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I figured this is as good a place as any to post this.

Thoughts?

It's just some random blog post. There's thousands of these around.

Significance ?

Well, if you read it, you would know the significance.

You know, if you read it.

While your idea is interesting, I shall quote pre-Blair Roche Rorschach:

"A group this size seems more like a publicity exercise somehow. It's too big and unwieldy."

Good luck to you, though.

Heh.... Dont flatter yourself. Of course I read it.... hence insignificant...





You're essentially asking for people's opinions on the watchmen film. If you look around there's thousands, if not millions of people who have reviewed, blogged, twittered, facebooked, youtubed, or otherwise given their thoughts etc.

Heck, this entire forum is dedicated to this. You can easily find reviews and discussions in "documentary form" on you tube... thousands of them in fact.

Broken Finger, thank you for the response, and you bring up a very valid point. Frankly, I don't know how many people are going to participate in this, and maybe I need to flesh out the idea a little more before I truly start anything. I mean, the point of this is basically the point of any documentary project really; to examine a subject and to inform. Really wouldn't throw that under publicity stunt, but again, I see your point.

Red Angel, while I don't appreciate your... hostility, if you will, your point is also valid. Why watch something like this when there's youtube? Well, something I often see with youtube and blogs and such, is that without a "prompt" or a real plan, you get alot of raw feelings and ideas. While there's not always something wrong with that, you get bombarded with a lot of "OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE WAS AMAZING AND WILL MAKE 800 MILLION DOLLARS", along with the "Zack Snyder should be shot in the face and buried under Alan Moore's house", and none of them seem to offer a real thought out explanation. If anything comes from this at all, I hope to just get people thinking about Watchmen again. Not the movie, or the lawsuit, or Malin Ackerman, but of why Watchmen was written. What it makes you think about as a person, how it tests your moral flexibility, etc.

And if you feel my idea is just the dumbest thing on the planet or you don' think Watchmen did any of those things, no hard feelings. I don't expect all six billion + people on the planet to go along with this. Just pass it by and go about your day.

I'm hoping you have a secret agenda. You know, where you are really making an affectionate yet biting expose of the self-importance and overly zealous bent of comic fans and their obsessions, with a nice humorous subtext or two like the common background all the videos will have (bedroom at Mom n' Dad's house, shelves full of comic and movie related toys... talking head subject generally overweight, mostly young males). Because that would be an interesting documentary.

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...evidently chicken-town.

Well, the quote may not be perfectly appropriate...

As much as I enjoy expressing my opinions on forums like this one, I honestly can't imagine filming myself and then sending it for use by someone I don't know. I know people do things like that all of the time and, as such, you might be inundated with videos of all types, some useful and some not. I'm curious to know how it turns out.