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re: So Damon Lindelof is about to ruin Watchmen for good
Posted on 5/23/18 at 11:25 am to Teddy Ruxpin
Posted on 5/23/18 at 11:25 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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He's always been a shitty writer as far as I can remember.
Yeah, thus far, the only gem in his filmography is The Leftovers on HBO. The rest of it? Lost? Cowboys and Aliens? Prometheus? Star Trek: Into Lameness? Just awful.
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Posted on 5/23/18 at 11:52 am to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 5/23/18 at 11:58 am to CAD703X
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Wait I was told in the Netflix thread I'm only seeing a political angle because I'm choosing to.
You were getting shite on because you used a "I need another streaming service" thread to do your constant political bitching.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 12:00 pm to Bluefin
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The film version of Dr. Manhattan is probably my favorite portrayal of a superhero ever. His complexity and total control of all things is what really reeled me in while watching Watchmen. It set the bar very high IMO.
I loved that character, but I swear I was on edge the entire movie.
"Are they going to show it again?"
Posted on 5/23/18 at 12:39 pm to OMLandshark
This bullshite is why we can't escape politics in movies, because one side has an obvious and often stated goal of injecting their side into them.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 12:56 pm to OMLandshark
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Ours needs to resonate with the frequency of Trump
Why?
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understanding its potential through the perspectives of women, people of color and the LGBTQ community has been as eye-opening as it has been exhilarating. We’ve committed to doing the same in front of and behind the camera.
Why?
Posted on 5/23/18 at 2:50 pm to OMLandshark
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“In [our writers’] room, Hetero White Men like myself are in the minority,” he writes, “and as Watchmen is (incorrectly) assumed to be solely our domain, understanding its potential through the perspectives of women, people of color and the LGBTQ community has been as eye-opening as it has been exhilarating. We’ve committed to doing the same in front of and behind the camera. And every single person involved with this show absolutely adores Watchmen.”
Posted on 5/23/18 at 8:40 pm to CptBengal
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and as Watchmen is (incorrectly) assumed to be solely our domain, understanding its potential through the perspectives of women, people of color and the LGBTQ community has been as eye-opening as it has been exhilarating. We’ve committed to doing the same in front of and behind the camera
Regardless of how you feel, I don’t see how this makes money sense for a studio? Why finance this? Where has this succeeded?
Posted on 5/23/18 at 9:09 pm to Bham4Tide
Why can't they just start w/the 1940s Watchmen? 
They'd be able to touch on LGBTQ issues, misogyny, and racism w/that and it would be something that could stay close enough to the source material w/o forcing complete retelling of the story in the movie.
They'd be able to touch on LGBTQ issues, misogyny, and racism w/that and it would be something that could stay close enough to the source material w/o forcing complete retelling of the story in the movie.Posted on 5/23/18 at 9:58 pm to Dr RC
Because then you couldn’t subtly attack Reagan and Thatcher and by extension America.
Didn’t you read the excerpt?
Didn’t you read the excerpt?
This post was edited on 5/24/18 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 5/23/18 at 11:45 pm to Volvagia
But you could use the clashes between fascist and communist factions in America at the time to draw parallels. 
Battlestar Galactica was able to comment on the Iraq war via the Cylon war and even had episodes from the perspective of suicide bombers.
Battlestar Galactica was able to comment on the Iraq war via the Cylon war and even had episodes from the perspective of suicide bombers.
This post was edited on 5/23/18 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 5/24/18 at 7:34 am to Dr RC
Battle star galactica was out to tell a relatable story.
Not shovel a perspective down people’s throats.
The short version to your question is that they could....but story telling isn’t the apparent primary focus of the writers. Telling a story from a certain angle is, and if it is good so much the better.
Not shovel a perspective down people’s throats.
The short version to your question is that they could....but story telling isn’t the apparent primary focus of the writers. Telling a story from a certain angle is, and if it is good so much the better.
This post was edited on 5/24/18 at 7:40 am
Posted on 5/24/18 at 8:38 am to OMLandshark
TD fricking up ate my reply yesterday.
You're melting over a not Watchmen spinoff that WB is only jumping on after DC started milking a dry udder with Before Watchmen and Doomsday Clock.
On top of that the cast in the source is made of gays, bisexuals, cuck fetishists, a rapist, kink fetishists, and an asexual.
And that's not even getting into their personality disorders. The only normal person was Hollis Mason.
You're melting over a not Watchmen spinoff that WB is only jumping on after DC started milking a dry udder with Before Watchmen and Doomsday Clock.
On top of that the cast in the source is made of gays, bisexuals, cuck fetishists, a rapist, kink fetishists, and an asexual.
And that's not even getting into their personality disorders. The only normal person was Hollis Mason.
Posted on 5/24/18 at 8:50 am to OMLandshark
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“In [our writers’] room, Hetero White Men like myself are in the minority,”
Oh, for frick's sake.
ETA: This is the kind of identity political nonsense that is sinking Marvel Comics. Not the movie universe, but the actual source material. Other than a vocal minority of mentally ill, most people don't care about this kind of shite. They don't want to be reminded of it All The fricking Time.
Just stay true to the source material, and make a great series. That's it. I don't care about the LFBTARDARQ community. I honestly don't.
This post was edited on 5/24/18 at 8:55 am
Posted on 5/24/18 at 1:07 pm to Jcorye1
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but Jesus dude reel it in.
you're new to message boards, aren't you?
Posted on 5/24/18 at 11:01 pm to Ace Midnight
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Yeah, thus far, the only gem in his filmography is The Leftovers on HBO. The rest of it? Lost? Cowboys and Aliens? Prometheus? Star Trek: Into Lameness? Just awful.
Lost is “just awful?” Get the frick out of here.
Posted on 5/25/18 at 1:11 am to Breesus
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You're not. I love that movie.
Watch the Ultimate Cut about once every 6 months or so.
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