It was really good, and after reading Roger Ebert's review, I can't wait to see the movie.

I fear it will do horribly because of length and subject matter.

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Just finished the book last week.

It was really good, and after reading Roger Ebert's review, I can't wait to see the movie.

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But Ebert is a moron

i see features of you in super heros..or features of super heros in you .. and villains.
i just got done seeing watchman for the first time.

i wish i could..explain the specific way i see my thoughts.
just the way dr.manhattan does.

"do what you do." - silk specter

truly though."

- drunken post on my Facebook wall

My work here is done

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Steven Steve thought about the meaning of life:
But Ebert is a moron

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Counterpoint: Roger Ebert is awesome. So was Siskel.

Check out that chemistry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmnYCSwt2Js

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Steven Steve wrote this stupid crap:
Eggbert looks like an old lesbian and is stuck in the last century, persistently having wrong opinions about everything. Siskel would have liked 300 if God hadn't spared us from him also, so he is also a fool.

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Roger Ebert didn't like 300. Also, he dated Oprah.
Also, he does look like an old lesbian.

Priceless.

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Awesome.

It dragged. Really dragged. On and on and on. By the end I felt most of the "slowed down matrix-esque" scenes (of which consisted 95% of the film) were there purely to make it drag.

Enjoyable waste of 2+ hours, but pretty forgettable.

I expect it'll be one of those movies that does okay in the theaters, but makes $$$ on DVDs and rentals as people still want to see it but wait after the initial reviews.

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Bricktop had this to say about Optimus Prime:
I went and saw it with some girl and it was 30 bucks well spent.

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Does that mean movie theater head? Or did you go with the classic "hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket"?

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Does that mean movie theater head? Or did you go with the classic "hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket"?

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Last time I got movie theater head was during Body of Lies. She got bored about halfway through and there was only like four other people in the theater and we were in the back.

Captured the graphic novel quite good.

Steven Steve fucked around with this message on 03-17-2009 at 07:22 PM.

It was absolutely shit and awkward except for Rorschach's parts.

Just make a movie showing Rorschach doing insane crap and I'd go see that instead.

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Steven Steve had this to say about (_|_):
Except Captain Metropolis wasn't even in it, Manhattan had the voice of a pussy, there was a 10 minute long Leonidas sex scene, they replaced the squid with some Manhattan frame up that makes no sense, it was filled with Matrix fights with 300 jello blood, Hollis Mason didn't die, Veidt's Antarctica complex was asininely shaped like some Egyptian temple, the Vietnamese servants weren't in it, Denny from Supernatural was a pussy, basically everyone that was supposed to be buff was a big old pussy and everyone that was supposed to be pathetic was an anime ninja, Doctor Manhattan had some magical mind meld ability, there was some veneer of researching clean energy to save the world even though that shouldn't at all make sense even to Manhattan, I could probably count on one hand the number of shots actually taken from the comic, Manhattan's penis became magically circumcised, Jon Osterman suddenly had black hair, people were punching holes in walls and getting thrown through columns, Ozymandias didn't attack Silk Spectre first, etc. etc. but yes, it was an amazing and extremely faithful adaptation

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Also it's not as though either side will disarm now that their collective enemy is Manhattan

Steven Steve fucked around with this message on 03-18-2009 at 08:02 PM.

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Steven Steve had this to say about the Spice Girls:
What about when America figures out that it was Ozymandias that staged it and that there's no reason to cease ideological squabbles since Manhattan is going to be gone anyway?

Also it's not as though either side will disarm now that their collective enemy is Manhattan

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Couldn't all that be said about the alien though?

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Get the soap! Steven Steve just said:
What about when America figures out that it was Ozymandias that staged it and that there's no reason to cease ideological squabbles since Manhattan is going to be gone anyway?

Also it's not as though either side will disarm now that their collective enemy is Manhattan

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So, your argument is that you think they will keep building nuclear weapons so they can defend themselves against Dr. Manhattan, the guy who can be ripped apart on the sub-atomic level will re-assemble himself within minutes?

Both endings have the potential flaw of Ozy's actions being discovered, so that cancels out.

The original ending is that the world dropped their Communism and Capitalism and got all sunshine and roses because they now had a common (fake) enemy. What happens when that enemy never attacks again? How long can the world stay together united against a common threat that never even shows itself?

The movie ending is that the world stopped considering war an option because Dr. Manhattan will come down and smite the living shit out of everyone if we even think about it. More than just New York was destroyed in the attack, making Dr. Manhattan a threat to every nation, and there is absolutely no defending yourself against him. He is a force that is indestructible. You can't defeat him or out maneuver him. Your only option is to appease him. All it takes is to spin the attack as Dr. Manhattan demonstrating his power in order to prevent more lives from being destroyed, and I think Veidt has the resources to do it. Think about the effect the Hiroshima bomb had on Japan. This is the exact same thing, but on the entire world, and it's a threat that can not be duplicated by another power in order to negate it's pacifying effects.

Blindy fucked around with this message on 03-19-2009 at 09:35 AM.