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Post by christophera » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:53 am

mirror mask is the exact opposite of rubbish

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Post by christophera » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:55 am

80 out of 110 people found the following comment useful:-
Like Nothing You've Ever Seen, 2 February 2005
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I'm another of those who saw this at Sundance, and all the things I enjoy about Gaiman and McKean's graphic novels were on display: the quiet humor, the intelligence, the delightful weirdness, the astounding visual vocabulary. Except that in this case, the words are spoken by good actors, and all those visuals get up off their feet and move.

It's hard to describe the impact of watching a McKean painting move and talk. There might be those who quibble about the movie looking too animated, but of course that's exactly the point: to create a world and make it dance. The end result, visually at least, is like nothing you've ever seen before, and absolutely worth seeing for that reason alone.

Some of the people I talked to after the screening also loved the visuals but felt the story was a bit dull, that they had seen it all before. Well, it's true that the story does wear its influences on its sleeve--a little "Alice in Wonderland" here, a little "Time Bandits" there, a lot of "Wizard of Oz" over here, not to mention a resemblance to Gaiman's own "Coraline." But I'm just as familiar with those stories as anyone else, and the resemblances never interrupted my enjoyment of "MirrorrMask"--after all, it's what you do with a story that determines its success. And from moment to moment, there was enough innovation and cleverness, enough delight and wonder, to make the movie a positive delight.

I can imagine kids sitting in the audience with their eyes agog; and I can imagine their parents sitting next to them, just as agog for a whole different set of reasons. "MirrorMask" may or may not be too wild to be a full-out commercial success; but I predict it's going to have a long, long shelf life. I know I'll be buying the DVD as soon as it's available, so that I can show it to people and say "Wait till you see this."

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Post by pk » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:13 am

i'd have thought the whole point of a watchmen film would be to make it almost completely without flashy special effects

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Post by betamaxnomates » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:42 am

ChristopherA wrote:mirror mask is the exact opposite of rubbish
Agreed. It's a really unique experience. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen and Dave McKean gave a short talk and took some questions after. To say it was a labour of love would be an understatement.

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Post by christophera » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:47 pm

thats awesome. i love dave mckean's work.

i first discovered him via album covers for frontline assembly and download back when i was in highschool.

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Post by djshiva » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:14 pm

BETAMAXNOMATES wrote:
ChristopherA wrote:mirror mask is the exact opposite of rubbish
Agreed. It's a really unique experience. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen and Dave McKean gave a short talk and took some questions after. To say it was a labour of love would be an understatement.
what i wanna know is what island i was on when this was made and how did i miss it???

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Post by christophera » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:16 pm

it was a boxoffice failure :[

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Post by onexroot » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:17 pm

Thats a great interview with Alan Moore that was posted.

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Post by Dj_Sith » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:23 am

I'm not sure about this trailer, too much videoclip-style and too much slow-motion, watchmen is not epic it is noir/dirt/no hope, if zack 'slowmotion' snyder doesn't know that will be a shit.

The trailer is in the same mood as 300 and it was a very bad movie, is based on a bad comic so is not problem, ot thbut watchmen is ne same, is based on a comic that changed the way of comic-books, it has a complex plots, lots of characters, and is a comic-book talking about human condition with superpeople on the background but is not a superheroe story. And the trailer looks like we only will see action, some big booms and fights and a CGI character.

Alan Moore is not involved, his name will not appear in the credits, like in V for Vendetta.
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Post by frebentos » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:54 pm

YES CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS!

I think it will stay completlely true to the comic tbh, the screen shots and trailer look as if they are keeping it as close to the book as they can.

This, I think, will go down as one of hte best comic book adaptions together with "Sin City" and "Batman Begins".

Oh and someone mentioned "From Hell" in this thread, and iv got to say the film is NOTHING..and i mean absolutlely fuck all to do with the graphic novel.

The book is a masterpiece the film can suck my peice.

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Post by eventualdecline » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:13 pm

ChristopherA wrote:thats awesome. i love dave mckean's work.

i first discovered him via album covers for frontline assembly and download back when i was in highschool.

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Post by ajantis_art » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:00 am

this'll be heavy...attention to detail looks awesome! rorschasch an absolute badman.

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Post by sinc_vision » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:04 pm

new trailer up!! schweet!

the defult quality isn't great so click the tab for the hd version.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchme ... howVideo=1
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Post by pdomino » Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:49 am

Film looks ace, Rorschach is intriguing character.
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Post by alexchuck » Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:53 am

i read some reviews about it .. they all said it sucks :| . apparently the trailer is the best part about it.

however, i was actually more keen about "The Spirit" by Frank Miller. can't get my hands on that one

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Post by reverendmedia » Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:50 pm

bibishte wrote:i read some reviews about it .. they all said it sucks :| . apparently the trailer is the best part about it.
did anyone really think it would be any good? i mean, if you've got any sense, regardless of your skill as a director, you wouldn't touch anything by alan moore with a ten foot pole. imo the best way to do his work even a small amount of the justice it deserves is to have the grace and humility to leave it well alone.

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Post by dubstepjustin » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:08 pm

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/watchmen/

So far Its Positive. But thats with 12 reviews though.
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