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Here is one way we know we’re not conservative Republicans.

watchmen Pictures, Images and Photos

If we were, we would clearly claim an affinity with The Watchmen.

Their leader is blue. He’s in great shape. And he and his crackerjack team are protecting humanity from itself.

Instead, our in-house media organs, NPR and The Washington Post, don’t even like the movie.

You think I’m joking — and I am, at GOP expense. Last year someone tried to claim The Dark Knight was Bush, and they even tried to say March of the Penguins argued for intelligent design (the alleged intelligent designer, apparently, is not benevolent).

What’s the ultimate Republican movie? I don’t know, maybe Reservoir Dogs. An elaborate plan to commit a crime goes horribly wrong, everybody gets hurt or worse, and nobody reins in the crazy torture guy until it’s too late.

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  1. It opened today, and before anyone can see it, your house organs are already explaining to us all in great detail why it is bad, lest anyone judge for themselves.

  3. Andrew O’Hehir in Salon:

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    I’ve made it clear by this point that I think “Watchmen” is a terrific comic-book movie, the most completely satisfying and unsettling one I’ve ever seen. I also feel pretty sure that its reviews will be all over the map, and that at least some viewers will be profoundly turned off by the bitterness and bleakness of this movie’s vision. You’ll notice I haven’t done that movie-critic thing of pulling the actors into the spotlight one by one, discussing their signature moments, the set of their jawlines, the breathtaking humanity of their emotions. Well, I’m with Dr. Manhattan on this one. Who cares about humanity?

    No, actually I think some of the performances in “Watchmen” are excellent, notably Haley as Rorschach and Morgan as the Comedian, the two thoroughly reprehensible superheroes who are nonetheless devoted to living and dying by their code. But this is a grandiose, director-driven spectacle, a visual and auditory construction after the fashion of Stanley Kubrick, and nominally central characters like Dan and Laurie, while engaging enough, are undeniably overshadowed. I could engage in some kind of debate with the shadow of Pauline Kael right here — topic: What are movies, and what is their purpose? — but let’s sum it all up by admitting that “Watchmen” is an ingenious, bloody-minded and sometimes coldhearted contraption, and how you feel about that is an individual matter.

  4. When I clicked on the post labeled “blue cinema”, I was worried I’d be looking at something not exactly family-friendly…

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