entertheninja!

Chuck Norris can blink without moving his eyes...

or

It took 5 women 2 months to give birth to Chuck Norris...

or

Chuck Norris got a perfect score on the SAT's just by filling in Chuck Norris for name...

I like that idea. I really loved Fuji's suggestion to customize those people and AI fits pretty well here.

On the other hand, I guess customizing more popular characters might sell better on eBay, which means we'd have more money to give away in the end.

Maybe we could do fantastic versions of great people.

Dude the Chcuk Norris thread is in the Minimates' Arms not in the customs section...jeez...lol

and im up for doing literature characters...even if the kids recieving them dont know who it is it'll spark their interest...

John McCain was allowed to live, because Chuck Norris shows respect, and doesn't kill women...

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked, right as Mr.T punched and the end result was the UNIVERSE!

orrrrr...

Chuck Norris Doesn't sleep he waits

Newman...

I'm loving the Rorschach...Good Job

happy birthday!

Chuck Norris went to Mccdonalds and he asked for a Whopper...and he got one...

it makes me chuckle every time I hear it...

Truth be told, I just don't have any clear Minimates, so I figured I would go with comic accuracy.

Personally, I think an official 'Mate would look pretty cool with a mostly opaque, frosted look.

Now it's time for parts hunting, which got me looking at my parts bucket. Oddly enough I only have 7 2" heads, 4 of which are unpainted. But I have 11 crotch pieces...

you could build a crotch monster...

i love your dr.horrible set...and the watchmen set is delicious...

dr manhattan

my doc manhattan looked just like that but more vibrant...i'm loving your customs keep up the good work!i'll post it later

thats the thing i made him without emotion,careless,like he is in the comic and movie

colorwise like more vibrant blue....

I'm glad I inspired karamazov80!i feel like my day is complete now...and replying to minimadman's post yep i own that app for my itouch and it's pretty good...i just found out that you can change the size of the pen to draw on his face...i wanna download justice is coming...

dr manhattan

my doc manhattan looked just like that but more vibrant...i'm loving your customs keep up the good work!i'll post it later

Race to Witch Mountain won Friday and Last House on the Left was 2nd I think...So I guess Watchmen came in third with about 20-25 million...Variety confirmed the winners of Friday but that was my estimation on money...have you noticed that even before the movie came out I've kind of been tracking the money...I strangley feel like Roger Ebert and Bernie Madoff's child...

many of you will have Watchmen Minimates when YOU are old & grey!

Like you are now?

And the spelling comes from muscle memory as I'm used to spelling specter that way.

Hay Cahn't whe ahll jhust ghet ahlong...lol spelling variations

Love the new entries mabait!

What did you use for the glowing bat-symbol in Batman Lantern?

And this is kind of a stupid question, but what does TFL stand for?

first i made a bat logo out of a piece of cardboard then pressed it onto clay(play-doh) then poured a clear liquid epoxy

and TFL means "thanks for looking" :biggrin:

i thought TFL meant"Two Frothy Lattes"...i feel like a artard...

I saw this on IESB and thought you peoples should know...it seems heartfelt

AN OPEN LETTER FROM A WATCHMEN SCREENWRITER

So it has been five months since I saw my first rough cut of WATCHMEN, and eight days since the premiere of the film I've been working on since late in the year 2000.

The reviews are out -- Some outstanding, others rankly dismissive, which can be frustrating for the people involved, (though I can only speak for myself,) because I firmly believe that WATCHMEN, the novel, must be read through more than once to even have the faintest grip on it. And I believe the film is the same.

I've seen it twice now, and despite having run the movie in my head thousands of times, my two viewings still don’t' allow me to view the film with the proper distance or objectivity. Is it Apocalypse Now? Is it Blade Runner? Is it Kubrick, or Starship Troopers? I don’t know yet.

All I know is that I had a pretty amazing experience the two times I've seen it. And both viewings produced remarkably different experiences. The point is, I have listened for years, to complaints from true comic book fans, that "not enough movies take the source material seriously." "Too many movies puss out," or "They change great stories, just to be commercial." Well, I f***ing dare you to say any one of those things about this movie.

This is a movie made by fans, for fans. Hundreds of people put in years of their lives to make this movie happen, and every one of them was insanely committed to retaining the integrity of this amazing, epic tale. This is a rare success story, bordering on the impossible, and every studio in town is watching to see if it will work. Hell, most of them own a piece of the movie.

So look, this is a note to the fanboys and fangirls. The true believers. Dedicated for life.

