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Watchmen Watched
In a blatant attempt to make my movie-going a valid business expense, I'm putting together some notes on Watchmen, and providing a place for you all to discuss it. The first thing I want to say is that I had high hopes: If you ask any serious comic book nerd what the most important book is, they will probably give you one of two answers, and "Watchmen" is the right one. So really Snyder, the director of 300, could only do wrong. Fortunately for me, he was very true to the book: just like 300, many sequences are shot-for-shot from the comics. Some stuff didn't make it, and the new ending has a different meaning to me (one that really isn't as satisfying, but is certainly cleaner). But what I can't say is if it was a good movie or not. I sorta wish I could get an impartial opinion of someone who isn't a nutty fan of the book to tell me how it stands as a movie. I imagine a bit slow, wordy and maybe a bit confusing in parts. I'll leave full reviews to others, but I enjoyed the picture and suspect you will too.
M$ Windoze just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the malware servers that you M$ addicts use to distribute pr0n and personal information across teh intarwebs, but the average computer user is sick of spending months reinstalling M$ Windoze and then hours reinstalling non-free software so that they can get a workable machine to check their mail with just to get it pwned once again in a few weeks, especially not when they can get a workable GNU/Linux machine that already does its job perfectly well and is backed by freedom, stability, and security; as opposed to M$ Windoze which is only supported by M$ and char-throwing execs. The last thing I want is a chair-throwing fucktard providing me my OS which can be pwned in a mere minutes.
Does anybody have a link to a torrent of this movie? Preferably a promotional DVD rip, I hate cams.