Weird. I literally just walked back into my dorm room after having watched it at theaters.
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Weird. I literally just walked back into my dorm room after having watched it at theaters.
My take:
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Last edited by seireikhaan; 03-15-2009 at 02:22.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
I liked it a lot.Great movie!Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Last edited by Kagemusha; 03-15-2009 at 02:38.
Ja Mata Tosainu Sama.
Will watch it someday.
IGN's Video Review: 3.5/5
For some reason, people seem to love or hate this movie. Not quite sure why.![]()
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
I hear it has to do with actually reading the comic. Everyone I know hates it, though, and not just those who read the comic.
Interesting, I know a few people that read the comic that adore the movie. I imagine it just comes down to individual taste.
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It did as well with the source material as a movie could IMHO. Only the owl ship sex scene was completely out of place, almost to the point of being farcical, but I understand why it was shot that way. It is a comic book fanboy movie after all.
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The wife and the couple we went with hated it. They didn't want to look for any larger themes and hadn't read the book so the movie was difficult to follow and definitely too long. Hard to argue with that last point, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot.
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Never read the comic. Maybe I will someday.
Apparently you need to read the comic before seeing the movie, or else you WILL hate it, from what I've read about the movie so far.
As I said in the movie review thread, I thought it was too short, too jumpy and paced all wrong. I had much the same feeling when I saw the first Lord of the Rings films. However, when the Director's Cuts of LotR were released, I loved them. Sticking back in some breathing room made those films feel shorter, even though they were substantially longer. I have a feeling that the pace and feel of this film was butchered to bring it in under three hours.
When there's a longer cut on DVD, with any luck I will love it. Yes, pretty darn faithful to the book, which I appreciate, although Jon's Johnson got HUGE between the page and the screen.
I liked Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake, and thought it was a near-perfect genre film. 300 was very silly, but that's okay.
I could have done without "All Along the Watchtower," possibly the most overused piece of music in the world. I also wouldn't have minded one of a million other '80s songs besides "Hallelujah," another song that has been used in TV shows and films so often that it's bordering on public domain.
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