Am I the one of the few who thought it was rubbish? I've never read the comics but was expecting something different, more superheroie (yes, i just made up a word). I watched the film and wasn't entirely sure what happened in it, I still can't work out whether the watchmen (except Mr Manhatten) actually had any super powers or were just standard people in costumes.
Am I the one of the few who thought it was rubbish? I've never read the comics but was expecting something different, more superheroie (yes, i just made up a word). I watched the film and wasn't entirely sure what happened in it, I still can't work out whether the watchmen (except Mr Manhatten) actually had any super powers or were just standard people in costumes.
They do punch through walls, move faster etc, so they do have some ounce of superpower. Also Ocztydocty is the smartest man in the world so, well.
*sigh*
I've not seen it yet so I'm a little apprehensive. Just out of interest - have you seen 300, and if so what did you think of it?just came back from watching it, and I thought it was great.
I've got halfway through the com...graphic novel. It's not really grabbing me so far, but maybe that medium just isn't for me. I'll probably check the film out this weekend and let you know. I've got quite high hopes now given that you don't seem to be a massive 300 fan.
So is Rorshach's mask magic or something?
They evidentally made it a bit silly in the movie.
If i remember, waht i was told, correctly, the real mask is two pieces of plastic or such with liquid flowing there.
They evidentally made it a bit silly in the movie.
If i remember, waht i was told, correctly, the real mask is two pieces of plastic or such with liquid flowing there.
After leaving school, Kovacs took a job as an unskilled tailor. The prospect of handling women's clothing caused him discomfort, and he later commented that the job was "bearable but unpleasant". A few weeks before her murder in front of an apartment, Kitty Genovese ordered a dress from him, made of a fabric created by Doctor Manhattan that used two pressure and heat-sensitive liquids suspended between a layer of latex to create black-on-white shifting color patterns, "always changing, never mixing into grey". When the dress was completed, Genovese was unsatisfied with the design, and she refused to pay for it. Kovacs took it home for himself, fascinated with the fabric. Upon reading of Kitty's murder in the newspaper, he became disgusted with the amount of crime in New York City and, creating a mask from her dress, became the vigilante Rorschach.
Olaf Stapledon in 'Odd John' said:I was most damnably lonely. I was living in a world of phantoms, or animated masks. No one seemed really alive. I had a queer notion that if I pricked any of you, there would be no bleeding, but only a gush of wind. And I couldn’t make out why you were like that, what it was that I missed in you. The trouble really was that I didn’t clearly know what it was in myself that made me different from you.
I usually like to read the book before the film as I too like the feeling of familiarity and when bits of the film are true to my own imagining of them.
I havent read Watchmen, I will do now.
I found the character of Rorschach very gritty and moving. I didn't know about the changes and the story ran true to me.
The film engaged me (even with a splitting headache). I didn't look at my watch once. I found it to be a very political, real life angle on what it means to be one of these people. I like the dark side (but I did shut my eyes in the really violent bits). I liked it better than any other 'super hero' film I have seen- maybe because it isn't really a 'super hero' film- it unpicks all that.
It's one of those 'you either love it or hate it' scenarios.
(And yes, wtf was with Ozymandia's cat? Is it like the daemons in 'His Dark Materials?')