Watchmen (2009) Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-07-25 20:51:48 +0000 UTC*Theatrical Cut (2:42) Ooooh so dark. I'm sure there are lots of elements they weren't able to bring from the graphic novels but I thought it was really cool!! Definitely need to check out the source material. Has anyone seen the tv show?
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Promethea is, perhaps, my all-time favorite comic. It is glorious, deep, moving, and contains within it what amounts to a lesson in magic theory and the application of imagination among many other cogent topics.
Kaleigh Kaos
2024-08-19 16:04:45 +0000 UTCI wasn't crazy about this movie when I first watched it, but I did enjoy it more this time around. I thought the Watchmen TV show was really good. Liked it more than the movie. And there's a new 2-part adaptation of the graphic novel coming out. The first part comes out in a couple weeks. I'm guessing it'll be closer to the source material. The trailer for it looks good, and animated adaptations are DC's bread-and-butter. They've done a lot of good Batman animated movies that are worth checking out. 'Under the Red Hood' is really good, and 'The Long Halloween.' They even did one where Batman teams up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it was excellent.
Joe Blankenship
2024-08-03 03:19:09 +0000 UTCI will say, as a lifelong comic book fan, Alan Moore is about the only man who hasn't let me down. Although I guess he did have to go nuts and get divorced and play up a feud with Grant Morrison that largely exists just because of Moore buying into the legend of Alan Moore too much and then divorce himself from all human society to maintain that "not an asshole" status shared by so few superstar comic book writers these days. But anyway. Watchmen is an amazing comic, and it's about as definitive of the medium as Citizen Kane was for motion pictures, and it's not even one of Moore's best. You need to have read if if you're going to have a relevant voice in pop culture, but you should know there's much better stuff out there to read. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, even with its disaster of an ending. Miracleman, where we find out what an all-powerful superhero might actually do to save the world. Tom Strong, where we find out what the Marvel cinematic universe might have been if it was handled by a "good" writer, about two decades before the movies. From Hell, about the only book you'll ever have to read about Jack the Ripper. Promethea, a comic book about a woman who doesn't at any point get raped. Watchmen is cherished as a massive, orbital bombardment quality comic book that changed the way people look at this entire artistic medium forever, but you gotta realize that was just Alan Moore finding his footing.
Amelie W
2024-08-01 15:43:08 +0000 UTCExcellent reaction, very exciting! Glad you liked it so much. π I'm sure this will be popular on YT. 'Dawn of the Dead' (2004) is a very tense Zack Snyder horror remake of the more slow paced 1978 original. Both are worth seeing. 'Brightburn' (2019) is an interesting super villain origin story horror / thriller. It poses the 'what if...' question; what if the Superman child who arrives on Earth was not benevolent. I'd highly recommend, perhaps for October. 'Upgrade' (2018) has a somewhat superhero/super-human element to the story. It's a dark, dystopian action/thriller/mystery. A victim of a very serious mugging/attack receives a cutting-edge, top secret AI super-computer fitted internally - enabling him to move at super-human speed. Literally bone-crunching hand-to-hand combat scenes. 'From Hell' (2001) is from a highly acclaimed Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, etc.) graphic novel. It's a solid period horror mystery about Jack the RIpper. The title derives from a taunting letter sent to the police at the time of the murders (1888) and claiming to be from the killer. Opinion is divided as to whether it was genuinely sent by the unsub, however it did contain half a human kidney(!) Known as the 'From Hell letter' or 'The Lusk letter'. Warning, grisly details; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter
Jason Scade
2024-07-27 00:21:44 +0000 UTCJackie Earle Haley should have got an Oscar for Rorschach. He puts on the best performance in the film by a country mile.
Patrick
2024-07-26 22:05:46 +0000 UTCI was not a fan of the adaptation. Of course they couldn't adapt the comic book within the comic book, but I thought making Dr Manhattan the Villain doesn't work. The squid monster worked because it was dead. It showed that if everyone pulled together for the incoming squid invasion, they could win. There is no winning against god. There is no reason to believe they could kill Dr. Manhattan. hell, he could wipe out earth from his little base on Mars. There would be even more panic if Dr Manhattan was the cause of the attack. Suicide cults and leaders who no longer give a F is what you would get. Not some organized banding together of every nation.
TigerMyth
2024-07-26 18:17:59 +0000 UTCI liked the Watchmen series, but it's indeed something quite different. Would definitely rewatch it.
Grga Pitic
2024-07-26 10:03:46 +0000 UTC"Imagine if that happened every time on Star Trek" was low key hilarious XD
Anthony Peterson
2024-07-26 09:50:35 +0000 UTC
