Watchmen on Blu-Ray
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Monday, August 3, 2009 13:11
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Originally posted by lwaves:
My only two problems with the film is that the ending is too long and that we never got to see The Scouring Of The Shire, which is odd as this would have made the ending longer!
I suspect that is exactly the sort of dilemma that had to deal with when making the film. The problems start in films where changes are made for spurious reasons.
If you look at the (endless) Making Of material, you see that Jackson & co. were making trade offs between what they saw as important in the book and their experience as film-makers. E.g. Elves at Helm's Deep? Jackson explains that otherwise it would have looked like the Elves were a bunch of cowards running off back to the west, but to dump in a load of exposition about other battles they were fighting in would have derailed the plot. If it was really because the studio wanted more Elves to boost action figure sales, then Jackson did an awfully good job of rationalizing it.
Meanwhile, I heard that some nutty Brit artist pre-made the brilliant Watchmen movie as a comic book, and replaced the morally ambiguous ending in the film (which was so in keeping with the whole theme of the story) with some nonsense about a giant space squid. Apparently, he also padded the whole thing out (as if it wasn't long enough already) with some vaguely allegorical pirate story. I mean, the whole thing is an allegory anyway, so why put another allegory inside it? Sounds silly.
I bet they changed the costumes, too!
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Just wanted to add for any Aussies that we didn't get the Directors Cut either, just the 2-disc edition. Of course, so excited was I to buy Watchmen on BluRay, that I didn't realise this till I had the damn thing at home. Luckily it was still sealed so I took it back today and will have to import it on Amazon. Bah. Why? What good reason do they have to do this?
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Why? As state3d above, they need to do everything they can to turn aq profit on this flick. It'll take a while before it's in the black financially, and ge3tting folks to buy as many DVDs as possible is part of that.
I'm sure the Directors Cut will be available overseas about the time they release the Ultimate edition over here, this Christmas.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Taken strictly as a vehicle for Sean Connery to say goodbye to us in a last heroic role, it's not bad-
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Never could get through League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Yes, it is. That movie is shite.
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I'm sure the Directors Cut will be available overseas about the time they release the Ultimate edition over here, this Christmas.
Risky move, calling something the "ultimate" edition. Where do you go from there?
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Now two of my favorite graphic novels converted to film in great fashion. Bring on my absolute favorite graphic novel of all time:
The Dark Knight by Frank Miller. Not to be confused with last years film of the same name.
Edit: in graphic novel form it is titled The Dark Knight Returns.
It was always The Dark Knight Returns.
And while I wouldn't hold my breath for a live-action version of it anytime soon (there will be at least one more with Nolan/Bale) DC has mentioned it's a possibility for their line of animated films.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
I'm sure the Directors Cut will be available overseas about the time they release the Ultimate edition over here, this Christmas.
Risky move, calling something the "ultimate" edition. Where do you go from there?
I think that three different editions will probably be enough for a while.
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Quote:Only when compared to the novel- absolutely cold it's a fun little piece of fluff. Be objective, man!
Originally posted by Storymark:
That movie is shite.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
I heard that some nutty Brit artist pre-made the brilliant Watchmen movie as a comic book, and replaced the morally ambiguous ending in the film (which was so in keeping with the whole theme of the story) with some nonsense about a giant space squid. Apparently, he also padded the whole thing out (as if it wasn't long enough already) with some vaguely allegorical pirate story. I mean, the whole thing is an allegory anyway, so why put another allegory inside it? Sounds silly.
I bet they changed the costumes, too!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Only when compared to the novel- absolutely cold it's a fun little piece of fluff. Be objective, man!
Originally posted by Storymark:
That movie is shite.
Uh... yeah... I saw the movie before reading the comic.
Rotten Tomatos score: 16% positive, 11% positive from top critics.
Metacritic: 30% positive.
IMDB user score: 5.5 out of 10
This is from one of the good reviews: "Succeeds the same way the original comic books did: by making the conflicts and dilemmas basic enough for a five-year-old, while giving the heroes and villains glamorous outfits and layers of complexity, to thicken the broth."
It sucked.
Objectively.
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