Comments on: WITCH MOUNTAIN could “Rock” WATCHMEN for surprising weekend win!

By: dcase

dcase — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:53:04 +0000

movie bob is absolutely correct. Box office obsession is not always a perfect barometer or indicator that a film worked both artistically and hit it's target audience. 'Watchmen' seems to have done that fairly well, and it should succeed enormously in it's target demographic. 'Witch Mountain' (I have to admit the trailer looks like a low rent CGI opus)
has much broader appeal, and could conceivably make more money in it's initial release. Two years from now when you are counting every penny I suspect 'Watchmen' will have the bigger bottom line…

By: danila

danila — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:44:18 +0000

I left Watchmen after about 45 minutes. I was not bored by the movie, that's why I stayed for so long. My problem was that I did not care about the characters, not any of them. I did not like them and did not find them interesting. 45 minutes is about my limit to at least find a character interesting. Beyond that, the characters were not only dull but they behaved vilely. I hated all of them. And the storyline was taking a very long time to get somewhere so I just moved on. But I knew from the first time I saw the trailer that this was going to be a movie that looked very silly while taking itself very seriously. I'm not saying the movie was bad, just that it's not something anyone ever needs to see.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:43:14 +0000

So far, he's scandal free, too. He's a big tough guy, not afraid to bust some heads, but he's got common sense and a sense of humor. It's rare to see musclebound guys who can laugh at themselves. As long as he doesn't get a reality show, he won't hurt for work.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:05:50 +0000

Not hoping for a scandal. However, I generally find that divorce in Hollywood makes being "business partners" difficult.

By: Synova

Synova — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:01:32 +0000

The first Witch Mountains were really good, I thought, and I get the idea they're dated during the Scooby-doo Era of Reason… which was followed by the Scooby-doo Era of Un-reason where all of a sudden Science no longer held sway over Superstition and all the ghosts and witches and curses were real instead of being plots by bad guys in funny suits to take advantage of people's fears. And the Witch Mountain remakes were the same… IIRC, and granted, I watched them when I was much older, but… ick, some New Agey mystical crap.

I hope my memories of the original aren't too messed up and I think it would be really great if the new movie goes with science and aliens.

Please..

By: tublecane

tublecane — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:30:55 +0000

- "The graphic novel's ending, basically give the world an unknown enemy to hate and unite against, simply made more sense in the grand scheme of things. I've heard different reasons for not including the squid but for me, the squid was one of the most powerful parts of the book."

I thought the squid was ridiculous. Alien invasion made more sense in the grand scheme of things? Why? I don't recall being prepared by the story to accept invaders from another world anymore than I'd accept it if I heard it on Coast to Coast tonight. Really, it came out of nowhere. I'll bet if they had left it in, the theater audience would have snickered.

In my opinion, there is no advantage to the enemy being unkown over taking something that is known and turning it into an enemy. However outlandish and improbable is Dr. Manhattan, at least his backstory pulls him a bit closer to the mundane. Plus, that guy truly is scary. If anyone ever stumbled into superpowers like he did, instead of using him as a weapon, I'd advise the government to neutralize him immediately.

By: Holly_Berry

Holly_Berry — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:24:30 +0000

Actually, imo, Be Cool was his best flick. Takes a real man and actor to go against the grain.

By: Eli

Eli — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:19:48 +0000

I can't buy the whole "art house hero deconstruction" premise. Of course there are dark and evil people in this world I don't need a comic book to tell me that. There are people that live good lives, and don't have skeletons in their closet. The world does have it's darkness but it also has it's light. The latter is missing it seems.

By: tublecane

tublecane — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:18:07 +0000

Obama voted for the $700 billion bail-out. And although the problem was dumped on him, he did not have to push more of the same solution that Bush did. I am free to criticize both, and to do so I need not engage in any revisionism.

By: tublecane

tublecane — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Not so Watchmen. It sucks out all possible enjoyment. The sex and violence, staples of low art (like comic books) that Moore/Snyder notably leave intact, range from the disturbing to the comical. What do we get in exchange? The "intelligent" message that heroes are nuts and we'd never want them around in real life. Well, duh. "The Dark Night" very clearly makes that point. So did Tim Burton's "Batman," for that matter.

Since those films were also fun to watch, I guess they can't be high art. 'Cause everyone knows that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, "Hamlet," and the Sistine Chapel were "cold, intellectual, uncompromising and not particularly hopeful."