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AHH thank you for that Flo!! Ohh I'm excited for this movie!! Great interview as well! I love him!

- Jess

Got my Watchmen banner and avi (which I suprisingly made myself for the first time! (well i put pictures together haha)) I am totally ready for this movie!!

All I can say is ::heart stops:: Picks self up from the floor::

Wow! Look at all this talent! Nice work on the Watchmen banner and avi Jess! And Suzanne, OMG, that banner is to die for! Good lord this man makes me all warm and melty inside... Now I know I'll have sweet dreams!

I've got some Watchmen videos from youtube that I tried to post but it didn't work. How do I post videos from youtube?

The Five Things You Gotta Know About Watchmen
Today 7:11 AM PST by Fred Topel



It's a murder mystery! It's got superheroes you've never heard of! It's totally deep and way metaphysical! It's an '80s period piece, with Richard Nixon and a giant blue naked guy!

Graphic novel adaptation Watchmen opens this week to big buzz, even though you may know nothing about it. But don't worry. We sat down with the oddly familiar cast and director Zack Snyder to decode this antihero epic, and gather the five essentials:

1. Watchmen Is the Utimate Geek Comic: Want street cred at Comic-Con? Talk Watchmen. Anyone can go on about the X-Men, but aficionados obsess over Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 series—about how very twisted masked men and women in tights would really be.

2. The Dark Knight Was Lightweight: This isn't just a romp about beating up bad guys. Watchmen dwells on questions about the role of superheroes and the toll crimefighting takes on the psyche. Like The Dark Knight, only...darker. "You accept that Batman can walk around in a real world and that a bad guy can dress like a Joker," Snyder tells E! News. "Watchmen blows that up again. "It's time to take [those ideas] apart," he says, "and re-examine—without a smile or a wink—what the f--k this mythology is about."

3. Denny Duquette Is a Real A-hole: Izzy, don't accept any marriage proposals from The Comedian, played by Grey's Anatomy's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He may be one of the heroes, but he's a bad dude. Seriously. "I may lose a couple of Grey's Anatomy fans," Morgan tells us, "but I'll gain some Watchmen fans, so it's an even trade."

4. You Know These Characters, But You Don't: Watchmen doesn't have a Christian Bale or Heath Ledger or even a Wolverine or Spidey. What it has are heroes you'll find familiar, but with names like Nite Owl, Rorschach, Moloch the Mystic—and Silk Spectre, actually Malin Akerman in tight yellow synthetics. "I don't know if anyone in here has a latex fetish," Akerman (maybe you know her from Entourage?) tells us. "I certainly do not after this film."

5. The Giant Blue Penis Is a Fake: Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is the movie's only hero with actual superpowers, an energy force who looks like a big buff guy. He's too busy analyzing particles to put on pants, but don't get too excited. "I like being nude in front of people as much as the next guy," Crudup tells us, "but no, they insisted that I remain clothed, and they do all the work in postproduction

Source: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b102570 ... about.html

Jess this information can also be found at the beginning of each video thread (e.g. in ML, Supernatural, etc...) If you're still having problems let me know and I'll be happy to help! Flo

Hello Socialites.

I know some of you had asked me how you could embed your videos rather than having the link listed. So with that I just wanted to add a quick "How To: when it came to embedding your youtube videos.

When you go to your topic reply screen you'll see your action boxes (Below the subject line) There you will see the youtube action.

Quick Tip: To use this action take your cursor and place it over the youtube action box, no need to click it. The line below will tell you to enter the video ID string which is the letters and/or numbers after the v= in your video link.

Example:

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmd2JDYJWuo

The green section is the video ID. Take the video ID and place it in your post. Highlight the video ID and then click on the youtube action box.

Once you've done that it will then turn your ID into an Embed code.

Embed Code Example:

[you tube]Wmd2JDYJWuo[/youtube]

Once you submit your code the finish embed looks like so...

Here is an Embed YouTube Video

Here are the Watchmen Videos I found: (Thanks Flo for the help!!! )

Exclusive Watchmen Interviews {Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino}



Interviews with Watchmen actors Malin Akerman & Patrick Wilson



Watchmen Behind the Scenes

Thanks Mel, I would be home to watch .... but I can't, so I'll be waiting for your post!

xoxo

He is really cute on talk shows and has a great sense of humor .. I posted a video of him on Jimmy Kimmel in Jeffery Dean Morgan- New Movies. Odie . . you would have been proud of me . . I just presented yesterday a five minute spanish presentation about Cancun, Mexico. All in spanish. Of course I had note cards but still! Did you know: Cancún significa “dorada serpiente” en Maya.

Thanks Mel, I will be watching. I just love watching him talk, he always brings a BIG smile to my face. I also 2nd the Delicious Part!

