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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nottingham
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Right now. I've read the comic, didn't have the money or inclination to see the film in theatres and am catching up now on a borrowed DVD.
I'll be keeping you updated with my thoughts as I go through it. 15 Minutes in: The opening credits were an interesting way to introduce the history but too long given that some of it wasn't that informative. Initial impression is that the film is suffering from the same thing all Zack Snyder's have so far, too much time on the visuals and too little spent on the acting. Lines already feel flat and oddly placed at times. |
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Hmph.
Join Date: Aug 2005
AKA: Ill
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What cut?
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Peace Is A Lie
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Who is?
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The Original
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: High Wycombe, UK
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Welp, if you didn't like the opening credits, you're in trouble.
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Peace Is A Lie
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The Fortress Of Arrogance
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srsly: it's an okay movie based on a classic of the original medium.
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Make It So
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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Hopefully it's the Director's cut.
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Just call me Stringy
Join Date: Dec 2007
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The lasting impression I got from the film was that every scene was Zack Snyder saying "HEY GUYS THIS BIT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE IT DID IN THE COMICS PRETTY COOL HUH??"
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Mudd.. King Mudd.
Join Date: Aug 2006
AKA: Lumax
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The only scene in the whole movie that I enjoyed was the original Night Owls last stand , and thats only in the directors cut anyhow.
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time for peggle
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Austin Wooperplex
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It's nice to see some of the best scenes on the big screen but not much else than that.
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Webcomic Vandal
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nottingham
AKA: Power Streak
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Looks like an extended one but not with the Black Freighter.
28:50 - Rorschach is good, the voice isn't what I personally imagined but it's working in it's own way and doesn't dilute the character for me. Dan, seems passable right now, the others I'll leave for a bit. The music is pretty awfully integrated. I had to stop to write this one because I've just heard '99 Red Balloons' horribly forced into a scene that didn't need it. I understand the choices in music but they're just overpowering and in most cases so far have been detrimental to the scene. |
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time for peggle
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Austin Wooperplex
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Oh yeah the music choices are god-fucking awful and I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more if all of that shit was taken out.
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Chugalug, Donna
Join Date: Aug 2005
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That's an odd song to mention since they do mention it in the graphic novel IIRC. I found some of the other musical choices a lot more jarring.
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Delightfully Ginger
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Elmhurst
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What? Most of that stuff was from the book
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Webcomic Vandal
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nottingham
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29:45 - "I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken"
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The Original
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: High Wycombe, UK
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Webcomic Vandal
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Verbatim copying a book does not a good film make.
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time for peggle
Join Date: Aug 2005
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He's got like another hour till he gets there.
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A Link to the Apocalypse
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Yeah, the extended cut WITH Black Freighter spliced in doesn't come out until December, I think.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nottingham
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37:42 - I assume that Snyder is trying to make the audience laugh with Ride of the Valkyries. If not DAMN.
Directing actors is not something Snyder does well at all. Silk Spectre (who is apparently 67, I ain't buying it) just blanded out a whole sequence and The Comedian just jumped emotional states in stupid ways that felt quite hammy. |
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time for peggle
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Austin Wooperplex
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Oh man I just thought of another part where anyone who knows anything about the characters would beat their head against a wall after seeing.
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Chugalug, Donna
Join Date: Aug 2005
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I like it whenthe totally powerless regular guy heroes punch holes in solid concrete
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Delightfully Ginger
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I'm talking about the music cues, most were referenced or in the background of scenes. But you're right and the film's major failing was that it did not bring to book to life but instead simply put the book on screen.
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time for peggle
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Space Vicodin OWNS
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Honestly, I never got the sense that any of them gave much of a fuck about killing when they were being attacked. I mean the book ended with Silk Spectre on her way to becoming Comedian II
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Webcomic Vandal
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nottingham
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54:51 - Pacing is way off. It's too slow and too ponderous when combined with the flat direction, it's not particularly engaging whereas the comic was by this point.
The dialogue suffers from being taken from the comic so closely (well, a lot of the film does) because, as with many comics, the dialogue works better when written and imagined than when performed. In one odd way it's similar to the Mallrats dialogue which, if you watch the film again, is a lot funnier in theory than in practice, in that film ONLY Jason Lee hits the mark. |
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