Re: Watchmen. We went and saw it on the weekend not knowing anything about it other than that there was a blue guy who made me think of Bkeela in it, and something about a big mystery behind the killing off of super-heroes.
I quite enjoyed the nihilism, underlaying metaphors, parody, bkeelisms and pragmatisms, but the sex and violence served no other purpose than to offend, make the viewer uncomfortable, provoke complaint, and make a long movie even longer than it needed to be.
How dare a film director and film company sneakily try and make perverts of a paying audience by exposing them to pr0n they neither expected nor wanted to have imprinted upon their mind's eye and memory !
So, being suitably offended and provoked, LSCP lodged a complaint regarding its mere "MA+" rating. There was no warning at the theatre or prior to the movie about its sexual content, and the violence warning was of a lesser kind than to the likes of that used in TV adverts for the latest Friday the 13th slasher movie, so we had no reason to think that we were about to be exposed to depictions of gross corruptions of the procreate act (that in Real Life should never be witnessed by anyone other than the married to each other male and female during the occasion anyway, and certainly never filmed or photographed !)
Watchmen should have been given the "R" rating in Oz, just like it is in the USofA ... and there shouldn't have been mum's with their 10yo kids in the theatre having their young and impressionable minds exposed in such ways, either.
Fortunately, numba1son who was with us (and who is old enough to get a driving licence learners permit) is short sighted and prone to removing his glasses so he doesn't have to see what he has no interest in watching. Gratuitous graphic hip thrusting sex, a woman having her face smashed in and ribs kicked about before being bent over a pool table to be raped, someone using a kingsized angle grinder to cut the arms off a fellow captive, and two dogs fighting over a dead little girls shoed foot/leg before her murderer had a meat cleaver imbedded in his head a number of times, would be just some of the occasions that numba1son deemed it wise to take his glasses off to give them an extended clean.
Obviously afterwards, both LSCP and I made sure that he was aware that none of that kind of behaviour is either healthy, normal, desirable, worthwhile, or acceptable, and that it is all merely yet another sign of the times we live in that society has slipped so far as to deem such unwholesome depictions as only warranting the rating it was given.
Which means that prolly next year, schools will be studing the film for English Lit.
Anyway, rest assured that the NEXT movie we all go to see, I'll be reading a review or two before hand as the rating system as it currently is, is clearly a gross and offensive failure.
Oh, and as for the regular full frontal male nudity (ironically "blue", and actually not offensive in terms of the character), I imagine that was able to get past the censors because it in fact was totally CGI; the actor wore a white suit with dot references, and a CGI character overlayed after the fact.
Which equally ironically, would make that particular actor the MOST clothed of all the actors when doing the actual shooting. Heh.
Superman and Batman Watchmen AIN'T.
Which is prolly a Good Thing ... but a great pity it hasn't been rated properly and minds under the age of 30 prevented from being corrupted by it.
It is movies like "Watchmen" that make me greatful for my impending altzeimers/dementia.
"aaaaaah, my eyes, my eyes ..."
regarDS
