tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post3726250461809287587..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: Watching the WatchmenLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-52432577631213163812009-03-10T15:57:00.000-05:002009-03-10T15:57:00.000-05:00(Unfair comment ahead: I have not seen the movie y...(Unfair comment ahead: I have not seen the movie yet.)<BR/>Making WATCHMEN, a brilliant<BR/>12-part comic book series into<BR/>a 2 hour movie seems like it can't be done. Would have been better as a 12-part miniseries. (Though Lance liked it, and I trust his opinion on most things.)<BR/><BR/>bil g.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-88460506310663590432009-03-10T10:35:00.000-05:002009-03-10T10:35:00.000-05:00Putting aside problems with the setting, I was bot...Putting aside problems with the setting, I was bothered by the idea that the director/writing team thought they needed to glam it up with <B>more</B> violence (knife through the neck in the alley scene, blood splatters on the camera), and augmenting the relatively tame comic book's post-coital partial nudity with a much longer and more explicit sex scene, complete with <B>thrusting</B> and multiple positions. (Everyone in my theater laughed at that part.) I thought it was disingenuous to the adaptation, but mostly I thought it was insulting, as a person who specifically likes Watchmen because of its subtle and nuanced take on the super hero story.Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01154442090080258299noreply@blogger.com