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Makepeacefox on 08 March 2009
okr said:
I generally tend to believe people with Eraserhead avatars.

I haven't seen either movie. The comparison does not really interest me, as I'm not interested in Dark Knight at all (no matter how good it might be), but I love the Watchmen comic book series and I'll buy the movie as soon as it is available on DVD to get own impressions.

 

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colonelstubbs on 08 March 2009

Watchmen didnt have a brilliantly realised and charasmatic villain.

The Dark Knight had TWO



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Makepeacefox on 08 March 2009
colonelstubbs said:
Watchmen didnt have a brilliantly realised and charasmatic villain.

The Dark Knight had TWO

 I disagree. I think that in many ways you could view any or all of Rorschach, The comedian, Adrian, or even Dr Manhatten as villanous.

 

Leaving that to one side though - why would the lack of an obvious villain detract from the film?

 



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Makepeacefox on 08 March 2009
Elite1 said:
I saw both and in no way was Watchmen better.

 

Would you care to elaborate?



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richardhutnik on 08 March 2009

To the original post...
NOPE!

The ending to the Watchmen worked. I give the film thumbs up. But NO WAY is it a better movie than The Dark Knight. Good superhero film, but no way better than TDK. Watchmen battles "The Incredibles" though as one of the best costumed action hero films, but TDK is superior.



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SickleSigh on 08 March 2009
Makepeacefox said:
Killzowned said:

How could you find Bruce Wayne boring? :P

I partially agree with you on the boring characters, I did not like Rachael at all, but apart from that they were all 'ok' to brilliant for me.

 

I don't know! I didn't find him boring in the least in Batman Begins, and as an actor, I never usually find Christian Bale boring. Just look at his peformances in American Psycho or The Machinist. I just didn't empathise with his character at all in TDK, and to be honest, he seemed very wooden for large parts of the fim.

 

 

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okr on 08 March 2009

Did the Tales of the Black Freighter make it to the movie?



Makepeacefox on 08 March 2009
SickleSigh said:
Makepeacefox said:
Killzowned said:

How could you find Bruce Wayne boring? :P

I partially agree with you on the boring characters, I did not like Rachael at all, but apart from that they were all 'ok' to brilliant for me.

 

I don't know! I didn't find him boring in the least in Batman Begins, and as an actor, I never usually find Christian Bale boring. Just look at his peformances in American Psycho or The Machinist. I just didn't empathise with his character at all in TDK, and to be honest, he seemed very wooden for large parts of the fim.

 

 

Any man with eraserhead as their avatar is a trusted opinion on movies.

It's nice to know that should my arguments prove lacking, my Avatar will convince and convert people instead!

Are you a big Lynch fan or just Eraserhead?

 

ON TOPIC: Another (highly spurious) reason for my preference of Watchmen over TDK: When I go to the cinema I usually go on a Saturday night. Most Sunday mornings I play Squash. I don't think it can be a coincidence that the Sunday after watching TDK my squash skills were mediocre at best, but after watching Watchmen, I was so inspired suring this morning's squash I kicked *ss!

 



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Makepeacefox on 08 March 2009
okr said:
Did the Tales of the Black Freighter make it to the movie?

 

Well I'm not sure what "Tales of the Black Freighter" is so unless I was stuipd and missed it, no. Is that a good or a bad thing? I've started reading the novel today so I suppose I'll come across it.



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okr on 08 March 2009

From Wiki:
"Watchmen features a story within a story in the form of Tales of the Black Freighter, a fictional comic book from which scenes appear in issues three, five, eight, nine, ten, and eleven. The fictional comic's story, "Marooned", is read by a black youth in New York City.[23] Moore and Gibbons conceived a pirate comic because they reasoned that since the characters of Watchmen experience superheroes in real life, "they probably wouldn't be at all interested in superhero comics."

This story within a story was something I haven't seen before when I first read the comic.