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https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/915762122755330048
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Oct 7, 2017 16:48
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The main thing that griped me about Watchmen the move was the fact that it totally missed the reason for the 'end of the world' denouement - the squid (I don't know if they could have made it work on screen but still) is meant to be completely outré and bring together humanity against a possible common foe, Doc Manhattan is an American Asset, just saying oops he's gone rogue sorry our bad is not going to defuse international tensions like at all. I never really liked what the movie did to the scene with Rorschach and the pedophile. It painted completely different reactions to the character for him to just meatcleaver the guy in the head, as opposed to leaving him chained in the burning house with a hacksaw. Rorschach was a very messed up individual.
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Oct 7, 2017 16:55
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Sagebrush posted:they really should have drawn that scene out more. at least put some silence in the middle, between the intrinsic field separator accident and the first time he starts to reappear. give the story time to breathe. pretty sure they do this in the full-length directors cut thing, NoneMoreNegative posted:The main thing that griped me about Watchmen the move was the fact that it totally missed the reason for the 'end of the world' denouement - the squid (I don't know if they could have made it work on screen but still) is meant to be completely outré and bring together humanity against a possible common foe, Doc Manhattan is an American Asset, just saying oops he's gone rogue sorry our bad is not going to defuse international tensions like at all. theres also not any real indication that the fake alien thing would have actually defused international tensions long term, veidt's been wrong about things plenty of times before. additionally itd have probably looked a bit ludicrous onscreen due to whole effect of seeing it for any appreciable length of screen time versus a few panels in the comicz
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Oct 7, 2017 17:18
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The main thing that griped me about Watchmen the move was the fact that it totally missed the reason for the 'end of the world' denouement - the squid (I don't know if they could have made it work on screen but still) is meant to be completely outré and bring together humanity against a possible common foe, Doc Manhattan is an American Asset, just saying oops he's gone rogue sorry our bad is not going to defuse international tensions like at all. yeah that was lame as hell as well. i imagine anyone who watched that movie without being familiar with the source material came away confused as gently caress afterwards
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Oct 7, 2017 17:43
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fishmech posted:theres also not any real indication that the fake alien thing would have actually defused international tensions long term, veidt's been wrong about things plenty of times before. yes, doctor manhattan says as much to him right at the end but the immediate result is exactly what veidt intended, and that's about the best you ever expect
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Oct 7, 2017 17:54
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Allatum posted:I never really liked what the movie did to the scene with Rorschach and the pedophile. It painted completely different reactions to the character for him to just meatcleaver the guy in the head, as opposed to leaving him chained in the burning house with a hacksaw. Rorschach was a very messed up individual. i imagine there was resistance to doing it that way because it would have been seen as too similar to saw the miniseries will have a hard time finding someone who is as good as jackie earl haley to play rorschach another reason why having doctor manhattan as the cause of destruction rather than a random space squid doesn't work is because the space squid contains a kernel of absurdity that shows veidt still hadn't moved beyond the ridiculousness of superheroics
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Oct 7, 2017 18:04
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Oct 7, 2017 18:11
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The Watchmen movie was great until the opening credits finished.
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Oct 7, 2017 18:21
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that's some edgy loving art. really makes u think
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Oct 7, 2017 18:46
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The arrangement is good but isn't it a little redundant that it makes a gun AND is made of guns? Like at least give me a skull or a sad scene or something Christ
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Oct 7, 2017 18:48
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Linguica posted:ah, so you enjoyed the subtlety of a five minute montage of times changing while bob dylan informed us that the times, they are a-changing. welcome to a zak snyder film
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Oct 7, 2017 18:56
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SmokaDustbowl posted:read all three southern reach books. I liked authority best I think i hold out hope we can take the trailer literally and assume that fat Bennedict Wong is going to be playing Control, even though that will never ever loving happen in a million years
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Oct 7, 2017 19:24
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Malloc Voidstar posted:https://twitter.com/AndrewNCassidy/status/915778333706559488 im not a hardware guy, what's going on here beyond 'gee it shouldnt look like that'
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Oct 7, 2017 20:06
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fritz posted:im not a hardware guy, what's going on here beyond 'gee it shouldnt look like that' The chip has hundreds of tiny pins, and properly fit they should just drop into the hundreds of tiny slots. For whatever reason that wasn't possible so somebody ran an individual wire from each pin to each slot. Probably it's impossible to work because in the 2nd picture that has to be shorting out in a millions spots, but also the timing is super precise and having different wire lengths would make the clock gently caress up really bad.
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Oct 7, 2017 20:08
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Oct 7, 2017 21:51
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Oct 7, 2017 22:01
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lol is that leeza gibbons
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Oct 7, 2017 22:05
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The main thing that griped me about Watchmen the move was the fact that it totally missed the reason for the 'end of the world' denouement - the squid (I don't know if they could have made it work on screen but still) is meant to be completely outré and bring together humanity against a possible common foe, Doc Manhattan is an American Asset, just saying oops he's gone rogue sorry our bad is not going to defuse international tensions like at all. I actually preferred the movie's version a lot. The space squid is some nonsense on a lot of levels, like why anyone would believe it's a thing, or why they were able to make a psychic thing at all and their use for it is to murder people. It introduces another supernatural element into a story that was pretty well built on only having one of those things, only in a way that manages to make even less sense. Making Dr. Manhattan play the bad guy works really well thematically and is even halfway believable within the story.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:27
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George posted:I actually preferred the movie's version a lot. The space squid is some nonsense on a lot of levels, like why anyone would believe it's a thing, or why they were able to make a psychic thing at all and their use for it is to murder people. It introduces another supernatural element into a story that was pretty well built on only having one of those things, only in a way that manages to make even less sense. I feel the same way and I think it works better like the ending of The Mist film works better than the story
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Oct 8, 2017 00:08
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Salt Fish posted:The chip has hundreds of tiny pins, and properly fit they should just drop into the hundreds of tiny slots. For whatever reason that wasn't possible so somebody ran an individual wire from each pin to each slot. Probably it's impossible to work because in the 2nd picture that has to be shorting out in a millions spots, but also the timing is super precise and having different wire lengths would make the clock gently caress up really bad. I like to imagine it's magnet wire in the second pic, because otherwise why even bother?
