The Watchmen as an eighties Saturday morning cartoon:
Haven’t seen the movie yet, BTW. Hope to see it this weekend.
(hat tip More Lane)
The Watchmen as an eighties Saturday morning cartoon:
Haven’t seen the movie yet, BTW. Hope to see it this weekend.
(hat tip More Lane)
I’m way too young for this.
Very funny.
Loved the Scooby Doo reference.
The only thing to top this Superfriend-ization
would be a Sid and Marty Krofft version
of “Watchmenville” with
1970’s Technicolor-puke-colored giant foam head wristwatch based characters, and Charles Nelson Reilley as Dr Manhattan.
A perfect example of Democrat style revisionist history.
All the elements of the story are there; but they’ve all been twisted to obscure, rather than reveal the truth.
Wicked scary!
I saw the movie last Friday. Pretty overrated… lots of blue penis…
I hear The Blue Penis is getting a spin-off series. And his two sidekicks, the sexually frustrated…
Sorry, it was there.
That’s a funny skit. Just once, I’d like them to put together a cartoon or a movie that actualy follows a comic book. Don’t dumb down the violence. Our children can take it. G.I Joe, Robotech all showed people geting shot up and dying when I was a kid in the 80’s, but that didn’t make my mom get up from her 4:00PM gin and tonic to change the chanel.
80’s Saturday morning cartoons rocked! Too bad most of the cartoons today are crap.
The movie is best seen if you’ve read the comic pretty closely.
I laughed pretty hard when they showed Rorschach petting the two Germen Shepherds.
I haven’t seen the move yet either, I’m guessing they don’t show where Walter Kovacs becomes Rorschach.
I am just going to say this, because none of the reviews I read mentioned it. The blue guy has a full frontal scene like 25 times, so lots of nudity and none of the good kind.
I saw it knowing what to expect.
It was pretty close to the book, with a few reasonable alterations.
Lots of parents with children in the theatre I attended.
Don’t parents notice things like R ratings anymore?
Was this cartoon produced as a tie-in to the movie, or is it an independent satire?
It looks like something Ozymandius would show on his Cable TV Network to plug his line of action figures.
Ben, the two of us need look no more, we’ve both found what we were looking for. Well me anyway, teehee.
Frank…I won’t give anything away, but if you are a big fan of the book and know it like the back of your hand, you are going to be disappointed. They followed the first 3 books within reason, but after that, they rushed things along, leaving out all the parts (or modifying) that gave all the characters their dimension. They did stay fairly true to the characters, and the effects are impressive, but I would rather they released it as two 2 hour movies and left the best parts in. But perhaps as a big fan of the book, I went into it expecting too much.
#9 BigRichardSmall…they did, but not only did they change it, they only showed only a fraction of the story that took up 2 books…only the main part without any of the meat / back story.
I just went through the DVD graphic novel last week and saw the movie last night, so it’s all fresh in my head.
Comparing the climax of the two, it seems a good modification to simplify things. The movie version is actually cleaner in a way.
Some lines are added to clarify things for the movie audience, but it fits in well.
The Mars scene was disappointing – too many cool things discovered, too much high quality imagery lately to have an excuse for the lava-lamp terrain that looks thrown together in 1930.
i still dont get the whole dr.Manhattan penis thing, i watched it in IMAX and i didnt notice a penis, you guys sure it wasn’t a ken patch?
and 4 of 7, no, what are you, stupid? R means “real fun for everyone”
(no offense to you, you arent stupid :D)
when i watched crank in the theaters, i was getting pissed because i thought i had a group of retarded people behind me, who just kept laughing and screaming every time chev humped his wife or punched somebody.
after the movie was over, i looked behind me
it was a group of 6 or 7 CHILDREN, i would say they were about 5 or 6m MAYBE 7 years old! WTF
i have NEVER been to an R rated movie that didnt have kids in it, unless i went during school time (even midnight showings, they have been there)
the worst part is, people do this, then COMPLAIN ABOUT IT, they demand shit for putting their children though that, it happens most often with video games, even when things like GTA have a CLEAR rating “rated M for MATURE” and video game sales are supposed to warn about these things when the person buys these games with children with them, they are IGNORED, they let their kids play the game, they come out saying “mommy, whats a hooker, because i just raped one” and all of a sudden developers are the assholes.
the game could come with a giant yellow ALL IN CAPS cover on it saying “THIS GAME IS NOT FOR ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18, DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY THIS GAME, DO NOT BITCH ABOUT IT WHEN YOUR HOOKER SENSE DOES NOT TINGLE, DO SOME DAMN PARENTING YOU DUMB WHORE”
and the name of the game is “rape and murder as many people as possible before suicide by cops (the damn pigs)”
that game would STILL somehow be given to children, and then, the publishers would be sued.
and the developers would be fired, to make up for the money lost in the lawsuit.
and yes, that lawsuit would be won, dont kid yourself, unless there is a legal representative of the company there to stop people from buying the games, they are somehow responsible.
#15 – hcig,
What would happen to all the STD and drug rehab clinics, Planned Parenthood, Social Welfare case workers and prison guards?
If parents actually began to parent, a huge segment of our government mandated economy would collapse in a single generation!