Patton Oswalt comments about Watchmen..

[Sawyer]

Especially for what's in bold.

And he's abso-****ing-lutely correct.

 

[Kurosawa]

Good for Patton for sticking up for the movie. I love his stand up.

As for the people trashing this film... Good God, you're making me hate the fact that I used to read comic books. I've never seeing a superhero film that tried harder to stick to its source material and yet, half of the fanbase is still declaring it an atrocity. This goes beyond "perma-white" and "organic webshooters." This is just a bunch of pretentious know-it-alls who think that they would have done a better job, despite never going to film school, despite never taking an acting class, and despite never writing a script for anything in their lives. I understand that this isn't ALL of you, but it's a lot of you and you know it.

You can only put so much into a movie. Snyder crammed as much as he could into this and it still managed to flow. And the movie was already two and a half hours! How much more time did you want to add to this film? It's not like we got shafted with an 88 minute sh**fest.

Personally, I will hold all future comic-book based films to the Watchmen standard,

 

[Seditionary]

I gotta say I hate this guy. I find him incredibly unfunny. But I can agree with this.

 

[laudanum09]

Patton Oswalt said this about this movie

NO, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE WATCHMEN...
...but I can't wait.

Can't you?

No, you can't. You're all going to go see it, you resentful nerd mafiosi. And you'll walk in rolling your eyes and you'll walk out whistling sadly through your teeth because the fuel of the Nerd Mafia is disappointment and exclusion.

Tell you what -- before you go and see THE WATCHMEN, plunk down and watch CATWOMAN, GHOST RIDER and DAREDEVIL. And use those seven hours (and don't pretend like you don't have seven free hours in your day) to get out all of your disgust and the-world-owes-me-my-daydreams-made-real attitude you strut around with.

And no, the movie will not have EVERY LITTLE ELEMENT FROM THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. That's why the graphic novel exists -- you can go read it after you see the movie. Adaptation. Parallel visions. When you adapt a book, you cut things out, combine and conflate, streamline and linger.

Ahhhh, excellent. That's exactly how I feel. There's absolutely no reason to use a phoney sense of self-entitlement to bash the film. Actually legitimate film criticism would come from picking out elements of a film that just didn't work, fell flat, did not flow well, etc. Sure a lot of my friends approached their critique this way, but a lot of it was spoken with the tone that somehow zack snyder and warner brothers and the millions of dollars behind the film and hundreds of crew members were supposed to make a film to specifically satisfy their tastes and theirs alone.

This is condescension at its worst. And as far as Patton's snideness, it's totally legitimate. The part about the fuel of the nerd mafia is hilarious. Read through this forum and you'll find plenty of it, most of it hermetic and detached.

Thanks!

and as for you, sir, excellent post. All I have to say to the naysayers (not those that have legitimate criticism, but those that attack the film for aforementioned reasons) is that I would like to see them make the film. coordinate a massive crew. constantly look over your shoulder at the censors and the powers that be that are funding your work. I'd like to see them do even a fraction of the job that Snyder did. Chances are, the final product would be a REAL atrocity. Just youtube some re-creations of the comic before the movie. I bet a good amount of those terrible fan-films are made by the nerd mafioso.


PS. I am part of the nerd mafioso. But this does not mean im hyperbolically unrealistic. this does not mean im hysterical, don't have sex, and live in my mom's basement, screaming at her every five minutes for another taco bell quesadilla. But a lot of us do.

 

[Leenie]

Well, now. Wasn't that a bit ... Abrasive?

Let's all threaten people and tell them they're stupid if they don't see the movie. That'll teach them.

 

[laudanum09]

Well, now. Wasn't that a bit ... Abrasive?

Let's all threaten people and tell them they're stupid if they don't see the movie. That'll teach them.

I think the arguments here consist of more than "You're stupid." And no one's really trying to teach anyone anything. I think Oswald was probably being acerbic to be both funny and make a point about idiotic, hyper-hair splitting and abrasive fanboy arguments that diss on the film, not against intelligent critique.