Watchmen

[komatos]

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From: "komatos" <komatos at comcast.net>
To: "Music-bar" <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 10:46:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Watchmen

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From: "The Dong" <dong at f2s.com>
To: "Music-bar" <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:37:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Watchmen

For whoever recommended Knowing as a must see film, I must say that I 
disagree very strongly. I've never seen Mr Cage so wooden (hey, can't 
tell either way) and the story was like the text of a bunch of pre-teen 
Christianity school wannabe degenerates grabbing random conspiracies, 
linking them together with the word 'and' all under a single breath.

IMHO :)
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Dong--

That would've been me.  It's either a love-it or hate-it type of movie.  While the very end of the movie (after the end-of-the-world sequence) was a little too new-agey for my tastes, what I really liked & got out of the movie were the messages (and the great SFX).  That's why I enjoyed it so much.  The first supposition Knowing questions is whether what happens in peoples' lives are truly random (i.e. chaos) or whether there is some unseen order or fate/destiny running behind the fabric of time.  The basic premises of the movie are "Live life to the fullest. You never know which day is gonna be your last." and "Respect all life on earth (or in the universe for that matter).  It's a sacred thing."

That, and the disaster scenes (The plane crash and the train wreck, along with the End of the World scene) were very well done and I think Cage acted well enough to convey the sense of emotion one might encounter under such circumstances.

--komatos/wasted
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P.S.  Knowing is certainly much better than the drivel that "Drag Me To Hell" is.  My wife and I were really looking forward to this movie, especially since Sam Raimi was going back to his old horror roots after the SpiderMan trilogy and some other movies.  While it was ok overall, it got ruined by two or three cheesy-ass scenes that took away from the seriousness that the scary movie should've been.  An old lady turning into a hag that keeps fighting the protagonist in a car while doing unrealistic scenes (i.e. still being alive after crashing into other cars in a parking lot going forward and backwards), and a goat that gets possessed by the lamia and starts talking really made it a little too silly and slapstick and detracted from the scariness.  I guess I should've expected that from Sam Raimi, especially since he had some some silly slapstick scenes in his classic horror trilogy "Evil Dead" series (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness).  But you knew going into those that they were supposed to be silly like the Freddy movies of the 80s.  This was hyped as a totally serious, scary horror movie.

The good news when we saw "Drag Me To Hell" was that evening show tickets were only $5 each.  That bad news was that we were hungry and hadn't eaten dinner before going to see the movie.  The food there was outrageous.  $7.50 for a small pizza, $6.75 for an order of nachos, $11.50 for a large popcorn/pop combo, and $4.25 for some candy.  $40 total for a movie that would've been seen at a dollar show or at home on DVD. :(

--komatos/wasted