Should have seen this coming:
Heh. Thanks to Cyrus, who sent those in.
BTW, I am having the weirdest thing happen with my receiver and my dvd player. When I switch to the dvd setting so I can hear dvd sound through my receiver, the picture on my tv widens. I have no idea what is going on. I’m using that ridiculously expensive cable (HDMI, maybe?).
NM. Fixed it. I just switched some cables around. Several hundred movies to choose from and I am watching Star Wars. Again.
The Watchmen comes out tomorrow, and from another thread, a solid prediction:
I expect the Watchmen to be declared one of the all time great conservative movies by the end of tomorrow, once again missing the point.
Something to look for tomorrow.
kommrade reproductive vigor
LOLTUNKZ FTW.
Speaking of which, whenever my gadgets get weird, I blame my big fat cable chewing cat.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Can’t sleep. Tunch will eat me …
The Other Steve
I never read any Watchman comic books or whatever.
But from the commercials, I expect it to suck big time.
BTW, saw The International last night. It actually was pretty good. Much better then I had been led to believe by critics.
AhabTRuler
I have a sleeping kitty on my desk that is all twitchin’ and dreaming. So damn cute when they do that. Almost makes up for the incipient end of the world.
Third Eye Open
At first, I thought Rubenesque meant he looked like a sandwich. But then I remembered that Brussel sprouts are the acceptable side dish with cat.
Chet
For god’s sake don’t pay more than $10 for HDMI cables. Circuit Shitty wants you to pay $50 – oops, not anymore! – but you should be ordering them from Amazon or somewhere for like $3-6. By all means, use them, they’re a great and simple way to hook up the electronics that support them, but the prices they want you to pay in the store are just insane. Buy the cheap ones online, there’s absolutely no difference in quality. The signal is digital.
Comrade Stuck
I’ve watched the Watchmen trailers so many times, I have them memorized. ONe of the few times I regret living in the sticks with no theaters, when a movie I want to see is released. Tunch would not like this minyon, too saulty.
AhabTRuler
I must say, despite my earlier amusement at his expense, that either the photo is taken from his extraordinarily flattering side, or he is looking slimmer.
Scott
I think I read that Totally Real Movie Critic Debbie Schlussel has already declared "Watchmen" a very bad and Satanically evil movie.
Surreal American
True enough. However if the movie sucks, the wingnuts are more than welcome to claim it for their own.
I hope the Watchmen film is good, but I still have my dog-eared copy of the graphic novel. So ultimately it’s no biggie either way from my viewpoint.
Third Eye Open
Personally, I am still waiting for the Transmetropolitan series to find its way to the big screen.
Dick Weathers
Yes, Debbie panned it. Pro tip, don’t bring your children to R-rated movies.
Basement Cat
"I heer John has minyuns?"
More like Funyuns, from the look of things.
Surreal American
@Dick Weathers:
Nothing gets past Debbie, does it?
TheOfficialHatOnMyCat
I heard a Watchmen review on NPR today.
Basically it went like this: For twenty years filmmakers have been talking about this story and saying that it couldn’t be made into a movie.
So the reviewer went to see it, and her opinion was, they were right. It couldn’t be made into a movie.
Genine
@AhabTRuler:
Yes, it definitely looks like he is losing some weight. Not that it makes a difference to me. He’s still lovable!
Ben
Based on little except a general pessimistic attitude toward Hollywood, one of my worries about the Watchmen movie is that Rorschach will be less of a right-wing sociopath that you sympathize with anyway, and more of a generic conservative tough guy. His character could be botched easily, and with it the message of the film. Having said that, I still need to go see it, and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
John's Minions
Hey woah! We didn’t get the memo on the spelling change..
Chuck Butcher
I know the ads are going away but what the hell is up with pjtv? The top two are Muslims teaching hate and the bottom is Iran/Hollywood. I mean faced with soshulizum that’s what they’ve got? Or have I missed a piece of news where the Islamist hordes are on the beaches and in the air?
On the other hand our Darling suggested that Marlin is large boned, Tunch’s feet show that he is big boned, Marlin on the other hand is plump with a dainty frame. And, btw, Tunch I have insisted on the label enforcer so do not mistake me for minion, salty or otherwise.
John's Minyuns
There we go, sorry for the lack of posting, but you know what they say, good minions (or minyuns) are seen and not heard… At least until it’s time to dump them in the shark tank.
jcricket
I’m going to see it, I don’t care if it’s mediocre. I loved the graphic novel, and it’s probably better made than 50% of the dreck out there anyway.
OK, who am I kidding, I love dreck.
I think the last scifi movie I hated was Jumper – that movie had no point. Bleah.
Seriously, as long as no one shouts, "Wolverines", and the various characters don’t band together to rescue kittens from trees or do a dance number in the end, I think the Watchmen will be fairly good fun.
different church-lady
John, why don’t you just outsource the blog to the other two? It’s obvious you’re distracted.
burnspbesq
It’s likely that no one in Kentucky will find this funny, but that’s their problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNSl4IFRfg
Actually, having to relive The Shot is appropriate punishment for continually electing Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning to the Senate. Suck on it, Big Blue Nation.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Oh, I have no doubt that Rush or Glenn Beck or one of the other fascist assholes will cream in their pants over Rorschach or the Comedian or Veidt’s master plan. They’ll leave the theater with tears in their eyes, wondering why we can’t do that right now.
