The last movie you saw...

[Jynks]

rofl..

Watchmen.... fuckn awesome... go see it... once you guys have seen it I will chat abouyt it.. i do not wantto give anythign away.... . . .

[maxpayne2409]

i won't be seeing it til it hits DVDrip on the net, as i don't believe in supporting the studio hollywood system when all they can regularly churn out is remakes and sequels

[Jynks]

i won't be seeing it til it hits DVDrip on the net, as i don't believe in supporting the studio hollywood system when all they can regularly churn out is remakes and sequels

lol... 2 funny... your loss man.

[maxpayne2409]

not really my loss as i'll still get to see it

[Jynks]

anyone who thinks the home theater experience is the same as the cinema experience is brain damaged in some way

[dinky]

you should see my home theater before making that statement.

I have midnight show tickets for tonight.

SIGNS is an invasion movie, but it's not what I was referring to (THE HAPPENING). now that I think about it, I suppose it's more of a viral/andromeda strain kind of movie. the one with marky mark. bear in mind that I stopped watching shyamalan fodder after THE VILLAGE. but all of his stuff (maybe aside from UNBREAKABLE) is psychological thriller with a hint of fantasy/supernatural.

If she's cool with sci-fi time travel stuff, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and THE JACKET might do. Something close to THE OTHERS could be WHAT LIES BENEATH, THE STRANGERS, STIR OF ECHOES, THE SKELETON KEY. I guess it depends on what you mean by spooky. the not-actually-horror bit made me think more psychological thriller. EXORCIST is the definition of full blown horror, imo.

[Jynks]

yea.. stir of echos might be a good one for her.. I'll try that one on her..

[maxpayne2409]

anyone who thinks the home theater experience is the same as the cinema experience is brain damaged in some way

Q. when did i ever make that statement?
A. I Didn't

There's just little these days i care about actually paying to see, and as watchmen isn't one of the things ive ever really read ever, so it's not that high on my list of things to see

[dinky]

although it IS a DC property.

didn't you also skip SUPERMAN RETURNS and the two BATMAN movies though?

[spudthedestroyer]

Isn't watchmen one of the most acclaimed comic books of all time? Right up there with the Beano and The Dandy

[maxpayne2409]

no, unfortunately i saw superman returns..... i don't like to be reminded of it and i do plan on seeing the new batman films sometime, there's just something about christian bale being in them that just keeps stopping me so far...

Watchmen may be one of the most aclaimed comic books, doesn't mean i've read it, but to be honest i never really knew much about it, still don't really

[Jynks]

superman returns?!!! do me a favour and stay off my side.

[maxpayne2409]

superman returns?!!! do me a favour and stay off my side.

you make it sound like we're in bed together

[dinky]

you're both kinda superman fanboys. spoiler: it's too late to see BATMAN in theaters, which was the point of the question. I'll watch any superhero comic property. and let me tell you, that's a serious commitment when ELECTRA and STEEL hit the big screen.

re: WATCHMEN. You do realize that it was published in 1985-6, right? iunno about maxy, but that would make me a whopping 7-8 years old. I wouldn't have read a comic until I was 12-14. by that time, WATCHMEN was ancient history. yeah, people talked about it. but they talk about D-Day and Pearl Harbor and Vietnam and Cocca Cola with actual cocaine in it. but all that stuff is worlds away from my life experiences. except the coke part cuz I did have a morphine drip once. heaven. pure heaven.

[maxpayne2409]

oh sorry i thought he meant in general, no i saw superman returns dvdrip, not in the cinema.

Also like you dinky i was young in 85-86, 3-4 years old to be precise, so outside Thomas the tank engine, beano, dandy, and BIG Comic Fortnightly, i didn't really do much comic wise , i remember when i was older (around the end of the 80s) i got some incredible hulk comics and transformers comics, just random issues, and i had a few issues of batman, but i didn't really kick into comics on a casual basis until i was around same age you did dink, 14 years old, but didn't massively kick into serious comic collecting until about the age of 20.

