Watchmen (2019 Edition)

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Is that like a 70s disco group?

No, it's the Watchmen. It's a character from the Watchmen.

He had like a glowing thing underneath his skin, right?

No, he had - it was on his forehead. He had a circle. But it was glowing.

No, no. It didn't glow. I mean he could glow sometimes.

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I read Watchmen and I didn't know what was going on. Yeah, we tried to watch the movie and it was terrible.

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he writes this absolutely classic comic book called watchmen uh listed by time magazine as one of the hundred best books of the 20th century

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If you've read Alan Moore's Watchmen, you may remember that detail about how some of the superheroes are wary of capes because one time their caped crusader colleague dollar bill Got his cape caught in a revolving door and was thus immobilized as a bank robber Approached him and shot him in the head point-blank

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There's a character in there called the Comedian.

Zack Snyder, I think his name is. He made the Watchmen, which is like super dark superhero movie based on this graphic novel, which is awesome. You should check it out. You'd love it.

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He made the Watchmen, which is like super dark superhero movie based on this graphic novel, which is awesome. You should check it out. You'd love it.

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There's a character in there called the Comedian.

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I just got back from the midnight showing of The Watchman. I Really don't know how to review it.

I'm told it sticks pretty close to the graphic novel It had cool special effects great story and good acting but I kind of felt yeah after it After leaving the dark night.

I think it was the overall message of the movie was serious told in a totally ridiculous way

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Have you ever seen Watchmen? Remember that one? That's the same director.

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So maybe they're pulling an Ozymandias from Watchmen.

He simulates an alien invasion killing tens of millions of people to end the Cold War.

So he intentionally then he plays the villain. But for the purpose of forcing, you know, so they're it's something good they're doing for us there.

He simulates an alien invasion because the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear annihilation.

And so by having an alien attack the world, it forces the U.S. and Soviet Union to unite against a common enemy.

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It's that scene in Watchmen where you guys have ever seen Watchmen? Yeah. Yeah.

It's when the comedian punches that woman in the face and tries to rape her. Like take away the physical strength. And that's like Joe Biden behind closed doors.

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Ozymandias is the villain in the Watchmen graphic novel who stages an alien invasion to force the Cold War nations to unite against a common enemy.

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Right now I'm reading because I'm obsessed with Alan Moore who wrote The Watchman. Mm-hmm. I'm reading V for Vendetta I've never watched the movie or anything. So I don't know anything look at the art inside just crack it open I don't know what you call this style Look how it's like a all shadowy and like 60s. Isn't that amazing?

Seriously, I don't know how they make comic books. I know that someone has never picked up a comic book No, I never okay. Okay, so I think someone draws it and someone colors it right two different jobs Coloring in this one, it's gorgeous pale yellows and the teals. It's great. So cool. Basically, I'm only a few chapters in but it's about like a version of London in 1997 where it's run by fascists Fishes them fishes them That's what I've been up to

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Oh yeah. By Alan Moore. Cause it's a graphic novel. I read graphic novels now.

Oh, I don't know that one.

In this one, they, um, the world is about to end again. And so as Amanda is like, well, Dr. Manhattan has been missing for 20 years, but I think I know where he is.

And then I read before Watchmen, which is a prequel to watch women grow where the watch, I think I read all the Watchmen now, but girl Watchmen worked me out.

I think I'm gonna read it again. Do it. Watch the series again. Um, so lit.

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Watchmen was a graphic novel, 12 issues of a comic book that came out in the 80s.

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Oh, yeah. Have you guys seen there's a Watchmen series that's coming to HBO?

This one, like, what's his name? Rorschach's Mask is literally just like a sack with kind of like, you know.

I don't know that it is. I think it might even be either a deeper exploration of the series with more of the, because, come on, you need more than a movie to really like go deep into that book, right? There's so much stuff in there that they couldn't put in.

Dude, I just rewatched it.

I don't know. I loved it.

I don't know. And maybe it is just nostalgia.

I think the reason for me was that that was such a formative graphic. That was the first graphic novel I ever read where I was like, oh, I see what graphic novels can accomplish.

So I felt like it was very sacred to me and to see someone try to do, I felt like it was a valiant effort, but I also didn't really care for Zack Snyder's style anyway.

Alan Moore hated it.

Yeah. Alan Moore is like-

I don't think he watched. He probably didn't even watch it.

No, he does write excellent comics for fun. But I think it's to support his main hobby, his main passion, which is just hating stuff.

Oh, geez.

If you go to hbo.com slash Watchmen, the first thing you see is nothing ever ends.

Yeah, and the little blurb, oh, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing the music. That's pretty dope. And it's a show run by Damon Lindelof, who I believe did Lost.

That's correct, along with J.J. Abrams.

And unlike Dr. Manhattan's quote, unlike his observation in the fictional world of Watchmen, this, love it or hate it, is the reality in which we have collectively lived for the span of this episode.

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Oh I recently watched Watchmen for the first time this series and it's like that too where it's like inflated situations but they play it like real

That was like the first moment for you where I was like where Gene Smart was making this comeback and I was like fuck I've missed Gene Smart so much she is so damn good in that show and Regina King obviously.

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