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Betrayal
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Play It As It Lays
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The Outfit
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Alex in Wonderland
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
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In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
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The Fox
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Thumb Trippin'
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Midas Run
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At Long Last Love
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Outcast of the Islands
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Mike's Murder
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Run of the Arrow
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House of Secrets
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Macabre
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The Fiend Who Walked the West
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Five Gates to Hell
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Bachelor Flat
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The L Shaped Room
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A Thousand Clowns
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You're a Big Boy Now
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Dark of the Sun
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Skidoo
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Last Summer
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
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Tropic of Cancer
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I Never Sang for My Father
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
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Drive, He Said
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Made For Each Other
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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
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At Long Last Love
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Welcome to L.A.
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Citizens Band
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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Movie Movie
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American Hot Wax
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Hot Stuff
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Scavenger Hunt
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Players
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Rich Kids
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Nightwing
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Screams of a Winter's Night
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When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
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Simon
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God's Angry Man
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Twice Upon a Time
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Trouble in Mind
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When the Wind Blows
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Housekeeping
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The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
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Running on Empty
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Drowning by Numbers
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Haunted Summer
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
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Old Times
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Prospero's Books
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City of Hope
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The Baby of Macon
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King of the Hill
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Dadetown
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The Playlist is offering six or seven reasons why Watchmen fails in a post-Dark Knight landscape. Reading the article top to bottom makes the points more clearly than the reading of the headlines, but here goes. One, nothing seems to be truly st stake. Two, the tone is goofy. Three, faithful fidelity to the graphic novel was a bad idea. Four, the '80s are cornball. Five, dark and cartoony doesn't make it. Six, emotion, truth and grittiness are sold separately. And seven, the music blows.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM

comment #1

actionman says ...

wouldn't it be wonderful if Wells loved the flick?

Posted by actionman at March 5, 2009 1:13 PM

comment #2

great scott says ...

Wells is doing a Limbaugh (hoping it fails) on this movie. If anyone truly doesn't have a dog in the fight, that would be me. I might see this on HBO a year from now. Maybe.

Posted by great scott at March 5, 2009 1:18 PM

comment #3

George Prager says ...

And eight, it's gay.

Posted by George Prager at March 5, 2009 1:25 PM

comment #4

ZayTonday says ...

Christ, you'd think that this was a Spielberg film with how much he's shitting on it, not having seen it yet.

Posted by ZayTonday at March 5, 2009 1:26 PM

comment #5

Jeffrey Wells says ...

I'm not shitting on it. The Playlist is. What?

Posted by Jeffrey Wells at March 5, 2009 1:33 PM

comment #6

Geoff says ...

Ha!

Wells, these guys are practically begging for you to run something about Ebert's point of view.

Posted by Geoff at March 5, 2009 1:36 PM

comment #7

actionman says ...

I have a feeling that a lot of non-fans/readers of the graphic novel (like Ebert) will enjoy it more than those who are the passionate, built-in fans of the book. just a guess.

Posted by actionman at March 5, 2009 1:38 PM

comment #8

Flash Gordon says ...

Ebert loved the movie? So what? The guy panned Die Hard but liked the sequels. WTF?

Posted by Flash Gordon at March 5, 2009 1:53 PM

comment #9

ZayTonday says ...

Yes, Wells you are shitting on it by way of cherry picking. Even when you did put up a favorable opinion of it you'd shoot it down because it was from a "frothing-at-the-moth fanboy" or something.

Posted by ZayTonday at March 5, 2009 1:55 PM

comment #10

Gordon27 says ...

"I'm not shitting on it."

When you dismiss every positive review as fanboy ranting, and declare in advance that you believe it will be a bad movie and are seeking out "non-fanboys" to confirm it, that's shitting on a movie, yes indeed.

I mean, do what you want, but man up, Jeff, and admit to yourself what you're doing. You've decided in advance that you won't like the movie, that therefore it is objectively bad, and you're running all the stories you can to "prove" that your opinion, despite being formed without seeing the movie, is correct.

Posted by Gordon27 at March 5, 2009 2:00 PM

comment #11

Chase Kahn says ...

So in Ebert's mind, 'Watchmen' is just as good as 'The Golden Compass'...

Posted by Chase Kahn at March 5, 2009 2:08 PM

comment #12

raygo says ...

I liked the Golden Compass ... was that a slam?

Posted by raygo at March 5, 2009 2:25 PM

comment #13

storymark says ...

Jeez Wells, you think you'd at least try to hide your hard-on at every negative review.

Put you damned hat over it, or something.

Posted by storymark at March 5, 2009 2:30 PM

comment #14

Anakin722 says ...

Actually Watchmen has held steady at around 65% on Rotten Tomatoes even as a ton of reviews have poured in yesterday and today, so I don't think it's quite fair to say that the naysayers are gaining. It dipped down to a low of around 63% sometime yesterday, but has rebounded today to around 65% where I imagine it will remain. It might even get up to around 70% but I somewhat doubt it.

Posted by Anakin722 at March 5, 2009 2:42 PM

comment #15

Chase Kahn says ...

yes, it was a slam...

Posted by Chase Kahn at March 5, 2009 3:16 PM

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