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outside perspectives are always welcome though.
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BOO : not nearly cutting edge facial performance.
03/02/09
Q: "Who watches the Watchmen hype?"
A: "EVERYONE."
(I guess)
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Got to...replace...battery!!"
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- underwear, + ball gag
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You perv.
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-The only plot point they share is a Superhero Registration Act. The Keene Act in Watchmen is technically a ban on vigilante activity rather than a registration act, though.
-The present-day (1985) heroes never formed a team.
hth <3
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03/02/09
Watchmen did rip off previous comic book properties, but it was okay because they had all recently been bought out by DC. I can't remember them all, but here are some of the more notable parallels:
Dr. Manhattan (the only super-powered character) is based on Captain Atom
Rorschach is based on The Question
NiteOwl is based on Blue Beetle (who is, in turn, something of a ripoff of Batman, but that's another story)
It's a superhero story without any true superheroes. Most of them are just masked/costumed semi-pro vigilantes (heroes, perhaps, but not superheroes). And the one character who does posess bonafide superpowers isn't exactly what I'd call a hero.
It was originally supposed to use existing characters, but DC didn't really want to hand over their top characters for a story where some of them would have to die, and the end result was that they created an entirely new batch of characters, but based them on an obscure group of pre-existing characters. Also, the story is almost more a political commentary than a superhero story, but since it was written at the height of the Cold War it has lost some of its relevence in recent years (not all, by any means, but the basic premise no longer feels like it'd even be possible, all the superhero stuff aside).
03/02/09
Later, DC had a change of heart and decided that Alan couldn't deconstruct them after all, so by mutual consent, Moore wrote new characters based on the Charleston ones.
Funny how convoluted it is though, huh?
03/01/09
See the thing is, I'm seeing the movie on Friday, and other people's reviews that have already come in I'll be far less likely to put stock in than yours. So if you guys write a negative review, I think I will be genuinely prejudiced.
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I think the smashing pumpkins really set the mood for what this movie should be.
"The beginning is the end is the beginning" was the name of the song i think......
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*shudder*
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