If the film made you think. Or argue with your friends. If it inspired a debate about the nature of man, or vigilante justice, or the horror of Nixon abolishing term limits. If you laughed at Bowie hanging with Adrian at Studio 54, or the Silhouette kissing that nurse.

Please go see the movie again next weekend.

You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week. 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. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it'll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we'd like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again.

In the interests of full disclosure, let me also point out that I do not profit one cent from an increase in box office, although an increase in box office can add to the value of the writers' eventual residual profits from dvd and tv sales.

But I'm not saying it for money. I'm saying it for people like me. I'm saying it for people who love smart, dark entertainment, on a grand, operatic scale. I'm talking to the Snake fans, the Rorschach fans, the people of the Dark Knight.

And hey, if you hated the film, if you think we committed atrocities, or literary mistakes of a massive, cephalopodic nature. If the movie made you a little sick to your stomach, or made you feel bad about your life. If you hated it for whatever reason, that's cool too. I'm not suggesting you risk gastro-intestinal distress just for the sake of risky filmmaking.

But if you haven't seen it yet? Well, I'll just say this...

It may upset you. And it probably will upset you.

And all along, we really meant it to.

Because face it. All this time...You there, with the Smiley-face pin. Admit it.

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. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know...

You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.

And yet... 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.

Might as well make it count for something.

David Hayter

Just to be clear, I wasn't saying I have read it countless times to suggest that my opinion on any of it is anymore valid than anyone's or that I have more street cred or whatever.

I neither wanted to pick on you, nor did I regard your statement as boastful. I just kind of liked the possibility of replying like that.

It's hard to dump a single part when making a watch.

Single best review of the movie I have read.

Thanks for that.

...the sex, and violence is what makes watchmen an adult graphic novel...

I don't think so. You are right in a very bureaucratic sense, for sex and violence actually forces a movie to be rated somehow different. What might make Watchmen an "adult graphic novel" should be it's complexity and multilayerd subject matters.

And also I really would've liked it if they played that end scene with Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan straight. You know, that beautiful, bittersweet scene where Ozymandias goes,

"I did the right thing, didn't I Jon? It all worked out in the end."

Dr. Manhattan's reply was what really did it for me. I think this scene would've added so much more complexity to the movie ending as it humanizes Ozzy even more (now that Snyder's had to go all

villain

with his treatment of the character) and reminds us that this was a guy who desperately wanted good for the world just as much as Nite Owl II or Rorschach did.

I talked - rather fanboy debated - about that with a friend of mine right after watching the movie and we both deeply missed that sentence. But we both agreed about movie Veidt would never articulate such thoughts. In the movie he's way too flat and stereotype - that miserable attempt to put him in perspective by letting him recommend renewable energy sources was just lousy and awkward - rather than the round and eloquent character he is in the comic. (He convinced me that he is the nice guy up to the point were he killed his Vietnamese workers leaving me totally shocked and disbelieving! I actually re-read that pages because I thought I misunderstood something!) Just like Turtle said:

He immediately screamed villain, not Apollo.

That, unfortunately, is exactly the point.

the way the media makes it seem is what i had said...it is neccessarry to the story...but not absolutley vital

after a few days of thinking over the film as a whole...i've realized that zach synder did the best he could in adapting HIS own interpretation of watchmen...i'm starting to appreciate it now even more...and the end is what got me...

And i take back what i said earlier about the violence being unneccessary...the sex, and violence is what makes watchmen an adult graphic novel...

Has anyone played the Watchmen game, The End is Nigh? Rorschach's commentary while beating up bad guys is the best XD

i played a couple levels at the palms...it was fun its really a beat em' up game tho...

Well it hit number one with 56 million looks like most watched the watchmen.

Here Watchmen was originally rated R-18, but we also have one of the worst censor boards ever (peg it to our extremely conservative/Catholic culture) so the film was cut "strategically" to get the more "acceptable" rating of R-13 (meaning kids younger than 13 can't watch the film at all) so that Watchmen still gets a wider audience locally. And personally I support the naked Dr. Manhattan depiction NOT JUST for comic-accuracy but because it's an important reflection of Dr. Manhattan's god-like "condescending" view towards humanity. Remember that this was the guy who called Ozymandias a threat no bigger than "the world's smartest termite." He can create water out of thin air and make random people implode, what would HE care if the rest of common society found his blue junk vulgar-looking?

The sex/violence thing though might indeed be pushing it, but then I guess this level of creative license is what always defined Zach Snyder as a moviemaker. I still can't help thinking about how he did 300 and Dawn of the Dead when compared to the originals.

And Bob, I 100% agree with you on your point about the newbie audience being too confused by the title. I believe TV Tropes explains this blasted phenomenon quite aptly.

