Who watches the WATCHMEN on the small screen? This guy!

1 comment July 20th, 2009

I’ve been writing about WATCHMEN since before it arrived in theaters (see here for a rundown), but at long last, the movie comes out on DVD tomorrow, and I’ve got an official review of the actual DVD (which, after all, is what I technically do as the so-called “Movie Man.”)

Here’s the print version.

And here’s the video version.

A closer look at those weapons

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If you’re trying to figure out the Movie Weapons puzzle I posted a few days ago, here’s a link to a high-res version of the image that might make things easier. (That small bundle in the front with the string around it, for instance, becomes obvious once you can read the label — though again, it’s not really a weapon.)

Here in the newsroom, we’ve got just about everything except the barbecue fork-looking thing on the left (under the boxing glove — which is from THE GOONIES, not ROCKY) and the cloth (?) under the STAR WARS rifle on the right.

‘I.e, to wit, e.g, in lieu…’

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Here, just to add a little humor to your Monday morning, is a classic scene of Groucho dictating a letter to Zeppo from the 1930 Marx Brothers movie ANIMAL CRACKERS…