I’m expecting the movie to be not so hot; when Terry Gilliam couldn’t figure out how to do it, I figured that was a sign. The plot’s really not that complicated, but the background detail is vital to enjoying the story.
But hey, 300 was based on a graphic novel, so…
Surreal American
@jcricket:
Actually I’d pay good money to see a Watchmen song-and-dance number at the end of the film.
If it’s going to suck, it might as well suck out loud. Why be half-assed about it?
The Other Steve
Monoprice.com
The Other Steve
THIS IS SPARTA!
gwangung
Actually, would you accept Saturday Morning Watchmen? (Click on Watch this movie)
TenguPhule
So bad it’s good or So bad it’s horrible?
jcricket
I second that. Monoprice, definitely.
Wile E. Quixote
@jcricket
The movie has almost nothing to do with the book, which is a well written YA SF novel. Every time I see Hollywood fuck up a movie adaptation like that I’m tempted to drive to Southern California and go hunting. It’s even worse when they fuck up comic book adaptations. Adapting a comic book to the screen has got to be one of the easiest things out there, the media is basically in story board format. But more often than not Hollywood fucks it up big time, and when they do fans are pissed because comic book fans are the most obsessive and critical geeks out there. If you do your movie right, well, you have Iron Man or The Dark Knight. Do it wrong and you have Batman and Robin, The Spirit, or either one of the Incredible Hulk movies.
jcricket
I keep having visions of that long-lost Star Wars Christmas/Holiday special thing with the Chewbacca family…
Wile E. Quixote
Oh, and when you think about it Batman is a Republican. After all Bruce Wayne is incredibly rich having inherited a fortune, batshit (pun intended) insane (The man dresses up as a giant flying rodent and runs around town at night beating up on criminals. This is not healthy.), has no respect for civil liberties and is involved in an exploitative and unhealthy relationship with a teenage boy. Yep, sounds like a Republican to me.
John's Minyuns
There we go, sorry for the lack of posting, but you know what they say, good minions (or minyuns) are seen and not heard… At least until it’s time to dump them in the shark (or cat) tank.
jcricket
Just wait until they do the Ender’s Game movie :-)
Although I like that book a lot less than I did back then because Orson Scott Card turned out to be a sexist, homophobic asshat. Maybe that’s unfair revisionism, but whatevs.
Vincent
I see no reason to pick on the book for its poor parentage.
I’m expecting the Watchmen to be a good popcorn flick if nothing else. Anybody expecting a literary masterpiece out of a comic book adaptation is setting their expectations a bit too high I think.
robertdsc
I still read him in spite of his wingnuttery.
Incertus
Just got back from The Watchmen–went to the midnight showing, which marks me as a fanboy I guess–and yet, all fanboyness aside, really liked the movie. There were a couple of small things that got me, but not much. I was never bored, I thought the characters were solidly drawn and that the critique of both society in general and of the comic book world that Alan Moore was going for came through in the film quite nicely. And I’m convinced that film reviewers who have gone after it already–A. O. Scott in particular, though he’s not alone–need to understand that capping on comic book nerds is not film criticism.
Amy’s writing a spoilerific review right now and it’ll be up by the time most people are awake so drop by and check it out.
Ripley
That is one cute kitteh, and he doesn’t look all that fat to me. From the routine comments here, I expected something Limbaughesque in girth.
Um, no offense, Tunch, or John. Or minions. Or world….
Cyrus
Big Hollywood is already calling Watchmen a conservative movie. To be totally fair, judging by the comments some of them did notice non-conservative elements to the story, but they sure are good at ignoring stuff like that.
J. Michael Neal
Eh. The only reason I ever liked Ender’s Game is because it sets up Speaker for the Dead, which is one of the great books of all time. There’s no point reading past that, as the last two books are all right, but don’t really add anything. Speaker for the Dead, though, is brilliant.
Jeffro
@ Third Eye Open
TRANSMET is going to make a
great
movie someday.
THE AUTHORITY, which will never be made, would be even better.
/fanboy
OriGuy
Scalzi has a thread about unfilmable SF books. I think most SF books today are too long to make into a single feature-length film.
SpotWeld
I’m really hoping that the right-wing blogs don’t twig onto the Ditko connection to Watchmen and attempt to link it up with the current "going Galt" nuttyness.
Michael
Would anybody have the guts to do "Revolution in 2100"?
Cris
For a positive review of Watchmen from a true fan, be sure to check out Amy’s piece over at Incertus. The key line:
Cris
That would require overlooking the fact that Moore sets up his Ditko character as a deluded sociopath who completely fails to understand what Ozymandias was doing, and can only cast it into his own presupposed narrative.
So, on that note, you’re probably right. They’ll love Rorschach. He’s one of them.
SpotWeld
@Cris
I can already feel the "If Rush/BillO/Glenn was a superhero (I mean more than he is already)…" blog posts warming up out there…
And I’m cringing, cringing I tell you like they were fingernails on the chalkboard.
forked tongue
Hey, not to disclose any spoilers or anything (like Anthony Lane in the New Yorker who, shall we say, was not altogether pleased by the movie), but if you’ve read the graphic novel: Remember what happens at the end, and in which city. Of course the wingers are going to love it.
dougie smooth
New At Reason: Brian Doherty on Why Watchmen’s Rorschach is an Objectivist Hero