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Glowing 'Watchmen' Review Embargo Broken; Prompts Blow-Back Review From Non-Geek Viewer
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... with Selman's fanboyism, and struck back by quoting an anonymous friend of his who has seen "Watchmen." The source thought the film seemed exactly like, well, a Zach Synder movie. ...
'Watchmen' Fight Continues with 'Staggering Failure' as the Latest Description
RopeofSilicon.com —
... and today Jeff Wells continues the rant only this time he has brought back up in the form of an anonymous journalist friend that has also seen the movie and starts off by ...
Watchmen Review Brings On Backlash. Today in Film Bloggery 02/17/09
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... Elsewhere, most of us first learned of Selman’s piece from Jeff Wells, who claims to take no side on the issue yet refers to the post as “whorish and insipid remarks.” He also passes along a friend’s reaction to the film, which the unidentified journalist calls “a staggering failure” that is “empty, inert, meandering and, yes, boring” and “horribly acted throughout.” It’s also worth noting that he admits to having enjoyed the first 20 minutes of footage ...
'Watchmen' Review From Another Non-Geek: 'Campy Silliness & 2nd-Rate Comic Book Melodrama'?
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... be seen as some kind of anti-'Watchmen' agenda, but that's fine. Fanboys just can't be trusted and that's a fact. And they don't help their case one iota when -- even the bloggers themselves - descend upon reports that are not 100% gung-ho and dismiss and attempt to rip their arguments apart (like some recently did to David Poland). Another early-bird report Wells ran earlier this week was from someone who was a fan. "And speaking as a huge admirer and devotee ...
Early Watchmen Reviews Give Conflicting Reports
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... that the movie was "a loving, detail-rich, almost obsessive recreation of that universe. It had my heart pounding and head swimming. I barely slept that night." Of course Selman, an admitted fanboy, was pretty much expected to fall in the love with the movie. Which prompted another anonymous Watchmen fan to write in to Hollywood Elsewhere that the movie is "a staggering failure [...] an empty, inert, meandering and, yes, boring 2 hours and 45 minutes. " Uh oh. And the reports over there only got worse, with another viewer ...
Buzzkill: Watchmen
TheBadandUgly.com —
There may be embargoes galore on Watchmen reviews as the screenings start, but that doesn’t mean much when I’m pretty sure that Zach Snyder delivered the graphic novel, in motion, to movie screens. If you’re a Watchmen fanboy, saw all the posters, clicked all the photos, watched all the trailers and started picking up on these clips being pulled directly from the comic book, you’ll love Watchmen.
But is it any good?
From Hollywood Elsewhere:
“I’ve seen Watchmen,” he began. ...
The Watchmen Reviews Can’t Agree
Movie Moron —
... An AintItCool spy adds this -
“Yes, it’s long but yes it’s extremely faithful to the graphic novel, to the point that the sex and violence is almost HARSHER than I remember it being in the comic… a huge, beautiful, angry, dirty, faithful, sigh of relief of a film. You won’t be disappointed and I will be going to see it again.”
Now to the other end of the scale, cause there’s nothing in between. Hollywood Elsewhere quote a contact of theirs -
“…speaking as a ...
Early Buzz: Watchmen is an Extremely Faithful Adaptation, Possibly to a Flaw?
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... An Anonymous Reviewer on Hollywood Elsewhere: “Speaking as a huge admirer and devotee of the graphic novel, the film is a staggering failure. On the plus side, you’ve got a pretty literal adaptation of the source material. It is at times a meticulous and gorgeous recreation of Alan Moore’s original work. Unfortunately it’s an empty, inert, meandering and, yes, boring 2 hours and 45 minutes. Oh, and it’s horribly acted throughout.” … “Watchmen is just not much of a movie. It has no narrative pull and no characters to invest in. It ...
