anneford | (no subject)

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.

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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.