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"I have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by Tenenbaums. Breaking Away Tenenbaums has been a pretty active blogger on this site as well, so I was glad to get a recommendation from him. Breaking Away was not a film I had not really heard of before. Maybe I briefly noticed it once amongst a filmography list of director Peter Yates, but I did not realize at all that it featured Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern in such young roles. Honestly, I didn't recognize either of the actors when they first showed up on screen. Stern looks like the perfect dork. I like that they cast such goofy looking kids instead of just trying to find the attractive ones (well apart from Quaid). Jackie Earle Haley is one of the strangest looking guys around. Check him out as an adult as a brilliant piece of casting in Watchmen. Unfortunately I found the dialogue really horrible, and the plot and pac ... "
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"After I watch a movie, I read some reviews about it to find out whether I liked it or not. A.O. Scott does a nice job on Watchmen, but he tells me that I didn't like it as much as I thought I did. The gist of his argument seems to be that Zack Snyder brought the 80s graphic novel faithfully to the screen and that this was not a good thing: that the ideas in the book are dated and jejune. Scott's review is so well-written that I felt ashamed about writing one of mine own, this one in fact, and I put it aside unfinished.But wait a minute. Of course the ideas in the book are dated. The ideas in Pride and Prejudice are dated. So what? And of course the ideas are the sort that would appeal to a teen reader. Watchmen was born as a series of comic books. A.O., grow down.But then, I liked "300," so what do I know?A.O. also calls out the primary sex scene in the movie as the worst of the year. Evidently A.O. steers clear of 99% of the DVDs on Blockbuster's shelves. At any rate, what I saw i ... "
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"I did see Watchmen opening weekend but haven’t had the strength/time to write up anything approaching a review of the film and, quite frankly, still don’t. But I did want to share my overall impression of the film. Unlike my brother-in-law, who saw it with me, I didn’t completely hate it and want to start attacking those involved in the film with pointed sticks. In fact I quite liked it and felt that while it’s still largely impossible to completely adapt the sourch graphic novel into even a 2:45 film, the filmmakers did a pretty good job of accomplishing what they could. High points include: Jackie Earl Haley’s portrayal of the detective Rorschach: Filmspotting’s Adam or Matty (I can’t remember which said it) were right when he said it was a performance that approaches what Heath Ledger did as The Joker in The Dark Knight. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Comedian: Yeah, he exists only to provide motivations of one form or another to the rest of the characters - he is the Macguffin - b ... "
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Watchmen: Director's Cut
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"Out this week is Zack Snyder's 186 minute cut of comic recluse Alan Moore's graphic novel. Moore refusing to watch any film adaption of his work, should really take a step back and let this one in. This film is about layers and the anti-hero. Really something special. "
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""Watchmen" is adapted from the groundbreaking graphic novel that doesn't make itself look like the typical comic-book movie nor does it pretend to be something that it's not. Legendary Pictures (who also produced "300" & "The Dark Knight") has found it niche with films of such caliber and this film's no exception. You don't have to read the graphic novel first to enhance the viewing experience (but it helps), the performances (particularly from Jackie Earle Haley & Billy Crudup) are flawless & the visual effects are spectacular, even for a hard-charging R-rated movie. "Watchmen" delivers on so many levels. "
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"The Internet seems eerily quiet today, which is probably due to all the blog writers being miles above wifi signals, flying towards Austin for SXSW. Of course, there are some posts here and there discussing rumors about Jon Favreau directing The Avengers and continued commentary on Watchmen’s box office future and Joaquin Phoenix’s “brawl” in Miami, but there’s not much new news to get excited about. So, I’ve decided to highlight some recent SXSW-related posts from other blogs in anticipation of the festival. I won’t be there this year, and the Bloggery posts will be taking a week off in order to let SpoutBlog focus on film reviews, interviews and other SXSW goodies, so this is my one chance to be a part of the SXSW fun, albeit from a very cold, very jealous perspective up here in NYC. I wish everyone down in Austin a good time and, more importantly, a lot of good movies. Pop Candy
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"Watchmen Watchmen was the first graphic novel I'd ever read. I read it just a few weeks before the movie came out amongst the craze and stacks of the novel in plain view at every book store you would enter. I actually found the novel to be quite exciting at first. Although it became quite convoluted at times, I was hoping it would wrap up nicely. Unfortunately I found many aspects of the climax to be a but absurd and unexpected in a way out of congruity with the rest of the book. I actually somewhat preferred some of the changes made in the climax of the film. Anyways, the film was about what I expected. My favorite part of the book was Rorschach and he was also probably my favorite part of the film. I can't say the acting was great, but it's usually rare when it is in these big comic book movies. It did keep me engaged through the long running time though. I'm not sure if that was because I had already read it and was curious about how it would play out in the film. I was s ... "
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"What is worse about the now-infamous Watchmen sex scene (watch it here), the distracting soundtrack or the explosive metaphor at the climax? Even if intended to be funny, and regardless of its (more-subtle) appearance in the graphic novel, the fire blast as stand-in for ejaculation is so cliché that it has no place in a story that means to shatter conventions. Plus, sexual metaphor is a little unnecessary in a film that already has a lot of nudity and a distinct moment of impotence. Especially at the end of a scene that is quite gratuitous compared to the comic’s depiction, that blast is more a symbol of how incorrectly handled Watchmen is than of the orgasms it’s intended to represent. Between that shot in Watchmen and our recent list of sexiest non-sex scenes, we have had bad sex-sc "
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"Given the near 20 years of studio squabbling and failed attempts to translate Alan Moore’s masterpiece to the big screen, Watchmen could have turned out much worse. Zach Snyder somewhat surprisingly sticks incredibly close to the source material, which ends up being the film’s greatest strength and weakness. The two and a half hour spectacle kicks off with a healthy dose of action and an opening credits sequence to Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are a Changin, which is arguably the coolest and richest part of the film. I won’t spoil the surprises, but we get to see what nearly every defining historical and cultural moment of the Cold War era looks like in Moore’s alternate history. The only problem is those who have not read the novel will likely be lost on half the references, a flaw that recurs often throughout the well-layered story...Read the rest of this critic's review here! "
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