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[challenge entry] quick, dirty and distracted
a shoddy attempt at humour
what can I say? It's 0:08 and the watchmen movie is on sky...

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(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:08, archived)
# Even for hardcore devotees of the book,
the Watchmen film is a pretty good effort. Tune in, I urge.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:10, archived)
# I think you've got to be a hardcore devotee of the book
... to even get it.

Fortunately I am.

The hilariously bad sex scene is about to commence!
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:12, archived)
# Bizarrely,
it's the worst bit of the film. Htf did that happen?

(And I reckon the Rorshach stuff is done incredibly well. Which surprised me considerably.)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:15, archived)
# It's more unsettling than the rape.
Or the requisitioned prison metalwork thingummy.

I really enjoyed the film, but there are so many uncomfortable bits I find rewatching it deeply unpleasant.
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:22, archived)
# The bit with the industrial grinder and the limb
still (thankfully) gives me a sense of sheer disbelief.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:25, archived)
# In the book the guy just gets stabbed in the neck which is far less gory.
Was it a deliberate decision to ramp up the violence and hence stylise the film?
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:30, archived)
# Yes, I think so.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:33, archived)
# They made the ending less laughable than the comic
but still managed to keep mass murder and execution of a major protagonist.

most un-hollywood
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:30, archived)
# I would've preferred the laughable book ending to the one we got.
Just so we could've seen the repulsive DNA nightmare organism.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:35, archived)
# I take it all back
I forgot about the awful "happily ever after" epilogue.

and why show the news stand guy? There was no kid reading the pirates comic was there...?

maybe I'm just exhausted after 3 hours of it.
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 1:01, archived)
# nothing seems unsettling once you've watched irreversible
really - don't do it; you'll never be right again...
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:35, archived)
# sod that, i'm watching arachnophobia
and i've just spotted a HUGE spider on my wall
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:14, archived)
# KILL IT
Kill it with deodorant and a lighter.
(I helped save b3ta! BleachedEgo draw a cdc then get back to your teen porn.Pricks, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:15, archived)
# nah
my place is quite organic, i don't mind spiders
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:18, archived)
# Already?
Fucking hell, god help us in July then.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:16, archived)
# Moths are what I hate.
Sent to us by the devil to annoy and destroy warm summer nights, where you have to leave the windows open.
(I helped save b3ta! BleachedEgo draw a cdc then get back to your teen porn.Pricks, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:18, archived)
# yep
last year i had hundreds in here!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:21, archived)
# I was hoping that the unseasonally bad weather might have killed all the little bleeders
I was drowning a minimum of one 3"er per day in my kitchen sink last summer
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:18, archived)
# no
they were all hiding in my house
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:22, archived)
# i fucking hate bo selecta
and keith lemon for that fact
(I helped save b3ta! FIEND, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:21, archived)