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rennyn_alerothi ([info]rennyn_alerothi) wrote in [info]fandom_rant,
@ 2009-04-05 16:54:00
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Dear specific Fandomsecrets troll:
WE GET IT. You think that the film version of this particular comic is the most misogynistic piece of crap ever to hit the big screen. WE GOT IT THE FIRST TIME YOU POSTED SECRETS ABOUT IT. One a day is a bit much, but THREE TO FOUR A DAY IS OVER THE TOP. Please get a new hobby. Feel free to pick up a copy of the graphic novel that the movie was based on on your way out of the fandom, since it looks like you might not have read it in the first place. Or if you did, it doesn't look like you understood it at all.

^_^

*composes self*

*gets down from soapbox*

*mops up sploodge.*

*removes fandomsecrets from "watched communities" list.*

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[info]littleshebear
2009-04-05 10:57 pm UTC (link)
Oh god. Considering this is a film with some of the most graphic violence I've seen in a while, I find it hysterical that most people seem to be more upset about some CGI dangly bits.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-05 11:01 pm UTC (link)
I KNOW. I've spoken with people who seemed traumatized by the sight of Jon's genitals. "OMG THEY MOVED CAN'T UNSEE HAND ME THE BRAIN BLEACH."

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[info]littleshebear
2009-04-05 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Seriously. I had no idea the male reproductive organs could be so traumatic.

I think I was quite lucky at my showing because there was nary a snigger during Manhattan's scenes. The way other showings have been described to me, they sound like a sex-ed class in primary school. "omg, you can see his WILLIE! *gigglesniggersnort*"

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-05 11:11 pm UTC (link)
It's a cross between that and my male friends who'd never read the comic squealing, "OMG I AM SCARRED FOREVAH." Between that and the reviewers who seethed, "HOW DARE THEY SHOW FULL FRONTAL MALE NUDITY IN A MOVIE OBVIOUSLY MARKETED TOWARDS CHILDREN BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON A COMIC BOOK!" my clue bat is nearly worn to a nub.

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[info]kittenmommy
2009-04-10 02:25 am UTC (link)

A MOVIE OBVIOUSLY MARKETED TOWARDS CHILDREN

Yeah, most kids' movies are rated R. Riiight.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-10 04:23 am UTC (link)
I know! COMIC BOOK MOVIE =/= FOR KIDS, GUYS. SERIOUSLY.

I know people who won't take their kids to see The Dark Knight because of the violence/Ledger!Joker Means Business And Is Not Caesar Romero's Joker. These were comic book fans who know from the different incarnations of Batman, though. I guess a lot of people in the mainstream audience automatically think "oh, a comic book movie. It'll be like Spider Man. I can take the whole family!" Uh, no.

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[info]kittenmommy
2009-04-10 03:53 pm UTC (link)

Don't people actually look at movie ratings anymore??

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-10 08:06 pm UTC (link)
I guess a lot of people see them more as guidelines now.

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[info]kittenmommy
2009-04-10 08:08 pm UTC (link)

I'm surprised, since so many parents seem to want to let everyone else do their parenting for them. One would think that movie ratings would be an easy shortcut; instead of actually researching what a movie is about and whether it's appropriate for their child, they can just look at the rating! But apparently even that is waaay too much effort for some people. *eyeroll*

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-05 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Also, yay Gil-Galad!

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[info]rosehiptea
2009-04-05 11:19 pm UTC (link)
I was expecting... well, I'm not sure what I was expecting, but all I got was an average-size penis that wasn't even onscreen all that much.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-05 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Definitely not long enough for the folks who are complaining so much about it to require therapy.

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[info]panthea
2009-04-06 12:53 am UTC (link)
...shush, you'll make Dr. Manhattan feel inadequate.

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[info]shinga
2009-04-06 03:40 am UTC (link)
Well who knows, he might just be a grower rather than a shower. I'm sure he's fine.

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[info]khym_chanur
2009-04-06 05:55 am UTC (link)
Given his powers, couldn't he just change its size at will?

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[info]rikiki
2009-04-07 12:19 am UTC (link)
He could probably make it a tentacle if he cared to. Or several tentacles.

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[info]rennyn_alerothi
2009-04-07 12:40 am UTC (link)
I think people have Gone There in fanart. >_>

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[info]keleri
2009-04-06 02:05 am UTC (link)
Same. I was expecting it to be all HUGE BLUE COCKS ALL THE TIME OBNOXIOUS WIGGLING but I didn't really even notice half the time.

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[info]coyotegirl
2009-04-06 10:18 pm UTC (link)
This. It was kind of anticlimactic after all the OMG BLUE WANG posts I'd seen.

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[info]teapotgirl
2009-04-06 12:07 am UTC (link)
My screening had some teenagers who would applaud any time Dr. Manhattan's junk was onscreen but other than that, we didn't hear a peep from them.

I did however find myself shushing a woman who insisted on singing along to the Nat Cole song playing during the Comedian apartment fight scene.

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[info]pariforma
2009-04-06 02:41 pm UTC (link)
I have yet to read anything resembling a review that doesn't somehow go "BLUE PENIS OMG!" Grow *up*, peoplez.

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[info]warrioreowyn
2009-04-10 02:57 am UTC (link)
I know. I barely even noticed despite everyone harping on it before I saw the film. In most scenes they either showed him closed, from the back, or only his upper body. It really wasn't obvious. The massive graphic violence, yeah, that was rather disturbing.

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