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I'll be honest - I really want to enjoy the book, but MY GOD is it boring! Im half way through the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and It is horrible so far. I am assuming something was lost in translation because it seems absolutley shallow.
I'm going out on a limb in thinking that it ends with a BANG and not a fizzle and that is what has folks hooked.
Please correct me if I am wrong. I have to believe all the people I see reading the book and all the critics and all the folks loving the movies have to be RIGHT! Right?

HELL YEAH! but hey its in french?!

I have a feeling this will make a ton of cash. After seeing it I actually wanted to see it again. Havent had that urge in a while. So who is with me on seeing it again? then buying the blue ray and the book?

I am so glad that you wrote this review the way you did. This is almost exactly how I describe the book when recommending it. The book is a disgusting, beautiful, hopeless, hopeful piece of art that left me crying at the end also. All I must say to all who read the book or see the movie.....what would you do?

She is full of it. Making people smile is easy,making the laugh is tougher. Same token scaring a player. Now "Making them cry " is a metaphor for the players emotionally connecting with the story and the things that make the story. That is what is meant by that.
How many games have you really emotionally connected with EVER? How many games have you smiled at? how many have you laughed at? Put it in perspective and realize smiling and laughing is alot easier then a serious adult story. Story telling and moving images fit but hollywood is still the template unfortunatly.....or fortunatly, just look to your local theatre for examples of films you emotionally connect with, smile ator laugh with.

So yeah she is full of crap...probably reverse psychology for up and coming game writers who are trying to get stories that resonate in games.

WOW! I thought the trailer rocked including the music. But after reading your post, it completly makes sense what you said. Melancholy is nice but Donnie Darko had enough of that. A ton of pop songs would suck ass. Its doubt ful they would go that route though......I hope....................

If you have a monkey on your shoulder, expect folks to point or stare or comment or not to care. Catch my drift.
Here is another for you NOW THIS IS IN BAD TASTE!!!!!

"What did the other guy do?"

but thats after considering the "MADEOFF" situation and if the victims of that Ponsi scam had the opportunity to get there funds back what would THEY do.

By the way, Cinematical is great cause they are honest even when you disagree with there comments. Although way to much coverage on WATCHMEN....and I LOVED that flick LOL!!!

I have been itching to see a movie in 3-D that would engage me with the story in the fore ground while hinting at the deeper mystery in the back ground. Kind of a Whodunit? where all the clues are in each frame and you HAVE to pay attention to the scenery. That would be pretty cool.
What is not so cool is watching a film like Watchmen and seeing Dr. Manhattan in all his 3-D glory! Goes back to another post a few months back concerning full frontal and how most folks were uncomfortable. LOL!
Done right 3-D can be revolutionary.

Looks pretty good! Has enough of that dark feel to probably put it on "the most creepiest films watched" list 20 years down the line, for those children who see it presently. the muted tones really gives me that Time Bandits by Terry Gilliam vibe off of it. And i loved Time Bandits as a kid. Found it creepy as hell too.

And that poster is fantastic!!!

Just a thought before my reply...........Why no comparisons to the other "Dark" superhero movie?
any whoooooo


Watchmen is an ANTI SUPER HERO MOVIE! That is why people don't get it. ITS THE ANTI POPCORN MOVIE! ANTI DRAMA!
Takes the entire idea of entertainment and makes you pay attention whether its to the violence, or sexuality, or the insanity. Wraps up A movie that should be one thing in a cloak of a different color so that when what is revealed under that cloak is so different that it leaves the mind wondering WTF?!
So top understand it the book is flying off the shelves and people are reading it and are opening there eyes and to quote Neo the one Keanu, they all say "whoa".
So it begs a second view!
As a matter of fact I enjoyed it even more the second time around. By the way I took three nay sayers with me and they all had mixed feelings about it. All enjoyed but 2 of them were pissed that the............ in the end and that ....................... so they were emotionally invested in some characters.
It is a success. But takes the idea of cinema and movies and slightly alters it.....hey just like pulp fiction....