F**k Yeah

[withahip]

It sounds like he doesn't understand the attempt to keep the visuals like the actual comic book. So unlike a comic book trying to be a movie we have a movie trying to be a comicbook. And it seems he doesn't like that very much.

[black francis]

If you're in L.A.

http://www.latimesinteractive.com/adver ... index.html

see Watchmen early and for free.

[black francis]

I saw a really good review. The only line I needed to read was "I saw Watchmen and I fucking loved it"

[withahip]

http://www.nbc.com/watchmen/

[black francis]

I will never tire of this movie or the GN.

[withahip]

http://concertaholics.com/2008/09/27/th ... onto-2008/

You have to know something special is going to happen when you find out the 3 or 4 of people beside you have flown some 2000KM to watch a band from their hometown of Winnipeg, play 2 of what may turn out to maybe 6 reunion shows.

The last time I saw the Watchmen they were opening for the Tragically Hip on their Phantom Power Tour in 1998 at The Landmark Theatre in Syracuse NY. I guess I caught The Watchmen 3 or 4 times on that tour and really enjoyed them, so when I heard they were reuniting for a couple of shows at The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern I knew I was going catch at least 1 of the shows. As it turned out I caught the 2nd night and man I am glad I did.

[withahip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watchmen

The Watchmen were a Canadian rock band. They were one of the most commercially successful Canadian alternative rock groups of the mid to late 1990s.

The group was formed in 1988 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by vocalist Daniel Greaves, guitarist Joey Serlin, bassist Pete Loewen and Greaves' first cousin, drummer Sammy Kohn. Serlin was a comic fan and named the group after the DC comic.

The band toured Canada extensively and became a popular live act, largely on the strength of its energetic shows, which invariably featured an a cappella performance by Greaves at some point in the set. Greaves often covered songs by Billy Bragg, Simon and Garfunkel, Lyle Lovett, The La's, Tom Waits and others during these solo spots, and fans came to look forward to them as a highlight of each show. On rare occasions, Greaves performed more than one a cappella song in a set: at one 1998 performance broadcast live on radio, Greaves entertained the in-person audience during commercial breaks by singing Nicarauguan folk songs in addition to performing Billy Bragg's "Between The Wars."

[black francis]

Nicarauguan folk songs?

[withahip]

Nicarauguan folk songs?

I knew that would be the ONE thing you focused on.

[black francis]

What can I say besides I'm a self loathing hispanic.

[black francis]

Thursday night midnight showing baby.

[withahip]

What can I say besides I'm a self loathing hispanic.

I thought it was the socialist rebel fighter connotation of such music.

[black francis]

Oh yeah and that too.

[withahip]

uh-oh


http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainmen ... 97799.html

This movie has exactly two actors who make you sit right up in your chair and take notice — Haley for the 20 minutes his hooded mask is off (after that, he puts it back on, mumbles and is lost forever to the movie) and, yes, so help me, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who refused to leave ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” after his character died, three day growth of beard intact. And Morgan, playing The Comedian, is knocked off at the beginning of the movie and is only available to the rest of it in infrequent flashback. (Without flashbacks and ghosts, Morgan, it seems, might not have a career.)

And that’s it. Everyone else with a major part in the non-star cast is mediocre to bad. In some cases, their badness is not their fault. Malin Akerman is sexy in this fantasy phantasmagoria and has the sensational body required of Silk Spectre II but is directed so badly all the way through that she sometimes sounds like the sort of actress who struggles to keep a career going on those dopey Cinemax 11:30 p. m. skin fantasies. We know how much better she is than that from — of all things — the Farrelly Brothers’ thoroughly unnecessary remake of “The Heartbreak Kid.”

[withahip]

Wha~?

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0 ... d=tsmodule

Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness

The book is always better. Seeing a movie made from a favorite novel, or even an ordinary one, the reader-viewer invariably finds something missing, lacking, overstressed or just plain wrong, because it was changed. When we read the book, we make the movie: we cast it, visualize it, control its pacing. We own it. Any other version of the book — say, Hollywood's — competes with our original experience and simply can't measure up. And this applies no matter how good the film, how bad the book. If there'd been a cheapo novel called Citizen Kane that preceded the movie, somebody who'd read it first would have said, "Nice try, but it's not MY Citizen Kane." (Lev Grossman, a devout Watchmen fan, weighs in on the movie. Download the podcast)