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The Secret Origin Of Watchmen's World-Building
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So, any guesses as to what the catch phrase would have been?
"Look on MY works, ye mighty, and despair!"
03/01/09
"Whoo watches the Watchmen? Whoooo? Whooooo?"
cuz he's an Owl right? I'm going to be saying this in my head til Friday.
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Perhaps the sparkles are the luminescence induced in air molecules resulting from the increase in Cerenkov radiation emitted by Dr. Manhattan? Cerenkov radiation is a hand waving explanation for why he is blue - high speed electrons leaking from his atoms generate electromagnetic shock waves on the blue-uv portion the spectrum.
Perhaps his beta ray emission increases when he is excited with Laurie? (Insert lame sex joke here).
03/01/09
02/28/09
I don't think Snyder needed to fight so hard for the blue wang. I'm no prude, but even I wouldn't begrudge them putting Dr. Manhattan in the black speedo deal he wears for parts of the book. Maybe Snyder could've gotten more minutes added to the running time by agreeing to cut the nudity!
I kinda wish they HAD split it into two movies. Seriously, the more of the original story they can fit in there, the happier I'll be.
Casting unknowns was probably the way to go... But in my head, I still see John Cusack as Nite Owl and Jude Law as Ozymandias.
02/28/09
02/28/09
Besides, the director's version is about half an hour longer than the regular. That seems to mean a lot more than blue dicks and elderly kicks were edited out.
02/28/09
Oh well, I can live with that. Though it is a favorite sequence of mine, what with the cute widdle kiddies finding a blood spattered Mason and all, but it's not directly related to the major plot threads, so I can let it slide.
The only really major disappointment I have is that Dan's momentary snap when he beats the shit out of the Knot-Top probably won't make it...
02/28/09
"Who did it? Tell me who did it, you slime! Who murdered Hollis?...
You tell them! Tell them they're dead! You know how much fire power I have floating out there?"
And then Rorshach, of all people, pulls him off the top-knot. It really shows Dan's dark side: how pudgy, laughable "mister costume fetish" would have been a serious badass back in the day.