Or something like that. Long-time right-wing nutter, Debbie Schlussel, has let loose with a review of the movie, and while I approach the weekend after opening weekend (when I'm able to see it) with open-yet-hopeful apprehension, it's things like this that will keep me entertained. Especially fun is her assertion that "Watchmen" is obviously made with and marketed with a kid's audience in mind, an insanity that continues to run unabated, if not uncorrected, through her comments below the actual article.
Thank you, Debbie Schlussel! You've managed to make even the weirdest of comic book psychotic nerds look somewhat normal!
There were so many disgusting, violent, morbid, grisly scenes and acts of killing, I had to start writing them down, lest I forget. And that's in addition to the rape scene between superheroes (complete with violent beating of a female superhero) and an explicit sex scene between two other superheroes. Oh, and don't forget another superhero's swinging computer-generated penis frequently in your face on-screen.
In just the opening credits of this mindless celluloid claptrap, there's a lesbian take-off on the famous photo of a woman kissing a sailor in Manhattan who is returning victorious from World War II. The lesbian make-out scene, featuring a "superhero," is bad enough. But then, we see cops looking over their naked, bloodied, dead bodies on a bead, with the words "LESBIAN WHORES," written in blood on the wall.
Mommy, mommy, what's a lesbian? What's a whore? And remember, this is just the opening credits.
The "plot" of this movie--if you can call it a plot--is that there were costumed superheroes in the '40s and beyond. They grew old, but some of them didn't. Then a new crop of costumed superheroes with special powers cropped up, some of whom were related to the older ones and some who still remained from the older group. But they all retired. Now, a superhero known as "The Comedian"--who is also a rapist and shot a Vietnamese woman who was pregnant with his kid (all of which we see depicted on-screen)--is murdered, and some of the superheroes, "The Watchmen," get back together to find out who did it.
At the same time, the Soviets are about to nuke America. It's 1985 and Nixon is President. We've won in Vietnam. Oh, and Henry Kissinger has a Russian accent. And Ronald Reagan is thinking of running for President in 1998. Wow, isn't that cool that they got it wrong on purpose? I'm so amazed at this "high-brow art" of deliberately getting dates and timelines wrong, you know, just to be "artistic," and get the drooling of the critics. That is sooooo genius. Like way totally cool.
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on Mar 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
That woman is Crazy.
Didn't she write a whole book about how since every adult isn't really a "grown-up" since the 60's because the acceptance of countercultureral ideas, questioning of authority and acceptance of those different then us is going to lead to us being wiped out be Muslims?
Also, who could possibly think that Watchmen is being marketed to children? Those action figures aren't even marketed to kids, if you try to do anything "action" with those un-articulated deals they'll break right off the bat!