Watchmen
POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Monday, December 14, 2009 18:36
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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Yeah, I caught a glimpse of a couple of young kids in the theatre where I saw it. Who brings a young child (6 or 7 y.o.) to an R-rated movie?
What are parents thinking about?
I don't get it either. Furthermore I saw Watchmen at a Thurs night midnight opening. There were plenty of HS kids in there who surely had school on Friday. Then later I returned with my wife on Sunday and....yes indeed...kids as young as 7 in the theater. I thought about that when Laurie/Dan had their "moment" or when Manhattan made the occasional person explode.
In my home I had home theater furnature made specially for owning my geek media with children about. The shelves of my DVD library are open on the bottom 4 but the top 2 are behind a lockable door. Movies of questionable content reside there. Watchmen will find it's home behind a lock along with things like Alien, Aliens, the Mad Max films, Kill Bill, Ect, Ect. Lower shelves have things like LOtR, buffy, Dune, Dark Crystal, Firefly, ect. Also behind the lock is my Firefly Box set signed by the cast.
I'm trying to make a call about where BSG should go.
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It astounds me, really, how few parents seem to pay attention to things like that. They must not have read the graphic novel, but they know that's what it's based on, and a comic book movie must be okay for kids, right? The rating seems to fly right over their heads. The same thing happens with video games, the assumption that a video game must be okay for kids. There are certain sectors of society that still have the impression that true adults don't play video games or read comic books. It's ridiculous, intellectual laziness that leads to equally lazy parenting. At least, that's the best I can come up with. Maybe there are parents who truly just don't care about what their children might be exposed to.
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.... well, when you consider that some parents are just "kids" themselves, nothing surprises me.
eta: oh, and great movie, excellent adaptation - i will see this one many more times....
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I havn't been to an R rated movie in years without seeing kids there.
Some people should not breed, plain and simple.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
The shelves of my DVD library are open on the bottom 4 but the top 2 are behind a lockable door. Movies of questionable content reside there. Watchmen will find it's home behind a lock along with things like Alien, Aliens, the Mad Max films, Kill Bill, Ect, Ect. Lower shelves have things like LOtR, buffy, Dune, Dark Crystal, Firefly, ect. Also behind the lock is my Firefly Box set signed by the cast.
I'm trying to make a call about where BSG should go.
Remember the 'pegasus' episode?
I'd put it behind the lock.
"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."
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If anyone is interested in an intelligent 90 minute discussion of Watchmen by true Comics experts, including Kevin Smith, I would recommend this link for a downloadable .mp3:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/12/kevin-smith-and-the-filmcast-revie
w-watchmen-filmcast-ep-41/
It is every bit of 90 minutes and would require a thoughtful listener, but it's worth it. Be advised of frequent use of the f-bomb if you have children. Kevin Smith's insights are interesting.
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What a great discussion! Thanks for the link 
Oddly, the thing that sticks most in my head is their wish that the song from the trailer (The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning) had been used for the end credits. I totally agree with that. I mean, I agree with a lot of what they said, but that bit is sticking right now. [/sig]
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AU, did you catch some of the lines. The sudtle humor. When Nixon was in the war room with his generals talking about fall out. Nixon replies "ah the last gasp of Harvard let them think their way out of fision" I just love that. It's the sterotype of Nixon being a war munger, pinocchio nose means liar, but to give him a sense of humor well thats not true. The man was great a true genius. The real crooks where Kennedy and Johnson. But that is for another time.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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I was in HS & college in the 80's, so it was a bit of a strain for me to watch the alternate reality view of a period in which I really lived. Nixon was a bit before my time, to be honest. I kinda get the need to not tread on actual events, but there were so many reminders of how things were, it kinda annoyed me. Why ? Because I'm very familiar of how things actually were, and I'm cognizant of how "Hollywood" loves to rewrite history, hell, even rewrite the present! But this wasn't so much about that, and I enjoyed the twist in general.
Good flick, overall, but clearly not for everyone.
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