I saw the video of him on Jimmy Kimmel, he's so cute and cool ...
Yes, I am, proud of you that is, 5 whole minutes of spanish, wow! I would have loved to have been there, listening ....
And no, I didn't know Cancún meant golden snake, I guess you never stop learning, thanks and congrats!
xoxo

Hahaha yes it was quite an accomplishment haha. (It really wasn't that great) But I was like . . MUST TELL ODIE! Haha

Just thought I would post this-Suzanne


Last year, before a screening of "The Dark Knight," the expectant crowd sat waiting for smart-but-satisfying comic-book action. As the trailers unspooled, one stood out as a moody, bruise-blue series of violent and elegant images, costumed crime fighters smashing through the world (and each other) with eerie beauty. After the trailer for "Watchmen," the theater I sat in was silent, until one voice shouted out: "What the hell was that?"

"What the hell was that?" is just as valid after seeing the full "Watchmen" as it was after seeing the trailer, not as a curse or a note of dismissal but rather as a stopgap as you try to wrap your head around one of the most intellectually ambitious and yet viscerally satisfying films we've had in a long time. "Watchmen" makes for a bizarrely bleak blockbuster, as director Zack Snyder ("300") turns writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons' rich, revisionist, justly praised, 12-part 1986 comic book into nothing less than an attempt to decode 20th century America through its pop culture and vice-versa.

"Watchmen" is set in a parallel 1985 in which Richard Nixon is still president, the Cold War is on the edge of boiling over, and a handful of people once dressed up in costume to fight crime (and one has powers so incomprehensible he's not even human anymore). "Watchmen" tries to do (and in many cases does) with comic-book movies what "The Godfather" did with gangster movies and "The Searchers" did with Westerns: Take a silly, very American genre and flip it to say serious things about America. Most comic-book movies (and comic books) are adolescent power fantasies; "Watchmen" is about the grown-up realities of power, and about the thin line between fantasy and nightmare.

The film begins with the murder of one of the old-school "masks," a heartless thug ironically called the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who went from back-alley scuffles in the '30s to black-bag government work after most of the heroes were outlawed in the mid-'70s. Demented detective Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, chilling and brutally effective despite mostly wearing a shape-shifting, psychedelic inkblot-styled mask) looks into the killing, warning and investigating his old comrades: Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), the all-too-human "smartest man alive"; Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), a beautiful woman in an ugly business; Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson, sympathetic and slumped), a drab, impotent depressive who used to stalk the streets with an arsenal of techno-toys; and Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup, disembodied and detached), whose superhuman ability to manipulate matter has pushed him further and further from his own humanity.

But "Watchmen" isn't about a murder any more than "The Godfather" is about the management of a family business; Snyder and screenwriters Alex Tse and David Hayter have turned Moore and Gibbons' moody masterwork into a sprawling, slithering film that stays with you in unexpected ways. Yes, you can feel where it's compressed to fit on the screen: the civilians who served as the Greek chorus in the original comic are shoved aside here in the name of expediency; and the finale feels too rushed to truly sink in as the film skims over the murderous monstrosity of a plan that began with a single killing.

But you have to appreciate the craft and labor that went into the visual splendor (both the physical sets and costumes and the computer-generated wonders), and also appreciate Snyder's refusal to look away from the irrational rationality that made the original so good. There's graphic sex and violence and fury here (not to mention a very naked, glowing, blue computer-generated superhuman), all of it curiously more real than in many mainstream dramas, and it makes you reconsider every comic-book film you've unthinkingly enjoyed. When Rorschach is imprisoned and lashes out at the criminals around him -- "You don't understand: I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!" -- the crowd laughed the deep, grunting laughter of people shocked by the pale, sick underbelly of every biff-bang-pow crime-fighting fantasy.

"Watchmen" takes familiar old concepts and slaps fierce new life into them, making you question where they came from even as you appreciate them in action, not ripping off our pop culture's past so much as reimagining, revising and remixing it. The film will please most of the longtime fans who have loved this story's dark heart for more than two decades. But some devoted purists will grumble (Moore himself has had his name removed from the film) at the changes and compressions. And those who don't know the source material will either fail to get how the violence and sex are self-contained cultural critique on the flaws and failings of comic books, or will be willingly pulled into the dense, ironic vision of a work of fiction that riffs on everything from Plato to "Apocalypse Now," from "The McLaughlin Group" to the Zapruder film. Snyder's 25-minute-longer director's cut (which will be in theaters in June) will probably feel less rushed and make for more complete viewing, but right now, even at 2 hours and 41 minutes, "Watchmen" still lands with a fast, mean gut-punch intensity, turning decades of bright-colored action and excitement into a funhouse mirror to make us reflect on the real 20th century's shades of gray.

Source: http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... ?GT1=28101