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Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble?
brumgrunt writes "Friday marks the 50th day on general release for what was the long-awaited Watchmen movie. But how much money has it made, and how has it measured up to Warner Bros' expectations? Has it, bluntly, been worth the gamble, expense and hassle? "
Talk about scraping the bottom for story submissions. Are we going to start getting updates to see whether Marley & Me was worth it too?
This the sort of feature that will be able to have about 5 different DVD releases, with the niche market running out to buy every version. You can have the theatrical release, which will occur in the next few months, and about six months after that then you can have your director's cut release, and then a year after that you can have your "Ultimate Director's Edition!" which will cost 3 X as much as the Theatrical release and include inane commentary and material that was left on the cutting room floor for a reason.
The studios will be fine, they just won't make the killing that they'd like too on it!
Silly Dr. Manhattan. You could've just remembered you watching it in the future, and not bothered going. Except then you wouldn't have seen it, so you'd have to go, and then you would have seen it, so you don't have to go and...
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Fuck the studios' happiness. These are the same people who claimed to the author of FORREST GUMP that there were no net profits to share with him. You remember that bomb, doncha? Only made $330M domestic in theatres. How anybody at that studio could afford to feed a family after that disaster is beyond me. And by "family" I mean "cocaine habit."
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I for one can't wait till they release the Watchmen Babies edition... V for Vacation sounds awesome
"In this case would they have been better off making a couple of PG-13 films?
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll eventually make the money back off the animated series :)
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He didn't specify more than one person, so the sensible assumption is one person.
Did you miss "For the price of two people going to see the movie"? But yes. This is slashdot so expecting any to have a date for the movies is ... well... you know :)
Love that is was Long.
You mean the movie, or....?
My moma always said that watching a movie sequel is like eating an entire box of chocolate, just after you finish eating an entire box of chocolate. It usually makes you sick to your stomach...
What about the extended and expanded editions, not to mention character-specific editions, the Gold edition, and the Super edition?
And the McDonald's Special Edition, which includes a short badly animated cartoon about Ronald McDonald teaming up with Roscharch and Doctor Manhattan to catch hamburger thieves.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
What part of the tags "bluepenis" and "bigbluepenis" makes you think this wasn't the porn version? ;-)
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Indeed. I have read several reviews before seeing the movie and they all spent a full paragraph talking about blue swinging schlongs throughout the movie. I expected that Dr. Manhattan had bludgeoned several people with his penis, or that it had some speaking scenes. In reality there are a couple of shots that briefly show full frontal nudity. Maybe reviewers were shown some un-edited version of the movie?
Ok ok, balance this... 5 minutes of full frontal of Dr. Quad Cock vs. 0 minutes of full frontal of Silk Specter.
Yah. Fair.