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madvillain
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:36 am 
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ROR-SHACK wrote:
I think this reviewer, who had never read the book, gets it right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOLAM1Bkj4


That's it! Watchmen is the Clockwork Orange of comic book movies.
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madvillain wrote:
ROR-SHACK wrote:
I think this reviewer, who had never read the book, gets it right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOLAM1Bkj4


That's it! Watchmen is the Clockwork Orange of comic book movies.


Guys, I've been saying this for months; Watchmen is a lost Kubrick.
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No, they're right here.

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joshsirjoshules wrote:
madvillain wrote:
ROR-SHACK wrote:
I think this reviewer, who had never read the book, gets it right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOLAM1Bkj4


That's it! Watchmen is the Clockwork Orange of comic book movies.


Guys, I've been saying this for months; Watchmen is a lost Kubrick.


It really is. Kubrick is known for his movies being incredibly polarizing when they came out.
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Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..
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WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

I don't know if I disagree with this or not.

I still have to see A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, though.

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WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..


I think Snyder's obsessive compulsiveness to detail is reminiscent of Kubrick.
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WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

That wasn't the point.
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madvillain wrote:
WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

That wasn't the point.

i dont get it

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Godziller66 wrote:
WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

I don't know if I disagree with this or not.

I still have to see A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, though.


Well at least you're honest. You'd best go see them ASAP (You'll also understand just why Dr. Strangelove has a 100% on RT).
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WJK wrote:
Godziller66 wrote:
WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

I don't know if I disagree with this or not.

I still have to see A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, though.


Well at least you're honest. You'd best go see them ASAP (You'll also understand just why Dr. Strangelove has a 100% on RT).

I'll get on it, sir.

Seriously. After I finish the movies I'm currently watching.

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Smutty wrote:
madvillain wrote:
WJK wrote:
Watchmen is nowhere on the same level as a Kubrick film..

That wasn't the point.

i dont get it


the point is that whenever kubrick released a film, critics would go on and off about it. he's trying to say it's the same for watchmen, but it's really not.
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madvillain
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You still don't get it, but nice try though.
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madvillain wrote:
You still don't get it, but nice try though.

Well fuck me sideways, are you going to explain it or just be smug about how nobody else gets it?

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You guys seem to think I'm comparing the quality of the movie to Stanley Kubrick's movies, which I'm not. I don't think it's close. I do agree, however with that reviewer in the video about Watchmen the movie being tonally similar to A Clockwork Orange. And it just so happens that A Clockwork Orange was panned as being a glorified porno when it came out, similar to some reviews about Watchmen. I was just saying that Watchmen seems to be getting the same treatment Kubrick's movies normally got around release and I believe if he were alive longer that Watchmen seems like the type of movie he might tackle.
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Everyone knows that the Watchmen was all about BLUE DICK.
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madvillain
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Blue dicks and porn in an owl ship is all it is in a nutshell.
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WJK wrote:
Everyone knows that the Watchmen was all about BLUE DICK.


This. It's what Alan Moore intended the actual message of Watchmen to be about.
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There isn't really anything I've watched that has the same tone as Watchmen, but everyone is saying that it is the Blade Runner of our generation, so...fair enough.
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They mean that for different reasons, not because they have a similar tone.
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