07-20-2019, 03:09 PM | #1 |
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Watchmen (HBO) (SPOILERS INSIDE)
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07-20-2019, 04:23 PM | #2 |
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Im cautiously optimistic
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07-20-2019, 11:58 PM | #3 |
Loque Ja
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Still have no idea what to think about this one
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07-21-2019, 12:11 AM | #4 |
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The cast is older and a lot of the characters are different but I'll look out for it when it's on because Watchmen was such a good film. Still never read the graphic novel but I might find a copy because I was curious about a few things on the Wiki page - what's canon and what's not.
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07-21-2019, 02:14 AM | #5 |
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The watchmen is the single greatest graphic novel ever wrtitten
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07-21-2019, 02:14 AM | #6 |
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I dont think this will live up to that but i think theres room for good stories here
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07-21-2019, 10:53 AM | #7 |
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07-24-2019, 11:22 PM | #8 |
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All Graphic Novels are comics,but not all comics are Graphic Novels.
Watchmen is a comic not a graphic novel. |
07-24-2019, 11:25 PM | #9 |
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You're splitting hairs man.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel Watchmen is actually one of three comics mentioned as popularising the term but apparently there is no difference besides the authors themselves considering the term "graphic novel" as either redundant, a marketing ploy or simply pretentious. |
07-24-2019, 11:54 PM | #10 |
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I have a hard cover sitting on my coffee table. Its a novel.
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07-24-2019, 11:55 PM | #11 |
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Your coffee table book is Watchmen?!
That's pretty sweet. |
07-24-2019, 11:58 PM | #12 |
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07-25-2019, 12:04 AM | #13 |
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My only differentiation berween comic and novel is a few easy to answer questions:
Is it wrritten as a complete narritive? Is it sold as a single narritive? If yes to both its a novel. Watchmen is both. |
07-25-2019, 12:05 AM | #14 |
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If its a weekly/monthly/whatever serial then its a comic
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07-25-2019, 12:45 AM | #15 |
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Hm. I always took the term graphic novel generically to mean a collection of a serialized story (unless the story was written and released that way to begin with, which they sometimes are). Sorta like a piece of eight technically making a whole coin. Like, if I bought all the Secret Wars stuff off the news stand monthly when I was a kid as opposed to just going to a bookstore now and picking up the whole story in a single binding. Didn't know there was contention behind the term.
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07-25-2019, 12:55 AM | #16 | |
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07-25-2019, 12:57 AM | #17 | |
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07-27-2019, 01:36 AM | #18 |
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I just wonder if this will be as good as the Saturday morning Watchmen cartoon
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08-05-2019, 03:41 AM | #19 |
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Looking at the cast, the only character I recognize from the comic is Ozymandias. Pretty weird.
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08-05-2019, 09:17 AM | #20 |
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thats deliberate. show takes place 50 years after the source material
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08-05-2019, 09:20 AM | #21 |
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Damn. So no Rorshack. :/
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08-05-2019, 09:45 AM | #22 |
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Well he's dead so no lol
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08-05-2019, 06:56 PM | #23 |
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Rorschach, last seen as a fine red mist and accompanying stain
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08-05-2019, 07:02 PM | #24 |
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He was perfect in the movie. I loved that movie (probaly the entrance the most), but I could do without the blue dick.
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08-05-2019, 07:48 PM | #25 |
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The model they used for Dr Manhattan died bizarrely I think.
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08-05-2019, 07:50 PM | #26 |
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Hit by a train while shooting a commercial on train tracks.
Something his mother should have warned him about. |
08-05-2019, 10:38 PM | #27 |
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Wait, Billy Crudup was Dr Manhattan.
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08-05-2019, 10:41 PM | #28 |
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Ok, ok some Greg Pitt was the body double.
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10-21-2019, 01:36 AM | #29 |
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The first episode was stellar.
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10-21-2019, 05:45 AM | #30 |
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Watched this not knowing anything at all about the comic books
Loved the first half of the episode, then the rest started feeling "iffy" to me... with the "bad ass cop" protagonist shit... Main character (?) feels unlikeable to me... SPOILER: show Last edited by Triple A; 10-21-2019 at 03:03 PM. |
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12-16-2019, 02:25 AM | #32 |
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A nearly perfect season of a tv show.
Finale was one of my favorite hours of TV in a long time. |
12-16-2019, 09:28 PM | #33 |
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More Damon Lindelof garbage.
Show is fun but I'm not investing anything more than passive amusement in it. What a surprise. It ended on a cliffhanger. |
12-17-2019, 12:35 AM | #34 |
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12-17-2019, 08:00 AM | #35 |
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Didn't know that. Odd.
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12-17-2019, 02:41 PM | #36 |
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I bet if Damon Lindelof had made Cliffhanger he would have put the opening scene at the end.
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12-17-2019, 02:41 PM | #37 |
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Same with Ace Venture: When Nature Calls
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01-16-2020, 06:50 PM | #38 |
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Announced today there definitely won't be a 2nd season
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01-16-2020, 07:06 PM | #39 |
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That whole thing was weird..... like before the season came out they said there will be no season 2..... but then after it finished they were all "maaaaaybe we'll do one"..... until now where they finally confirmed they definitely won't do it.
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