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I was thinking that, too, re: NYC, but all reports indicate that the movie still takes place in the city. I wouldn't be surprised if they had gone with a Gotham-esque substitute.

I liked Watchmen a lot up until the last couple of chapters, for reasons I explained in the thread about the upcoming film version. I'm rereading The Road right now. As much as I liked it the first time, I find myself loving it this second time. It's up there with Blood Meridian as far as McCarthy's best works go.

I'm sure I've said this before, but New Miserable Experience is a good album. Its only crime is being a little too glossy on the production end. Perfectly respectable Chilton-aping.

You've grown a lot these past couple of years.

Thanks for the advice, FroGG_NeaL.

Not enough substitution of "z" for the "s" at the end of words. B- Read the user comments, dude.

Albums I bought in the last couple of months: Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters Can - Tago Mago Can - Future Days Can - Delay 1968 Tago Mago and Future Days were remastered upgrades of albums I already owned.

Does this play before every movie, regardless of theatre? May I see Alvin & the Chipmunks and be safe from this?

Absolutely the worst thing about going to the movies these past couple of months.

Given the moral ambiguities of its characters, calling Ozymandias a "bad guy" was a poor word choice on my part. What I should've said was I simply didn't find interesting the more traditional Genius Who Wants to Take Over the World plot twist introduced in the final two chapters. And given how relatively little space was given to Ozymandias prior to the twist, I had trouble caring.

Honestly, I thought Ozymandias was pretty dull as a bad guy. Not to say they should give the evil part to Doc; making the only one of them with remotely superhuman powers the evil one would be far too predictable.

The talk of Watchmen being unfilmable is overstated. Yes, some streamlining will have to occur, but it isn't as if doing that for film adaptations of books is unheard of. The only real limitation is just how dark a Hollywood studio would want a big budget movie to be? Homosexuality—which plays only a small part in the book, anyway—isn't exactly verboten. Neither is a scene of attempted rape, nor the scene where the Comedian kills the pregnant Vietnamese woman. This is nothing that couldn't be in a R-rated movie. A movie that the studio very likely wants to be a huge hit? That's all I can see standing in the way of the translation. As for Doc Manhattan's aversion to clothes, eh. So they put him in an outfit. Acceptable loss.

I hope this broadens the understanding of Matt Young's suffering.

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Enough's been written about how Watchmen was a groundbreaking work in the comic/graphic novel medium. I don't doubt that's true, but much of what made it so revoluntionary—the complex narrative; its metafictive qualities, etc.—was nothing new in either films or novels. I've said as much to that friend of mine, but I don't think he's listening. He keeps telling me how I should go about reading the book. Telling me I should read all of it straight through. ("Really? All of it? You mean I can't skip around like I do with regular books?") That I, once finished, should read another book and then come back to Watchmen again, so I can pick up what I missed the first time. Hey, it's kinda cute that he's so excited about me reading it, but I get the impression that he wasn't aware things like foreshadowing and symbolism existed outside of or prior to this book.

At the behest of my comic-loving friend, I am reading Watchmen. It's good, but I doubt it's going to lead to me taking comics more seriously, which I think is what he was hoping.

I apologize for posting that, fellas.

"Guitar-driven" doesn't fill me with hope; Monster was garbage, after all.

Oof, Landed. Can goes jazz rock. End result is about as good as any other band doing jazz rock.

I was being nice to leena, I thought. I left out the part how, unlike I did CJ, I never found her entertaining.

CJ's not being invited during the early stages of one of those TSM satellite boards hurt him worse than when his marriage fell apart. Out of context, you might think he was joking, but no, he was serious. That said, I thought his shtick was amusing sometimes, but anyone who tries that hard to purvey and maintain a board persona over the years obviously takes this business far too seriously, to the detriment or because of their personal life. See also leena.

His voice was slightly soft in the video, but blame that on bathroom acoustics. I wouldn't call it a lisp.

Thanks, guys. I'ma post some cock pics to show my appreciation.