The Hoard Potato Doesn't Have Full-Length Reviews

[athelind]

Watchmen, in brief:

Both quelonzia and I really enjoyed it, demonstrating that it worked both as a movie, for someone unfamiliar with the story, and as an adaptation, for someone who's read it a dozen times or more since it came out.

There's a lot more I can say about it, but it only seems to come out in conversation. When I sit down to try and just write, I come up blank. That's why it's taken me two weeks to present even this much.

I will say that, in my estimation, Snyder made a good stab at examining the superhero movie in his own way, just as Moore and Gibbons scrutinized the superhero comic book all those years ago.

The Battlestar Galactica finale, also in brief:

Whoa.

Again, Quel and I both loved it -- and yes, we both cried. Long-standing questions were answered -- and others weren't. As far as I'm concerned, though, they picked the right questions to leave unanswered.

I also suspect that this ending may be close to the one that Glen Larson really intended for the original series.

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Comments

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I feel slightly more sane, or at least not totally disconnected with everyone on these two.

I didn't read Watchmen, but I will now pick it up. It also has in it what was to mean the most meaningful love scene I've seen in a long time, but such is a long story.

[tealfox.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Watchmen a lot. I don't go to movie's opening night often for very many things...but I was glad I did for this.

As for BSG, I was so emotionally drained by the end. I know there has been some burning of the blogosphere about this...but I have not cried so freely, jumped excitedly, yelled, and been so animated at the Television as I have been with BSG. And the finale for me was all of that turned up to 11. Its 24 hours later and I am still exhausted.

So yeah, whoa. ;)

[whyrl.livejournal.com]

I heartily agree with both assessments. The BSG finale made me cry too.

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

I very much enjoyed Watchmen. It was well done, the set, costume, and art was true to the novel but innovative, and the film accentuates and builds on to Moore and Gibbons ideas. I'm looking forward to the DVD with ALL the scenes they filmed, and I want to see Black Freighter - though from what I've seen it doesn't look Lichtenstein-esque enough. But perhaps this version deconstructs anime, I dunno. :)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

There is no such thing as "Lichtenstein-esque".

Tracing other people's art with an overhead projector might not be plagiarism, but it certainly doesn't grant you an "-esque".

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but, I couldn't remember the name for those dots you see when you zoom in on an old comic panel, and that's what you see in Freighter panels in the original novel. :)