Screenwriter: Watch the Watchmen Twice

As a fan of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel, I thought Watchmen was a terrific movie in spite of the excessive gore and the 17-hour run time. The comic's amusingly dystopian 1985 was captured perfectly -- President Nixon did not age well over the four terms he held office -- and I'm planning to see the movie again in IMAX, primarily for Jackie Earle Haley's Rorschach and the incredible opening credit sequence.

See if you can spot the tasteless metaphor in Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter's open letter begging people to see the film twice:

If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film's got both, literally), or true adaptations -- And if you're thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. ...

All this time, you've been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. ...

You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.

Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

Sally's a female super-hero who suffers an attempted sexual assault on a pool table.

Movies · Comics · 2009/03/15 · 1 COMMENT · Link

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Wow, what a misogynist douche... I'm kind of glad I didn't get into the movie now.

Haley was the best thing in it by a mile.

#1 · intepid · 2009/03/15