240: Watchmen (2009)
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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This week, we're discussing Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen! We talk about terribly on the nose musical choices, how Zack Snyder has 1000% enthusiasm and maybe 0% insight into this graphic novel, and Jocelyn advances a perhaps controversial casting idea for this film.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.7 | I hate my life, everybody. |
| 0:26.9 | I hate my life, one and all. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Ahead, but I love it. |
| 0:29.8 | I am Jocelyn Gettie. |
| 0:30.9 | I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.7 | Continuing mediocre superhero month, we are talking about Watchmen. |
| 0:39.9 | I feel like I want to just put up a little umbrella like Wiley Coyote when a boulder is about to fall on the set. |
| 0:45.8 | Please, don't be mad, Snyder Fats. |
| 0:48.5 | It'll be fine. |
| 0:49.8 | It'll be fine. |
| 0:50.8 | Now, what are your feelings on this movie? |
| 0:52.8 | To be clear, I have not read the graphic novel. |
| 0:57.8 | I'd read Synopsies and stuff. |
| 0:59.8 | I knew going in this movie from what I've read, and I've talked to other people about it, it's a fairly faithful adaptation of the graphic novel. |
| 1:10.8 | That said, I don't find it that good of a film. |
| 1:15.8 | It's competently made-ish. |
| 1:19.8 | It's just because the graphic novel, it's a bunch of different episodes that eventually lead up to the end. |
| 1:26.8 | Whereas in a movie, I don't get the sense of any real rise and fall in plot. |
| 1:31.8 | It just sort of keeps going until you're at the end of the movie. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah, it's very long. |
| 1:38.8 | We didn't even watch the director's cut. |
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