http://thewarrenreport.com Draw your own conclusions. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:16:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thewarrenreport.com/2009/03/07/think-one-watchman-worth-watching-video-blog/ http://thewarrenreport.com/2009/03/07/think-one-watchman-worth-watching-video-blog/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:01:19 +0000 Warren http://thewarrenreport.com/?p=6486 WATCHMEN, reportedly, cost $130 million to make. It is easy to see how those dollars were spent on screen. The movie’s abundant effects are impressive, whether they be Dr. Manhattan‘s perpetual-motion Martian timepiece or Big Blue’s vanishing codpiece and consequently-revealed, telescoping tube-steak. Rorschach’s mask is a particularly well-realized visual. However, I wish Zack Snyder would have sunk just a few more bucks into the cast. Having seen Robert Downey Jr.‘s alchemic performance last year, transforming IRON MAN into box office gold, I thought the evidence was substantive: hire great actors for the silliest roles. Instead, Snyder, the slo-mo yo-yo, has populated WATCHMEN with C-list stars hard-pressed to carry a Sharpee let alone a studio tent-pole. (In both cases, because no fan would ever want or need them to.) Patrick Wilson? Malin Akerman? Jeffrey Dean Morgan? Really? Granted, Billy Crudup is a fine stage actor, but here he’s a monotone monolith in a mo-cap suit that allows for range as dynamic as Stephen Hawking playing shortstop for the Yanks. All that said, one of the WATCHMEN does deserve applause. Take a look at today’s THINK piece, a video blog celebrating the contributions of the unlikeliest superhero. Then, draw your own conclusions and share them on this post.

 

]]> http://thewarrenreport.com/2009/03/07/think-one-watchman-worth-watching-video-blog/feed/ 2 http://thewarrenreport.com/2009/03/06/video-blog-ill-take-dr-manhattan/ http://thewarrenreport.com/2009/03/06/video-blog-ill-take-dr-manhattan/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:15:02 +0000 Warren http://thewarrenreport.com/?p=6489 There are many riddles in the movies, many mysteries. Some of them imponderable such as Joel Schumacher‘s career, others are worth studying for months. Consider:  the glowing briefcase in PULP FICTION, the glowing trunk in REPO MAN, and now, the glowing, blue “trunk” in WATCHMEN. Thanks to Zack Snyder and his band of over-stimulated CGI pranksters, Dr. Manhattan is THE new front-runner in any three-legged race. However, a quick check on-line suggests that Alan Moore‘s graphic novel isn’t quite so, well, graphic. But I want an answer: why has the nuked physicist approximated Uncle Miltie‘s greatest gift? Check out my video package below. Really, watch, man. If anyone can solve this enigma, you are bound to win a substantial prize. (Please note: You needn’t be a member to enter!)

 

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