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I Hate To Bring Up The Damn Watchmen Movie Again,
March 29, 2009 @ 08:31 PM
- by Brad Curran
- in General
- 14 Comments
especially since it’s off the wider cultural radar now that the South Park parody’s out there, and comics have also moved on, but I really have to throw this out there; is the actor who played the Comedian having a kid he didn’t know about ironic, or art immitating life, or what?
Does this mean Jackie Earl Haley’s getting vaporized in the arctic by a naked, god like Billy Crudup? Does anyone around here care? I can already feel Apdodaca rolling his eyes, but what about the less permanently jaded? Will any of you post comments, which I am not likely courageous enough to read, lest my fragile ego be diced by your sharp criticisms, which will clear this up for me?
14 Comments
Tom Fitzpatrick
March 29, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Another interesting tidbit about the Watchmen movie, it just passed the 100 mil mark.
karl
March 29, 2009 at 9:11 pm
southpark did a parody? i took the coon episode to be a parody of the dark knight
Brian
March 29, 2009 at 9:17 pm
a watchmen movie is coming out? when?
chad
March 29, 2009 at 9:27 pm
actully the south park episode was a parody of both watchman and dark knight with Cartman being Roarshach and i do not find Jeffery dean Morgan finding out he has a kid he did not know about like the comedian learing about his kid in watchman ironic just a little coicidencal
Apodaca
March 29, 2009 at 9:49 pm
“a watchmen movie is coming out? when?”
This made me chortle.
The Mutt
March 29, 2009 at 9:49 pm
He got to play The Comedian in Watchmen and bang Mary-Louise Parker.
He could be being bitten to death by fire ants while dying forgotten and alone of penis cancer in an under-funded county hospital and still say, “Yep, I had a good life.”
Dave
March 29, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Honestly, I view this as even more ironic in light of upcoming developments on Supernatural, considering that I haven’t been paying attention to the Watchmen movie at all.
JackKing
March 30, 2009 at 2:31 am
That South Park was a parody of Watchmen, Dark Knight and the Spirit.
Michael
March 30, 2009 at 4:11 am
It’s an amusing coincidence, nothing more.
And comics have, sadly, not moved on from Watchmen.
Wraith
March 30, 2009 at 6:58 am
Heh, I was just going to ask “comics have moved on from Watchmen? Alan Moore will be so relieved to learn this.”
David M
March 30, 2009 at 11:13 am
What is a bit ironic is that the Watchmen movie features two actors who used to bang Mary-Louise Parker: Billy Cruddup (Dr. Manhattan) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Comedian). I bet Bubastis used to bang Parker’s dog.
adam!
March 30, 2009 at 7:56 pm
and the baby in question’s real father is actually Billy Crudup.
adam!
March 30, 2009 at 7:59 pm
the baby in question being Mary-Louise Parker’s baby with Crudup when Crudup split with Parker.
Bob Modok
March 30, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Well, I’m probably going to catch it again soon, either way. Movie releases this big are business cards for the later DVD releases, and this will probably sell more than one copy. I think comics have moved onto the, oh, other comics that are out there, just as good or better than whatever this one was supposed to be, or are just plain cool, or all of the above. I like the Watchmen characters, though. If you leave behind the illogical assumptions, presumptions, and plot points, and, yikes, politics and moralities, or lack thereof, of the comic miniseries, then you’d have a great superteam structure that could successfully resurface in the standard DC universe as a regular series. Why not?