Forum Overview :: Watchmen: The End is Nigh :: Attempting to ruin Watchmen.

[quote name="Creexuls, a monster >:3"]<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e27d8426-f3db-11dd-9c4b-0000779fd2ac.html">This was linked from Andrew Brietbart's Big Hollywood (dot com!).</a> It starts off, like some Tom Chick "deep" article, with a meaningless unrelated story crammed in to mean something in relation to the article. [quote]Dateline London, January 2009. Six of us – your reporter and a handful of travellers – were in ta Tube train halted in a station when we overheard the intercom in the driver’s cabin. “Stay in the station till further notice,” burbled the voice. “No trains passing through Oxford Circus, driver. Staff there examining a glowing pot.” A what? The six of us exchange quizzical glances: surely we have misheard. Glowing pot? Then the voice came on again. “No further movement, driver. Stay on platform. Ongoing delay due to glowing pot.” So there: the world is a comic strip and we are in it[/quote] No, you are not. [quote]Today the best comics are honoured as near-prophetic screeds: their mix of words and pictures form a pop-hieroglyphic art that tilts at global or social anxieties, through fable and fantasy, and interrogates notions of heroism, while occupying an aesthetic vantage ground between literature and cinema.[/quote] [quote]Can Hollywood handle that? Can it handle the soar of thought and reach of eschatological feeling? Can it do justice to the book’s succession of frozen images whose meanings wrestle for release, and whose gestures reach towards the dream of motion, like the unfinished sculptures of Michelangelo?[/quote] I think it was on bighollywood just because of this part: [quote]Today, Watchmen’s extended Nixonian America seems weirdly similar to the late, <b>unlamented</b> George W Bush regime[/quote] Wuhhhhhhhhh? *huge laughter and applause for 10 full minutes, net*[/quote]