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Buy it anyway, it's a good game.  Surely the demo can't be giving you that much satisfaction.

The Man With No Name 说:

P.S. I don't even consider the gay cowboy movie, Brokeback Mountain, a western... and I don't like it, but it's also set in relatively modern times (1960s to 1980s).

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That's like saying you don't consider Slumdog Millionaire a western.

Mine in no particular order:
Dead Man
Fistful of Dollars
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3:10 to Yuma
Unforgiven
The Magnificent Seven
Tombstone
The Proposition

I'm with you 100%, but as logical and refreshing as that was, it can never silence the giddy hordes of "decapitashun is reaiztik."

Mr.Coffee 说:

BLAH!  BLArgH!! BLAHHHH!!!

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I know how to fix your problem, but you aren't going to like it.

Interesting 说:

People fighting naked is ridiculous.

They just do that because of the bonus.

No realism in seeing people running around naked.

Improve the armors.

Its ridiculous, the difference of wearing armor or not actually makes people play naked because its better!!!

Ridiculous.

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You should take this rant to a poetry jam.

Archonsod 说:

In fact, the main difference between someone like Rorschach and Batman is not physical potency but vulnerability. Batman and the like never die, or at least never stay dead (hello Captain America). In Watchmen there's an entire litany of hero's who were killed, many through perfectly mundane and normal methods (decapitated in a car crash. You wouldn't see that happen to the Green Lantern). In fact if anything the film holds to a slightly more realistic tone - Silhouette is killed by an anti-homosexual fanatic rather than "a minor foe of hers", Veidt uses Manhattan's quantum reactor rather than a genetically engineered explosive squid, Rorschach kills the pedo with a knife rather than trapping him in a burning building. In those terms it's a much more mundane piece; the comic still dips into the light fantastic from time to time.

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Good points.  I just have a hard time believing in a character's vulnerability when they are smashing rocks with their bare hands, regardless of whether they get killed later on in the story.  It's a quibble.
  And yeah, the omission of the monster was definitely a sound decision from the filmmaker's perspective, but it would have been interesting to see them try to make it work.  I guess Alan Moore's sense of humor was tired of being subdued for 11 issues, and it just got away from him in the form of an exploding psychic squid.

Archonsod 说:

ecto_plasm 说:

Realism was a very important element of Watchmen. 

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Giant exploding psychic squids?

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I meant realism according to the rules of the Watchmen universe.  Mad science notwithstanding, there is still some form of physics which keeps paragons of fitness from punching holes in brick or shifting pooltables with a hard shove.  Those are little additions that aren't in the book, and I have questions about why the director felt the need to add those details when the entire selling point of the film was shooting the comic panel to frame.  When you're watching an adaptation, what is added or left out says a lot about the director.  Zach Snyder apparently likes things either "wicked," "sick" or "awesome," but apparently not verisimilar.  I just feel he made two of the most important scenes in the movie laughable.

Archonsod 说:

ecto_plasm 说:

One of the things that makes the Watchmen feel like the Watchmen (as a comic book) is that the violence looks like real violence, not hyperviolence. 

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Erm, no it doesn't. You just have to look at the topknot panels to see it.

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Touché.  Snyder didn't **** with that scene too much, probably because it was bloody enough for him on paper.

There's a way to show "peak of human potential" without resorting to camp.  The Watchmen movie pushes my suspension of disbelief a bit far.  Granted the story is about "super" heroes and one of the characters is a big naked nuclear reactor, but that works fine by the rules that the story sets up for itself.  Someone built like a wrestler who has no other abilities punching through a brick wall doesn't work even by the rules of this fictitious world, which is why it makes no sense.  Breaking a toilet with a kick, I can buy, punching a brick wall, or throwing someone into a pooltable, moving the pool table?  It's jarring.  They might as well just display "bam!" and "whap!" text across the screen whenever someone throws a punch.  One of the things that makes the Watchmen feel like the Watchmen (as a comic book) is that the violence looks like real violence, not hyperviolence.  Realism was a very important element of Watchmen.  My feeling is that Snyder read it, fell in love with how "badass" the characters were, and stopped his thought process there.

The movie as a whole was decent, as Zach Snyder was nice enough to transpose most of the book verbatim to film.  That said, any intelligent discussion of morality or clever analysis of superhero literature was entirely Mr. Moore's, and nothing Zach Snyder added to it was really all that clever.  I felt like he kind of half-assed it.  All he contributed to the story were these little sophomoric touches like skanking up Silk Spectre II's costume a bit (which was a little out of character) and cranking the violence up to retarded Frank Miller levels, which has to be insulting for a clever writer like Moore.  Most of why I liked this movie had to do with the cinematography and the casting.

  He directed the rape scene as though it was a vaudeville comedy piece, and filled it with his characteristic earth-moving punches.  Everything was so exaggerated.  Comedian throws SSI into the ****ing pool table so hard it moves, instead of pinning her to the ground, which was a lot more ominous in the book.  She scratches him in the face lightly, and he loses it, but Snyder has to turn up the violence knob and transform a scratch into a ****ing right hook.  The inclusion of the punch over the scratch makes the scene look like superhero foreplay, and not an attempted rape.  He also cranks up the violence to satirical level during the Comedian's death.  The first time I saw a brick wall get punched through, I laughed my head off.  The sex scene in the owlship was also terrible.  He turned a very human moment in the book into late night skinemax.

Things Snyder got right?  I though the way he treated Doctor Manhattan's origin was pretty moving.

So, in short, the movie succeeds in places where Snyder doesn't mess around with things, like Doc Manhattan's chapter, and fails where he does, like the rape of Silk Spectre.

The United States of America does not contribute to the rest of the world.  The rest of the world contributes to the United States of America.

I want to kill everyone in Warband, as that's what Warband is for.

Just bought this.  My old Freedom Force disc went obsolete a while ago.

"It was the snake's signal for help"

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Only if he was doing it for cash.

Zaro 说:

I'd say that wealth doesn't exist in a bubble

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No, it's simply perceived wealth. It's like playing monopoly and giving everyone as extra $1000. The perception is that they have more money, but in actual fact their relative worth remained the same.

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Well, perceived wealth is what you end up with when you look at people's finances from inside a bubble, isolated from parameters such as relative worth, type of economy, etc., so I think we're agreeing on this point.

Tiberius Decimus Maximus 说:

And there is the heart of the problem. They do not have the skill to seize the opportunities presented to them. Thus they remain in the lower/middle class. Which is what I said. And you denied. 

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[quote author=Warren Buffet]I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil... I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well - disproportionately well. Mike Tyson, too. If you can knock a guy out in 10 seconds and earn $10 million for it, this world will pay a lot for that. If you can bat .360, this world will pay a lot for that. If you're a marvelous teacher, this world won't pay a lot for it. If you are a terrific nurse, this world will not pay a lot for it. Now, am I going to try to come up with some comparable worth system that somehow (re)distributes that? No, I don't think you can do that. But I do think that when you're treated enormously well by this market system, where in effect the market system showers the ability to buy goods and services on you because of some peculiar talent - maybe your adenoids are a certain way, so you can sing and everybody will pay you enormous sums to be on television or whatever - I think society has a big claim on that.[/quote]
I'd say that wealth doesn't exist in a bubble, and there are many factors outside personal competence that contribute to wealth.  But whatever, thus sayeth Tiberius Decimus Maximus: nurses and teachers are lower middle class because they don't have skills.