Comments on: Watchmen http://www.lykaon.com/2009/03/07/watchmen/ We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes... Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:35:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob http://www.lykaon.com/2009/03/07/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-6254 Rob Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:51:54 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=475#comment-6254 LOL, I'd make a your momma joke, but I know you'd get mad at me ;) LOL, I’d make a your momma joke, but I know you’d get mad at me ;)

]]> By: Dave http://www.lykaon.com/2009/03/07/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-6253 Dave Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:59:11 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=475#comment-6253 Rob, Care to comment on some of the "non-mainstream" things you allude to having seen? Rob,

Care to comment on some of the “non-mainstream” things you allude to having seen?

]]> By: Rob http://www.lykaon.com/2009/03/07/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-6251 Rob Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:12:29 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=475#comment-6251 I actually liked the Dr. Manhattan flashback better than the others, but agree that the movie definitely needed to be trimmed down overall. Way too long. My biggest problem (other than length) was the ordering, I would have preferred to have the flashbacks more up front rather than interrupting the movie throughout, practically to the end. It made it feel like the movie was always just getting started the whole way through, and the pace would slow way down as soon as things started moving. I started to feel at times like "oh great, here comes another flashback." I didn't read any of the reviews that you mentioned you felt were overly damning of the films gratuitousness, but man, that was one graphic movie. It may not have had the "density" (in terms of graphic scenes/minute) of something like Kill Bill or Sin City, but it was as graphic as anything I've ever seen, during those times when it chose to be. Like I said, not in terms of density or number of occurrences, but I'm having trouble coming up with something mainstream I've seen with more graphic depictions of violence or sex. I actually liked the Dr. Manhattan flashback better than the others, but agree that the movie definitely needed to be trimmed down overall. Way too long. My biggest problem (other than length) was the ordering, I would have preferred to have the flashbacks more up front rather than interrupting the movie throughout, practically to the end. It made it feel like the movie was always just getting started the whole way through, and the pace would slow way down as soon as things started moving. I started to feel at times like “oh great, here comes another flashback.”

I didn’t read any of the reviews that you mentioned you felt were overly damning of the films gratuitousness, but man, that was one graphic movie. It may not have had the “density” (in terms of graphic scenes/minute) of something like Kill Bill or Sin City, but it was as graphic as anything I’ve ever seen, during those times when it chose to be. Like I said, not in terms of density or number of occurrences, but I’m having trouble coming up with something mainstream I’ve seen with more graphic depictions of violence or sex.

]]> By: Hemisphire http://www.lykaon.com/2009/03/07/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-6045 Hemisphire Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:22:25 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=475#comment-6045 You are correct, the Dr. Manhattan flashback was a single issue. I think the point of it is not just a flashback, but a window into how he now thinks, in that all those events are taking place simultaneously for him. You are correct, the Dr. Manhattan flashback was a single issue. I think the point of it is not just a flashback, but a window into how he now thinks, in that all those events are taking place simultaneously for him.

]]>