Sure doesn't sound like it.

That's never a good sign.

Lando Lincoln: That's never a good sign.

Or it's utterly brilliant.

either way, i'm going to see this movie on opening night.

This is going to be a movie that people will see no matter what - however what they think of it after they've seen it is an entirely different story.

apparently this is some fanboy viral marketing drivel:

For me, and I suspect many others, the movie won't provoke the feeling you get from seeing a great movie, (which Watchmen very well may be). For me, Watchmen isn't a movie at all. It's a miracle the likes of which my 14-year-old self would never have believed. Now the special thing that it still feels like only I know about has been given to the whole world.

*gack*

There is not a media blackout. They are doing promotional screenings and press screenings, and I have seen the first 20 minutes.

It is A-F*cking-Mazing.

albo: *gack*

Yeah that's pretty much what a coworker of mine said. He thinks the concept should transfer well but the ending will be near impossible to get right. I have no idea what he's talking about. Nor do I wish to find out... he was rather passionate about it.

It makes sense. This film doesn't need reviews. The marketing will be word-of-mouth done by the fanboys. It already has a built-in audience.

I already know my sister-in-law will think it's awful and horrible and what was that big naked blue guy doing on Mars?

Which means, of course, that the film will have succeeded.

I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

How in the world does this headline match up in any way whatsoever with the article that's actually connected to it? Talk about pandering for a greenlight.

paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

You guys have obviously never seen Ishtar.

paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

That's ok, I'm going to go watch my Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom.

Will it be as good as any of the Punisher flicks? Or the Destroyer movie?

Eddie_Dean_NY: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

That's ok, I'm going to go watch my Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom.

Blu-Ray Catwoman FTW.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

That's ok, I'm going to go watch my Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom.

Ooh, I would watch that, but The Postman is on Movie 1, and Heaven's Gate is on Movie Classics - which to watch? Maybe I'll go with picture-in-picture and watch BOTH!

Then, to settle in for the evening I could have a re-watch of Gigli.

Oh, and BTW, Howard The Duck is a unappreciated masterpiece of 80's cinema. Mock it at your own peril, heathen swine.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

That's ok, I'm going to go watch my Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom.

Speaking of, does anyone know if Spice World is going to hit Blu-Ray?

Eddie_Dean_NY: There is not a media blackout. They are doing promotional screenings and press screenings, and I have seen the first 20 minutes.

It is A-F*cking-Mazing.

VIRAL MARKETER

DarthBrooks: I already know my sister-in-law will think it's awful and horrible and what was that big naked blue guy doing on Mars?

Which means, of course, that the film will have succeeded.

An acquaintance of mine is a Randroid, and I usually use his reaction to films as a test of whether or not I'd enjoy them.

"It's a miracle the likes of which my 14-year-old self would never have believed."

It sounds like if this movie sucks it's because you get a free blowjob with every viewing.

Bek: VIRAL MARKETER

Nope. Theater manager.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Oh, and BTW, Howard The Duck is a unappreciated masterpiece of 80's cinema. Mock it at your own peril, heathen swine.

I'm glad someone said that.
/not sarcasm

Sitting in that screening room and watching the visual world of the Watchmen movie unfold was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had. Not film experiences. Just EXPERIENCES. I don't think I realized how close I was to the original book until I saw such a loving, detail-rich, almost obsessive recreation of that universe. It had my heart pounding and head swimming. I barely slept that night. Someone took the most special personal thing of my adolescence and put it on a movie screen.

Wow is that pathetic.

Someone took the most special personal thing of my adolescence and put it on a movie screen.

If someone did that in my case, whoever screened it would likely be arrested - and possibly lynched.

Should be good. Will be wonderful. Gotta be great. Show will shine. Scenes will scintillate. Tickets will be terrific. Cost...cough...cough...cost.

//ah! matinee. cheaper then. will go.

lantawa: //ah! matinee. cheaper then. will go.

Out here it costs $5 to go to the theaters mon-thurs at AMC and Wednesdays we get free popcorn, so I'll be seeing it the first Wednesday its out.

paulseta: Someone took the most special personal thing of my adolescence and put it on a movie screen.

If someone did that in my case, whoever screened it would likely be arrested - and possibly lynched.

