Just finished House of Cards today.... I'm not sure i'm going to like the next season as i really have no clue how those two are going to turn that around. As for that scene at the white house...omg that was great
I like RT it's a bit more thoughful than IMDB. Critics Consensus: Gritty and visually striking, Watchmen is a faithful adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, but its complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material.
I watched Episode 9 again last night so everything was fresh in my mind. Can't ****ing wait for tonight
I'm very much looking forward to it but gutted that it's the last one of the series. Hopefully it wont take too long for the new one.
Talking about BCS? I'm just starting that **** now... getting quite into only half way through Ep 1 mind. Season 1 took WAY too long to get started but i guess they like to grow the characters. As for all them folks who don't like Saul in BB, he's one of favourite characters. Unscrupulous and with plenty of comedic catchphrases. You guys have no humour
Season 1 does take it slow, still good but as you say building charactes over time and not rushing the story, season 2 takes it up a level it's brilliant.
Zack Snyder's movie version of the DC Comics graphic novel Watchmen is a fantastically deranged epic; it might be making a bid for flawed-masterpiece status, except that it is probably more flaw than masterpiece. There are dull moments and moments of inspiration, moments of sublime CGI trickery and, repeatedly, moments when you suspect that a much-loved pop-rock standard is being bashed out on the soundtrack to make sure your interest levels don't flatline. It is a radioactive mosaic of bizarre touches and surreal tweaks: pop culture and newsreel history are audaciously morphed into a counter-factual landscape against which is played out the strange story of paranoid and vulnerable human beings who were once superheroes, but no more. Owing to public disillusion with unaccountable vigilantes, they have been forced to abandon their vocation - a postmodern twist also explored by the Pixar-Disney classic The Incredibles. It is 1985, but not as you know it. Richard Nixon is still in charge, having passed a law allowing himself more than two terms; he is in any case wildly popular owing to the huge US victory in Vietnam. This is because the Americans had on their side awesome superhero Dr Manhattan (Billy Crudup), a flaming-blue colossus with Blakean musculature and godlike powers to bend nature to his will. He is one of the Watchmen, the now disbanded crew of superheroes, including Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Silk Specter 2 (Malin Akerman), Nite Owl 2 (Patrick Wilson), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The Watchmen are in fact the second-generation descendants of a prewar super crew called The Minutemen, with the original Silk Specter (Carla Gugino) and the original Nite Owl (Stephen McHattie). The Watchmen are hardly straightforward good guys. They include someone truly despicable: the Comedian is a rapist, murderer and fascist stooge - a hitman for Tricky Dicky. He is shown as being the second gunman on the grassy knoll who assassinated Kennedy in 1963: this sequence is stunningly convincing. But disgusting as he is, the Comedian's depravities are to be surpassed by the mad hubris lurking within the disbanded Watchmen's ranks, the hubris that might destroy humanity itself. There is something exhilarating in the sheer madness of Watchmen: a wacky world turned upside down - famous people from history are always getting dream-like cameos. Costumed combatants flit across the screen in the company of Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Pat Buchanan: the Watchmen's existence pokes some sharp satire at the besuited, capeless warriors of conservative America. The synapse-frazzling ambition of Watchmen is impressive as it lurches from hyperreal Earth to photoreal Mars; it is dizzy, crazy and quite sexy - when it's not being self-indulgent and pointless. If it doesn't quite hang together or add up, or stick faithfully to the comic-book original, these offences aren't major. What a spectacle. The Grauniad's critic review of Watchmen. I think he calls it correctly. Give it a watch, man
Gonna have to make time to watch the rest of BCS FTWD Ep2 now out ... pretty good even if T-Pain and Lonely Island's I'm on a Boat should be the soundtrack !!
if watchmen had been done by marvel there would have been two movies and the character development would have been done right. its too long, too much in there thats confusing the plot. Marvel did a genius call braking it up over so many movies all with different plots and development to follow. but each is a movie of its own that stands on its own without need to look at priors.
At the time Watchmen wouldn't have been everyone's cup of tea but I loved it tbh. Dark and Gritty. And obviously taken into context with the alternative history timeline.
First time I saw it I was intrigued but wondered where the movie was going. Then BOOM halfway through it all comes together and you're hooked. The film is a masterpiece imo, watched it several times.