If that's the case then why does he wear underwear in some other scenes? Or even a suit?

because he is a victim to good prices at Men's Warehouse...

In any case, the way the movie paints it the unfortunate implication is STILL that the Silhouette's death involved her being a lesbian, the only question being exactly who did it (in the comic the enemy that killed her was looking for revenge, here it looks like the enemy might've been homophobic as well... again, all open to interpretation). I guess this just really hit too close to home for me as some of my closest family and friends are homosexual, and I would've figured movies today would know better than to avoid going

that route as far as depicting LGBT characters are concerned .

OK, I got your point. Having a few homosexual friends myself this might get personal somehow, but regarding the time that fictionally happened, I think it's not that obscure. I don't see it as a problem of nowadays filmmaking. The line in Under the Hood just says "... six weeks later she was murdered, along with her lover, by one of her former enemies." We don't get the motive. An at least the others were forced to expel her from the group because of her private lifestyle, so homophobia is a topic. Not to forget the other homosexual couple and the problems they had. (And it still feels wrong for Dan to have these fetish desires.)

Although I am STILL vehemently against their literally naming their team "Watchmen": it worked so well in the comic because it was never said outright (and also, never with an effing "the" at the beginning

), and thus registers as being a terrifically foreboding thematic symbol. If I had to hate one single change the movie made from the comic, it had to be the usage of "Watchmen."

I guess that is some stupid mainstream cliché. "Why is the movie called Watchmen, when there are no Watchmen. Why didn't you just call the movie Crimebusters?" The thought that you actually have to say it outright, for the crowd otherwise would be totally confused is just ridiculous. People aren't that stupid. Did the phrase "Dark Knight" was ever used in that movie? But maybe this is just one of those things that - to quote the NY Times review - rankles us die-hard cultists. But we maybe should consult someone who didn't previously read the comic.

Oh, and the gore, sex, nudity etc. In particular the scene where Rorschach cleaves the killer's head with a butcher knife several times, that would have been better off as a silhouette or a shadow. And the director can't make up his mind when to show Dr. Manhattan fully nude and when to have him wear underwear. His penis even swung for a few moments.

That Rorschach scene was very explicit and it didn't had to be like this, since it never happened in the Comic. There Rorschach chains the guy to the stove, souses the whole place with fuel leaving him a saw, commenting: "Shouldn't bother trying to saw through handcuffs. Never make it in time." Then he leaves and lights up the place. You don't see anything, but Kovacs brutally, changing him to become Rorschach is all there. I think some of the gore scenes were justified when you take the comic as the source material and illustrate that these fights aren't just a harmless brawl, but an acting that leaves you appalled and to call the whole adventurer/vigilante thing into question. Most of it was just exploitation and therefore unnecessary, like it's already discussed here.

The sex scene, nudity and penis are an interesting point. I don't see any reason why this should have been changed regarding the comic as source again. Maybe cdubya is right and it is a cultural thing someway, because here - Europe - no one I talked to was offended by seeing a naked man at all. I was glad Snyder did it that way, not because I wanted to see a penis, but I wanted the movie to stick to the comic. I'm not a friend of censorship at all and I think if there is a reason to show explicit scenes to make the story or it's characters more authentic, then you should show it. In many other cases its intention actually is to offend recipients to make them think about it. (Several plays come to mind right now.) In the end it's up to the audience to decide whether to see the story as is, or leave it be. But that's just my point of view.

Oh, and to mention, in Germany it's rated something like US "R", but for people under 16. (In case you're interested, we have ratings for G, PG, PG-12, R-16 and NC-17 here.)

the cleavering scene was unneccassary(excuse my spelling) and had to be put in by zac snyder because well it is a zac snyder movie...violence is fine but to a crtain extent it just gets borin overdone and downright disgusting...like with the knot tops, the leg crashing inside out was fine but then with the bone popping out completley it just gave me chills...the sex was fine and neccessary and i think that showing his penis was okay because the US is to scared to look at human anatomy and say "oh its normal"...the US really are a bunch of

with that stuff...all in all okay film...

I just saw watchmen...

it was awesome but not awesome at the same time.

pros:

doc manhattan's scenes were awesome

rorschach was well played

no squid

adrian's ass handed 2 him by nite owl

too many flashbacks

comedian+wall=pwnage

slow mo

i got freecrap from my comic book store!!

cons:

ozymandias' acting

no squid

not enuff blue penis

bubastis cheap cg

not enuff news stand

cowbell needed more

no proper ending

RAPE!!!!

it was good but the book was better!

Four more hours till my midnight showing! Yay!

i hate you...lol