Watchmen chara would suddenly decide they were a Spartan and start a slow motion attack run through whatever bad guys. We kept expecting Night Owl to conveniently tear up his costume at the midriff to reveal a jaunty sixpack.
As usual, Mr. Tiki had the last word. As he said, this was cool, but nothing we're in a big hurry to see again. As we said, we've read the novel gajillion times, but there was none of that "Ooo, I gotta see Batman whack that bad guy again!" feeling here.
We had read everybody's LJ reactions beforehand. So, to give you an idea of where our heads were going in, tiki's read the graphic novel like 16 bazillion times, but not lately, and since our copy's been lost to the Sands of Time. Mr. Tikistitch hadn't read it (he'd like to, if it ever turns up), but we kinda filled him on The Watchmen Universe According to Someone Who Had to Check Wikipedia to Remember How the Fuck It Really Ended.
We both found it surprisingly coherent. We had expected an experience something like the Dune film, with loosely connected setpieces and a lot of Wha? in between. There was obviously a lot of subtext left out. Some cool nods to the fans, like that "S.Q.U.I.D." sign. Obviously, no pirate ship, but they did include the newsstand guy and the comic reader guy.
There were also all these (to us anyway) jarring "300" sequences, where apropos of nothing, a Watchmen chara would suddenly decide they were a Spartan and start a slow motion attack run through whatever bad guys. We kept expecting Night Owl to conveniently tear up his costume at the midriff to reveal a jaunty sixpack.
As usual, Mr. Tiki had the last word. As he said, this was cool, but nothing we're in a big hurry to see again. As we said, we've read the novel gajillion times, but there was none of that "Ooo, I gotta see Batman whack that bad guy again!" feeling here.
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Date: 2009-03-09 01:30 am (UTC)WHEE
Is there a club for aging geeks who hate everything? SpiteCon?
Someone?
Anyone?
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Date: 2009-03-09 02:11 am (UTC)If there is a SpiteCon, I am going.
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Date: 2009-03-09 02:26 pm (UTC)You're not the only one who felt that way. While I thought they did a remarkable job overall telling the story, there were times - usually those "300" sequences - when I felt like the creators were a bit too enamored of all those fancy new camera/computer tricks that are now available.
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Date: 2009-03-09 09:51 pm (UTC)What I *hated* was the 300 reference in the very beginning.
That was spectacularly lame.