Is It March Already?

As anyone can see, I've slowed down quite a bit on Real Life/Real Death. I haven't had much time to devote to it, but rest assured, I have been busy. By the end of the month, I should have my webcomic up and running. It's been a long time coming, but it's all worth it because I have been working with some wonderful artists. But once everything is up and running, I should be able to get back to a regular schedule for RL/RD. I've got the next chapter nearly complete, which is good because I'm finally getting to all the superhero stuff. I saw Watchmen the other day, and regardless of how good a movie it was, it was inspiring in the same way that everything I read by Moore is. In a way, Real Life Superheroes started with Alan Moore.

Speaking of Watchmen movie, hrrmmm. Have thoughts. Wasn't great, but was maddeningly not terrible. Enjoyed watching movie enough just to see great scenes played out on big screen, but was disappointed with various missteps throughout movie. Can't say was actually great. Simply put, worst aspects of movie were all the Zack Snyderisms he decided to inject into story. Didn't really have problem with gore and violence in regards to Rorschach, but when Dan and Sally are breaking bones out of arms and killing thugs, kind of defeats whole purpose of everybody, even heroes, being afraid of Rorschach because he's violent killer. That was monumentally stupid decision, completely detracts from characters and story, can only assume was added because Snyder likes to glorify violence to show how edgy he is. Wish New York would have been more of character, give minor characters more scene time, show how society was about to erupt, self destruction. Changed ending almost works in weird way, but not as well as original. Opening montage with Dylan almost completely makes up for whole movie. Really like Bob Dylan. Only thing that really embodied feeling of Moore's book.

My favorite thing about seeing Watchmen was the interesting event that happened after the movie. Once the movie was finished, a sizable portion of the audience made a bee line for the restrooms. Now this Men's bathroom had a basic three urinal set up, two big boy urinals and on the right a kiddie urinal. There were two people at the urinals, one on the left and one on the right. The middle urinal as empty as can be. Now remember, we all just got done watching a two and a half hour long movie with copious full frontal male nudity throughout, and afterwords there were about fifteen to twenty guys all refusing to step up to the empty urinal, nestled between the two occupied urinals. Now, i respect the guy code, "never take the middle when the sides are empty," but this was a weird occurrence. I don't even know what it means. Guys are weird.