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I always thought Steve Allen's foreign object joke was kinda clever.

Methinks it'll take a couple of wellness violations for Christian to win.

Oh, a few pages back someone said they didn't understand why Dan and Laurie go incognito at the end of the book. The reason would be that the police were onto them for breaking Rorschach out of prison. They'd even been to Dan's home a few times.

"Deadman, we all know you've been having a McCool time on the road!"

I hope Shawn goes retro and starts eating pills and being a huge asshole

I think they did or are doing a Batman Black & White motion comic..

EHME, change your name to Carcetti and make your custom text "Every morning I wake up white in a city that ain't, so I must KILL OFFICER JOHN CENA"

Anyone who still dismisses The Miz should have watched him have a good, heated match with Primo

The Wire is so above being called a TV show

The best part was that it looked like Kofi belonged up there with Flair. I'm not saying he's the next Austin, but I think he has the It Factor.

Even though I read the spoilers, I'm still rooting for Ricky Ortiz tonight. Imagine...the Big O off the ladder...a move so devastating he'd have to perform it off the bottom rung...what a Mania moment. Maybe next year.

I'd heard that Cage taking the role and dropping it was just a smoke and mirrors trick to get Rourke cast into the role.

I saw it Sunday, I just haven't had much of a desire to share my opinion. I might have mentioned it earlier, but I haven't read Watchmen in a few years. I think this is why, that while I was watching the movie, I enjoyed it as much as I did. Sure, there were a few parts where I was forced to think something like "Did that warrant going into slow motion?" or "How did that guy lose all that blood in three seconds?" which took me out of it. I still enjoyed it though. Then I got home and found out my roommate had a copy of the graphic novel in his closet. I finished rereading it last night and promptly dismissed the movie. While I feel that the crew should be applauded for how much content they transferred from the book to film (especially given the requests of the studio), it seems to me that they merely threw as much as they could at a wall while blindfolded and got lucky to get close to the target. What I mean by that is this was a movie made by people who enjoyed Watchmen but didn't really get everything they should out of it. Let me make it clear that I'm not one of those people who feel like the squid was a necessity or something like that. To be honest, I preferred the master plan in the movie to that of the book. It made it feel more...organic (ironic, considering they ditched an alien in favor of a godly figure), like it was more natural to the story. That said, the road to the master plan was pretty bumpy, mostly due to the mishandling of Ozymandias. This could be my bias, because as I read the book again, I rediscovered that while Veidt wasn't my favorite character, he was the most fascinating. It's a shame so much of his character development was sacrificed and I have a bad feeling that what I wanted to get from the character in retrospect was never put to film and thus won't be in the director's cut or extended edition (mini rant: what the fuck is the difference?). Allow me to expound. I don't remember being so engrossed in Watchmen when I owned my copy. It really is something you have to read over and over and absorb more and more each time. By the time I reached Chapter XI, I began to view the movie as flawed. For a "visionary director", Zak Snyder really dropped the ball in the final act, because XI is more cinematic as a comic than his movie ever dreamed of being. I've never experienced something like this in reading a comic, but everything just flowed. If it had a score, it would have been one of the more tense experiences ever experienced in any form of entertainment. The movie version just fell flat. I realize certain elements like Dr. Long and his problems at home and the juxtaposition at the end with the problems on the street corner had to be cut, and these necessary sacrifices took a lot of tension away. Watchmen should be about the death of people (insert the complaints about too much gore throughout and the total lack of death in the climax), but this movie is merely about explosions. Hell, more people die in the movie than the book but the grief was completely lost. I'm not saying it was completely devoid of emotion but that it just couldn't execute the idea properly. Before I go on and on, allow me to summarize. The Watchmen movie is an accurate portrayal of the first time you read the book. It's awesome. I hope that the next time I see it (if I do-not a knock but christ when I bought the extended LotR DVDs, I never found the time to watch any of them) I can pick up on things I didn't notice, especially if it's a different version. But I doubt it. Alan Moore says there are things done in his book that can only be done in the comic book medium. He knows more about writing comics than I do, but I think that a visually inclined director could have nailed one of the central ideas of Watchmen-the parallelism of the story and imagery. Take, for example, So I guess what I'm trying to say is that substance was sacrificed in favor of style, a sacrifice that will make rewatching the movie a chore whereas rereading the book is its own reward. Sorry for going overboard with the paragraphs; I didn't expect to do that.

This just hit the Internet, probably due to a leak somewhere, so get it while you can. Basically, if you know anything about Raiders of the Lost Ark behind the scenes, you'll know the basic stuff about how Spielberg and Lucas came up with the character right after Star Wars and Close Encounters. Well, this file is a 125 page transcript of the conversation the two had with the great Lawrence Kasdan, the screenwriter of Raiders. I haven't read anything but a scant preview, and it looks to be very interesting. Given that Spielberg refuses to do audio commentaries and that both men are pretty secretive about their projects, I thought this would be a treat for any fans of pre-Crystal Skull Spiel-Cas (that's the tabloid-esque name I have coined for the duo). http://www.sendspace.com/file/cnoe3r EDIT: Best part- G — What can he chase them with? What if he jumps on a camel? S — I love it. It's a great idea. There's never been a camel chase before. L — Is this camel going to chase a car? S — You know how fast a camel can run? Not only that, he can jump over vegetable carts and things. It could be a funny chase that ends in tragedy. You're laughing your head off and suddenly, "My God, she's dead..." S — We still have the big fight in the moving truck to do. And now we have a camel chase. G — We've added another million dollars. S — Not really. How much trouble can a camel be?

I hope that's what he does for his special WM entrance, complete with trenchcoat and fedora. "The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...and I'll look down and whisper "BOOYAKA BOOYAKA 6-1-9!"

I didn't know he was doing his stupid eight second long three count in the 80s.

Tear down the cockpit door. Doctor. Venkman. The pilots have already made...the ultimate sacrifice. TAKE THIS BOARD. INTO A NOSEDIVE.

Oh, wow. I wasn't being literal enough. Thanks.

I'm eagerly awaiting that footage to be Benny Hill-ified.

How do I get the Se-Poo-Ku achievement? Hint: Se-Poo-Ku is a play on words of ritual Japanese suicide. I knew those 3 years of Japanese classes would help me somewhere in life, and they did! I knew that already. A little more help, please?

That's not a rating, it's how many copies will sell.

Since this thread will undoubtedly lead to his banning, I need to know who the girl in greek's avatar is because that's always bothered me

Only if Shelton loses the tittle before Mania, since he's in MITB.

I don't agree with Mayor Carcetti's 12 Rounds policy, but I do agree with his Cena killing policy

A win would make JBL a Grand Slam champion.