Lurial (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lurial) wrote,@ 2009-03-26 18:53:00 |
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Watching the Watchmen
I figured I'd better get this in before Kyle/Prise starts posting his own thoughts and then puts words in my mouth, like the jerkface he is.
>:|
Anyways, the movie was awesome. As someone who never read the comic, but had the movie hyped up for me by a ton of buddies who HAD read the comic, I didn't leave the theater disappointed. Lots of action, great story, fantastic twists, beautiful visual effects, and elaborate characters. I really loved Rorschach. Crazy guy, but man he was my favorite character out of all the folks in the whole movie. If the comic is better then this movie, then hot damn, I need to pick up the comic sometime soon.
And of course, it also helped that Silk Spectre was totally hot. <.<; *Cough*
One thing bothers me a little though after watching the movie. When the whole film was done, I couldn't help but start thinking: "Why the hell were people freaking out and getting all riled up over Dr. Manhattan's blue piping?"
With the way people were talking about it in almost every single review about how horrible and unnecessary it was, (one critic even said that if she saw it 'one more time' she was going to go running away from the theater screaming) I was walking into the movie thinking I'd see nothing but giant blue phalluses everywhere, offending my delicate sensibilities and making my monocle fall out of place.
Folks, I BARELY even noticed the wang was there. Kyle/Prise says the wang appears four times in the movie (which made me wonder why he was counting how many times the blue penis appeared <_<....) and seeing a barely visible blue phallus in four scenes out of a three hour long movie really doesn't strike me as a reason to go "OMG BLUE PENSIES WERE EVERYWHERE. YOU CANNOT EVADE THEM. IT'S JUST THERE. WIGGLING. ALL OVER THE MOVIE." (Note: Someone actually said something like this to me)
Maybe I'm just desensitised because I have figure drawing classes every week where I'm exposed to nekkid bodies for 6 hours, but I personally found the sex scenes and the heavy gore in the movie FAR more shocking then Dr. Manhattan in the buff. ( I wasn't offended mind you, just surprised.) But no one ever mentions the softcore-porn/"hey-it's-raining-blood-an
The sex-scene was the most blatant one I've ever seen in a movie to date and people are being COMBUSTED into tiny bloody specs and smears with their innards plastered all over other people ... but critics decided they were way more stunned and offended by a penis?
Dear fellow movie-goers, I feel I should remind you that penises are a normal part of life (well, not blue ones, but you get the idea). It's how you were BORN. All men have one! It's a natural part of the male human body. Some guys might actually see theirs every day. Penises (and sex itself for that matter) are a far more normal and natural part of our lives then wild gory violence. It really boggles my mind that people want to run away from the theater because they caught a glimpse of an imaginary blue wang, but have no problems seeing human beings exploding into ribbons of gore and red pulp.
I figured I'd better get this in before Kyle/Prise starts posting his own thoughts and then puts words in my mouth, like the jerkface he is.
>:|
Anyways, the movie was awesome. As someone who never read the comic, but had the movie hyped up for me by a ton of buddies who HAD read the comic, I didn't leave the theater disappointed. Lots of action, great story, fantastic twists, beautiful visual effects, and elaborate characters. I really loved Rorschach. Crazy guy, but man he was my favorite character out of all the folks in the whole movie. If the comic is better then this movie, then hot damn, I need to pick up the comic sometime soon.
And of course, it also helped that Silk Spectre was totally hot. <.<; *Cough*
One thing bothers me a little though after watching the movie. When the whole film was done, I couldn't help but start thinking: "Why the hell were people freaking out and getting all riled up over Dr. Manhattan's blue piping?"
With the way people were talking about it in almost every single review about how horrible and unnecessary it was, (one critic even said that if she saw it 'one more time' she was going to go running away from the theater screaming) I was walking into the movie thinking I'd see nothing but giant blue phalluses everywhere, offending my delicate sensibilities and making my monocle fall out of place.
Folks, I BARELY even noticed the wang was there. Kyle/Prise says the wang appears four times in the movie (which made me wonder why he was counting how many times the blue penis appeared <_<....) and seeing a barely visible blue phallus in four scenes out of a three hour long movie really doesn't strike me as a reason to go "OMG BLUE PENSIES WERE EVERYWHERE. YOU CANNOT EVADE THEM. IT'S JUST THERE. WIGGLING. ALL OVER THE MOVIE." (Note: Someone actually said something like this to me)
Maybe I'm just desensitised because I have figure drawing classes every week where I'm exposed to nekkid bodies for 6 hours, but I personally found the sex scenes and the heavy gore in the movie FAR more shocking then Dr. Manhattan in the buff. ( I wasn't offended mind you, just surprised.) But no one ever mentions the softcore-porn/"hey-it's-raining-blood-an
The sex-scene was the most blatant one I've ever seen in a movie to date and people are being COMBUSTED into tiny bloody specs and smears with their innards plastered all over other people ... but critics decided they were way more stunned and offended by a penis?
Dear fellow movie-goers, I feel I should remind you that penises are a normal part of life (well, not blue ones, but you get the idea). It's how you were BORN. All men have one! It's a natural part of the male human body. Some guys might actually see theirs every day. Penises (and sex itself for that matter) are a far more normal and natural part of our lives then wild gory violence. It really boggles my mind that people want to run away from the theater because they caught a glimpse of an imaginary blue wang, but have no problems seeing human beings exploding into ribbons of gore and red pulp.
