[Zoot]

Has anyone here seen Watchmen yet?
You see I saw this last night with a couple of mates and loved every second of it. The thing is everyone else I know who has seen it hated it. Ok yes, I'm a fan of the book, but I refuse to believe thats the only reason i loved the film - I'm a huge X-men fan but hated the last two films. Everyone is saying that the film doesn't make sense or was dull, or too overly complicated. My only idea is that these people went in expecting another 'Spiderman' or 'Iron Man' which this clearly isn't. It's much more a 'Sin City' or 'The Crow'.

So have you seen it? Have you read the book? What did you think?

[MK Chris]

When you say Sin City, is it kind of film noir? I will be going to see it at some point... although I've not read the book. It was written by a bloke in Northampton though, so I feel I ought to go and see it for that as much as anything else, as daft as that sounds.

[Zoot]

When you say Sin City, is it kind of film noir? I will be going to see it at some point... although I've not read the book. It was written by a bloke in Northampton though, so I feel I ought to go and see it for that as much as anything else, as daft as that sounds.

No, I meant as in based closely on a comic book thats not your stereotypical 'comic book'. It's very dark, quite political, and has a completely different spin on your average concept of 'Super Heros'. I found it very refreshing actually.

I don't thing you need to have read the book before seeing it, but at times the scenes and camera angles are made to re-enact the comic frames perfectly - it's all very clever!

[MK Chris]

Ah, I'll look forward to it anyway. I saw The Spirit and hated it.

[Console]

I loved the comic and I thought the film was a terrific adaptation of it - I very much live the playing around with the concepts of good and evil, with the good bad-guy and the bad good-guy.

[DannyBoy]

2 Hours 30 Minutes get a comfy seat!

[Johnny 1989]

Has anyone here seen Watchmen yet?
You see I saw this last night with a couple of mates and loved every second of it. The thing is everyone else I know who has seen it hated it. Ok yes, I'm a fan of the book, but I refuse to believe thats the only reason i loved the film - I'm a huge X-men fan but hated the last two films. Everyone is saying that the film doesn't make sense or was dull, or too overly complicated. My only idea is that these people went in expecting another 'Spiderman' or 'Iron Man' which this clearly isn't. It's much more a 'Sin City' or 'The Crow'.

So have you seen it? Have you read the book? What did you think?

Same thing happened to me, I went it with five other mates (two blokes, three women) and all of them hated it, to be fair, and not meaning to sound sexist, I'd say it's not necessarily a film women would want to watch, it's really violent & gory in places.

One of the blokes wanted to know why I liked it & kept mocking me for liking it saying that he didn't like it because the actors were crap (most of them were good enough, especially seeing as they were all virtually unknowns), the story was no way as good as the Dark Knight (two different films but there you are) and that he didn't know any of the characters (hmm... missed the point there me thinks).

Either way it's definitely a Marmite film, you'll either love it or hate it. I thought it was very good & a refreshing change to the norm, I've bought the book & plan to read it sometime in the near future

[Johnny 1989]

I think I'd like it. I don't mind gore and violence long a there's a decent storyline and it's not there just to make up time. I liked Sin City so if it's anything like that I'll enjoy it. Should be seeing it soon.

To be honest, I didn't know one of the girls, one of them was frightened throughout the whole thing (she's a girlie girl when it comes to films although doesn't speak in that silly way that some of them do) & the other one hates Family Guy & said that if she had realised it was this violent then she wouldn't have sat in to watch it

Sadly there's a rather controversial scene between The Comedian & Silk Scepter I (which I won't say what it's about as it would reveal too much about the scene) of which I & my friends were rather flabbergasted than some in the cinema were laughing at (Zoot will probably work out what scene that is), suffice to say that explains why my town has turned into such a sh*t hole if that's peoples attitude to that scene.

[Zoot]

I loved the comic and I thought the film was a terrific adaptation of it - I very much live the playing around with the concepts of good and evil, with the good bad-guy and the bad good-guy.

Yea, there's no straight line between the 'goodies' and 'baddies' and everyone is a product of society. I also think it has quite possible my favourite intro to any movie, and it sums up the 'what would happen if there were real super heroes in a real reality' really well.
Arghh, I wanna go see it again!

Sadly there's a rather controversial scene between The Comedian & Silk Scepter I (which I won't say what it's about as it would reveal too much about the scene) of which I & my friends were rather flabbergasted than some in the cinema were laughing at (Zoot will probably work out what scene that is), suffice to say that explains why my town has turned into such a sh*t hole if that's peoples attitude to that scene.

Yea, I know what you're talking about, and yea it would take a sick individual to laugh at that.
Everyone laughed at the sex /flame thrower scene when I saw it, but that was it.

[Johnny 1989]

I loved the comic and I thought the film was a terrific adaptation of it - I very much live the playing around with the concepts of good and evil, with the good bad-guy and the bad good-guy.

Yea, there's no straight line between the 'goodies' and 'baddies' and everyone is a product of society. I also think it has quite possible my favourite intro to any movie, and it sums up the 'what would happen if there were real super heroes in a real reality' really well.
Arghh, I wanna go see it again!

Sadly there's a rather controversial scene between The Comedian & Silk Scepter I (which I won't say what it's about as it would reveal too much about the scene) of which I & my friends were rather flabbergasted than some in the cinema were laughing at (Zoot will probably work out what scene that is), suffice to say that explains why my town has turned into such a sh*t hole if that's peoples attitude to that scene.

Yea, I know what you're talking about, and yea it would take a sick individual to laugh at that.
Everyone laughed at the sex /flame thrower scene when I saw it, but that was it.

Unfortunately about a quater of the audience thought the fight was funny as was the close up of the belt. No wonder the town I live in is turnign into such a shitehole

[Bruvva]

Did anyone get the batman reference?

[Johnny 1989]

Did anyone get the batman reference?

Do you mean the posters in the background during the opening sequence?

[Zoot]

Did anyone get the batman reference?

Do you mean the posters in the background during the opening sequence?

No, but you see Bruce, Martha and Thomas Wayne right at the beginning.

[Johnny 1989]

Did anyone get the batman reference?

Do you mean the posters in the background during the opening sequence?

No, but you see Bruce, Martha and Thomas Wayne right at the beginning.

Oh right, must have missed that . I'll have alook out for that when it comes out on DVD