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Oct 8, 2017 03:44
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though we can all agree throwing out the pirate story was the correct decision, right?
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Oct 8, 2017 04:59
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George posted:I actually preferred the movie's version a lot. The space squid is some nonsense on a lot of levels, like why anyone would believe it's a thing, or why they were able to make a psychic thing at all and their use for it is to murder people. It introduces another supernatural element into a story that was pretty well built on only having one of those things, only in a way that manages to make even less sense. that was the point, veidt was still locked into a grandiose superheroic mentality despite what he thought so of course his master plan would still have a kernel of absurdity that would lend itself to having his plan potentially unraveled by the ravings of rorschach's journal in the hands of a fringe newspaper the point wasn't that veidt won, the point was that veidt committed an atrocity for no reason other than his own delusional beliefs pseudorandom name posted:though we can all agree throwing out the pirate story was the correct decision, right? it would have never worked in the movie (especially since zak snyder couldn't have done it justice) but it is a crucial plot element that explains veidt's folly
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Oct 8, 2017 06:21
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Furia posted:The arrangement is good but isn't it a little redundant that it makes a gun AND is made of guns? america: its guns all the way down
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Oct 8, 2017 06:34
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Stymie posted:that was the point, veidt was still locked into a grandiose superheroic mentality despite what he thought so of course his master plan would still have a kernel of absurdity that would lend itself to having his plan potentially unraveled by the ravings of rorschach's journal in the hands of a fringe newspaper Stymie is 100% correct in this post
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Oct 8, 2017 06:57
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Linguica posted:ah, so you enjoyed the subtlety of a five minute montage of times changing while bob dylan informed us that the times, they are a-changing. things don't have to be subtle to be entertaining for instance, i love The Rock, and it's about the least subtle film ever made George posted:I actually preferred the movie's version a lot. The space squid is some nonsense on a lot of levels, like why anyone would believe it's a thing, or why they were able to make a psychic thing at all and their use for it is to murder people. It introduces another supernatural element into a story that was pretty well built on only having one of those things, only in a way that manages to make even less sense. i generally agree with this, and think that making doctor manhattan the bad guy is a lot cleaner in most ways than the whole psychic space squid thing -- except doctor manhattan is a weapon operated by the united states. what happened in the end of the movie is equivalent to an american atomic bomb detonating in every major city worldwide and then the USA going "whoops, well, one of them went off in New York too, no harm no foul"
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Oct 8, 2017 07:09
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Oct 8, 2017 07:40
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Stymie is 100% correct in this post ive said it before and ill say it again, stymie isn't wrong 100% of the time, it's just that he's the most wrong poster
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Oct 8, 2017 08:12
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pseudorandom name posted:though we can all agree throwing out the pirate story was the correct decision, right? pirate like yarrr! pirate?
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Oct 8, 2017 08:40
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:pirate like yarrr! pirate? in the original watchmen's world superhero comic books are dead since superheroes now exist for real. pirate comics are the new hot thing. there's a parallel story taken from one of these pirate comics threaded throughout the book that echoes the themes the main story is using
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Oct 8, 2017 14:48
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haveblue posted:in the original watchmen's world superhero comic books are dead since superheroes now exist for real. pirate comics are the new hot thing. there's a parallel story taken from one of these pirate comics threaded throughout the book that echoes the themes the main story is using I watched an unbelievably long cut (like 4 hours!) that animated the entire pirate comic it kinda screwed up the pacing of the movie even more so it's ok that it's only referenced indirectly in the other cuts
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Oct 8, 2017 15:38
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Stymie is 100% correct in this post
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Oct 8, 2017 16:02
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DiggityDoink posted:ive said it before and ill say it again, stymie isn't wrong 100% of the time, it's just that he's the most wrong poster what - you have Shaggar on ignore or something?
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Oct 8, 2017 16:47
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pseudorandom name posted:though we can all agree throwing out the pirate story was the correct decision, right? gently caress i completely forgot about that
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Oct 8, 2017 20:49
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pseudorandom name posted:though we can all agree throwing out the pirate story was the correct decision, right?
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Oct 8, 2017 20:54
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i thought they handled it appropriately, by making it an extra cartoon on the dvd you could watch if you felt like it too bad it was an anime
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Oct 8, 2017 21:02
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they should have made you pirate it
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Oct 8, 2017 21:14
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oklahoma: not all bad https://twitter.com/Silodrome/status/916308629858291712
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Oct 8, 2017 21:21
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:they should have made you 
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Oct 8, 2017 21:28
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prefect posted:oklahoma: not all bad yeah but still 99.9%
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