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Yay...Watchmen Will Be Rated R!


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IceWarm
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PostPosted: Jan 01 2009 03:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

That made my day. Just watched a small featurette on IMDb and at the end where it flashes the small credit blurb it had the rated R description at the bottom. I am glad to see it be rated that way. I am glad they are not going for a PG-13 rating just to get more kids to see it. I hate how they will purposely get a lower rating to get more people in, like with Alien VS Predator.


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PostPosted: Jan 01 2009 09:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

maybe now we can get the proper ending aswell . . . but i how this doesn't mean we will be seeing Dr. M's blue wang.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 01:46 am Reply with quote Back to top

If it even comes out, the squid ending would absolutely blow on the big screen, and you fucking fanboys know it, in the very bottom of your hearts. The....cockles of your hearts.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 02:34 am Reply with quote Back to top

why would it blow? I think it depends how it's shot.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 02:40 am Reply with quote Back to top

It's a giant fucking squid which looks a damned vagina. Exploding space vaginas are not what an audience will take seriously.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 02:50 am Reply with quote Back to top

like I said, it depends on how it's shot. of course wide shots of a giant vagina squid amid a city would be cheesy, but close up shots and cuts to things like a dead child grasping a toy, newspapers with blood on them, shit like that, all over the city, and showing parts of the squid, would totally work.

worst case scenario, they redesign the look of the squid.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 02:59 am Reply with quote Back to top

I see your point, yeah. I do see the cons of no squid vagina, as it would defeat the purpose of all the warring countries holding hands and gettin' together. Either way, the ending is fucked, imo.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 03:55 am Reply with quote Back to top

we will have to wait and see, methinks.


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 04:57 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yea I am defiantly still pretty excited for this. I agree I hate when they force a PG-13 ending simply to sell more tickets. I understand it,


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 04:57 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yea I am defiantly still pretty excited for this. I agree I hate when they force a PG-13 ending simply to sell more tickets. I understand it, it just sucks...


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PostPosted: Jan 02 2009 08:29 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Andrew Man wrote:
Yea I am defiantly still pretty excited for this. I agree I hate when they force a PG-13 ending simply to sell more tickets. I understand it, it just sucks...


I also understand the business side of it, lower rating, more ticket sales equals more money. But rating movies that really need to be rated R to fully capture what they are about to a lower rating is just lame in my opinion. AvP and Live Free Or Die Hard for example.


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PostPosted: Jan 04 2009 05:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Actually I dont think it is completely certain anymore since there is going to be the trial for the rights of the movie and Fox is going to win. That means the publisher is going to change and Fox is known for ruining movies. Although in this case they might not do anything because they are basically getting a movie for free and especially a movie that will bring in lots of cash.


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PostPosted: Jan 04 2009 08:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

What i don't get is how could this shit with the trial even get started? DC has always been exclusive with Warner Bros. with other franchises so why did they sell the rights to Fox? FOX, where very few good movies have been coming out of it's ass lately.


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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 04:24 am Reply with quote Back to top

Apparently, the rights for the movie went through lots and lots of studios and finally ended up with Fox who obviously screwed up so that Warner thought they had the rights.


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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 06:29 am Reply with quote Back to top

Fox made some mistakes, but it's not really their fault. If anybody screwed up and is to be blamed for this situation, it's Lawrence Gordon. He made conflicting contracts with both Warner Bros. and Fox. Had he read those contracts carefully, he would have known what was recently ruled by the judge in the case: that Fox still has rights on the property.

We can only hope that both studios do the right thing and do it fast, so the movie can be released on time. If WB doesn't accept that Fox has rightful claims and pays up or if Fox insists on stopping the movie and makes unreasonable demands, this could take a while. And nobody wants that.



 
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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 08:15 am Reply with quote Back to top

I'm not blaming Fox because they actually contacted Warner during pre-production, but nothing was changed.


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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 08:56 am Reply with quote Back to top

kenthegod wrote:
It's a giant fucking squid which looks a damned vagina. Exploding space vaginas are not what an audience will take seriously.


Then change the design of the fucking squid. It doesn't matter WHAT it looks like, just that it's an unknown alien force.


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Oz
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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 09:14 am Reply with quote Back to top

Dr. Jeebus wrote:
kenthegod wrote:
It's a giant fucking squid which looks a damned vagina. Exploding space vaginas are not what an audience will take seriously.


Then change the design of the fucking squid. It doesn't matter WHAT it looks like, just that it's an unknown alien force.

Yeah, instead of a known technological device. The result of the comic book wouldnt make sense this way. Lets see what Snyder comes up with for us.


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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 10:39 am Reply with quote Back to top

Dr. Jeebus wrote:
kenthegod wrote:
It's a giant fucking squid which looks a damned vagina. Exploding space vaginas are not what an audience will take seriously.


Then change the design of the fucking squid. It doesn't matter WHAT it looks like, just that it's an unknown alien force.


so they could make it look like ET then and you wouldn't mind?


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PostPosted: Jan 05 2009 12:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:
Dr. Jeebus wrote:
kenthegod wrote:
It's a giant fucking squid which looks a damned vagina. Exploding space vaginas are not what an audience will take seriously.


Then change the design of the fucking squid. It doesn't matter WHAT it looks like, just that it's an unknown alien force.


so they could make it look like ET then and you wouldn't mind?


Don't be a douchebag. I'm saying that it doesn't matter whether it looks like an evil alien squid or an evil alien turtle or whatever. They could design something that looked nothing like a squid for the movie but was clearly some sort of alien monster.


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PostPosted: Jan 11 2009 07:33 pm Reply with quote Back to top

They have a poster at the local theatre. I pretty much shit my pants when I saw it, but I immediately went to look at the rating. R for nudity, graphic violence, and other things that indicate it hasn't been watered down for the kids' sakes.


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PostPosted: Jan 11 2009 09:11 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Interesting letter from the Watchmen producers on the Fox V Warner Brothers case:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/2009-1-8-an-open-letter-from-watchmen-producers
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PostPosted: Jan 12 2009 12:49 am Reply with quote Back to top

fox has started pushing for no release


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PostPosted: Jan 12 2009 12:54 am Reply with quote Back to top

Kojjiro! wrote:
fox has started pushing for no release

i thought it was decided the judge would make that decision


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