Film 'Watchmen' is treasure trove for philosophers

[Paul Mackin]

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> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/03/09/090309crci_cinema_lane
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> The bad news about “Watchmen” is that it grinds and squelches on for
> two and a half hours, like a major operation. The good news is that
> you don’t have to stay past the opening credit sequence—easily the
> highlight of the film.

Heh, heh. The critics seem to be as divided on Watchmen (both the comic and 
film) as they are on The Kindly Ones.

Like the culture wars divide in America.  The same, only different.

Barack Obama vs Rush Limbaugh . . . .

More satisfying vs less filling.

How's one to make up his mind?

P

> [...]
> “Watchmen,” like “V for Vendetta,” harbors ambitions of political
> satire, and, to be fair, it should meet the needs of any leering
> nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the
> military-industrial complex, and whose deepest fear—deeper even than
> that of meeting a woman who requests intelligent conversation—is that
> the Warren Commission may have been right all along. The problem is
> that Snyder, following Moore, is so insanely aroused by the look of
> vengeance, and by the stylized application of physical power, that the
> film ends up twice as fascistic as the forces it wishes to lampoon.
> The result is perfectly calibrated for its target group: nobody over
> twenty-five could take any joy from the savagery that is fleshed out
> onscreen, just as nobody under eighteen should be allowed to witness
> it.
>
>
> 2009/3/5 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0242217420090305
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