Speaking of confusion, where the hell are the DVD reviews, Harry? Just where exactly are they?

Don't know what Zacky Hacky said but Hope he takes the time to serve this project with the respect it deserves, get Moore to tell him what he should be doing when he gets the urge to have all the characters get naked and oily and fight for 2 hours or run around like crazies on too much Orange Squash

I actually had a half hour nap in the middle of 300 and when I woke up it was doing exactly the same as before I fell asleep ie Big swolen men shouting Grandios Hyperbole about Dying in the shadow of Arrows to dine in Hell tonight or sum shite!!!???

enjoyed DOTDead re-imaginengineered for what it was worth but this one might prove a bit too much.

but the thing is, zombie movies pretty much have subtext built right into them; group vs. outsiders, culture vs. counterculture, etc. in my opinion you would have to work pretty damn hard to AVOID having subtext in a zombie movie. but that's what Snyder used his many talents for with that one.

i haven't seen 300 but judging from the wildly disparate opinions of people i know who've seen it, the political subtext is at most, cloudy and at least, nonexistent. most of the people i know who saw it said that showing awesome fights was really the point of the movie.

i can live with that. i'm not the type of dude who needs subtext in every fucking thing i see; DOTD was a pretty good time and 300 seemed popular amongst this site's readership and the teens with which i worked this summer. BUT. if you take away the sociopolitical stuff from the watchmen you have a very large problem. you are left with a fucking superhero murder mystery. i think it's safe to assume that element of the story is not why we all care so deeply about it.

especially since 9/11 happened, the resolution of WATCHMEN (the book, anyway) has taken on a whole nother dimension of importance. and i honestly don't that Snyder's got the balls to take on something that huge... which makes me bummed about this movie's existence. but i guess i'll find out for sure in 2009.

That is all.

as for the 9/11 thing-- obv WATCHMEN did not inspire 9/11. it is a political principle that a nation's people will rally behind their attacked nation. WATCHMEN is a creative work where someone uses that principle to manipulate the political tide and in the light of 9/11, where US leaders have been alleged to do the same thing -- only in real life, not a creative work -- i think that becomes more interesting. and you can think islamic extremists carried out 9/11 and still find that POV interesting regardless of your opinion, as you say above.

but dude you gotta be kidding me about the right and their love of our civil liberties--you can't have escaped the right's restrictions on our civil liberties via wiretapping our phone calls, reading our email, post-9/11 censorship, preventing gay marriage, banning abortion for rape and incest victims, etc.

The original work is far too subtle and complex for any single 2-hr film to convey.

So call me a "hater" or whatever the fuck you want. I *will* be vindicated in the long run.

Holy shit! These guys even sound alike!!

On a different note, here's to hoping Watchmen will kick unholy ass! Though I still think Cudrup isn't the best casting for Doc Manhatten. But that's just me.

Also...on a different note Zack Snyder = Mark Ruffalo!!!!!

And as for the shitfest that was 300 . .some of the worst acting I have ever seen - I rrrreally am struggling to think of worse acting. And it just looked terrible. I thank god I never payed money to watch that crap because I really would have walked out . . (much like I wanted to during transformers but I couldn't leave my 10yr old nephew on his own.)

How the hell someone with the obvious lack of talent that is Snyder is meant to film is is beyond me - hey Snyder prove me wrong. I beg you. Actually manage to do a film that has good characters and actors.

Slow-motion so you can "see the action" = geeks whine and bitch

Zombies getting PIES IN THE FACE in a ridiculously shitty borefest from 1978 = geeks are happy

That's the gist, right?

Are you serious? Why the hell would you WANT to know where a story is going? That kind of defeats the idea of hearing/watching/reading a story in the first place.

Good to see you, sir. You know, some of us have asked about you from time to time. How have you been?

As for what you missed, I'd say just more of the usual tomfoolery and hijinks = lots of n00bs, some bannings, and a few new asshole Trolls that you're gonna love!

Ah yes, pretty hard to forget those fools. Heh.