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I'm gonna see it tonight, I hope it is close to the comic?

Anybody else seen it?

What sucks is so many critics think the conspiracy is overblown...hey it was written in 1985, we still thought global thermonuclear war was historically inevitable, so the fear wasn't overdone at all.  Maybe its too dated to be a huge hit sad

I'll post once I see it!

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I want to see it. So maybe I will tonight big_smile

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suppost to be pretty good sticking to the original story

planning on seeing it sunday

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1 hour and 9 minutes til i do. Only read bits and pieces of the comic though sad

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read the first comic all the way

and saw the movie already as avant-premi

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yay!

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just got back

big fan

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yikes

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Spoil it!

I gotta do spoilers to compare with the comics. I had all 12 of the issues 15 years ago

It is 749 now and my buds insist on seeing BSG tonite--waste of time 8(

But then me and marc and whoever has true cojones will catch either the 1155 showing or the 115 am showing in IMAX!!!

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never read the comics, but previews look pretty good; gonna wait for my friend to come back from work, which should be any minute and see if/when he wants to go.

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There is some indecent exposure tho tongue

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Yeah was hardcore porn at parts..  Otherwise was a good movie.  A little difficult to get into at first, but a great movie overall.

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Yeah my friends try to call that softcore but that was pr0n. Also Dr manhattan had a third leg in view most of the time.

I thought it was a great flick, very true to the comic. It was like the comic was an octagon and they showed a circle--about the same plot minus a few angles.

Rorshach won! Yeeha

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13 Reply by [RPA] Arocalex (edited by [RPA] Arocalex 07-Mar-2009 16:04:44)

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won?

I wouldn't call it a win

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> [RPA] Arocalex wrote:

> There is some indecent exposure tho tongue


every time you piss theres indecent exposure, dont bitch about nothing.

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Nudity? Sweet.

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I saw it last night, i liked it

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i dont know, i think the first sex scene was definitely necessary, i'd imagine, you're talking about the other one, the one when they're in the flying contraption. i think it wasnt needed, but it wasnt like overboard, i dont think it detracted much from the movie. overall, i was pretty underwhelmed by the character development. maybe its just because i never read the comics.

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They were all necessary!!

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i havnt read the comics and maybe thats why it was a bit random i did not enjoy it as much as i thought i would,

a lot of hype for nothing in my honest opinion.

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the comic IS better but the movie was good

hmm, a bit random...well the comic had a few more developed bit characters for background, like the black kid and that news vendor, and the psychologist had his own drama, so you got more of a sense of the whole city around them.  But that would have made it a 3 hour movie

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21 Reply by avogadro (edited by avogadro 08-Mar-2009 20:13:49)

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they didnt need more characters, they needed the characters they had to be deeper. it wasnt as bad as the characters in hellboy and hellboyII though, those were really cheesy characters.


the 2nd sex scene was poorly done. it was almost like, yeah, she's hot, we know all you guys want to see her naked, so here is her naked. it didnt advance character development or the plot of the movie, and it seemed centered around the nudity more then the sex. unlike the first sex scene that was with Dr Manhattan, where it was actually about the sex and it actually advanced character development and plot. and im not counting the scene where the guy wasnt able to get it up as a sex scene, so there was only 2 sex scenes in the movie, when you dont count that as one.

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The second sex scene was to point out the difference in the person (without having his outfit on he couldn't get it up. But once he was in the uniform he was a very different person) You don't see it as much in the movie. but in the Novel Dan (owl guy) is an unsure guy who does some stuttering and isn't very confident. Once he's in his suit he's authoritative, commanding and confident.

I saw the movie last night and was hugely pleased big_smile No book to big screen adaptation is going to be perfect but this movie does a great job. They twisted a few things and cut out some others but in the end the point got across. The guy who played rorschack rocked the part. Couldn't have asked for a better representation i think.

The fight scenes were great. I kept looking for the bad angle that shows it was an air punch and i didn't see any. All those wrestling shows could take some pointers on using camera angles

Doc Manhatten's "third leg" was done more then enough for me tongue Like an alien sausage fest. I preferred his speedo to the commando tongue

Note that this movie isn't for the squimish wink Anyone who doesn't like blood, sex, nudity, compound fractures, etc might not want to see it tongue

Can't wait to get this on dvd smile

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23 Reply by The Yell (edited by Chris_Balsz 08-Mar-2009 21:33:19)

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well they did beef up Dan Dryberg's character, he did more stuff in the movie than he did in the comic.

And they actually cut the big sex scene from the comic:  Dan and Laurie get it on in Ozymandias' palace because they need to affirm they really are alive.  So maybe this was a standin for that one.  But it was more pr0n that you'd usually see in an American blockbuster.  Except maybe "Team America"

who -I- feel upset for is Jason Cho and Kal Penn, because now they know how far Malim Akerman would have gone in "Harold & Kumar Go to WhiteCastle" if they'd pushed

I have to admit it is a dated story, because the 1980s had a very different mood than today. That old fart down at the garage could have won the Medal on Guadacanal.  We truly believed that Doomsday Clock would hit Midnight inevitably, the way people believe in climate change--Reagan with his crazy talk of USSR on the ashheap of history was either naive or psychotic, depending on your outlook.  We were just finding out how f'd up the CIA had been during the 1960s.  So today when you dip into a story about people who are motivated by avoiding the start of WW3, you can close the book and go back to normal.  When Moore launched this stuff, you couldn't.

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"The second sex scene was to point out the difference in the person (without having his outfit on he couldn't get it up. But once he was in the uniform he was a very different person) You don't see it as much in the movie. but in the Novel Dan (owl guy) is an unsure guy who does some stuttering and isn't very confident. Once he's in his suit he's authoritative, commanding and confident."

yeah, but the fact that Dan was more confident in his uniform or that he was pretty timid when he wasnt, didnt really make a difference in the movie. instead of doing something like batman, it was more something like Hellboy; where they're trying to make a great comic into a movie, instead of making a great movie out of a great comic.


did they give him a speedo anytime other then when he was huge?

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