[dinky]

just got back from WATCHMEN. meh. I liked most of the soundtrack (all covers or previously released songs, iirc). still haven't read the comic (and don't correct me by saying it's a graphic novel - the GN is a collected edition of the comics...erm...sorry. not exactly an issue on this board). I've decided I don't like Zack Snyder. not having read the comic, I can't be sure of this, but there's an extremely awkward sex scene that reminded me of an even more superfluous scene from 300 (the 300 scene was NOT in the comics). he's purportedly big on fidelity, so noting the existence/absence is justified. other than that...I don't know what to think. it's too long. parts of the narrative really work (the way they work in the "flashback" material that in the comic comes in diaries and interviews). I now understand the cape gag in THE INCREDIBLES. iunno. I didn't care for it. I didn't like the world the movie was grounded in. it felt too far fetched. as opposed to V FOR VENDETTA, which felt more real, grittier and not nearly so stylized (even though it was clearly slick & disinfected). also, the heroes are (purposefully?) kooky caricatures of traditional superheroes, so it's hard to take them seriously. also, what's with the super powers? or is that just more 300ish nonsense? as a fan of sci-fi/fantasy and comic movies in general, this was underwhelming. iunno. maybe an actual fanboy would have a different perspective. but for me, this felt like tragedy without any impact. going through the motions of a tragedy (from the heroes' perspective).

[spudthedestroyer]

you're both kinda superman fanboys. spoiler: it's too late to see BATMAN in theaters, which was the point of the question. I'll watch any superhero comic property. and let me tell you, that's a serious commitment when ELECTRA and STEEL hit the big screen.

re: WATCHMEN. You do realize that it was published in 1985-6, right? iunno about maxy, but that would make me a whopping 7-8 years old. I wouldn't have read a comic until I was 12-14. by that time, WATCHMEN was ancient history. yeah, people talked about it. but they talk about D-Day and Pearl Harbor and Vietnam and Cocca Cola with actual cocaine in it. but all that stuff is worlds away from my life experiences. except the coke part cuz I did have a morphine drip once. heaven. pure heaven.

Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi was before my time, but I still recognise them as classics.

Anyway, all I know of watchman is it was critically acclaimed and Alan Moore despises the movie attempt.

In November 2006, Zack Snyder said that he hoped to speak to Moore before filming, though the writer had sworn off involvement with film or television productions after his disagreement with the V for Vendetta film adaptation.[84] Moore signed a deal to go uncredited on the film and give his share of income from it to Gibbons, as he had done on V for Vendetta.[99] Before shooting, Snyder said "[I] totally respect his wishes to not be involved in the movie."[83] Moore expressed discontent over the choice of the director, saying that he "had a lot of problems" with the comic book 300 and that, while he had not seen it, he had heard that Snyder's film adaptation was racist, homophobic, and "sublimely stupid".[100] Dave Gibbons enjoyed the script by Alex Tse,[4] and gave Snyder some script advice which the director accepted.[83] He drew licensing art for the film, consulted on merchandise and the webcomics, publicizing the film with Snyder and wrote a tie-in book about the creation of the comic, entitled Watching the Watchmen. He also blogged about his visit to the set. Moore did not mind Gibbons' involvement and felt it did not have any impact on their friendship.[99] Snyder asked Gibbons to draw up a storyboard for the film's altered ending, which the comics' colorist John Higgins also returned to work on.[3] Gibbons believed watching the film on DVD would emulate flipping through the book, with viewers pausing or rewinding the film to catch details.[98]

What I did find interesting:

Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time

Jesus christ, now that would have been good! Terry Gilliam, make more films damn it!

[maxpayne2409]

i think it would be safe to say star wars is the bigger property then watchmen though spud, before this movie was announced/released you could say to anyone ever "star wars!" and they would know what you were talking about, whereas saying "watchmen!" would probably just have them looking confused at you before asking if you were drunk

[spudthedestroyer]

It was a case and point. Pick any other film as an example, Straw Dogs is a classic and its still a classic, to pluck a random title from the air.

I'm not into comics but i fail to see how it wouldn't apply if its as good as they say it is.

[maxpayne2409]

straw dogs is indeed a classic

we just agreed on something, somewhere a chinese butterfly farted