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[anneford]

WATCHMEN

It was pretty good. Not AMAZING but good. Actually, I like pretty much everything up until the end when I feel they failed to generate the necessary emotional impact. I don't even object to the loss of the squid that much, but I think they should have actually had real carnage, not just a big crater. I mean, in the novel, it's like DEAD BODIES for 5 pages or something. Really, just a crater? I meh'd. Also the screen saying "S.Q.U.I.D. activating" made my day :D

Looking forward to the director's cut though. Hollis Mason's fate is supposedly back in? Most tragic part of the book, for real :(

The casting was spot on except for Ozy. He's still too young, imho. Played his part very well, but I dunno, would have liked him to be older, in a perfect world.

I have a paper to write for my Graphic Narrative class and I really don't want to do it, but it's due tomorrow at midnight and I really want to bake some bread tomorrow, so I should be writing it right now but uuggghhh. Strugglin'

I'm trying to make my captain america shirt happen, but I keep running into problems with the top shirt part. I think I'd be better off just getting a size small shirt and leaving it alone and just whacking off the bottom and leaving it as just a t-shirt.

STUPID PAPER. I DON'T WANT TO WRITE YOU.

Comments

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

I haven't read this yet so I guess I'm trying to offer it from this perspective, but it did seem like enough carnage at the end. I mean...I think had it been any other city in the world that they tried to show getting destroyed to a bunch of Americans, maybe it wouldn't have worked. But showing the effects of that event would almost have been redundant at this point in our history...we get it because it's New York, and because we really are afraid of something like that ourselves at this point, whether or not our clock is at 5 to midnight. And you know, if just that it was in New York wasn't enough, the big trenches that have been blown away underground in Manhattan did the trick. So I mean, I feel like I was appropriately horrified. I didn't need to see bodies to feel terror. I actually almost think not seeing them was even more petrifying...it made it feel so lonely.

Again, I guess I don't know whether or not the carnage and mayhem at that part works better than what there was (although I will soon), but I can tell you that I was scared shitless. I mean "scared" isn't the right word, but I think you get what I mean. The crater was effective in the present because it reminded us strongly and memorably of previously mentioned carnage and mayhem. I don't know that in 50 years this would have the same effect, or that internationally it would, but I feel like it worked.

[jianna.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that it did work to scare you but didn't work to scare me is the difference in expectation. Because I was expecting gore and horrifying death and then it wasn't really there, it resulted in a subdued reaction. Also, I had read previously an interview with I think David Hayter and Zack Snyder saying that they basically had to change it because of 9/11 and I .... kind of think that's unnecessary. It just feels wimpy. Just because it's New York getting blown up and destroyed doesn't automatically remind me of that because frankly New York has a big history of getting destroyed in movies. Maybe I'm just sort of heartless, but if the context is far enough removed from what 9/11 was, I don't automatically make an emotional connection to it.

Throughout the whole movie there was cringe-worthy gore everywhere, even when the novel wasn't all that graphically gory (bloody sure, but not visible bone arm breakage gory). Then at the end there was just nothing. It's arguable that they were trying to set up a contrast between the ridiculous gore and people simply getting erased, but I can only speak for my own reaction and it did nothing to me.