Suckage and Pwnage
Movies: The Watchmen. Horrible movie. The graphic novel, excellent. Loved it. The movie, is horrible. I tried to give it a chance. I liked the ambiance, I didn’t mind the rather gratuitous action (as poorly choreographed as it was), and I didn’t mind the costumes (it’s a super hero flick!). The acting was wooden, the camera work was terrible, and the love scenes (absolute suckage as well) were just funny. I laughed through the entire love scene on the Owl Ship. It was absolutely horrible. Total suckage.
Dinner: Ate dinner at a very small Italian Restaurant. I don’t recall the name now (wtf??) and it was absolutely brilliant. The sea scallops were pan seared with a lemon sauce drizzled around risotto and green sugar snap peas. Excellent. It was absolutely wonderful. I loved every bit of it. I have to say it was the best dish I’ve ever eaten from an Italian place other than Chicken Parmigiana. Absolutely Pwnage.
I’ll end this on a high note, cue a page from Grant’s book. Cue serious pwnage from Thailand, Sunaree Phongakarn:
Yah, it's hot...
Thai bunny!
You’re the first person I’ve heard from who liked the graphic novel but not the movie. The trailers didn’t fill me with a desire to see it. The slo-mo action effects they focused on were better suited for 300, not a more dramatic story like the Watchmen. Watchmen done right shouldn’t be an IMAX kind of movie. Iron Man should have been done in IMAX format instead.
The reactions I’ve heard and seen from people are widely varied. Normally you have at least some core people that find a movie tolerable at the very least. So far, it’s been rather polarised in each camp (those who loved the graphic novel, those that didn’t, and those that have never read it). I agree, Iron Man was definitely an IMAX sort of movie, Watchmen is much more dramatic.