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    Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    03/12/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    Next to Bowie/Jagger were the Village People
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    Image of TrapperZ TrapperZ
    03/11/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    I loved the movie, but the audience was subjected to a kid rock propaganda music video about the army, before "Watchmen" started. Anybody else have this terrible video pop up too?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    @TrapperZ:
    No, we got crappy 80's pop music.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    03/11/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    oh man, all these spoilers! i haven't seen the movie yet! next you'll tell me that they changed the ending!
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/11/09

    @evildead1971: We...we need to talk...
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    "Not really an egg, but it was very nice that they included the Comedian's involvement in the JFK shooting."


    Yeah, that was one bit that I didn't think really worked well with the credit sequence. I mean, it's presented in such a way as to suggest that he was the actual shooter, but JFK's exit wound clearly shows that the killing shot came from the front/left, not somwhere off on the right (which is where Blake was).

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    Image of Patrick Rehill Patrick Rehill
    03/11/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    I laughed out loud when I saw Ozy meeting The Village People-
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    @Patrick Rehill:
    He didn't meet them. He clearly turned away from them and greeted Bowie and Jagger instead.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    It wasn't until I watched the credits online that I realized that was Li'l Rorshach hanging out with mommy's Johns when you see the "Russ Have A-Bomb" headline.


    But the Nite-Owl bit...is that a sign that a world without a Batman is indeed doomed to fail?

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    Image of thewriteguy thewriteguy
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    I think Meredith is incorrect to surmise that the original Nite Owl prevented the existence of a real-life Batman.


    It's obvious in the first shot that Batman exists in the Watchmen universe -- but as a fictional comic book character. It's only meant as a coincidence that the couple Nite Owl saves resemble Thomas and Martha Wayne.


    Now if there were no posters for the Batman comic on the wall, and there was a young boy with the rich couple, then maybe we could assume that Nite Owl saved Bruce Wayne from becoming Batman... but that would have introduced a meta-reality conundrum: Watchmen is supposed to be set in an alternate reality version of our world, not in an alternate reality version of the DC universe.

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    03/10/09

    @thewriteguy: Ah, but the DCU exists in an alternate reality of ours as well. Perhaps the Watchmen universe is one of the many, many, many Earths that was wiped out during Final Crisis.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    03/10/09

    @thewriteguy: think of it as an homage not stone cold fact because this is fiction.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/10/09

    @thewriteguy: Your need to concretely literalize an Easter egg baffles me, but sadly, doesn't surprise me.


    Nothing about the Internet surprises me anymore. Sigh.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/10/09

    @Moff: Did you know the Internet is actually made from clown tears?

    I was certainly surprised.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    @Meredith Woerner:
    Another interesting tidbit to add to that is the fact that it's identified as the Gotham Opera House (an ejected bullet shell is seen flipping right in front of the word "Gotham").


    Also, not so much an easter egg, but check out where the cops are looking in the second scene. I'm not sure where the cop to SS' right is looking, but the older cop to her left is almost certainly staring down her cleavage.

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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: I did not know that, and that is awesome.
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    Image of lordofendsville lordofendsville
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    It's sad. A comic that changed the way people think about comics and/or the boundaries of comics was made into a self pleasuring stroke-fest of mediocrity with "a real good opening titles sequence". Nothing worse than a weak orgasm.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/10/09

    @lordofendsville: A bad case of stomach flu. Stubbing your toe hard on the coffee table. Not being able to locate a line in a book that you just read yesterday. Blue balls.


    I could go on. Or you could pick a better metaphor.

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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    I actually didnt get the castro part. Are those American planes flying over head (can't tell in the low rez)?
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    Image of TKOtheKDR TKOtheKDR
    03/10/09

    @Mark 2000: I didn't really get it either, at the time. What I'm thinking, though, is that in response to Dr. Manhattan, the communist leaders consolidated their power much more effectively, making a communist attack on the West much more possible and deadly, thus increasing the weight of the Afghanistan scenario that almost culminates in nuclear war.
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    03/10/09

    @TKOtheKDR: Yeah, good call. I guess what confused me is that Castro and whoever that guy is (Khrushev? Brezhnev? doesn't look like either) look weirded out and a little shocked when the planes go over.
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    Image of allium allium
    03/10/09

    @TKOtheKDR: Or maybe the Bay of Pigs invasion was successful, and Castro is stuck in exile, learning to enjoy borscht and the rasputitsa.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/11/09

    @allium: Is that Dean Stockwell playing Khruschev?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/11/09

    @Mark 2000:
    Martin Reiss is credited with playing Brezhnev, but I don't see any credits for Kruschev.
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    Image of NotArthurPDragon NotArthurPDragon
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    I find it ironic that for a sequence being praised as so imaginative, it's got the most unimaginative music choice ever.
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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    03/10/09

    @NotArthurPDragon: No, I'm pretty sure that goes to the funeral.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    Oh, and yU+Co was forced to remove their video of it (the one that was posted the other day), but as of now, I found it here: [pixelatedgeek.com]
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    Image of Alizarin Alizarin
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    Honestly? If this were a real world with super heroes, let's face it, Bowie would have been part of the team.
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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    03/10/09

    @Alizarin: Oh dear God, please, not Ziggy Stardust and the Heroes from Mars...
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    03/10/09

    @James Ryan: Well, Ozymandias is based heavily on Bowie, especially in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
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    Image of siamgx siamgx
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    So the Last Supper hints on the coming of the one who will save the world? (which she kinda does).
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    03/10/09

    @siamgx: Who? Sally or Laurie? How does she (or anyone) save the world? Ozymandias plans his attack and successfully carries it out. No one saved anyone, and certainly not either of them.
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    Image of Iamtehawesome Iamtehawesome
    03/10/09

    @Platypus Man:
    Technically, Ozymandias saves the world.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    03/10/09

    @Iamtehawesome: He'd say so, but either way, the Last Supper thing doesn't reference him at all.
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    03/10/09

    In reply to Easter Eggs (And Missing Parts) In Watchmen's Titles
    Seriously, best opening credits ever.
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    Image of avoidz avoidz
    03/08/09

    In reply to The Best Part Of Watchmen Online Now
    Dead link, bah.
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