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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Niteowl on November 23, 2004, 02:19:09 PM

Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Niteowl on November 23, 2004, 02:19:09 PM: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=6877982 (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=6877982)
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: GrayDuck on November 23, 2004, 02:53:10 PM: :huh:
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Dubbilex on November 23, 2004, 03:18:39 PM: i eagerly await this :D
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: bacon_flaps on November 23, 2004, 04:25:30 PM: Wait what?

Who's your namesake?

You're too cryptic, you're obviously a freedom hating spy from Derkaderkastan.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Fewlio on November 23, 2004, 04:49:15 PM: The Watchmen.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: A Boojum Snark on November 23, 2004, 06:15:06 PM: bacon and duck need to think deeper! :p Though I never knew any of this, I have deduced that Niteowl is a character in said comic series, The Watchmen. Thus, this movie will have an actor playing as the character which our friendly neighborhood comm-raging comm takes his name from.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: bacon_flaps on November 23, 2004, 06:16:03 PM: Not into comics, my bad.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: GrayDuck on November 23, 2004, 09:10:32 PM: Quote
bacon and duck need to think deeper!

Hey now - just because the two of us haven't ventured into that level of geek-dom, you can't fault us!

We are toooooooooo cool to know that type of nerdy stuff.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: bacon_flaps on November 23, 2004, 09:51:55 PM: For serious ya'll, we're too cool for school.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: SgtFury on November 24, 2004, 02:39:02 AM: I wonder who they`ll get to play niteowl, and wether he`ll keep the paunch? :D
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Dark on November 24, 2004, 07:03:37 AM: eh i knew what hoots meant when i saw the watchmen in the title of that page since i remembered when he told us that was how he got his name :ph34r:
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Architeuthis on November 24, 2004, 07:17:39 AM: It's an awesome comic, but from what I've heard of the leaked script, they really messed up the movie D:

They removed the 35 minutes line, Niteowl kills Ozymandias with a RAZOR-SHARP OWL BOOMERANG, Silk Specter is called Slingshot and can shoot energy bolts by making the peace sign, a giant death ray that just disintegrates people instead of the other thing in the comic.

Hopefully that script was fake and completely wrong because those changes are ridiculous.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Niteowl on November 24, 2004, 08:28:36 AM: i have very very very low hopes for the films. the comic book series (12 in all) was somewhat dark and somewhat depressingly nostalgic. not the best way to sell a comic book movie.

what made niteowl NITEOWL was the fact he WAS this middle aged, paunchy, bookish type fellow who used to be a super hero. in spirit, at least, i identified/identify/sorta identify with him.
Title: My Namesake, On The Silver Screen
Post by: Necrosis on November 24, 2004, 12:23:50 PM: Funny, I thought it was Bruce Willis in some sort of PVC suit.

How wrong was I eh?