I LOL'd.

/me too

18 days.

Does that happen often?
I check Rotten Tomatoes for reviews of Pineapple Express, found that there were none, then rented it anyway.
And what an unwatchable pile of crap it was.

Art is subjective, but that depends on your point of view.

Eddie_Dean_NY: Bek: VIRAL MARKETER

Nope. Theater manager.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, CALL ME the next time something like that comes up. I will make the trek down there to see it and buy you a beer or three afterword as thanks. Seriously.

FTFA: What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME TO LIFE. It's a serious freak-out.

This made me recall the first time I saw Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet on the big screen. ;~)

Procedural Texture: Does that happen often?
I check Rotten Tomatoes for reviews of Pineapple Express, found that there were none, then rented it anyway.
And what an unwatchable pile of crap it was.

It wasn't as good as She Hate Me or Bamboozled, but it was almost as great as Fools Gold and certainly as good as How To Lose A Guy In Seven Days.

None of the above hold a candle to Home Alone 2 (which in itself is inferior to Baby's Day Out.

You forgot to compare it to Biodome, paulseta.

adamgreeney: Speaking of, does anyone know if Spice World is going to hit Blu-Ray?

I keep waiting for House Party 3 to show up on Engadget's list of upcoming Blu-ray releases, but I'm disappointed every week.

Procedural Texture: You forgot to compare it to Biodome, paulseta.

Biodome is no Jury Duty, my friend.

Jesus Christ, did Harry Knowles write that bullshiat article under a pen name?

None of these were as great as Phantoms... Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms, yo.

Can't wait until Moonraper comes out.

adamgreeney: Eddie_Dean_NY: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: Tr0mBoNe: paulseta: I hope it's as good as The Phantom Menance. I think that was the best film I've ever seen apart from the new Indiana Jones and also Leonard Part 6.

Star Trek V was the best of them all.

I thought Howard The Duck was better, but I am also fond of Spiderman 3.

I'd like to stay and chat but Elektra is on TV and it's my favourite movie of all time.

That's ok, I'm going to go watch my Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom.

Speaking of, does anyone know if Spice World is going to hit Blu-Ray?

Transformers.

/Yeah

DrMcNinja: Transformers.

I would be the first person in line if they released the 1988 Transformers movie on Blu-ray.

/not being sarcastic
//"Open, dammit, open!"

paulseta: Procedural Texture: You forgot to compare it to Biodome, paulseta.

Biodome is no Jury Duty, my friend.

maybe you should stop acting locally and start thinking GLObally.

They took the Squid out .. I aint watching.

It's a good (if overrated) graphic novel, but the nerd one-upsmanship it inspires where one has to proclaim from the mountain top that it means more to him than pu$$y and beer combined so everyone will know he's "hipper than thou" is farking pathetic.

albo 2009-02-16 06:13:29 PM
apparently this is some fanboy viral marketing drivel:

For me, and I suspect many others, the movie won't provoke the feeling you get from seeing a great movie, (which Watchmen very well may be). For me, Watchmen isn't a movie at all. It's a miracle the likes of which my 14-year-old self would never have believed. Now the special thing that it still feels like only I know about has been given to the whole world.

Yup.
'Watchmen' means absolutely nothing to me. Never heard of it until Fark; I think the term 'graphic novel' is pretentiousness of the highest order and I was raised on the glory days of Marvel so sod off, ya wanger(s).

Saw an ad for it the other day and it looks like that bad movie with Samuel L. that came out a few months ago.

And no, I'm not a hater, just dont see what the big deal is; it's not like it's LOTR I,II or III.

Brad_Will: I would be the first person in line if they released the 1988 Transformers movie on Blu-ray.

I want to go on record and state that I absolutely did not cry when Optimus Prime died. I have hay fever, see, and the pollen count was really high that day.

InmanRoshi: It's a good (if overrated) graphic novel, but the nerd one-upsmanship it inspires where one has to proclaim from the mountain top that it means more to him than pu$$y and beer combined so everyone will know he's "hipper than thou" is farking pathetic.

Name three better.

Watchmen is going to suck, but it may still be watchable and visually cooler than sh*t hitting a high powered fan in super slow motion.