Nighthawk

Here I'll place all the things I have to say about music which I don't want a thread about. Feel free to do the same. I don't know if anyone here has listened to much Christian pop music, but man, a lot of them are really shameless rip off artists. There's this song called "Joy In the Lord" which was an album single, but they even sing it in church, though I don't know who it's by, but it's pretty much a sped up Stairway to Heaven. Now if you ask people in church, they'll probably tell you that that's an evil song because it says "My sweet Satan" backwards. Actually, if you ever have the opportunity, listen to some hymns backwards. It's pretty fascinating. Now there's this pretty popular Christian singer name of Steven Curtis Chapman. Though in fairness he usually doesn't look that stupid. I heard this song of his the other day and the riff was a direct lift from Walk This Way. Now honestly... if you're going to steal a riff, don't steal one of the most popular and recognizable riffs in music. I mean, really.

I'd go back to fifteen minutes before you asked this question and punch you in the face.

A magazine cover. A poster or a marquee. A shirt. Do you move about freely within the town you live in? I don't know what they look like or who they are either, but I could easily discern it from context. Don't play dumb, now.

Surly?

That's true, I often don't extrapolate as to where the story goes after it ends, just his one time aversion of nuclear war.

You're an idiot, Cheech.

Man, I still don't like how Adrian always gets called the "villain". He was totally in the right. The story has no villain. If it's anyone, it's Comedian, and he, as a government agent, was also in the right, in a more direct sense. This is a lot of the key dynamic, the way I interpret the story.

Pbone. We're done with you. Go back to the golf course and work on your puts.

You idiot. If a small portion of the audience got it, it would have a small point. Completely pointless would mean that it had no point at all.

What is this from? What it's parodying, I mean.

Fuck each and every last one'a ya'll.

Well, since a comic read would recognize that, wouldn't that make it not completely pointless? TSM posters and their adjectives... do you ever consider what they mean?

Fuck it (spoiler tagging). But yeah, that's why he had to kill millions of people, presumably. In any case, this was a more urgent situation, signified by the doomsday clock... nuclear war was metaphorically right around the corner. Averting that was the primary function. PS: fuck Smues.

It never inspired any reverence or sorrow in me, so I personally wouldn't have seen reason to tip toe around it in any movie, but I acknowledge that's the exception.

"Now" is not a time, what time do you close?

Solution would be to show it prominently earlier in the film, but it's the fault of the audience. They were clearly visible during Adrian's introduction, where he's looking out his office windows. I even noted that as a good moment to show them. I'd venture to call them NY's most prominent landmark, while they were around, but I don't think they had any particular significance here, and you can't have them destroyed in the attack, for political reasons, so there you go. They're going to have to be there, so may as well place them front and center ("won't this look neat"). And I agree... I never cared about 9/11, but by this point, I won't even grant them the courtesy of politely sidestepping it.

Hurm. Jeff Goldblum on Law and Order Criminal Intent? I don't even watch tv, really, but I'm watchin' that shit.

Fuck that guy.

Your case that you're a jackass? Yes, we know.

Shut the fuck up.

Yeah, I didn't much care for it. A lot of it: I really didn't like the actor playing Adrian at all. He's my second favorite character in the story, yet this version of it just came out all wrong. And, as he's the crux of the story, that cripples the whole thing. He does come off as just a "comic book villain" (the wink wink ha ha of having him say this was atrociously cringeworthy, not to mention; undermining the whole subtext of the concept of superhero comics being thwarted in the Watchmen universe... not dealt with in the film, of course, but I'd prefer a little continuity). Earlier in the day, I mentioned that I was going to see Watchmen later in the evening, to which the person replied "Oh yeah, that's from a comic book right? So this is like... another Iron Man?" No, but I don't enjoyhow this is going to come off to a person like that. Many people straight up walked out. Too heady, I suppose. Tried to have it both ways. I did enjoy how bored and apathetic Jon seemed, that note rang very true, but I still never quite bought Billy Crudup's voice. Rorschach; excellent. Dan was pretty good. Comedian, he was awesome all the way through, so that was satisfying (I particularly enjoyed his having a Hustler on his coffee table, and a large phallus sculpture next to his tv). His framed Silk Spectre pin up, that was pretty sweet too. That was done by James Jean, and I may get a print for myself. Anyway, yeah. Had some laughs... killed some time... but nah, not too good.

Robocop wasn't marketed to kids. There was a cartoon and tv show that were, but not the first movie.

Yeah, that picture is like a year and a half old... I don't have that beard anymore either, but I thought the big beard/big belly was appropriate.